Welcome to my blog mainly about SharePoint
By default, Office will not generate reminders for items created on a SharePoint calendar that is connected to Outlook. A few months ago I wrote a post about how you can use RSS feeds and Outlook rules to generate your own “reminders”. However, it still seems to be a little known fact that once your [...]
Over the past few months I have seen numerous reports stating the SharePoint is reporting the inaccurate time in the alerts received by end-users. Reports of this issue are sporadic and nobody seems to have a solid solution for it. I received some of the reports on one of my own blog postings (Getting SharePoint [...]
One of the questions I am asked the most from my end-users when using SharePoint is "Why can’t I select new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint from the new drop down on all my document libraries?" With the introduction of Content Types in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0 solved this problem by creating a content type [...]
"Why is SharePoint consistently requesting for user credentials?" This is a question I see on a regular basis when people are using SharePoint and usually the solution is relatively simple. Hopefully this post will help people through the different options to eliminating this frustrating credential popup screen. Scenario 1 : Users are part of a [...]
I recently got a call from my end-users stating that their metadata was mysteriously disappearing when they are working with their PDFs that are stored in SharePoint. Take the following scenario. A user creates a PDF by scanning a paper document using Adobe Acrobat Professional. They then upload that document into SharePoint and assign it [...]
This morning I ran into an issue with SharePoint where I was attempting to adjust the permissions of a list item and I got the following error message: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The file “http://portal.company.com/sites/acme/Memos/Q1 Memo.docx” is not checked out. You must first check out this document before making changes. —> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8007009E): The file “http://portal.company.com/sites/acme/Memos/Q1 Memo.docx” is [...]
UPDATE 06/12/2008: A possible cause of this issue could be that the user has set an invalid URL for their profile picture. We had a user set their profile picture to point to a web page that contained their picture instead of the picture itself. The error message states something about the URL containing invalid [...]
Microsoft was generous enough to offer up two of the SharePoint certifications for free here at the SharePoint Conference. I took both tests and passed them with a score of 1000. 70-542 – Microsoft Office SharePoint Server / Application Development 70-630 – Microsoft Office SharePoint Server / Configuring Now I only have a few more [...]
UPDATE: I am glad to see that I am not the only one who had a problem with the full sessions — check out this post. I am sure many of you are either here at the conference, or are already readying about some of the announcements that were made in the keynotes at SPC [...]
Recently we started experiencing a Windows authentication dialog box popping up on end-users computers asking for username and password when they launched an Office 2007 application for the first time of the day. After troubleshooting the issue we determined that the end-user was no longer a member of a site that was propagated to the [...]
