Welcome to my blog mainly about SharePoint
This morning I received an interesting support ticket. The reported issue was that when clicking a document from SharePoint it would completely freeze the browser and Word. I tried it from my desk and was able to reproduce the issue. It was only occurring with a specific document. Immediately I thought this form must be [...]
A few years ago I developed a free SharePoint URL Shortener and released it to the community. I have not had much time to go back to it since. I had some time recently and decided to add a feature that I have wanted to have for a long time and many have asked for. [...]
Using Windows Explorer view to copy and/or move files around is one of the most preferred methods for end-users when they are using SharePoint. It is a very familiar process because they have used it for years with network shares. I am sure that ever person that has used the Windows Explorer view has attempted [...]
Adobe X was released at the end of last year and one of the feature points announced was “Native, seamless integration with Microsoft SharePoint”. On the surface, everything appears to work correctly and solved one of the main issues with Adobe Acrobat with SharePoint I blogged about in the past. Recently discovered that it is [...]
We recently received the following error message when we attempted to build the cube within Project Server 2007: Failed to build the OLAP cubes. Error: Analysis Services session failed with the following error: Failed to connect to the Analysis Services server <server>. Error: ActiveX component can’t create object TechNet has an article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197608(office.12).aspx) on this [...]
In 2008 I made a post about the infamous “locked for editing” message many people experience while using Office with documents stored in SharePoint. This post addressed the issue that can occur outside the normal “locking” mechanism Office and SharePoint. I recently had a problem where I attempted to edit an Excel spreadsheet and I [...]
I ran into an issue attempting to get Project Sever 2007 working with SQL Sever 2008 Analysis Services and thought I would create a post about it in case other people are experiencing the same issue. The first thing to note is the article on TechNet are written as if everything is installed on the [...]
I would like to assume many people have heard of the SharePoint related site called SharePointMagazine.net, brought to us by Arno Nel (@arnonel). The SharePointMagazine.net site has a tremendous amount of great content from many guest authors and you should check it out of you have not already. So why this blog post? Well Arno [...]
I have decided to shutdown http://www.wsswiki.com and all traffic will now be directed to SharePoint Dev Wiki (http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com) – a site maintained by Jeremy Thake (@jthake). This weekend, I plan on publishing some of my articles from WSSWiki on SharePoint Dev Wiki. I believe the SharePoint Dev Wiki has good content that all SharePoint developers [...]
My fellow co-workers and I have been dealing with an extremely slow build > render process when we are developing SharePoint solutions that are deployed to the BIN folder for over a year now. We are all using are own Windows Server 2003 image hosted on a VMware ESX Server farm with tons of other [...]
