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About Me
Title: SharePoint Consultant
Company: Webtechy
D of B: 25th May 1978
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Wednesday, July 20

How to Use the Content Query Web Part With Publishing Disabled
by
Ben Weeks
on Wed 20 Jul 2011 13:16 BST
If you want to use the Content by Query Web Part (CQWP), you may have noticed this is only available ... more »
Wednesday, July 6

InfoPath cannot open the following form ...
by
Ben Weeks
on Wed 06 Jul 2011 13:55 BST
If you receive:
InfoPath cannot open the following form: <url> The file is not a valid XML document.
DTD is ... more »
Tuesday, July 5

"The column cannot be deleted because it is currently part of a composite column index" or "Cannot change this column to allow multiple values because it is currently being indexed"
by
Ben Weeks
on Tue 05 Jul 2011 14:06 BST
If you are seeing either of the following messages when trying to edit or delete a managed metadata field:
"The ... more »
Tuesday, January 18

Amend the Key Performance Indicator List to Display Progress Chart Rather Than Icons
by
Ben Weeks
on Tue 18 Jan 2011 14:40 GMT
I needed to amended the Key Performance Indicator
List to display a progress chart (rather than warning icons), rather than ... more »
Tuesday, January 11

Developer Tab is Not Available in InfoPath Designer 2010
by
Ben Weeks
on Tue 11 Jan 2011 11:38 GMT
If you want to add custom code to your InfoPath form, but the developer tab is not available in the ... more »
Friday, December 17

Prompted to Save HTML Documents from a Document Library in SharePoint 2010
by
Ben Weeks
on Fri 17 Dec 2010 09:12 GMT
When opening an HTML document that has been uploaded to a document library, the user is prompted to download and ... more »
Wednesday, August 25

Event ID: 12289 (Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error RegOpenKeyExW)
by
Ben Weeks
on Wed 25 Aug 2010 11:00 BST
If you see the following error in the event log:
Event ID: 12289
Source: VSS Volume Shadow Copy Service error: ... more »
Tuesday, August 24

SharePoint Errors 7888 and 5555 ("Login failed", "Access Denied" and "Failure to sync web application")
by
Ben Weeks
on Tue 24 Aug 2010 10:37 BST
On our SharePoint servers, we were seeing the following errors:
Event ID: 7888 Source: Office SharePoint Server A runtime exception ... more »

Event ID: 10016 (The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application)
by
Ben Weeks
on Tue 24 Aug 2010 10:25 BST
On our SharePoint server, we were seeing:
Event ID: 10016 Source: DistributedCOM The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local ... more »
Monday, August 23

File C:\SomeFolder\SomeScript.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system
by
Ben Weeks
on Mon 23 Aug 2010 11:35 BST
When first trying to run your own scripts, you may get:
File C:\SomeFolder\SomeScript.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of ... more »
Wednesday, August 18

Run as Command Prompt as a Certain User (runas cmd)
by
Ben Weeks
on Wed 18 Aug 2010 11:17 BST
To run a command prompt as a certain user, you can do the following, go to Start > Run and ... more »
Tuesday, August 17

Teething Problems for London's Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme
by
Ben Weeks
on Tue 17 Aug 2010 15:42 BST
I just thought I would have my say on my recent experiences of the Boris Bikes (Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme to use to true terminology). I had "hire" hopes for the scheme, which could save me having to lug my Brampton style bike on and off the train at Kings Cross ... more »
Thursday, August 12

Moving SharePoint Content Databases (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
by
Ben Weeks
on Thu 12 Aug 2010 12:26 BST
In this article, I shall run through the
SQL database transfer process for SharePoint 2007. The addition we are making ... more »
5 Attachments
Tuesday, August 10

Office SharePoint Server, Event ID 6482 (Access to the path 'C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS' is denied)
by
Ben Weeks
on Tue 10 Aug 2010 10:33 BST
Event ID 6482 was repeating in the event log:
Event ID: 6482
Source: Office SharePoint Server
Application Server Administration job ... more »
Monday, August 2

Using PowerShell to Get Multiple Website Statuses Iteratively
by
Ben Weeks
on Mon 02 Aug 2010 12:33 BST
The other week, I posted an example of how to get a website status using PowerShell. I have now extended ... more »
2 Attachments
Thursday, July 29

How to Increase the Performance of Microsoft SharePoint Search Crawl (Indexer)
by
Ben Weeks
on Thu 29 Jul 2010 12:27 BST
A couple of days ago, I noticed that the performance of a customers SharePoint search crawl was quite slow, and ... more »
Thursday, July 22

How to Get a Website Status Code Using PowerShell (e.g. 200, 400, 401, 500, etc.)
by
Ben Weeks
on Thu 22 Jul 2010 17:51 BST
Here's something I was looking for today on Google and couldn't find - how to get the website status code ... more »
Monday, July 19

Multiple Signatures in GMail for Different E-Mail Addresses
by
Ben Weeks
on Mon 19 Jul 2010 17:15 BST
It's here at last - out-of-the-box GMail functionality to have multiple signatures. If like you me, you run a number of different e-mail addresses in Google for different things, and you wanted to have a separate signature for each of them, previously you had to use a GreaseMonkey script, browser plug-in, canned responses or something along those lines. However, I logged in today, to see under Settings > General under the signature section, you can now specify a different signature for each e-mail address that you have - as well as using colors and fonts that you wanted. Now if they could only be put at the bottom of my e-mail text, rather than the bottom of the message as a whole ;-)

How to View Unread Emails in GMail
by
Ben Weeks
on Mon 19 Jul 2010 17:13 BST
Out-of-the-box, there's no "show unread emails" option in GMail or GoogleMail as you get in say Outlook. Fortunately, in addition to your own user defined labels, there's also some system labels that are not displayed in your list of labels in the left hand navigation. One of these labels enables you to view unread e-mails. To view all (and only) unread messages in your Gmail or GoogleMail account type "label:unread" (or "l:unread") (not including the quotation marks) in the Gmail
search field then click on "Search Mail". You can also combine these with other criteria, such as "label:unread from:ben".
Thursday, July 15

Hosted SharePoint Saas (Software as a Service)
by
Ben Weeks
on Thu 15 Jul 2010 01:53 AKDT
As you can see in my recent blog, I've been delving more deeply into the SaaS (software as a service ... more »
Tuesday, July 13

Stop and Start Microsoft SharePoint Services with PowerShell
by
Ben Weeks
on Tue 13 Jul 2010 17:00 BST
To stop all the services related to SharePoint 2007, simply run the following PowerShell commands:
Stop-Service ssosrv
Stop-Service dclauncher Stop-Service ... more »
2 Attachments
Friday, July 9

Business in the Cloud (Kashflow, CapsuleCRM, ZenDesk, Magento, Google, Harvest, Beanstalk, FogBugz and GoToManage)
by
Ben Weeks
on Fri 09 Jul 2010 17:46 BST
I thought I would take a moment to run through some of the online cloud tools we use at Webtechy ... more »
Wednesday, July 7

How to Install SqlServerProviderSnapin and Add (without errors)
by
Ben Weeks
on Wed 07 Jul 2010 16:56 BST
I needed to run some SQL commands from my local machine connecting to a remote SQL server, using something like:... more »

Enable PowerShell Remoting
by
Ben Weeks
on Wed 07 Jul 2010 14:16 BST
To enable PowerShell remoting (from one computer to another that are in the same domain), following steps 1 and 2:... more »

File C:\some_file.psm1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system
by
Ben Weeks
on Wed 07 Jul 2010 12:47 BST
If you get the following error:
File C:\some_file.psm1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this ... more »
Saturday, July 3

Example SharePoint Information Architecture for ABC Inc. (Visio & PDF Download)
by
Ben Weeks
on Sat 03 Jul 2010 10:23 BST
This document is born out
of a digital agency scenerio in developing
Intranet applications. This is a sample document of ... more »
2 Attachments
Friday, July 2

SharePoint SSP: This page is accessible only from an SSP admin site
by
Ben Weeks
on Fri 02 Jul 2010 12:35 BST
Received an odd error message when trying to restore an SSP from one farm to another as follows when trying ... more »

Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta on a (VMWare WorkStation) Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
by
Ben Weeks
on Fri 02 Jul 2010 02:44 AKDT
Am just going to run through the process for installing SharePoint 2010 (free download from Microsoft) on VMWare workstation. Some ... more »
Thursday, July 1

Central Administration has HTTP Error 503 After SSP Creation
by
Ben Weeks
on Thu 01 Jul 2010 16:53 BST
OK, I have come across an issue, that I had earlier today after "playing" around with SSPs (recreating an SSP), ... more »
Wednesday, June 30

Unable to Resolve Domain User Accounts
by
Ben Weeks
on Wed 30 Jun 2010 22:27 BST
I was trying to add domain accounts to SharePoint, and although no specific errors, when submitting using the people picker, ... more »

Installing SharePoint 2007 on a Fresh Install of Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit
by
Ben Weeks
on Wed 30 Jun 2010 21:56 BST
I just thought I would run through the process (for my own reference as well) to install SharePoint 2007 on ... more »
Monday, June 28

PowerShell: Get-Content From a File with Carriage Returns
by
Ben Weeks
on Mon 28 Jun 2010 10:24 BST
When trying to output a text file to the screen using PowerShell and the following command ... more »
Monday, June 21

No Response When Click OK Button in Central Administration
by
Ben Weeks
on Mon 21 Jun 2010 16:33 BST
Came across this one on a new development install of Windows Server 2003 and SharePoint 2007. I went into Central ... more »

Deleting the SSP
by
Ben Weeks
on Mon 21 Jun 2010 16:25 BST
Having trouble deleting the default Shared Services Provider (SSP) from the GUI? For example, the delete option is greyed out. ... more »

Error While Installing SharePoint That ASPX Extentions are Not Enabled
by
Ben Weeks
on Mon 21 Jun 2010 16:10 BST
While trying to install Windows SharePoint Server 2007 on a Windows Server 2003 machine (which had ASP.Net 2 SP 2 ... more »
Wednesday, July 30

Twittering from Windows Mobile 6
by
Ben Weeks
on Wed 30 Jul 2008 15:14 BST
Found a great post and bit of software at the following address:
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=244
Download the CAB to your mobile device ... more »
Tuesday, March 25

How to Create a Text Resize Function Using Just JavaScript
by
Ben Weeks
on Tue 25 Mar 2008 23:05 GMT
In many hosting platforms, CMS products and alike, it's not always possible that you can (or at least have permission) to create server side code to perform text resizing. The usual way to acheive this is to write out a different CSS based on the users preferences. more »
Thursday, March 20

Creating Daily Summary E-Mail Alerts for Workflow Tasks
by
Ben Weeks
on Thu 20 Mar 2008 15:06 GMT
By default, SharePoint 2007 sends an e-mail notification for each workflow task that is assigned to you (or your users). ... more »
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