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How to Use the Content Query Web Part With Publishing Disabled

Ben Weeks — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:16:22 +0100

If you want to use the Content by Query Web Part (CQWP), you may have noticed this is only available ...

InfoPath cannot open the following form ...

Ben Weeks — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:55:48 +0100

If you receive:

InfoPath cannot open the following form: <url>
The file is not a valid XML document.
DTD is ...

"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"

Ben Weeks — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:06:15 +0100

If you are seeing either of the following messages when trying to edit or delete a managed metadata field:

"The ...

Amend the Key Performance Indicator List to Display Progress Chart Rather Than Icons

Ben Weeks — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:40:14 +0000

I needed to amended the Key Performance Indicator List to display a progress chart (rather than warning icons), rather than ...

Developer Tab is Not Available in InfoPath Designer 2010

Ben Weeks — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:38:52 +0000

If you want to add custom code to your InfoPath form, but the developer tab is not available in the ...

Prompted to Save HTML Documents from a Document Library in SharePoint 2010

Ben Weeks — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:12:51 +0000

When opening an HTML document that has been uploaded to a document library, the user is prompted to download and ...

Event ID: 12289 (Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error RegOpenKeyExW)

Ben Weeks — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:00:28 +0100

If you see the following error in the event log:

Event ID: 12289
Source: VSS
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: ...

SharePoint Errors 7888 and 5555 ("Login failed", "Access Denied" and "Failure to sync web application")

Ben Weeks — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:37:36 +0100

On our SharePoint servers, we were seeing the following errors:

Event ID: 7888
Source: Office SharePoint Server
A runtime exception ...

Event ID: 10016 (The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application)

Ben Weeks — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:25:55 +0100

On our SharePoint server, we were seeing:

Event ID: 10016
Source: DistributedCOM
The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local ...

File C:\SomeFolder\SomeScript.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system

Ben Weeks — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:35:41 +0100

When first trying to run your own scripts, you may get:

File C:\SomeFolder\SomeScript.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of ...

Run as Command Prompt as a Certain User (runas cmd)

Ben Weeks — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:17:18 +0100

To run a command prompt as a certain user, you can do the following, go to Start > Run and ...

Teething Problems for London's Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme

Ben Weeks — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:42:11 +0100

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 ...

Moving SharePoint Content Databases (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Ben Weeks — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:26:00 +0100

In this article, I shall run through the SQL database transfer process for SharePoint 2007. The addition we are making ...

Office SharePoint Server, Event ID 6482 (Access to the path 'C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS' is denied)

Ben Weeks — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:33:14 +0100

Event ID 6482 was repeating in the event log:

Event ID: 6482
Source: Office SharePoint Server
Application Server Administration job ...

Using PowerShell to Get Multiple Website Statuses Iteratively

Ben Weeks — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:33:38 +0100

The other week, I posted an example of how to get a website status using PowerShell. I have now extended ...

How to Increase the Performance of Microsoft SharePoint Search Crawl (Indexer)

Ben Weeks — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:27:40 +0100

A couple of days ago, I noticed that the performance of a customers SharePoint search crawl was quite slow, and ...

How to Get a Website Status Code Using PowerShell (e.g. 200, 400, 401, 500, etc.)

Ben Weeks — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:51:41 +0100

Here's something I was looking for today on Google and couldn't find - how to get the website status code ...

Multiple Signatures in GMail for Different E-Mail Addresses

Ben Weeks — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:15:03 +0100

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

Ben Weeks — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:13:07 +0100

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".

Hosted SharePoint Saas (Software as a Service)

Ben Weeks — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:53:53 +0100

As you can see in my recent blog, I've been delving more deeply into the SaaS (software as a service ...

Stop and Start Microsoft SharePoint Services with PowerShell

Ben Weeks — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:00:14 +0100

To stop all the services related to SharePoint 2007, simply run the following PowerShell commands:

Stop-Service ssosrv
Stop-Service dclauncher
Stop-Service ...

Business in the Cloud (Kashflow, CapsuleCRM, ZenDesk, Magento, Google, Harvest, Beanstalk, FogBugz and GoToManage)

Ben Weeks — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:46:03 +0100

I thought I would take a moment to run through some of the online cloud tools we use at Webtechy ...

How to Install SqlServerProviderSnapin and Add (without errors)

Ben Weeks — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:56:50 +0100

I needed to run some SQL commands from my local machine connecting to a remote SQL server, using something like:...

Enable PowerShell Remoting

Ben Weeks — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:16:13 +0100

To enable PowerShell remoting (from one computer to another that are in the same domain), following steps 1 and 2:...

File C:\some_file.psm1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system

Ben Weeks — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:47:27 +0100

If you get the following error:

File C:\some_file.psm1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this ...

Example SharePoint Information Architecture for ABC Inc. (Visio & PDF Download)

Ben Weeks — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:23:20 +0100

This document is born out of a digital agency scenerio in developing Intranet applications. This is a sample document of ...

SharePoint SSP: This page is accessible only from an SSP admin site

Ben Weeks — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:35:57 +0100

Received an odd error message when trying to restore an SSP from one farm to another as follows when trying ...

Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta on a (VMWare WorkStation) Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)

Ben Weeks — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:44:40 +0100

Am just going to run through the process for installing SharePoint 2010 (free download from Microsoft) on VMWare workstation. Some ...

Central Administration has HTTP Error 503 After SSP Creation

Ben Weeks — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:53:49 +0100

OK, I have come across an issue, that I had earlier today after "playing" around with SSPs (recreating an SSP), ...

Unable to Resolve Domain User Accounts

Ben Weeks — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:27:29 +0100

I was trying to add domain accounts to SharePoint, and although no specific errors, when submitting using the people picker, ...