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Mothballing this site (Spring 2015)
As an FYI, I’ve ended my Microsoft-Centric, SharePoint-Centric work/job as of Spring 2015. I’m also moving posts about technical and other geekery to my new Geek Blog. If you’ve found my geeky advice helpful in the past, you may find it helpful in the future. Give it a read if you’re curious! I’ll keep this…
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OSX Lion, Parallels 6 Windows 7 SP1 and VMware View 3.1
Struggled a little with this combination of products: Getting VMware View 3.1 running on Windows 7 SP1 in Parallels 6 on OSX Lion. I was able to install the VMware View 3.1 client by connecting to the SSL View host at work, but when connecting to my desktops (after providing credentials), I got this error:…
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SQL Server Connection Error 18452 Caused by “User must change password at next login” setting
Situation: In an isolated dev environment set up to enable Kerberos in SharePoint 2007 and SQL Server 2005, a single VM Server for the DC, one for the SQL Server and one for the SharePoint Web Front End, developers were unable to create custom databases in the SQL Server instance and use SQL Server local…
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Getting WebDAV to work for Windows Network Providers against SharePoint 2007
The picture is not entirely complete here, but I made a lot of progress with this as an open (now closed) troubleshooting ticket with Microsoft. The short summary is that using a Microsoft whitepaper (linked to below), I could get Windows XP SP2 workstations to work properly opening an Explorer View to a SharePoint 2007…
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Kerberos and SharePoint 2007 notes
Recently we had cause to do a whole lot of research ourselves and end up calling Microsoft to get our implementation vetted and troubleshot (it was not working – all or almost all connections that should have been Kerberos connections were degrading back to NTLM. Here are the salient notes and facts about troubleshooting and…
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Generic List View Web Parts missing the View Selector drop-down – mitigation strategies
Had a user who accidentally (I assume, since he seems to think it’s because of an operation I did well before that that was unrelated – see previous post) deleted the automatically created List View Web Part in the AllItems.aspx page. Now he wants the full toolbar and the View Selector drop-down. Well and good,…