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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,…
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Wrangling interesting InfoPath 2003 vs 2007 issues with arcane XPath statements
We have a form at work where the XPath current() function isn’t working properly. It’s supposed to be essentially a pointer to your current execution context, so in InfoPath in general it’s great for finding your way sort of recursively up and out of your current context to sibling controls (for harvesting lookup values, etc.).…
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Creating and Administering Site Themes in SPS2003/WSS 2.0
This is probably more for posterity than anything else, as most folks should have been using SharePoint 2003 technologies for almost a year. But my work site uses 2003 still, with an upgrade coming up in the next few months. Recently I had to fix some site-wide site templates that had some issues with unghosted…
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Links
I’m doing research today to answer multiple questions. Questions: I recreated my MOSS 2007 SSP a while back and now MySite creations aren’t working for anyone. It’s not working exactly like the discussion at Technet Forums. Still researching this one. On a related note, I need to nail down exactly how to create personalized MySite…
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Installing .NET 3.0 on a balky workstation
So if you keep trying to install .NET 3.0 and keep getting an error during install (and looking at the Error Log link in the failure message refers to the Windows Communication Framework being missing), go look for a file named something like “dd_dotnetfx3install.txt” in your %temp% directory (in my case, that was at C:\Documents…
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IE 7’s friendly HTTP messages are unfriendly if you want IIS To do custom error messages
So IE7, by default, overrides Web Servers’ custom error messages with very helpful “friendly” reinterpretations of error messages. To turn these off through the UI, go to Internet Options -> Advanced, and disable “Show friendly HTTP error messages”. Thanks, Microsoft! Also found at: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main!Friendly http errors (according to the Vista GP excel spreadsheet)
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Miscellaneous research points from this morning
A decent “buyers’ guide” for Antivirus plugins for SharePoint is at Windows IT Pro. Instructions for moving from one set of content databases to another in SPS 2003 (aka v2) on Technet. Am currently trying to work on the UPDATE problem for Data View Web Parts in MOSS 2007/SharePoint Designer.