We had an issue where the SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.LoginName displayed the incorrect (old) login for a user i.e. user loginname was changed. In most cases it works to run the migrateuser command to link the old and new account. But in some cases this does not pull through correctly. The following solution worked [...]
When configuring a new audience in SharePoint 2010 you can use an AD security group or distribution list to define your audience. Sometimes though the DL does not show in the list when you want to select it as source. First thing to check is that the DL\Group is selected [...]
I have a custom code snippet page in SharePoint 2010 that loads various js and css files. The page functions fine for me and other super users but not for users with Read access. Debugging the script it clearly shows the script files are not loaded. It seems that even [...]
Been facing an issue where the Search Service is not crawling a simple site collection in our SharePoint farm. Had a scratch through the crawl logs and found the following error: sts4://myintranetsite/siteurl=sites/finance/siteid={42461088-3f26-4c2d-937e-c630c7033307} The SharePoint item being crawled returned an error when requesting data from the web service. (The item was [...]
We use audiences extensively and required a way to do a recon on which users are in which audiences. Obviously we can run some C# to get this but I got stuck with some arb error message and permission issues (nothing new for SharePoint). So I decided to do the [...]
I get this error when adding a new web part to a custom page. Generally the exception is related to code that does not dispose properly. I double checked repeatedly and could not fine the issue. Turns out the exception was from a web part that was already ON the [...]
Got this error flooding our SharePoint environment. Seems to happen when the user profile sync does not sync properly with the content DBs. Run the command below to resolved. The command DOES NOT delete any content DBs, just the invalid sync data: stsadm -o sync -deleteolddatabases n Where n is [...]
I had to review some of my SharePoint 2010 job definitions to figure out why our social rating weren’t updating. So first place to look was the job definitions page. When I browsed there I got the dreaded “Object reference not set” error with not much more detail in the [...]
When using the publishing and wiki features of SharePoint 2010 you can see the “Recently Modified” section on the left of the screen. As stated it shows the most recent pages that were edited. Although helpful from a development and configuration perspective it does easily confused users. Luckily it is [...]
Some useful SQL queries to get web, site and list data: 1) Query to get all the top level site collections SELECT SiteId AS SiteGuid, Id AS WebGuid, FullUrl AS Url, Title, Author, TimeCreated FROM dbo.Webs WHERE (ParentWebId IS NULL) 2) Query to get all the child sites in a [...]
