Been a while but could not resist sharing this gem. Meeting workspaces has been around since SharePoint 2003/2007 and is a great way to integrate your day to day Office use with SharePoint (aptly named of course Office Server). Now even though I have had some serious challenges with meeting [...]
I’ve been having some fun and games with Sharepoint 2010 and SSRS. One of the most frustrating things of working with Sharepoint is the lack of consistent error handling and tracing. You are never sure where the errors are logged which can make troubleshooting tough. My problem was related to [...]
Sharepoint 2010 has added some nice new features and support for mobile devices. However by default any mobile device that hits your site still gets redirected to the default mobile screen which is linked to the “All Site Content” page. With the current penetration and use of SmartPhones this is [...]
Ok, so this is one of those annoying errors which make you think about Microsoft QA and QC. Simple scenario: I create a basic site (meeting workspace in this case), chanage one or 2 lists with no complicated features. I save the site as a site template and then go [...]
This post will cover how to use and call WCF services without complicated methods to update your web.config\app.config. When you add a WCF service reference to your code it generates all the endpoints in your project’s app.config file. For web parts this is a problem as each web part does [...]
I thought over the next couple of weeks I can share some development\coding topics on Sharepoint 2010. Starting with: “Invalid data has been used to update the list item. The field you are trying to update may be read only” This error is usually occurs when updating or creating a [...]
Sometimes when deploying a feature or solution in Sharepoint 2010, either via Central Admin or Powershell script the deployment gets stuck on a “Deploying” state. Generally this is very hard to troubleshoot as it does not generate any errors in the event log or ULS. Restarting IIS or even the [...]
In our environment we have a custom master page for our main intranet site and we want to extend this look and feel to the MySite implementation. So as mentioned before in Sharepoint 2010 there are 2 site collections related to MySites. The first is the main site collection which hosts [...]
My environment consists of a custom development MySite capture form. Part of this configuration is a global Sharepoint list that contains all the profile and AD information. When a user updates their MySite we update the list, the profile and AD to ensure everything is up to date instantly. The [...]
I encountered a very strange problem when saving my first site template recently. I was very surprised when this basic function of Sharepoint 2010 failed so early in my implementation. Sifting through the ULS and Correlation IDs I found that Sharepoint was complaining about an invalid content type name which [...]
