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Next BIWUG Session

koenvosters — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:50:42 +0000

BIWUG, the Belux Information Worker User Group – www.biwug.be – is announcing another session about SharePoint 2010 on Thursday September 8th 2011 in the RealDolmen Huizingen offices.

Agenda
18:00-18:30 Welcome with sandwich lunch
18:30-19:30 SQL Server for SharePoint Geeks (Speaker – Thomas Vochten – @Thomasvochten). Topics: which SQL Server editions to use, configuration best practices, common misconceptions and its impact on SharePoint.
19:30-19:45 Break
19:45-20:45 Office 365 – but mainly SharePoint Online – from a technical perspective (Speaker – Joris Poelmans – @jopxtwits) Topics: focus on SharePoint Online both from an administrator and developer standpoint.

Location: RealDolmen Industriezone Zenneveld, Vaucampslaan 42, 1654 Huizingen, Belgium (Roadmap in PDF format)

Entrance: Free but registration is required on the BIWUG site – http://www.biwug.be.

Getting rid of the login boxes when accessing a SharePoint site

koenvosters — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:34:24 +0000

It’s amazing how often this question keeps popping up on different forums. It’s not very hard or mystical knowledge, but as I have to type the same information over and over again I decided to post it on my blog. That way I can just reference this post.

What we want Internet Explorer to do is to send our domain credentials to the SharePoint site.

Open your internet explorer and choose Internet Option.

Select the security tab – Intranet – and click sites.

Click on advanced.

Add the website you want to be added to your intranet zone.

Go back to the main overview page and click on custom level

Scroll all the way down and make sure that automatic logon with current user name and password is selected.

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – February 2011 Update

koenvosters — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:33:45 +0000

The February 2011 update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes
several updates and bug fixes for the hands-on labs. Most of the updates were
focused on supporting the new Windows Azure AppFabric February CTP and the new
portal experience for AppFabric Caching, Access Control, and the Service Bus.
The specific content that was updated in this release includes:

· Hands-on Lab – Building Windows Azure Apps with the Caching service

· Hands-on Lab – Using the Access Control Service to Federate with Multiple Business Identity Providers

· Hands-on Lab – Introduction to the AppFabric Access Control Service V2

· Hands-on Lab – Introduction to the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Futures

· Hands-on Lab – Advanced Web and Worker Roles – fixed PHP installer script

· Demo Script – Rafiki PDC Keynote Demo

The setup scripts for all hands-on labs and demo scripts have also been updated so that the content can easily be used on a machine running Windows 7 SP1.

You can download the February update of the Windows Azure Platform Training kit from here: http://bit.ly/WAPTKFeb11.
We’re also continuing to publish the hands-on labs directly to MSDN to make it easier for developers to review and use the content without having to download an entire training kit package. You can browse to all of the HOLs here: http://bit.ly/WAPTCFeb11. Feel free to blog or tweet these URLs.

You can start building your application on it in 3 simple and easy to do steps:

1. Download the Tools:

Get Visual Studio Express and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio to start building and debugging applications for the Windows Azure Platform http://tinyurl.com/learnaboutazure.
If you have already Visual Studio installed you can download the tools directly from http://tinyurl.com/toolsforazure.

2. Setup an Account:

Set up an account and obtain a free subscription for accessing the online portals for Windows Azure, SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric. You can learn more about the accounts http://tinyurl.com/getazureaccount or you can sign up directly and get the trial http://tinyurl.com/getazurefreetrial.

3. Create your First application and Deploy it on the Windows Azure Platform:

First learn how to create a simple ASP.NET application in Visual Studio for Windows Azure on your local machine http://tinyurl.com/localazureapplication. Once successfully created, learn how to deploy this application on the Windows Azure Platform http://tinyurl.com/deployazureapplication.

When all steps are executed successfully you should have running your first application on the Windows Azure Platform!

Error: The file ‘C:\FASTSearch\etc\middleware.cfg’ was not found.

koenvosters — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:32:13 +0000

If you are doing a multi-server install of FAST for SharePoint 2010 you may end up with this error. Possible causes:

You specified the wrong Base Port.
You did not configure your firewall properly to open up the necessary ports.
You forgot to reboot your admin server. To make sure that FAST is running properly, use nctrl status on the admin machine.

Using SPModule to install SharePoint – DateTime Issue with the StartDate

koenvosters — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:31:25 +0000

If you are getting a datetime issue (cannot convert to DateTime) with the out of the box SharePoint install with SPModule when using the New-SharePointFarm command change line 81 of New-SharePointFarm.ps1 from

$RunSettings.StartTime = Get-Date -Format ‘dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss’
to
$RunSettings.StartTime = Get-Date -Format ‘dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss’

[QuickNews] SharePoint Server 2010 performance and capacity test results and recommendations

koenvosters — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:30:42 +0000

Microsoft released the whitepapers regarding the performance impact of specific features of SharePoint 2010. The following whitepapers have been released:

BCSCapacityPlanningDoc.docx
DesigningLargeListsMaximizingListPerformance.docx
LargeScaleDocRepositoryCapacityPlanningDoc.docx
MySitesSocialComputingCapacityPlanningDoc.docx
OfficeWebAppsCapacityPlanningDoc.docx
SearchforSPServer2010CapacityPlanningDoc.docx
SharePointServerCachesPerformance.docx
VisioServicesCapacityPlanningDoc.docx
WASCapacityPlanningDoc.docx

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=fd1eac86-ad47-4865-9378-80040d08ac55&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+%28Microsoft+Download+Center%29&referrer=swamii.com#tm

unable to start debugging. the silverlight developer runtime is not installed.

koenvosters — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:29:52 +0000

If you get the message: "unable to start debugging. the silverlight developer runtime is not installed." after installing the Silverlight 4 Tools, it might be that something went wrong with the installation. Install the Developer Runtime from this link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=188039 and everything will work just fine.

Crawl status The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component ‘guid’ in search application is in a good state and try again.

koenvosters — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:27:38 +0000

I got this error on a freshly installed SharePoint 2010 environment at the customer location. We tried quite a few things to resolve the error, we checked the application pool identities but nothing seemed to be fixing the error. What we tried: – check the identities of the application pools of the search service application and the search administration – added the identity to the local admin group(bad, I know, but we had to try stuff) – re-run the configuration wizard In the end we decided to remove the Search Application and add it again. Once we did that everything the same error popped up. But when we checked 3 minutes later everything ran perfectly fine. In the end I can’t say if it was a combination of things that fixed the search or if it was just the re-adding of the search application. My advice, re-run the configuration wizard, and if that doesn’t do the trick, remove the search application and add it again.

Multilingual Settings in SharePoint 2010

koenvosters — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:26:26 +0000

A quick blog post on how to enable (and how to select) multilingual settings on a SharePoint 2010 site.
Go to Site Actions, Site Settings

Select Language Settings under Site Administration

In the settings, select the languages that you would like to add (I only installed the Dutch Language Pack)

Leave the Overwrite Translations as it is for now, I’ll get back to that in a sec. Now go back to your original site. On the top right, select your Username. There you should now be able to select in which language you would like to see the site:

Leave it at English for now. Open the document library Shared Documents and add a column named MySpecialColumn, type text.

There we go, now change the site to Dutch (or whatever language pack you have installed). You should now see that the column names are being translated, but your new column’s name is not being translated.
Go back to the Document Library settings and change the name of the column to the translated name.

If you now switch to English you will see that the column is called MySpecialColumn, while in the Dutch site it will be called MijnSpecialeKolom. This enables the users to do the translations themselves. It would have been nice if in the interface, when we added a column that we could enter all the translations at creation, but it’s another step in the good direction More on the multilingual aspect soon!

Exception: System.SystemException: The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.

koenvosters — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:25:40 +0000

As I installed the language packs for SharePoint 2010 I ran into the Exception: Exception: System.SystemException: The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.

The cause of this error, in my case, was that the SharePoint 2010 server was unable to contact the Domain Controller. Once that was sorted, I could run the configuration wizard just fine.