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For the IT Pros New on for IT Pros are 2 certifications. MCTS SharePoint 2010 Configuring and MCITP SharePoint 2010. 70-667 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover configuration of SharePoint 2010 including deployment, upgrade, management, and operation on a server farm. 70-668 PRO: SharePoint 2010, Administrator Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover advanced SharePoint 2010 topics including capacity planning, topology designing, and performance tuning. For developers Also for developers there will be 2 new certifications. MCTS SharePoint 2010 Application Development and MCPD SharePoint 2010. 70-573 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led course designed for developers with six months or more of .NET development experience. Course covers what you need to know to be an effective member of a SharePoint development team using Visual Studio 2010. 70-576

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I am really excited to share some of the information that I gathered so far in the Sharepoint Conference 2009. It’s been an amazing 5 days and the learning is just overwhelming and the very first thing that comes out of my mind is that 2010 upgrade will solve a lot of outstanding current customer issues right away. The sessions are tied to different tracks (Microsoft – Product techincal, MVP – product Technical, Partners – Session focused on different solutions developed on Sharepoint (on different space), Customers – Customer experience using Sharepoint). Sharepoint 2010 Beta is going to be available to public in Nov 2009 and the actual release by mid of 2010. I tagged some of the information specific to the areas. Great News - 2010 doesn't require an server OS. Win 7 works - Fantabulous New things that come along with 2010 (All part of our volume license): 1. Great up-gradation to SharePoint Designer - FREE 2. FAST Search (Content Search, Profile search) – comes with 2010 Enterpr

When you try to install google chrome on Windows 7 or vista or XP if you are getting this following error, then that's because you are running OS in teh Audit Mode: Error: Google Update installation failure with error 0x8004071c or Audit Mode Detected Solution: To resolve this issue, you'll need to edit your Windows registry. 1.Go to Start > Run. 2.In the window that appears, enter regedit and click OK. 3.Find the following registry key: ◦For Vista: The value of ImageState in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\State ◦For XP: The value of AuditInProgress in HKLM\System\Setup 4.Right-click the registry key and select Modify. 5.Delete the value and click OK.

I configured the Linksys wireless router [WRT54G] couple of years before and it just worked great. I myself configured the password and everything worked great at my home. Anyone comes in home takes my password and it just worked great most of the time. all these were with windows server 2003 and Dell machaines. When I bought a new Hp DV9000 (XP) I had an issue connecting to the home wireless. I started browsing and found this solution: Issue : Couldn't connect to the selected connection. 1. Installed an update http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=17d997d2-5034-4bbb-b74d-ad8430a1f7c8&displayLang=en Issue after the update : Acquiring Network address status and stayed there. Did the following after that: 1. Browsed http://192.168.1.1/ 2. used the user-id / password of the connection (default userid is empty & pwd is admin) 3. Navigated to wireless (Basic wireless settings), click Reset security and name your userid for SSID 4. Clicked save settings 5. cli

let's assume the following names to the listed servers: Domain Controller - DC12345 Exchange Server - ES12345 MOSS 2007 Server - SP12345 (SMTP Enabled) Domain - mydomain.com Do the following on the server DC12345: 1. Access AD and create an OU under the domain - mossmails 2. right click mossmails and click delegatecontrol and add the service account you used for AD 3. Click Next 4. Select "Create a Custom Task to Delegate". Next, Next 5. Grant Read, write and create child objects permisions 6. Access DNS (Administrative tools>DNS) 7.Add an MX record in DNS for MOSS Server (Open dnsmgmt, right click the mydomain.com and add a new MX (mail exchanger) record 8. Name the Host or child domain > sp12345 9. Fully qualified domain name > sp12345r.mydomain.com Do the following on the server SP12345: 1. Central Admin.Operations>Topology& Services> Incoming Email Settings>Click Yes to enable incoming mail and the s

1. take a look at this blog posting - http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/HowToConfigPublishingSiteWithDualAuthProvidersAndAnonAccess.aspx 2. If you don't want to create multiple applications, then just do those entries on the same web app and configure the default zone from windows to forms. 3. Once you setup anonymous access anyone can access your site 4. Grant privileges to the appropriate party (for the appropriate areas of the site) 5. Configure MySites for teh same using this post http://www.devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/03/01/Office-SharePoint-Server-2007-Forms-Based-Authentication-FBA-w-MySites-Walkthrough-Part-2.aspx

Last friday, I was trying to take a back-up of a contentDB from one farm to restored it to another without removing the contentDB on the second farm. Farm1 had the latest content and I wanted to move the Content DB from there to Farm2. Farm1 : http://farm1.spiderwool.com ContentDB : farm1_spider_ContentDB Farm2 : http://farm2.spiderwool.com ContentDB : farm2_spider_ContentDB Instead of removing the content database at the web app http://farm2.spiderwool.com and restoring with the farm1 content database. I directly restored the farm1_spider_ContentDB over farm2_spider_ContentDB Note : Please read the full post before trying any commands specified. I faced the following issues: Issue 1: Failure trying to synch web application ab9788f9-d490-4785-8d4a-3666e1af13d3, ContentDB 0f17f1de-d2cb-8890-9ead-c21fb54ac8d4 Exception message was A duplicate site ID 8768xdsd98-0c57-421b-be76-fa71f0f20375(http:// ) was found. This might be caused by restoring a content database from one server farm int

Error Message: The specified string is not in the form required for a subject Solution : Subject = subject.Replace('\r', ' ').Replace('\n', ' '); Note: occurs with smtp related c# code

Take a look at the list of all the stsadm commands for stsadm utility http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2007/03/22/complete-reference-of-all-stsadm-commands-with-options-in-moss-2007.aspx

  Issue: User loading an InfoPath web form gets an error message similar to the one below: "This session has exceeded the amount of allowable resources." Solution: Visit "Application Event Log" You should see something similat to the error below around the same time the user got the error: Event Type: Error Event Source: Office SharePoint Server Event Category: Forms Services Runtime Event ID: 5737 Description: Number of form actions, 235, has exceeded 200, the maximum allowable value per request. This value is configurable and can be changed by the administrator. (User: ##, Form Name: Daily, IP: , Go to "Configure InfoPath Forms Service" in the "InfoPath Forms Services" section in "Application Management". In the  Number of actions per postback  box, change the value to be above the number of form actions listed in the event log. The default value is 200.

WebPart Developers WSS3.0/MOSS2007 run across the issue where a web part is dropped on to a page  and then Sharepoint errors out for one reason or the other. Sometimes, the user is directed to a Web Part Maintenance page,  which helps the developer remove the offending web part from the page.  However, there is no way to get to this page from any easily available link.  Resolution: In order to get to the Web Part Maintenance page for ANY sharepoint url, access the maintainence page by doing the foll: a) Append the querystring  ?contents=1  to the url in the browser as shown below.

By default the request access feature is enabled for all the site collection and the reply-to address is set to the e-mail address of the user who entered the SMTP server name. If you want to use a different e-mail address, you can specify a different individual or group e-mail account to receive access requests by the foll way:   Home > Site Actions > Site Settings > Modify All settings > Advanced Permissions > Select Settings > Access Requests>change the email id you want them to recieve these emails.   If you want to turn down the feature, uncheck the box and say "ok"

After installing the security update for IE 7 (KB963027) , my application was working normal from the network but throws a popup on the actual box.  Two ways to rectify this issue  1. Uninstall this update  2. Get a life without IE 7 Yes, It justkilled most of my time here.

Do the following to find your sharepoint databases: ·          1. Content DBs: These are actually listed quite nicely in central admin. At least they gave us that: APP MANAGEMENT >> CONTENT DATABASES >> select each WEB APP you want to see a list of content DBs for. ·          2. Config DBs: This one was tricky and took me a while. Turns out this info is in the registry. Sigh. REGEDIT >> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Secure\ConfigDb ·          3. SSP Config and Search DB: This one was obvious in hindsight: Central Admin >> SHARED SERVICES ADMINISTRATION >> click the EDIT PROPERTIES drop down on the SSP you want to look at. OR use this command to list out the info of an SSP - stsadm -o enumssp -all    4. Central Admin >> OPERATIONS >> Services on Server >> Windows Sharepoint Services Help   Search>>Database Name And to verify, please do the following: 1. Central Admin >> OPERATIONS

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To map a sharepoint list or a document library we should do the folowing: 1. Enable and start the webClient services. 2. Goto Map a Network Drive and add the Sharepoint URL ("http:// / " Also, for accessing the sharepoint site thru network places do the following: 1. Map Network Drive, select the appropriate user, enable the wizard to create a shortcut. 2. Place the url and you should access the sharepoint content and can feel it like a file server.

Make the following changes on web.config to make the actual error visible on the page 1. Customerrors = "On" 2. CallStack="true"

Are you getting errors like the following that makes you frustrated even after validating/checking the webservices URL Path: 1. Some rules were not applied 2. "An error occurred accessing a data source. An entry has been added to the Windows event log of the server. Log ID:5566" If this happens only on certain servers  then, the issue might be with the crazy .Net framework 3.5 SP1 If you're getting the above infopath error after installing .net framework 3.5 SP1, then perform the following. I broke my head for nearly 8 hours: 1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. 2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa 3. Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. 4. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER. 5. Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify. 6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK. 7. Exit Registry Editor.