Background Our organization needs to provide some annual training/certification for employees. We are using a hosted Learning Management System, but only have purchased licenses for about 7500 users, and yet we need to provide the training to more users on an annual basis. With the current world economic conditions, every organization is looking to save [...]
Issue: I was developing a Sharepoint webpart that will allow an end user to be able to easily insert videos (flv, f4v, mp4, swf) that are hosted elsewhere. And I encountered this weird issue where all the script and code appears to be good, and yet the video will not start to play when the [...]
This morning I found to my horror that Sharepoint Central Administration (CA) is gone, and returns a 404 error. The exact message is like “HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:27:11 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET MicrosoftSharepointTeamServices:12.0.0.6300″. The solution: we changed the account under which the application pool is running the CA [...]
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I remember a few times when I wonder how the heck can I delete an item from a Sharepoint list, because there is no drop-down menu and there is no selection checkboxes. Sometimes people might go off searching for custom solutions or list settings. It turns out that a solution is to modify the view, [...]
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When a UpdateListItems web service call was made, I got back a SOAP message with a empty Results node( like this). No error code, no nothing. The cause was later found to be a invalid <method> node in the SOAP message sent to the web service, because I Xml-Encoded the whole XML string, rather than [...]
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The challenge is that it is a custom Sharepoint site. The scope dropdown is hidden, and the search results return content from apparently the entire farm. Users want the search to return only content from within the current site. I spent a good part of this afternoon to get the search to return results scoped [...]
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