Grrrr @ “A system restart from a previous installation or update is pending”

  During a SharePoint install… got the error that a pending update was requiring a reboot.  No problem, I rebooted.  But, same error.  Rebooted.  Same error.  Rebooted.  Same error. GRRRRR… Just rename the Pendiung Update registry value: Full instructions: To delete the orphaned PendingFileRenameOperations registry key Open a registry editor, such as Regedit.exe or Regedt32.exe. …

SSL and SharePoint Designer, Gotcha.

Getting this in SharePoint Designer after having just installed SSL?     Microsoft puts it this way: “This problem occurs because client integration is disabled on the Web application on which the Web site collection resides.” To resolve this problem, enable the client integration. To do this, follow these steps: Start SharePoint 2010 Central Administration, and …

?ToolPaneView=2

Interesting way to bring up the web part pane in SharePoint… just add this to the end of the URL: “?ToolPaneView=2″ Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upMixx it upshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBuzz it upSubscribe to the comments on this postPrint for laterTell a friend

Search Services, Access Denied? Whaa?

Discovered ANOTHER nice little gotcha.  If you use the addon to SharePoint 2010 Foundation, the SharePoint Search Services Express… you may get that Access Denied error, IF YOU’RE USING CLAIMS. Don’t know why exactly, other then to say I hear it’s because when you indicate claims the setup doesn’t properly apply the service account to …

SharePoint SP1 Gotcha… Search Crawl Error “Mount Operation for the Gatherer”

If you get this error in the Event Log after recently installing SP1: The mount operation for the gatherer application 28c08c8b-2c00-408c-8572-87638068e335-crawl-0 has failed because the schema version of the search gatherer database is less than the minimum backwards compatibility schema version supported for this gatherer application. The database might not have been upgraded Run this: …

SharePoint Forms, Claims, and LDAP Connection Strings.

When configuring SharePoint for forms using Active Directory as a Provider, you’re going to need to construct the LDAP connection string to add to the web.config.  Nice simple post on how to make heads or tails out of the constructing of the string: The ASP.NET Active Directory Membership Provider does an authenticated bind to the …

SharePoint 2010 SP1 Gotcha.

Don’t forget… after you install the SP1 update for SharePoint, you must also re-run the Configuration Wizard… that’s necessary to actually update the files themselves. Didn’t notice this UNTIL I tried to delete the site, and I got the message “method not supported” error. So yeah, don’t forget to run that.  :)   Bookmark on …