The last 6 months have been extremely busy for me with many projects on my agenda; unfortunately the blog received the least priority and finding time to post new content has been difficult. On the bright side, I had noted down topics to come back and write on so hopefully in the coming months I […]
SkyDrive to OneDrive: Re-branding announcement by Microsoft Read More »
Last week a SharePoint 2010 Server farm I manage stopped working, I could browse the Central Administration site collection but none of the other site collections would load. All of them would trigger a generic SharePoint error dialog and not let you go any further. Essentially the farm was broken, looking into the problem I found that the Security Token
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This morning I came across a small problem when running the pre-requisites tool for configuring a new SharePoint 2013 farm, specifically when the tool was attempting to install “Application Server and IIS Web Server roles” it would fail with no detail as to why? Not being documented all that well on TechNet I wasted some time trying to figure out
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For those who are struggling with the BCS framework read and write to SQL Server or LOB data source concept using tools such as SharePoint Designer 2010. This video I found is really helpful in providing a comprehensive understanding of the different ways in which SharePoint Server 2010 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) authenticates a users identity and explains the “double-hop” scenario and ways to
Business Connectivity Services (BCS): Understanding Authentication from the Browser Read More »
This post is a small reminder to myself for the next time I may run into this problem when working with WSS 3.0 Web Services interface. Hopefully it might also save someone else a huge amount of time if they have a similar problem (A lot of time was wasted for me until I finally