Category Archives: Fixes / Solutions
Sensibly govern use of folders in SharePoint
It’s the age old question of should you allow users to create folders in document libraries and lists when designing your Information Architecture and governance plan. I worked for an organisation that banned folders and didn’t fully explain to users … Continue reading
Filed under Custom Development, Fixes / Solutions
Create an External Content Type against large SQL Server table with no Code
The Problem I had a large dataset stored in SQL Server that I wanted to use in SharePoint 2010 as a lookup field against a contract record. Due to the external data throttling limit in SP2010, I can’t browse through … Continue reading
SharePoint 2010 Web Analytics under the covers
I encountered an issue with Web Analytics not processing usage that was evident through the lack of hits in the usage reports in central administration and site collections. Fortunately I got the problem fixed which I’ll share with you in … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, Fixes / Solutions, SharePoint 2010, Uncategorized
“No valid proxy can be found” when publishing content type in SharePoint 2010
I found a number of posts with possible fixes for this problem, many of them relating to the Content Type hub URL in the Managed Metadata Service e.g. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010setup/thread/d9efe46c-7d55-4f51-9e09-c41ff4d40bda http://charliedigital.com/2010/01/06/sharepoint-2010-content-type-publishing-setup/ However, I received this error and the Content Type Hub url in the Managed Metadata … Continue reading
What is really fast in returning results from a list based query ?
What is really fast in returning results from a list based query ? Is it SPList, SPQuery, w index, w/o index, List Web service, Search or PortalSiteMapProvider ? I found these really surprising results with test done on very large … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, Fixes / Solutions, SharePoint 2007
Search Administration – Could not connect to server
If you have the query server and index server roles on different servers in the farm and you get the following error showing in the ‘Server Status’ area of the Search Administration page…. Could not connect to server yourservernamehere for application ‘yourSSPnamehere’. This error … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, Fixes / Solutions, SharePoint 2007
Replicating SPThemes.XML Changes to Multiple FrontEnds
After being asked to create a new custom SharePoint 2007 Theme on an environment with three front-end servers for an internal project, I soon noticed (post deployment) that the Add/Remove items changes in the SPThemes.xml file performed by the FeatureReciever … Continue reading
Filed under Fixes / Solutions, SharePoint 2007, WSS 3.0
Windows Server 2008 firewall ports on a multi-server SharePoint farm
I ran into this problem a few weeks ago when installing & configuring a customer’s Sharepoint 2007 farm comprising an application/index server and a single web front-end on Windows Server 2008. I was unable to view or configure the services (Office … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, Fixes / Solutions, SharePoint 2007
Fix errors in Search Administration page
I was recently asked to look at a search issue reported by one of our clients. Although users could search, it was no longer indexing documents which had been working correctly until now. In the search administration page, the query … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, Fixes / Solutions
