Feb 12 2010

Content Type is still in use

Tag: CollaborationC/D/H Consultant @ 3:06 pm

Working with technology, you are inevitably going to run across a task that seems simple, but when you still can’t do what you wanted to do 10 minutes later, will leave you questioning your sanity.

I came across such a problem when updating a set of custom content types for a client.  One of the content types was seldom used, and we wanted to re-classify any existing items of that type to another, new content type, then delete the deprecated content type.

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Jan 27 2010

SharePoint Designer Workflow Security Context

Tag: CollaborationC/D/H Consultant @ 10:57 am

Yesterday, a client contacted me about an issue with a SPD workflow they created to copy items between document libraries.

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Jan 08 2010

Troubleshooting SharePoint Diagnostics Logging

Tag: CollaborationC/D/H Consultant @ 11:44 am

One of my clients called the other day with a SharePoint logging problem.  Her server(s) were creating blank log files, 0KB in size without any errors or apparent issue.

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Dec 30 2009

How to Troubleshoot Alerts in SharePoint

Tag: CollaborationC/D/H Consultant @ 10:04 am

I spent a little time last week troubleshooting alerts for one of our clients.  I had built this farm a little over a year ago and all of the sudden, alerts stopped working.  To give you some background, the farm is rather simple; 2 WFEs connecting to an enterprise SQL cluster.

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Dec 17 2009

Your license for Office Server Search has expired

Tag: CollaborationC/D/H Consultant @ 8:26 am

Earlier this week, a client asked me to assist with an issue they came across when performing a search on their SharePoint portal. The portal was available, content was accessible, yet when they searched, they would receive the following error:

Your license for Office Server Search has expired.

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