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Brett Hill explaining when the BPOS Administrator is NOT the administrator.
A cross post from my colleague Kasper de Jonge. He found some great video’s out on the PowerPivot Technet site. Video’s about the architecture you will work with when using PowerPivot for SharePoint. Pretty neat stuff.
The video’s are presented by Lee Graber, Senior Software Developer, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services.
It has been a time since I blogged anything about Microsoft’s Surface, but I just saw this video.
It is one of my favorite (analogue) games combined with the surface.
As my previous post already stated, Microsoft will be bringing some new features to BPOS. Mary-Jo Foley presented the WPC 2010 slide decks on her blog (thx for that).
Here they are:
Exchange Online
SharePoint Online
OCS Online

Microsoft will be bringing some nice new capabilities to BPOS in the near future. According to the MS Online Services Team Blog these capabilities will be in preview later this year.
Additional features will be available based on Communications Server “14” as part of ongoing service updates.
original post: here
In SharePoint we have a document library for OneNote documents. This morning we had a problem that our OneNotes did not synchronize anymore with the SharePoint OneNote library.
As we browsed to the library, we received the following error:
”The Server block is not well formed”
It had something to do with the default view, which was corrupt. To resolve the problem, follow the steps below:
I’ve been struggling with getting FAST search server to work. On a single box installation.
When I installed and configured FAST and created a search site, I did not get any results back.
The only error I got was “The Search request was unable to connect to the Search Service”.
This apparently had to do with certificates. If you open your Certificate store on your local server, you will see a store named SharePoint. In this store (under certificates) there will be a certificate named Sharepoint Security Token Service. I copied this certificate to the “Trusted People\Certificates” store, and voila the error above disappeared.
However I still did not get any results back.
After again some research time, I found that my Fast Content SSA wasn’t configured correctly. I followed the Technet Guide, and as it states here you have to open Install_info.txt from your FASTSearch installation directory and use the Content Distributer that is specified there (port 13391). However if you look at the file %FASTSearch Install Dir%\etc\contentdistributor.cfg it will display a different port: 13390.
Reconfiguring my FAST Content SSA with this new port, made my search site return result.
Note to self
:
Whenever you want to create a SharePoint Site bases on a Web Database template, you have to make sure you did the following:
If you don’t you will receive an error like this:
Preparing Site …
Someone has recently made changes to this site and the site is being updated. If the site remains offline for an extended period of time, contact a site owner.
Wait a moment and refresh your browser
Don’t bother waiting…
After you did all of this, open up the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, and give the following command:
enable-spSessionStateService –DataBaseName <SomeNewDatabaseName>
This will create a session state database and turns on the session state service.
When I tried to edit a SharePoint List in a datasheet view a received the following error:
The list cannot be displaued in DataSheet view for one or more of the following reasons:
- A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed.
- Your Web browser does not support ActiveX controles
- Support for ActiveX controles is disabled
I tried it with a SharePoint 2010 and a SharePoint 2007 List, both returned the same error.
As I had office 2010 on my machine. It seems that you have to install the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components for this to work.
Microsoft is rolling out some new enhancements to Windows Live Essentials Suite. Some people will get really excited hearing this, but many changes are minor. One thing really got me going and that was a new feature in Photo Gallery, called Photo Fuse.
Everyone has the problem in which you take some pictures of a group of people. When you look @ the picture later, you see that one person has his eyes closed and another is looking down and so on.
To get a good picture you could get a photo editing program and start cutting of people heads and then pasting them on another picture to get some good results. A hell of a job…
Photo Fuse to the rescue…awesome
video via TechCrunch