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SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2012

Wednesday 9th May 2012 Cuban Pete IT Pro, SharePoint, 0

Came across and interesting issue today when deploying SharePoint 2010 on a development machine, with “New-SPConfigurationDatabase” throwing the error: Could not find stored procedure ‘sp_dboption’. The solution is to install SharePoint 2010 SP1, which adds support to SharePoint 2010 for SQL Server 2012

SharePoint 2012;SQL Server 2012;

Term Store Management missing on SharePoint site

Friday 30th March 2012 Cuban Pete Developer, IT Pro, SharePoint, 2

If you have ever decided to make a blank site just because you know your going to start from scratch then find out that alot of the features your used to in a team site simply arn’t available or don’t work as they do in the team site? SharePoint has a number of hidden features [...]

Managed Metadata Service, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Taxonomy

SharePoint 3.0/2007 FBA – Unable to resolve users

Monday 23rd January 2012 Cuban Pete Developer, IT Pro, SharePoint, 0

Problem Unable to resolve users with either the standard user checker or the people picker (the people picker could also be that it hasn’t been configured for your provider so check that too) but users are being authenticated. Solution If you have specified that your FBA connection string is to use integrated security then make [...]

Authentication, FBA, Forms Based Authentication, MOSS 2007, People Picker, SharePoint 2007, WSS 3.0

Office 2007: Cannot open file from SharePoint 2010

Wednesday 4th January 2012 Cuban Pete SharePoint, 0

Problem: Opening a file directly from a SharePoint 2010 on a workstation with Office 2007 installed can result in an “Unable to open file <filename>” dialog. Resolution: Install the latest Office 2007 Suite service pack (Currently Service Pack 3)

Microsoft, Office 2007, SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 FBA: Security token username and password could not be validated

Tuesday 1st November 2011 Cuban Pete General, 1

Note: if you are here looking for a guide on configuring FBA in SharePoint 2010 the following are good resources: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806890.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/mahesm/archive/2010/04/07/configure-forms-based-authentication-fba-with-sharepoint-2010.aspx Although there are a number of possible reasons for this error in the Event Log (the obvious being an incorrect username and password), there are some that just baffle you as you believe [...]

ADFS 2.0 (and IIS 7+) and Google Chrome

Friday 9th September 2011 Cuban Pete Developer, IT Pro, 0

This one annoyed me for longer than I wish to share… If you are having problems using Windows Authentication on IIS (in particular with the ADFS 2.0 passive federation) where you can login fine with Internet Explorer but Google Chrome simply repeats asking for your login and password then this is for you! IIS has [...]

ADFS 2.0, Chrome, Claims, Google Chrome, IIS, NTLM

SharePoint 2010 Multiple Upload and Explorer Disabled

Tuesday 12th July 2011 Cuban Pete IT Pro, SharePoint, 1

Symptoms: Multiple Upload is disabled along with the Explorer option on Document Libraries. Resolution: This problem is usually caused by a mismatch with Office and Internet Explorer. If you are workign on a 64bit version of Windows you will have two Internet Explorer links, one which opens the 32bit version (x86) and another which will [...]

Client Integration, Microsoft, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010

Deploying a IPv6 Internet Enabled Network Part 1

Thursday 23rd June 2011 Cuban Pete IT Pro, 0

This is the first in a two part series of blog posts that will deal with the configuration and deployment of an IPv6 internet enabled network without the need of an ISP which supports IPv6. What you will need A spare physical or virtual server that can be used as a Linux based router In [...]

Hurricane Electric, IPv6, Linux, Router, Tunnel, Ubuntu

PowerShell Script: Get-SPHealthScore

Monday 9th May 2011 Cuban Pete SharePoint, 0

The Get-SPHealthScore power shell commandlet is a simple commandlet that will query the value of the health score for any SharePoint 2010 URL (providing the header hasn’t been removed for security reasons which I will discuss in a later post). function Get-SPHealthScore([string]$url) { $request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url) $request.Method = “HEAD” $response = $request.GetResponse() if(($score = $response.Headers.Get(“X-SharePointHealthScore”)) [...]

PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Health, SharePoint Health Score

Intermittent Networking Issues On Virtual Machines

Friday 6th May 2011 Cuban Pete IT Pro, 1

After moving a few Windows Server Hyper-V hosts recently from one Virtual Machine Manager server to another, a couple of virtual machines started exhibiting some strange behaviour in regards to networking. So I break out trusty “ping” and it doesn’t report any problems. At that point the remote desktop session is working again so I [...]

Hyper-V, Microsoft, Networking, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Virtual Machine Manager