Monthly Archives: January 2009

Useful “How To” guides for setting up Mail-enabled Systems

I was looking for the missing piece of a puzzle while setting up an email-enabled system at a client’s site and came across these 2 great reference documents that guide you through the entire process. I’m linking to them from … Continue reading

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Variables available in the “Current Item” are frustratingly incomplete

[Rant Coming…] I wish I wish I WISH there was an easier way to do this… but every time I need to create a URL (link) to a list item, I have to build it manually in the Workflow. There … Continue reading

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Timer Job shocker (yes’ it’s still out there)

Was at a client’s place today and saw this for the first time in ages – IIS would not start, error ID’s 6398, 6482 and 7076 in the event log, emails not being sent, etc. "Wait just a doggone minute, … Continue reading

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Colocating SharePoint databases on the same SQL Server as 3rd party apps

I’m currently working my way through a deployment for a test environment on one of the projects we are currently engaged with (yes, I’m working on Australia Day – How un-Australian). Anyway, this particular 3rd party application has some specific … Continue reading

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Unable to delete items from a list

I was onsite at a client’s site today and I created a couple of test entries in a list they had created, to test some workflow functionality. That was all well and good, until I went and tried to delete … Continue reading

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Explorer View doesn’t work on a specific site…

Had an issue last year at a client’s site where a user noticed that they were unable to view a document library using "Explorer View". They kept getting the IE window, but where the explorer view would normally be, there … Continue reading

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