Monthly Archives: October 2009

And a web site that people publish and categorise tools on…

Another treat for today – this site has a list of some great tools (including the SharePoint Skinner tool) grouped by category. I know a similar thing exists on WSSDemo, but it’s tough to navigate. This one’s clean and friendly … Continue reading

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Themeing for SharePoint – Using Deployment packages

Came across a great tool today from the guys at Elumenotion called SharePoint skinner. Essentially it’s an easy way of creating a new theme and packaging it up with the assets as a WSP to deploy to one or more … Continue reading

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When Security becomes annoying – Saving a .docx file from a web site automagically saves as a zip

I hate it when things don’t go right on my computer. One of the things I’ve been annoyed with lately is how on some sites, when I click on a .docx file to open it or save it, it always … Continue reading

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Listener Channel Failures, Process Activation errors, Licence Acquisition failure. It’s all happening today…

Just had an interesting error crop up at a client site. One of the team (Hi Daniel!) was building a SharePoint server and was halfway through configuring it, when it suddenly stopped working. 503 errors on all web sites on … Continue reading

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KRB_ERR_RESPONSE_TOO_BIG – Forcing TCP/IP over UDP

I thought I had this error on my blog somewhere, but when I went looking for it, I could not find it…   When you are working in an environment that uses machines running earlier versions of Windows than 2008 … Continue reading

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