Monthly Archives: October 2011

Just closed off an interesting exercise with my current client – We had to set up a SharePoint site and work out a way to easily manage files stored on a Network Share. These files are secured and only accessible … Continue reading →

Problem: A division at my current client has recently rebranded itself, included changing all email addresses. We’ve built them a new site using SharePoint 2010, however we noticed the user information was not reflecting the revised email addresses… User Profile … Continue reading →

Had some errors appearing during Profile Sync which even Spence has not got logged anywhere… While I’m not sure why the problem appeared and I cannot make it reappear, it’s an easy problem to fix. The Problem: Errors were appearing … Continue reading →

I’m a big fan of host-named site collections. There are a couple of extra things you need to be aware of when using them, but they allow you to scale your farm to greater size, while allowing your sites to … Continue reading →

OMFG how many times must this happen in one project?! SharePoint (actually .NET Framework) does not work properly for Kerberos security resolution if you try and use CName records. Also they are a bad idea for a site anyway… because … Continue reading →

Had a problem where the Web app service in Central admin was stuck on starting and they had to be restarted because one of the URL’s SharePoint was supposed to be serving went off the air… nothing was appearing in … Continue reading →

Had a problem where the Web app service in Central admin was stuck on starting and they had to be restarted because one of the URL’s SharePoint was supposed to be serving went off the air… nothing was appearing in … Continue reading →

For large enterprise clients, the OOTB people picker controls can be dreadfully slow at resolving user names – this is because it tries to resolve each name segment entered against first names, last names, emails and every other property in … Continue reading →

Had a situation where I keep getting errors when opening the Server manager in Windows 2008 R2. Eventually I traced it back to a failed update (looks like a partial install that never fixed itself). more info on troubleshooting and … Continue reading →

When trying to delete a service application in Sharepoint 2010 from the central admin, sometimes you will find it just stays on the ‘processing’ window for hours (if you wait that long). If it does you can try & delete … Continue reading →