Author Archives: Alex Angas

Explorer View breaks after IE8 install on Windows 2003

Since installing Internet Explorer 8 on my Windows Server 2003 development machine I’ve been unable to use Explorer View, with the error: Please wait while Explorer View is loaded. If Explorer View does not appear, your browser may not support … Continue reading

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Debugging file locking in the GAC

Do you ever find that your solution files have been “successfully deployed” according to SharePoint, yet the updated code isn’t taking effect? Perhaps you are trying to debug but breakpoints aren’t being hit when normally there’s no problem. Yet for … Continue reading

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Gotchas configuring SSO

SharePoint 2007 seems to have some real weirdness going on with configuring SSO. I’ve been setting it up in a test environment in a very simple way, using the farm administrator account for everything: Microsoft Single Sign-on Service account, Single … Continue reading

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“The rows you modified could not be saved to the server due to validation errors”

Encountered a strange problem copying and pasting between the datasheet views of two contact lists. Only the Contact and Country fields were showing in the datasheet view. When doing the paste, the following error appeared: The error gives some clue … Continue reading

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Populate a SharePoint site collection from Excel

I’ve needed to populate a site collection with many hundreds of sites in an automated fashion several times over the last couple of years. Every time the business owner gives me an Excel spreadsheet of the sites they want created. … Continue reading

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Workspace permissions – Part 3: "Workarounds and The Future"

A crucial foundation of SharePoint is its powerful permissioning model. This is a series of three posts that discusses SharePoint permission assignment in a Project Server project workspace. Part 1 explained how permissions are assigned and problems with the feature’s … Continue reading

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Workspace permissions – Part 2: "Access Denied"

A crucial foundation of SharePoint is its powerful permissioning model. This is a series of three posts that discusses SharePoint permission assignment in a Project Server project workspace. Part 1 explained how permissions are assigned and problems with the feature’s … Continue reading

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Workspace permissions – Part 1: "By Design"

A crucial foundation of SharePoint is its powerful permissioning model. This is a series of three posts that discusses SharePoint permission assignment in a Project Server project workspace. Part 1 explains how permissions are assigned and problems with the feature’s … Continue reading

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Programmatically retrieving the name of an SSP

This was asked on the new Stack Overflow programming questions site recently (which you should really check out and start using if you don’t already!). Getting the SSP name is something that I’ve needed to do to build the SSP … Continue reading

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SQL querying the queue

I recently found myself in the situation where the Project Server queue service was taking up almost all of a server’s CPU. Unfortunately due to the high demands of the queue jobs, the administration page was unavailable with a connection … Continue reading

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