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In a web method, I am creating a sharepoint site using the server object model.

The code I am using is:

 
An exception occur. The exception message is the rather undecipherable XML

 ...

I'm running SharePoint 2010 Server SP1 June 2011 CU and this CU broke the user profile picture upload function so I decided to install the Feb 2012 CU to fix the issue.

I realize i had to restart the User Profile Synchronization service as...

In the application event logs, I see this error:

The SharePoint Health Analyzer detected a condition requiring your attention.  Accounts used by application pools or service identities are in the local machine Administrators group.
Using...

How do I find out number of records returned by web query in MS Access web database published on SharePoint 2010

hi, i want to do in a ipad-1 (ios5.0.1) in the settings the following:
i want to add a caldav account to a sharepoint server 2010 shared calendar as a FBA account with a user name and password and then see and edit the appointments both in the...

I am getting the following error when trying to access our only SharePoint site:

Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Object reference not set to an instance of...

Experts,

I am looking for some VBA that calculates a date by adding business days. The form will contain a input box for the starting date that the user would enter along with a blank box for the number of business days that they want to add...

We have an SBS 2011 Server with SharePoint 2010. Fully patched and all is working fine except we have a small issue with opening PDF documents from the Document libraries in IE9.

All user access the Intranets from a Windows R2 Terminal Server...

Have a form in infopath 2010 and the form is published to a SharePoint form library (no infopath form service)

When the form is filled and submitted by a user, I would like to export some of the fields from the form to an: name-dd-mm-yyyy.csv...

Due to my OOB workflows not running due to being run by 'System Account' (Failed on Start), I have created a basic custom approval workflow.

If I use this on any list or library within the root of the site collection, it works fantastic....

Hi,

When we deploy WSP's, one of our APP servers is also recieving the WSP's.
This means something on it is telling sharepoint that it's a Web Front End server.

Anyone know what I need to do on it to change it into an application server...

Hi,
I have an issue whereby Im unable to access my sharepoint site from my workstation. Keeps prompting for my username and password and despite keying the credentials 3 times, it simply goes to a white screen. This is the same for IE 6 and 7 as...

Our SBS 2011 backup was running fine.

Now we get this error almost immediatly upon launching the backup...

A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed.
Unknown error (0x800423f0)

I suspect that a MS update has broken the backup, but I...

Hi, I am needing to uninstall SharePoint Foundation 2010 from my server so I can reinstall and properly setup the configurations of the Site Settings, database content, remote SQL Server rather than the built-in one, etc.

It seems to be just...

Auto start and tasks are not working properly within sites with migrated workflows.  We migrated from 2007 to 2010 SharePoint Enterprise with a single farm database attach.  Workflows can be manually started and work properly, unless it's a task....

I am trying to create a cached refresh plan for a ssrs report in SharePoint 2010 but I receive an error when I try to save the plan.

The SQL Agent service is not running. This operation requires the SQL Agent service....

I have SBS 2011 Standard and SBS 2011 Premium Add On running on a second server. Our sharepoint databases on on the second server running under SQL 2008 R2 since they were too large for SBS 2011 Standard. Exchange 2010 is setup and running for...

I'm having a very strange issue.  I am in the process of creating scripts to automate my backups in SharePoint 2010.  My scripts work, I've ran them manually and it completes my backups.  The problem I'm having is that they're failing when...

Hello,

I keep getting two error messages in my Application Log on my Sharepoint 2010 Foundations server.  I am running Sharepoint Foundations on MS Windows Server 2008 R2.
...

A client has a SharePoint intranet where documents and pictures are a large part of the usage. I was given the following user story:

"A user goes to a Document Library on a site, chooses New Document from the ribbon, gets the dropdown of...

We are setting up a new SharePoint environment.

Have a single 08 R2 server running SharePoint 2010 with SQL express on the same box.

Going batty trying to find the source of this issue.
Have not found any solution anywhere, hoping you can...

Hi,

We would like to accept emails into a Sharepoint 2010 List but also map the subject line into a field.
Is this possible?

This would allow us to create a workflow if a keyword is matched from the email subject.

Hi,

We have recently purchased a server (parts specified below). Its sole function is to run SharePoint 2010 (However, we also need a Domain Controller/file server). It comes to my attention that SharePoint server should not be on the Domain...

Does anyone have a powershell script that shows unique permissions for all site collections, sites, lists and libraries in SharePoint 2010?

Good Morning:

This weekend I was notified by my web hosting company that I was exceeding my alotment of CPU usage and I noticed that it was one of my IP adresses.  I went to my router to see what was doing this and I saw that it was my Share...

Once I respond to a setting and go into site settings, the survey is listed as 'View Response #18' under View Response in Overview view.  Is there any way to change this?

Hi
I'm setting up a Sharepoint 2010 site (I'm grateful for everyone's advice from this site!) but it seems very slow whenever I create a new site, or upload large file.

For example, I upload a 50mb file... it's very quick. I upload a 500mb...

I need to create a common class to be used throughout a SharePoint solution. The class should read the client's Windows- or browser locale to enable the solution to display dates and amounts in the correct format on the webparts.

Said in...

Hello All,

I created a page layout in SharePoint Designer 2010, saved it and checked it in then approved it.

When I create a new page in SP 2010 and I apply my new page layout, I get the first image you see attached.  As you can see, all my...

Hi,

I reached the database limit for Sharepoint foundation 2010 and now I cannot delete or create any file. I cannot even empty the recycle bin. Does anyone have ant pointers on how can I increase the database size? If that is not possible,...

Hi, I am writing a code to retrieving files from SharePoint library based on properties value using CAML query, below is the code:...

Hi There
Ran the Move Sharepoint wizard to free up space on the C drive as Sharepoint was 17GB.
Wizard failed and said I would have to move the files manually but then locked up.

Restarted the box anbd everything came up fine except:...

All,
I have a w3wp.exe process that occassionally rolls out of control. I first wanted to know if there was anyway to limit the amount of memory a process can take and kill itself if it hits that limit?
Second - Can a script be written that...

Hi there, this is a brain storming question really.

We are looking for a you tube type video library.

I would like it to be a bit intuitive (e.g. show info/videos based on the user profile).

This is internal not public facing website.
...

Hello all,
I would like to create a list with several columns. I enabled the Attachment in List Setting-> Advance Setting. However, I don't see it in the list. I also want to delete column but I don't see that function either.
Please give me...

Hi,

Is there a way to specify different SMTP port in the sharepoint? If so how can we do it?

HI All,

I have a Host Header site Collection with URL http://www.123.com. Now I want to create a site collection with URL http://www.123.com/456. Due to some predefined issue, I cannot create a host header webapplication and host header site...

I am a new beginner on the SSRS.  I have been reading the book on SSRS and Repor Server. Is there any advantage of using SharePoint for the report server. If yes, any article that someone can recommend that I should read?  Thanks.

Hello I created a custom field:

  <Field ID="{XXX}"
       Name="MyNiceDay"
       StaticName="MyNiceDay"
       DisplayName="MyNiceDay"
       Description="MyNiceDay"
       Group="AllNiceDays"
       Type="DateTime"
      ...

Hello,
Here's what's happening. SBS2011 Server. Uses dyndns.org service and client updater app -  companyname.dyndns.org to maintain it's ip as it is also an in-house email server. to access remote workplace it only works if you use...

I would like to create security groups on SharePoint 2010 using powershell. I found this script http://sharepointryan.com/2011/07/20/create-sharepoint-groups-using-powershell/ but since I am new to powershell I don't really know how to use it....

Hey guys

Looking to do some testing for our Office 2010, Lync and Sharepoint 2010 upgrades

I have been given 4 virtual machines to use so far

3x Windows Server 2008R2s
1x Windows 7 x86

I have setup the following
1x Server as a...

Hi expert, i created and extenal data to access another database in sql, and every thign is working fine, but when i reu the list to get the data i am getting the following error
"external data invalid credentials"
note that i have full...

Hello,
In our preparation for upgrading from 2007 to 2010 we ran our pre-upgrade checker and it returned the following:

Information Only : Customized field types that will not be upgraded.
 
A field type using custom Collaborative...

I created a version 2 of a form that I would like to add to an infopath document library.

I was only able to successfully add the form to the root site since I received an error 'getting site columns'

this was adding it to a test doc...

I am using Silverlight 4 and SharePoint and want to fill an ObservableCollection from a returned dataset from SharePoint. I have the query and connection to SharePoint done. In my example my List is called _getList and my ListCollectionItems is...

I have an InfoPath form and it is used by a SharePoint library. When the user fill out the form they submit it to the library. When the form needs to be updated i need a way to just update the existing form instead of creating a new one. I have a...

I have a task to add a presence awareness indicator (green/yellow/red "dot" similar to Lync/Communicator and Outlook 2010) in a SharePoint 2010 web part.

To save time - and not "invent the wheel again" - does anyone have a simple example of...

I have the professinal SharePoint 2010 Branding and user interface design book.

I'm in chapter  8, which focuses on Master Pages.

I download the starter master page (startpublishing.master) the book is using and I copy and paste it into the...

I have a new form and edit form for one of the SP list.

In the new form there are only around 5 fields, however, in the edit form there are around 20 fields.

Now here is my problem, some of the fields in 'Edit form' are required fields....

Dear Experts,

Server 1 Is running SQL Server 2008 R2 Database
Server 2 Is running SharePoint 2010 Enterprise

I would like to create a list in SharePoint which populates with the stored procedures that are stored on server 1

To begin...

Our company recently signed up with Office 365 and put up the SharePoint site. The folder structure is in place and now I want to copy files to the site using Windows Explorer View. In SP 2007 there was a dropdown, Actions - Open with Windows...

Server: SBS 2008
IIS Version: 7

We came in this morning to find that we could not access Sharepoint. I checked the event logs and found the following:
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Windows SharePoint Services 3
Date:         ...

I am new to Sharepoint and am tasked with creating a new intranet  with Sharepoint 2010 to replace our current html site.  The Sharepoint 2010 intranet will host a number of individual department sites besides an overall employee informational...

I'm experiencing an issue with Sharepoint 2010 when I select a Document Library and stop inheritance of permissions from parent folders.
If I try to add a user to that Document Library and select the 'Contribute - No Delete' permission to it,...

I have a button in a cell of a repeating table in InfoPath 2010 that I want to change to a color once clicked and to another color if double clicked for each row of the table. A rule using formatting doesn't seem to accomplish this and I am...

Can the Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles and Microsoft.Office.Server.Audience namespaces be used/referenced using the Foundation version of SharePoint 2010?  I can't find this DLL/namespace on my system.  I am running SharePoint 2010...

I am looking to create an internal 'Experts Exchange' for an IT technical department where they can share information along the lines of Experts Exchange. The features I am looking for in particular are:

ability to create categories

ability...

Hello,

I am wondering what are the benefits of having SharePont 2010 synchronize user profiles. In Active Directory, there is just basic account information. So, wondering what the feature will bring me, once I get synchronization for user...

If I have office 365 and my broad band line goes down, then I lose complete connectivity to my documents on sharepoint. Can anyone tell me what solution they have in place for such a scenario, I understand the situation of being able to sync...

Hi Guys,
in my workflow, i want to move current item to a sub folder in the current list. In sp2010 designer workflow, if i use copy current it, you can choose the destination list but not a subfolder.

Note, my workflow inistiates when a new...

I have come across links to connect to Excel 2003/2007 with Sharepoint 2003/2007 using vba code. Just wondering how is it different in Sharepoint 2010 and Excel 2010.the goal is to export Sharepoint 2010 list to excel 2010. Any idea?

Thanks.

In SharePoint, when I click on a document library, by default the columns for the files are:
Name, Modified, Modified By, Check In Comment, Check Out to, Version and Type.

How do I change the default view for all users so that other columns...

We currently have a requirment to put in a SharePoint server for approx 150 users. Most users only need the features that comes with a Standard CAL, however there is about 10 users that require enterprise features. Is there a way to mix the CALS?...

I had a long drawn out battle to fix my broken User Profile Service app after applying the Feb 2012 CU.  The original motivation to install this CU was to fix the issue in the June 2011 CU which broken the picture upload functionality.

Now...

I was given a project to complete regarding an ipad and possibly sharepoint. I want to be able to create a package (word documents/PDFS) via web or thirdparty and have it downloaded to the ipad for viewing purposes. Also i would like to create...

Dear Experts,

I have a top level site with a normal list (LIST A) one of the columns contains a number, which corresponds to the ID of a list item in another list (LIST B) on a subsite.

I'd like to create a workflow that populates a column...

I used the following in my custom css to apply a background color to column headers in lists and libraries:

 

Unfortunately it is not working for any people column headers and a check-mark header (see the screenshot). Any idea how to fix...

HI ,


I want to Customize the Java script command  of the Delete SPList Item  button in the Ribbon ,  
where can i get this command ? I searched  in Init.js and Core.js for the following id:

 , but i didint found it ,

Thanks

Hi,

Can you please assist me to install Report Server 2008 R2 on a different computer. I want to install Report server 2008 R2 databases(ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB) on one server and Report Server 2008 R2 on a different Server...

Hi,

We have about a million PDFs that need to be migrated to a ECM system and somehow need to assess the total number of pages for all the PDFs on the file share because the ECM will be counting the pages it ingests and we want to be sure we...

We have a SharePoint 2007 Environment and are using InfoPath 2010. When I publish a form in the Infopath 2010 format, users cannot open the form via a link (http://mysite/sites/formlibrary/myform.xsn). They recieve an error and the form does not...

I know how to do this in a regular view, but I have created a custom view using SharePoint Designer and I can't find a way to remove all the check boxes for each item and for the all items box.

I did try the CSS method of adding a content...

We are just beginning to build a new intranet from scratch on 2010.  We want to mimic the look and feel of our internet site by using a copy of V4 master with custom CSS. Publishing is turned on at the site collection level so that we can do some...

Sinds a few weeks I see an error comming up in the File Replication Service event log,

Event: 13568
Source: NtFrs

The File Replication Service has detected that the replica set "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)" is in JRNL_WRAP_ERROR. ...

I have Office365 Sharepoint Online E 1 plan.
Here, i have created few team sites also.
Now , the case is one of my customer is having Office365 SharePoint Online E3 plan.And he has created a WSP file of their sharepoint i.e E3 plan
So, now the...

I have a SharePoint 3.0 server that I would like to move to another server. there is nothing special or out of the ordinary about this server so everything is generally "out of the box" setup.   Can anyone tell me how I can move this to another...

Hello everyone, we are running SharePoint Services 3.0 and it is using Microsoft Internal Database and the size of some of the files have grown way out of control I think. Is there a way to compress them or clean them up?

Location of files.......

I need to copy a site collection from qa to production keeping all data/metadata of the site collection.  Can someone please shed some light on a Microsoft-supported way of doing this.

I have a stand alone server running SharePoint 2010 enterprise.  I'm building a proof of concept of some of the social features.
The Organization Browser is not populating.  It only shows me even though I've entered my manager.
I've recently...

Hi,

We are attempting to migrate from MOSS 2007 to Sharepoint 2010. We are using the database attach method. The issue we are having is when running the command stsadm -o addcontentdb -url -databasename

The database import fails with an...

I need to develop a form in SharePoint 2007 using a SharePoint list. In addition I am supposed to use only native SharePoint functionality and/or SharePoint Designer. My background is largely SQL Server, VB.NET and ASP.NET.  So I am a little out...

I edited a published list page in sharepoint and a new minor version was created.  I don't want to publish that version now.  I want to delete the minor version.  How can I do that?  Until I delete it that is the only version I can see under my...

I have an old server running WSS 3.0/sp2 on SQL 2005 express, and I have just setup a new Sharepoint 2010 Server with SQL 2008 Standard.  Is there a way to import one site from the old server to the new one?

Thanks

can somebody tell me how i can patch my sharepoint servers.

my plan would be first patch the OS , then update the sharepoint

I am guessing that sharepoint update, service pack , is available trough windows update.

the reason i am doing...

Hi,

When I boot my HP Proliant ML350 G5 server, I get the following message on the screen (see attached pic).

What can I do about this? Is it safe to use the server?

Attached screen shot says it all.  When trying to open any doc from the shared documents library it sticks at Downloading http://comapnayweb/shared documents.....  Works fine in XP, Mac OS.  Think it is an issue with Office 2010.  Any ideas welcome!

Hello. Is it possible to get GUID of current page? I would like to store it to list to identify data. Something like SPContext.Current.ItemId.

On my Windows Server 2003 SP2, SharePoint/MOSS 2007 server (which also holds the SQL 2005 database), I recent found that doing an iisreset gives the following error message:

"Restart attempt failed. The IIS Admin Service or the World Wide Web...

I get this message when I try to set up SharePoint 2010:

Cannot connect to database master at SQL server at {ServerName}. The database might not exist, or the current user does not have permission to connect to it.


I tried the firewall...

MOSS 2007 / WSS 3

we have not been receiving email alerts from our sharepoint server.

turns out we were pointing to an old exchange server

I changed the name in central admin (and I can ping it from the server), but we are still not...

I have an infopath form published on Sharepoint 2010, and this form submits about 60 fields of data to a SQL 2008 R2 database.  Everything submits fine MOST OF THE TIME.  However, if the cumulative data being submitted to the database exceed 8060...

Hello,

Can you create a report (Excel Spreadsheet) with contact information that is stored in SharePoint 2010?

Thanks.

I am looking for a powershell script or free tool that will allow me to loop through all my users in my SharePoint 2010 Web Application and change their logon's.  This is the example I am looking for:

From
Domain1\first.last

To...

You would think this is simple, but I am having trouble changing a dropdown field on a SharePoint designer 2007 form to a radio control. The drop down field has 5 options.  In SharePoint Designer I click (highlight) the dropdown field and click...

Hi,

We have been looking for a way to publish our team sites via TMG.  I have been able to publish the internal Sharepoint site (teams.domain.com) through TMG and accessable oer the internet as teams.domain.com.

Question has been raised,...

I am creating a C# ASP.NET 3.5 GridView control which will be used in a SharePoint 2010 Webpart.  A webpart is essentially an aspx page.  The data is bound from a SQL Server 2008 R2 of which I write all the stored procedures for.  I have even...

Hello,

I am trying to run an export on a site collection by using the following stsadm command but get an error.

Command:
stsadm.exe -o export -url http://spcommon/sites/RecruitingTransition -filename f:\RT1.cmp -includeusersecurity...