The crawl log in Search Administration returned the following error: sps3://xxx could not be crawled What you must do is to set permissions to the search account that you use for crawling the User Profiles. Select User Profile Services (do not click the link, but highlight the application) Up in the ribbon, click a button …
This week I have installed my first SharePoint 2010 server and it has been great fun and very interesting! It is a test environment so it’s a small server farm setup. After having a connection issue with the SQL server (everything is closed and denied) it was a fast and easy installation. Well that was …
I got this error message on my SharePoint farm backup (using the STSADM commandSTSADM.EXE -o backup -directory \srv001sqlbackups -backupmethod full): Object SharePoint_Config failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. SqlException: Write on “\srv003SP_Backupspbr0001000001D.bak” failed: 121(The semaphore timeout period has expired.) BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. My …
This week I had to do a restore of a site collection using only SQL database backup. The customers hosting partner had not setup a SharePoint farm backup and had no test environment available that we could restore the database to, so they restored the database back to the SQL server into the production environment.When …
I think I have blogged about this before, but I cannot enough emphasize the importance of running SharePoints own backup together with your SQL database backup. Of course, some third party backup products might be able to restore in the same way as you can restore a site collection backup inside Central Admin, but it …
I have installed Windows 7 and Office 2010 now, which is a big improvement from Vista! Though there are some applications that do not work with Win 7, like Cisco VPN. Yes, I am sure that someone has found a version and have done all the settings/regedit hacks that you must do, but really… So …
This error message occured on the IIS 7 on my SharePoint server this morning (running on win server 2008). How come? Well it all started with this: I was going to add an account on a site, but the AD did not reply, which forced me in to the server to have a look. Turned …
To calculate the week number in a view, enter following formula in a calculated column: Replace the “Yourdatefieldhere” with the column that contains the date field you want to calculate the formula on. Thanks to http://lamahashim.blogspot.com/2009/10/sharepoint-calculated-field-week-number.html for the formula. Swedish version=HELTAL((Yourdatefieldhere-DATUM(ÅR(Yourdatefieldhere);1;1)+(TEXT(VECKODAG(DATUM(ÅR(Yourdatefieldhere);1;1));”d”)))/7)+1 English version=INT((Yourdatefieldhere-DATE(YEAR(Yourdatefieldhere),1,1)+(TEXT(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(Yourdatefieldhere),1,1)),”d”)))/7)+1 More examples of view formulas here
Usually when I want to center align a div on a page, I use margin:auto auto and set my width to a specific width, like 940px in my stylesheet. But, this does NOT work in IE 8. So to make that work, use width:940pxheight:100%position:absoluteleft:50% (to tell that your div should start in the middle of …
I wanted a custom view where the news are sorted per Year and Month, and then after modified date descending order. I created a new field called Year and used the following formula to calculate year which is really easy: =YEAR(Created) Then I wanted to get the name of the month instead of the number …
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