Welcome to my blog on all things SharePoint and .NET. I have a range of articles that will interest you if you've made it as far as visiting my blog. I currently live in Perth, Western Australia and am a Independent Sharepoint Consultant. I founded the SharePointDevWiki.com and help facilitate the Perth SharePoint User Group.

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Solution Development in SharePoint 2007

This series was inspired by the chatter amongst SharePoint blogs on the best ways to approach customisations in SharePoint using Solutions.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8

Leveraging the SharePoint Platform

This series was inspired by a discussion had with Andrew Coates at a Perth SharePoint User Group meeting. This then turned into a 6 part series on Arno Nell's SharePointMagazine.net web site.

Initial post - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

Webcasts

I have recorded various web casts that I present at User Groups or just on a specific topic by request:
How ASP.NET Developers can leverage SharePoint webcast
SPSource Webcast: Reverse engineer Lists to ListTemplates and much more
SharePoint Development with Unit Testing webcast
Perth SharePoint UG Web Cast on approaches to deploying artefacts (SPSource)
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Podcasts

I have been interviewed about Leveraging the SharePoint Platform by the SharePoint Pod Show: listen here .

Latest Posts

SharePoint 2007 SSP User Profile Import Connections Limitations

April 23, 2008

The organisation I am working for at the moment has an Active Directory set up of Users and Contacts. Running a ldifde query to output all Users and Contacts (below) provides me a list of 936 items. ldifde -f usersindomain.csv -r "(&(objectCategory=Person)(|(objectClass=User)(objectClass=Contact)))" If I use this query within the Import Connection in the SSP in Central Admini more...

 

The description for Event ID ( 27745 ) in Source ( Windows SharePoint Services 3 ) cannot be found

April 22, 2008

Got a beauty of an error on our Production farm every few seconds: Event Type:        Error Event Source:        Windows SharePoint Services 3 Event Category:        General Event ID:        27745 Date:                23/04/2008 Time:                9:23:24 AM User:                N/A Computer:        CENTRALADMINSERVER Description: The description for Event ID ( 27745 ) more...

 

Errors when deploying Software Updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007

April 17, 2008

These errors are mentioned on the Deploy Software Updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 right down the bottom. The Error Finding Cause Look in the linked log and search for 'ERR' matching case. 04/16/2008 16:37:17 6 ERR Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies. Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies. Further information regarding this failure can b more...

 

Server X does not have any search query servers associated with it to serve queries

April 17, 2008

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Shared Services Provider: The operation completed successfully...but didn't

April 15, 2008

I was configuring a User Profiles and Properties Import Connection today and kicked off a Full Crawl. As you can see from the above screen it states 'The operation completed successfully'...but it did not obviously crawl my entire domain as there are only 4 user profiles. I viewed the Import logs and found this error 'The profile import default access account is set to use the default more...

 

Shared Services Provider: Access Denied

April 15, 2008

I had an interesting error yesterday regarding access to the 'User profiles and properties' page in the Shared Services Administration stating the generic "Access Denied" SharePoint site access denied. Now my first approach was to look who was the Site Collection Administrator, which was ... yes you guessed it me! And I can access the front page of the Shared Services Provider Pa more...

 

InfoPath Error on Resubmission

April 10, 2008

I've been using the UDCX files for my Data Connections in my InfoPath form and for the Form Submit Action it came up with an error if I resubmitted the form: A value in the form may be used to specify the file name. If you know the value in the form that specifies the file name, revise it and try again. Otherwise, contact the author of the form template. At first I didn't know where to start more...

 

Solution Deployment stuck on "Deploying"

April 10, 2008

I found a post on the MSDN forums because I have the same problem and it recommended the SP1 upgrade to fix the Day Light Savings issue which we have here in Perth Australia. The Day Light Savings actually finished last week before we could get all our ducks in line to test the SP1 patch on our Test Servers and I really couldn't wait for our SharePoint SP1 rollout to happen and needed a solutio more...

 

The Pain of Deploying InfoPath Programmatically

April 9, 2008

I've been doing a lot of work around Governance of SharePoint within our organisation and have been hitting brick walls with regards to InfoPath. Especially with regards to Environmental differences when using Forms with Data Sources. I've found lots of articles pushing Data Connection Libraries with .udcx files which is fine to a point but this is the best one. With this being the best explan more...