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Random Muslings Articles
Tackling the ‘T’ Word
I put together an article concerning SharePoint Training and Resources for IMIS (Institute of Management Information...
How to synchronize a SharePoint Contact List with Microsoft Outlook 2010
A SharePoint Contact list can be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook; so that features available in Microsoft Outlook contacts would be available to a SharePoint Contact list displayed in Outlook. Another benefit of this approach is that users would be able to see all...
Thoughts on a SharePoint Study guide
Well, its been sooo busy with me writing the MOS Study Sharepoint section for the MOS exam 77-886, and being inundated with queries concerning what is the best study guide to use for SharePoint, that I thought lets drop my thoughts in this short blog for you to mull...
Import Failure – Parent Web Site does not Exist – A Possible Fix
If you carry out Exports and Imports using the good ole stsadm –o commands this will may be of interest if you run into the following error: Content deployment job 'Remote import job for job with sourceID = <id>' failed.The exception thrown was...
Usage Data Import Job Fail 8075 and Execute Method SPUsageImportJobDefinition Fail 6398 – How to Fix
Scenario is a two front end, index and crawl server which had just been migrated into a new server group in a different datacentre. Following the migration and startup, Front End servers both show this message every 15 minutes: The Usage Data Import timer job failed....
Can’t Start SharePoint 2010 Sync Service, Error 1001, 8312, 6398 – a Fix?
Best way to start is to show you those errors in the good ole event log: Error 1001: Fault bucket , type 0 Event Name: CLR20r3 Response: Not available Cab Id: 0 Problem signature: P1: owstimer.exe P2: 14.0.5128.5000 P3: 4cace1f1 P4: mscorlib P5: 2.0.0.0 P6: 4bebe8e2...
How to install Adobe PDF Filtering for SharePoint 2010
This article explains how to install the PDF filtering ability in SharePoint 2010. As you may be aware, without this ability text within PDF files will not be included in any SharePoint index, and as such, only the PDF filename itself will be indexed. As always with...
User Profiles – Picture Property in SharePoint 2010
First blog of the Year and its good ole Administration in SharePoint 2010 land, starring User Profiles. Now back in SharePoint 2007 SSP User Profiles, you may have thought that configuration was easy and simplistic. You know, setting a property to a value in AD was a...
How to remove (hide) the Ribbon, All Site Content and Recycle from your SharePoint 2010 site
Now, if you have a public facing SharePoint site and not into the full branding scene, then you might want to remove (actually hide) the ribbon from the top, and remove the All Site Content and Recycle Bin. After a bit of digging and asking questions and learning more...
Public Facing SharePoint Foundation Site – Anonymous access – No Theme!
Just had to blog this one - are you running with a public facing SharePoint Foundation site will find that anonymous users will not see any theme you apply, and instead will see the default even if you change it to something else? Found a way to get around this, you...