Troubleshooting Claims to Windows NT Token Service (c2WTS) in SharePoint 2010 may be difficult if you don’t know where to start
I have been writing some blogs entries (and even a Microsoft KB) about c2WTS, but the subject never exhausts. I was helping two different customers to troubleshoot issues with SharePoint Excel Services. In one of the cases the problem happened randomly and the error message was saying that the request to the external data (SQL)
Application to check cascade access rights for a particular user or anonymous user in SharePoint
Don’t you hate when you have access denied and you don’t know where it is coming from? It is even worse when it is related to anonymous access where a single detail can prevent a page from being rendered (IIS authentication, broken inheritance, you name it). The application will show the detailed cascade rights for
You cannot edit list or document library items on existing SharePoint sites
This problem was fixed in KB961175. The patch will keep the problem from happening again in new lists/libraries you create after applying the patch. However if you have a backup before the patch the restored contents will continue to show the same error. It is also true to existing items. In order to fix this
MOSS Load Test
I had put together an application to perform Load Test in both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. The application as it is now is more “Load” than “Test”. The next step will be to save the results in a database and enable live queries. I am planning to
Presenting MOSS Support Explorer (Not even Beta Yet)
There are some occasions in the course of work as Support Escalation Engineer in Microsoft that we rely heavily in analyzing SharePoint metadata. Installing software in a production environment is a no-no for most companies (or at least it requires a change control request). I had put together a few features in an Explorer like
Getting Sharepoint Site/Web Context in a Console Application
I had recently faced a problem which I believe other people will face at least once: how to get the context from a URL in a C# Console Application. I needed to use ProfileLoader which requires a context. You cannot get current context when you run an application outside a Sharepoint page (like in Windows
How to test the Mail Settings for a Sharepoint Web Application
WSS and MOSS enable outgoing e-mail configuration and most of the time this configuration is straightforward. As of matter of fact you do not have much to configure as shown below: Figure 1 – Outgoing e-mail settings This same configuration is used for alerts and notifications as it is for invitations. Most of the
Org Chart Web Part – Part I – Overview and Download
In this post we are going to explore User Profiles by extending the Organizational Hierarchy in MOSS. I’ve posted in Codeplex both installer and code for the Organizational Chart Hierarchy web part. This post will only discuss installation and configuration. I will discuss the code in posts to come. What this webpart does: This web