Posted in SharePoint, WSS, tagged SharePoint MOSS Document Library DavWWWRoot on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) One of my co-workers was having a new issue with opening a SharePoint Document Library using the Action/Open with Windows Explorer option. He and clients were previously able to do this with no problem.
The error occurred only on client machines running Vista. The odd thing as noted in the error [...]
Posted in SharePoint, WSS, tagged SharePoint MOSS WSS Web Parts on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) I tried to add a List View web part to a page and received the following error:
After searching online, I didn’t find anything that was useful but did find others who were receiving the same error. I suspected because our team had been doing some customization with the different views [...]
Posted in Visio, tagged Visio Office 2007 Exiting on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) I loaded Visio 2007 onto a new laptop running Vista Ultimate. Every time I closed Visio, I would receive an error message and then Visio would close and re-open. The last time I encountered the problem, I received the following error.
The “Send to Bluetooth” add-in ended up being the problem. [...]
Posted in SharePoint, WSS, tagged SharePoint MOSS WSS on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(REPOSTED FROM MY OLD BLOG) Have you ever received the message “An unexpected error has occurred” when using SharePoint – MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 and wanted to figure out what the real error message was? If so, you can make two easy changes to display the error message along with the call stack. In [...]
Posted in SharePoint, WSS, tagged SharePoint Designer Check-In Check-Out on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(REPOST FROM MY OLD BLOG) Occasionally when working in SharePoint Designer, I received the following error occurs when trying to Check In or Check Out files.
For me the problem was very frustrating because it appeared to be intermittent. I did some searching online and tried many suggestions but still continued to receive the error. Finally [...]
Posted in SharePoint, WSS, tagged SharePoint WSS Filtered Lookup List Column on December 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Out of the box no way currently exists in SharePoint to filter a lookup column to show only a subset of entries based on certain criteria. I found this post which got me most of the way to a solution but thought I would add a few points for clarification with screenshots as below.
One [...]
Posted in Sales and Marketing, tagged market diversification sales on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A business partner of mine, Bob Johnston, just posted a good article about Market Diversification. Bob raises some thought provoking questions about what you need to consider when attempting to differentiate yourself from other companies and expand your customer base. With the current business and economic conditions the post is very well-timed. Read more here.
Posted in SharePoint, WSS, tagged SharePoint Designer Crashing Repair on December 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Periodically, Microsoft SharePoint Designer crashes. Periodically, other Microsoft Office 2007 products crash. This is frustrating but indeed happens.
To help diagnose and repair crashing (“closing abnormally”), Microsoft has integrated a diagnostics tool that can be accessed from each of the Office 2007 applications. For the specific steps to run the diagnostics tool [...]
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