Posted by Scott on April 4, 2011
Installing SharePoint Server 2010 RTM on Windows Server 2008 R2 can bring a slew of errors related to the TaxonomyPicker.ascx user control. For some reason (<cough>rushed product out the door</cough>), this particular control has some HTML encoded text in it’s control defintion.
- Navigate to /14/ControlTemplates/TaxonomyPicker.ascx user control.
- Open the user control in a text editor and locate the first line.
<%@ Control className="TaxonomyPickerControl" Language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.TaxonomyPicker,Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
- Find the character string , and replace with a comma ‘,’ (without quotes).
<%@ Control className="TaxonomyPickerControl" Language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.TaxonomyPicker,Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
- Save the user control.
Reference
Posted by Scott on February 16, 2011
There is a bug in the IIS 7 user interface which prevents setting the idleTimeout property of an application pool when both the time (“Regular Time Interval (minutes)”) property and idleTimeout properties are set to zero.
A quick trip to the command line and the appcmd interface can solve the problem. The following command will set the idleTimeout property to 10 minutes.
appcmd set apppool "Application Pool Name" /processModel.idleTimeout:0.00:10:00
When properly executed, the command will output the following:
APPPOOL object "Application Pool Name" changed
Posted by Scott on March 27, 2009
I recently had the pleasure of upgrading my Blackberry from OS 4.2 to 4.5. Normally this would be a “no brainer”00, but as with all things in life I had to be difficult and perform my upgrade from a Windows Server 2008 workstation.
Without further ado:
- Install the latest version of Desktop Manager (DM) that works with your operating system.
- Verify that DM is connected to the BES. If DM is not seeing your BES, your device will not reactivate after the OS upgrade is complete.
- Install the 4.5 package.
- Unplug your handheld from your PC and reboot.
- A reboot was required in my case as DM and Windows did not detect the new device drivers for the handheld.
- Plug your handheld into your PC. Windows will automatically detect the updated device drivers.
- Start your handheld upgrade from DM.
- Wait.
- Wait some more.
- Did I mention you should still be waiting?
- ??? Profit ??? Really RIM, does an upgrade need to take this long?
- After the successful completion of your upgrade, DM will automatically reactivate your handheld with the BES.
Important notes:
- If you are connected to a Windows domain, when upgrading with DM, make sure you are signed in to your domain account that is tied to your handhelds email configuration. If you do not do this, you will most likely not reactivate on the BES, and that is a BAD thing.
- If the upgrade does not take the first time, be sure you have rebooted and that you are utilizing the newest device drivers for your handheld.
Why would you want to upgrade and go through the pain? For some of the following:
- BlackBerry Maps with Points of Interest
- Improved media player with playlist support and automatic playlist generation
- Voice note recording
- Video recording on Curve models
- Streaming support for YouTube and Sling Player
- Microsoft Office document editing with DocumentsToGo
- And more…
Posted by Scott on January 7, 2009
Spencer Harbar presented an excellent webcast on content deployment in SharePoint 2007 yesterday. If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about it, now is the time.
Go check it out.