OfficePoint

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Grand Rapids SharePoint User Group Meeting Nov 6th

Here is the info:

On November 6, Harold Gravatt of Realign LLC, a MCSE with over 18 years of demonstrated expertise delivering Microsoft based network solutions, will cover implementing the External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint using ADAM and FBA. Find out how your company can provide authenticated team site access to clients and partners without adding them to your Active Directory.

David Tappan, a MCSE and Senior MOSS Architect at C/D/H, will also lead a ‘How Do I’ presentation on how to configure Kerberos authentication in a multi-server SharePoint farm.

New Horizons

5315 28^th St Ct. SE Suite B

Grand Rapids, MI 49546

November 6, 2008

6:00pm-8:00pm

Friday, October 24, 2008

SharePoint The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'proc_LogChange', database 'SharePoint_AdminContent_, schema dbo

You may receive an error similar to the one below when upgrading or installing a hotfix on SharePoint. I received this and SharePoint didn't tell me anything more than this error message.

The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'proc_LogChange', database SharePoint_AdminContent, schema dbo

To resolve this I logged into the SharePoint web server as the Application Pool account that SharePoint was running under and also granted this user dbo rights on the SharePoint_AdminContent database. I then ran the SharePoint ConfigurationWizard again and the upgrade completed successfully.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Gmail Web Slice for Internet Explorer 8

<input type="button" value="Add GMAIL Web Slice" class="addButton"

onclick='window.external.AddToFavoritesBar(

"https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom",

"GMAIL", "slice");' />

Creating an IE 8 Web Slice to display your Google Mail Gmail Inbox

This is another very simple example of how to add an authenticated Web Slice that displays the contents of your Gmail inbox in the IE 8 web slice.

Creating a simple Internet Explorer 8 web slice to display RSS Feed

Creating a simple Internet Explorer 8 web slice is pretty easy to do. This example shows how to add a button to your page that will add a web slice to display any valid RSS feed. Again this web slice will display an RSS feed. In this case the web slice displays the RSS feed from this blog.

<input type="button" value="Add Web Slice" class="addButton"

onclick='window.external.AddToFavoritesBar(

"http://feeds.feedburner.com/Officepoint?format=xml",

"OfficePoint RSS Feed", "slice");' />

IE 8 Accelerator Sample Example

This is an example of an IE 8 Accelerator. It doesn't tell you how to create one but it is itself a definition for an accelerator. This is a very simple one that adds an Accelerator that will just redirect the user to OfficePoint when clicked.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<os:openServiceDescription xmlns:os="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/openservicedescription/1.0">

<os:homepageUrl>http://officepoint.blogspot.com</os:homepageUrl>

<os:display>

<os:name>Visit OfficePoint</os:name>

<os:icon>http://blogitems.googlepages.com/office.ico</os:icon>

<os:description>Visit my site</os:description>

</os:display>

<os:activity category="Visit">

<os:activityAction context="document">

<os:execute action="http://officepoint.blogspot.com" method="get" />

</os:activityAction>

</os:activity>

</os:openServiceDescription>

In order to add an Accelerator you'll need add a button that adds the service.

<html>

<head>

<title>Untitled Page</title>

</head>

<body>

<div>

Add OfficePoint Accelerator

</button>

</div>

</form>

</body>

</html>

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Generate machineKey web.config

Here is a site that will generate the machineKey for your web.config for you. Useful for the Sitecore AD Module configuration explained below or for any ASP.NET site that needs the machineKey in the web.config.

http://aspnetresources.com/tools/keycreator.aspx