Scenario:

An organization has a normal Microsoft environment, Windows Server, AD, Windows 7 clients, SharePoint 2010 etc. The SharePoint server has a Web application on standard port 80, accessible through both the NetBIOS/computer name (http://server) and a DNS-based general FQDN (http://portal.company.local). when accessing the site through the FQDN, everything works as expected until we try to open an explorer view to a document library, or try to save an Office document to a site. When doing this through the server name, automatic login works, when using FQDN the user is presented with a login dialog/prompt for credentials.

The first thing to check is that the sites are in the IE Local Intranet zone. Local Intranet zone is the only zone that enables automatic login by default.

The next thing is to enable automatic forwarding of credentials to the server using the following registry hack:

1. Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters

3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Multi-String Value.
4. Type AuthForwardServerList, and then press ENTER.
5. On the Edit menu, click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type the URL of the server that hosts the Web share, and then click OK.

For more information, check: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=943280

(After changing, remember to restart the computer or restart the WebClient service)

Open in explorer can be accessed through the user interface using the Library tab as below. You can also directly access a library by entering the address in explorer such as \\server\site\library etc…

To fix this, you need to change a setting in Internet Explorer Options, go to settings – Connections and click “LAN settings”

Change the Automatically detect settings check box so that it is not checked, as below:

This makes the explorer interface work better…

If you are having other issues, are using Windows XP or are having issues creating files through the explorer view, the following TechNet blog entry have some general information:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/manjesh/archive/2010/01/03/all-about-explorer-view-in-sharepoint.aspx

http://www.addskills.se/Vara-kursledare/Artiklar-och-tips/Darfor-ska-du-lara-dig-SharePoint/

Wordfeud in Winterkeep just wasn’t the same for Bran with his brothers and sisters gone…

Ett märkligt problem dök upp när jag anslöt mitt Telenor-simkort till min Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 med Android 3.1 (Honeycomb).

Datatrafik fungerade bra för allt utom webbläsaren. Följande felmeddelande visade sig när man försökte bläddra till valfri sida i valfri webbläsaren:

Efter en del huvudbry inser jag att den automatiska inställningen för anslutningspunkten har blivit fel och ser ut som detta:

Här är proxyadressen angiven med en inledande 0:a något som naturligtvis ser harmlöst ut men i själva verket anger talet som oktalt snarare än decimalt.

Genom att manuellt uppdatera adressen till den riktiga (utan nolla) fungerar webbläsandet som förväntat…

Web part page error

If the Excel spreadsheet is displayed as a web part, the following error will appear in the web part page:

Text: Error. Web Part Error: An error occurred while setting the value of this property: Microsoft.Office.Excel.WebUI.ExcelWebRenderer:WorkbookUri – Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

Edit Web part error message

Text: Cannot save all of the property settings for this Web Part. An error has occurred

An item with the same key has already been added.

The error comes in scenarios such as: after cube changes such as when a dimension has been deleted, and this dimension is used as a page filter in the Excel pivot table and the page filter was a named item and the named item was exposed as a parameter to Excel Services when saved into SharePoint. If the Excel file is updated with the new metadata from the cube but the named items is not, the error message appears.

The solution is to update the Excel file with the new metadata from the cube and also update the named items used as parameters so that they correspond to the relevant cells in the filters area.

If the web page security validation is turned off, the above error message might be presented when trying to create a document library or list in SharePoint 2010.

To change the setting, log into Central Administration, manage the web app and change the general settings of the web app to enable security validation.

June 2011 Cumulative Update Refresh (http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=989)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/11/18/democratizing-research-with-the-cloud.aspx

I couldn’t help noticing that their perspective on numbers are a bit peculiar.

The comparison image they use even fail to link to their sources, you need to type them yourself:

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpop.php

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/genbankstats.html

Link to original image in larger format:

http://blogs.technet.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-00-80-54/8132.NCBI_2D00_lg.bmp

While I don’t know much about DNA base pairs, I thought the number of people worldwide was a bit of… Now I know more about the number of base pairs – by verifying the source…

This reminds me of the essay by Edward Tufte on NASA’s use of PowerPoint:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1

more info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/11/05/critical-information-about-the-sharepoint-server-2010-october-cumulative-update.aspx

Quote:

Microsoft has discovered a critical issue in the recently released October Cumulative Updates for SharePoint Server 2010 and Project Server 2010, and we have removed the files from download availability.  If you have already downloaded the CU, do not install it.  If you have installed the CU, please contact Microsoft Support for assistance.  We will be posting additional information about the issue here as soon as we have it, and will make the Cumulative Update available for download again as soon as the issue has been fully resolved.

Here is a follow up with more information, details and a workaround:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/11/06/details-and-workaround.aspx

Update: Updates now republished: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/12/01/october-2010-cumulative-updates-for-sharepoint-amp-project-server-2010-republished.aspx