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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Cannot Find SharePoint Site or SharePoint Server Instance

This problem can occur when the workflow deployment process cannot open the SharePoint site.

Error Messages
  • SharePoint Server not available.

  • Cannot find a SharePoint server instance.

  • Cannot find the specified SharePoint site: <site URL>.

Resolution
  • Ensure that SharePoint Server is running.

  • In the Properties window, ensure that the site specified in the Target Site field is a valid SharePoint site.

  • Examine the SharePoint diagnostic log files. The default location of these log files is drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS. If you cannot find the log files at this location, refer to the diagnostic logging settings in the SharePoint Central Administration Tool. For more information, see the documentation for Office SharePoint Server 2007.

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231594(VS.100).aspx

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Free SMTP server

Windows 7 does not provide an SMTP server service so we have to use a free SMTP server:

http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html

Friday, November 13, 2009

Service Unavailable HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.

Maybe you have changed your windows account password. Reset the password at the Application pool identity level

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

MY SQL connection string for .NET

driver={mysql odbc 3.51 driver}; uid=userid; pwd =test server=localhost; option=16834; database=ourdbname;

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Grant Execute permissions to an sql user

use this command:


GRANT EXECUTE TO username

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Handling Lookup columns in CAML queries

if query returns all the records instead of only filtered ones:
try to do this: remove the <query></query> tags from C#

CAML Query Builder

http://www.u2u.be/Res/Tools/CamlQueryBuilder.aspx

User control web part

http://www.reflectionit.nl/SmartPart.aspx

CAML Queries to retrieve records from a sharepoint list

http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/development/writing-caml-queries-for-retrieving-list-items-from-a-sharepoint-list

Retrieving list items from a Sharepoint list

http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2008/09/27/sharepoint-for-developers-3-2-hands-on-getting-list-items.aspx

Install AJAX Control Toolkit in Visual Studio 2008

http://www.aspnettutorials.com/tutorials/ajax/installing-ajax-toolkit-2008.aspx

SSH to a UNIX machine

http://math.asu.edu/support/doc/ssh/ssh.html

SharePoint SmartPart

http://www.codeplex.com/Wikipage?ProjectName=smartpart

Joomla for Beginners

http://docs.joomla.org/Beginners

Access Joomla files - Tutorial

· Access your jumpbox site admin view (usually https://youripaddress:3000/) and go to SSH/SFTP

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· After enabling; open an FTP client e.g. Core FTP Lite; set it to SFTP and use your admin user and password; then give the IP of the jumpbox server

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· U can browse through the filesystem now

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