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Another quick blog post to highlight some of the updates the community mobile app has received over the last few weeks:
Podcast links updated
- Mr Excel podcast – remember a lot of formulas can be used in calculated columns but also useful for Excel Services!!!
- Microsoft Update Center
For Microsoft Office and SharePoint / Project Server related products linking to the latest CU and Service Packs as well as older updates. (I don’t know about you but I always find it a nightmare finding update links)
SharePoint and related product feature comparisons
So you are at a client and they ask you whether a particular feature is in a certain version of the product. You think you know the answer, but you are not sure. So here is the answer, right on your phone. The Feature Comparison tables for SharePoint, Office, Lync and others as I find them.
Never be stuck again knowing which BCS features are in which version of the product again!
SharePoint User Group UK
SharePoint User Group (UK) dates updated (including the one I shall be speaking at. More about that in a blog post later)
Last of all I would like to say a big thank you for all the people who have downloaded the app so far. I am working on getting a version of the app onto Windows Phone 7, Blackberry and a number of other OS’s so watch this space!
Once again if you have any suggestions for the app, please let me know.
Office 2010 / #MSProject 2010 SP1 + June 2011 Cumulative Update links #ProjectServer #SharePoint #SP2010 #PS2010
As ever, now that my server environment is starting to stabilise after installing SP1 + June 2011 CU (Security Validation issues aside of course), we are now looking at updating the clients to reflect the update.
This is especially important in a Project Server / Microsoft Project 2010 environment.
As a result, here are some useful links that took me a while to dig out for the Office / Project 2010 client updates:
Project 2010
Project 2010 Service Pack 1 x86:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C72141FE-D264-4F6E-AE09-D0FBD32DE5D5
Project 2010 Service Pack 1 x64:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=CE1FD136-A1F4-4FF5-909B-50808D6F39CB
Project 2010 – June Cumulative Update 2011 x86 & x64:
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=2536590&kbln=en-us
NB: only update binary available for Project 2010 in the June 2011 CU
Office 2010
Office 2010 Service Pack 1 x86:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9D2E1282-8B69-418B-AFA0-9F61239EC8BE
Office 2010 Service Pack 1 x64:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E9F3C2D0-C321-4910-A4CE-B2F294B42D65
Office 2010 – June Cumulative Update 2011 x86 & x64:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2553023
NB: no single update binary available, update client applications as required.
Other Useful Links:
On my travels I also found this other link which lists all the updates for the SharePoint and Office Systems:
Podcasts now available on the #SharePoint / #ProjectServer community app #Android #iOS #SP2010 #PS2010 #MSProject
Another week and another update to the SharePoint and Project Server community mobile app.
This time, wrap your audio visual senses around these podcasts that stream directly from the application (watch out for your mobile data caps!!!)
I shall add more as I find them and as ever, if you have any suggestions for the application… get in contact.
The application is currently available for iOS (iPad / iPhone) and Android.
Further mobile app updates #iOS #Android #iPhone #SP2010 #SharePoint #PS2010 #ProjectServer #MSProject
Now that the Android release is out of the way, the application content can be updated.
New features in this content update:
- Location and date updates for Conferences, SharePoint Saturday’s and User Groups (UK)
- CodePlex Project video updates
- Minor link updates to SharePoint and Project Server RSS feeds including adding one of the site authors RSS feed for his new blog (Paul Mather: http://pwmather.wordpress.com)
If you have a blog, user group meeting or anything else you would like to add to the app, please get in contact.
Shenanigans community app now available on Android #in #PS2010 #ProjectServer #SP2010 #SharePoint #Android
As promised last week, the SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans mobile application is now available for Google’s phone OS on Android Market.
Features are exactly the same as the iPhone version of the application and all future updates to the app will be kept in sync via in-app updates for both iPhone and Android.
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Application Name: SP & PS Shenanigans
Application Categories: Social
Search Keywords: SharePoint, Project Server, Giles Hamson, Shenanigans, Social
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Further iPhone application updates #iphone #ipad #ios #SharePoint #SP2010 #MSProject #PS2010 #ProjectServer #in
Just a quick blog to say that I have updated the SharePoint (and Project Server) iPhone application today with the following content:
- About Me – Links to my profile, my company etc…
- SharePoint Conferences around the world – locations & dates
- SharePoint Saturday around the world – locations & dates
- Application Name: SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans
Application Categories: Social Media, News
Search Keywords: SharePoint, Project Server, Giles Hamson, Shenanigans, RSS, Blog
Introducing a new #iPhone / #iPad application for the #SharePoint and #ProjectServer community #SP2010 #MSProject #in
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As the community has been so kind to me, this is my way of giving something back and I welcome new feature suggestions and blogs to be added to the RSS feeds.
The user group meeting locations is currently only for the UK, but if anyone would like to add any further user group locations / dates, anywhere in the world. I will happily add them and they will be available on the application the following day.
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Application Name: SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans
Application Categories: Social Media, News
Search Keywords: SharePoint, Project Server, Giles Hamson, Shenanigans, RSS, Blog
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Recreating the SharePoint 2010 State Service #SP2010 #SharePoint #PS2010 #MSProject #ProjectServer
My client was so eager to get SP1 and the June 2011 Cumulative Updates up and running on the Development and Test environments that on day one I was installing and testing the updates on my project.
What on earth was my clients requirement I hear ask? couldn’t they wait?
Well the end users are heavy Linux users and the requirement for Timesheet data entry within Firefox is v.strong. As a result, testing SP1 outside of the beta that we had already tested was top priority.
Of course, a few days later the June 2011 Cumulative Update was re-released and it is widely known that the State Service among other things can go wrong.
Looking into it further and the State Service cannot be created in the usual method (clicking the new button in the Managed Service section of Central Administration).
So PowerShell to the rescue:
$StateServiceDB = "SP2010_StateService" $GetSPStateServiceApplication = Get-SPStateServiceApplication If ($GetSPStateServiceApplication -eq $Null) { Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "- Creating State Service Application..." New-SPStateServiceDatabase -Name $StateServiceDB | Out-Null New-SPStateServiceApplication -Name "State Service Application" -Database $StateServiceDB | Out-Null Get-SPStateServiceDatabase | Initialize-SPStateServiceDatabase | Out-Null Write-Host -ForegroundColor White " - Creating State Service Application Proxy..." Get-SPStateServiceApplication | New-SPStateServiceApplicationProxy -Name "State Service Application Proxy" -DefaultProxyGroup | Out-Null Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "- Done creating State Service Application." } Else { Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "- State Service Application already exists." }
Security Validation Issue – Form Services issue with SP1+June 2011 CU (Release 2) #in #SP2010 #SharePoint #MSProject #ProjectServer
We are testing Service Pack 1 heavily in my project that I have talked about on this blog many times.
One of the features of our implementation is a number of developed InfoPath forms. We found one issue previously that required a hotfix and it looks like SP1 and June 2011 CU (Release 2) has introduced another.
My colleague Paul Busby has mentioned it here:
and another user has also confirmed the issue.
I shall be sending the details below to Microsoft through our partner support and hopefully we can get a resolution.
Scenario:
- Form Services
- Administrator Approved Form
- Server Version: 14.0.6106.5002 (Office 2010 SP1 + June 2011 CU – Release 2)
- Client Version: 14.0.6023.1000 (Office 2010 SP1)
- NB: June 2011 Cumulative Update does not include updates for InfoPath 2010
- Microsoft June 2011 Cumulative Update for Office 2010 Client Applications – KB2259686: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2259686/en-us
The form has two views:
- View one has a people picker
- View two is blank
The form is uploaded via Central Administration and activated to a site collection
A form library is created and the associated content type is attached
Upon creating a new form, the form loads
When the user switches views in the form, a Security Validation Error occurs:
Further Details:
- We have discovered that it appears to happen when switching to or from a view that contains a people picker field.
- Turning off security validation, allows the form to continue to work, but this is not something we want to go live with
- This issue has been found on a client DEV and TEST environment as well as a newly installed RTM machine upgraded to SP1 + June 2011 CU Release 2
SharePoint 2010 Log Details (specific details in red):
07/20/2011 13:54:03.85 w3wp.exe (0x10CC) 0x11BC SharePoint Foundation Monitoring nasq Medium Entering monitored scope (Request (POST:http://vm482:80/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=http://vm482/FormServerTemplates/SP1SecurityValidationTest_Published.xsn
&SaveLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fvm482%2FSP1SecurityValidationTest&ClientInstalled=true&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fvm482%2FSP1SecurityValidationTest%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1))
07/20/2011 13:54:03.85 w3wp.exe (0x10CC) 0x11BC SharePoint Foundation Logging Correlation Data xmnv Medium Name=Request (POST:http://vm482:80/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=http://vm482/FormServerTemplates/SP1SecurityValidationTest_Published.xsn
&SaveLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fvm482%2FSP1SecurityValidationTest&ClientInstalled=true&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fvm482%2FSP1SecurityValidationTest%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1) 5c0ca3e0-a782-4691-9a79-b2e163e3f0e9
07/20/2011 13:54:03.85 w3wp.exe (0x10CC) 0x11BC SharePoint Foundation Logging Correlation Data xmnv Medium Site=/ 5c0ca3e0-a782-4691-9a79-b2e163e3f0e9
07/20/2011 13:54:03.91 w3wp.exe (0x10CC) 0x11BC SharePoint Foundation Web Controls cm8z Medium Failed to get SPGroupName from GroupID. Error Message: Group cannot be found. Callstack: at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGroupCollection.GetByID(Int32 id) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.PeopleEditor.set_SharePointGroupID(Int32 value). 5c0ca3e0-a782-4691-9a79-b2e163e3f0e9
07/20/2011 13:54:03.91 w3wp.exe (0x10CC) 0x11BC SharePoint Foundation General 8kh7 High The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again. 5c0ca3e0-a782-4691-9a79-b2e163e3f0e9
07/20/2011 13:54:03.91 w3wp.exe (0x10CC) 0x11BC SharePoint Foundation Runtime tkau Unexpected System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.ValidateFormDigest(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.ValidateFormDigest(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName) 5c0ca3e0-a782-4691-9a79-b2e163e3f0e9
07/20/2011 13:54:03.91 w3wp.exe (0x10CC) 0x11BC SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly Medium Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (POST:http://vm482:80/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=http://vm482/FormServerTemplates/SP1SecurityValidationTest_Published.xsn
&SaveLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fvm482%2FSP1SecurityValidationTest&ClientInstalled=true&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fvm482%2FSP1SecurityValidationTest%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1)). Execution Time=66.2620528586734 5c0ca3e0-a782-4691-9a79-b2e163e3f0e9
Some links to capacity planning tools and advice #in #SP2010 #PS2010 #ProjectServer #SharePoint #MSProject
Microsoft Guides:
Capacity management and sizing for SharePoint & Project Server 2010
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261700(office.14).aspx
Software Boundaries and Limitations for SharePoint & Project Server 2010:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx
Storage and SQL Server capacity planning and configuration (SharePoint & Project Server 2010):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801(office.14).aspx
Further Resources & Links – SharePoint 2010:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff601870
Further Resources & Links – Project Server 2010:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/projectserver/ee263909
HP Tools
http://h20338.www2.hp.com/activeanswers/Secure/548230-0-0-0-121.html
Tihomir Ignatov Blog
Custom Excel spread sheet for sizing High Availability environments:
http://tihomirignatov.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharepoint-2010-capacity-planning-and.html
Choirul Amri Blog
Further storage considerations:
SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans 
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