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Video Showcase – Media Player #in #SP2010

November 4, 2010 5 comments

SharePoint Media Player 1.1

A web part which places a Windows Media Player object on the page to play audio / video. The web part takes into account the problem of menu’s going behind the Media Player window.

Compatibility:

  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • SharePoint Foundation 2010
  • SharePoint Server 2010

PerformancePoint 2010 Migration Steps #in #SP2010

November 4, 2010 Leave a comment

Just completing my research into PerformancePoint 2010 and how it can be useful in SharePoint and Project Server environments.

Part of the research of course includes how to migrate the content.  Typical life-cycle being DEV, TEST, LIVE + maybe others etc.

Link to MSDN article discussing the options: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff735567.aspx

PerformancePoint 2010 error resolved “Code blocks are not allowed in this file” #in #sp2010

November 1, 2010 3 comments

I’ve been playing with PerformancePoint 2010 today and one of the first hurdles I came across in our MOSS 2007 upgraded environment was the following error:

An error occurred during the processing of /PerformancePoint/Pages/ppssample.aspx. Code blocks are not allowed in this file.

This seemed to be an issue with the following reference not being in the web.config on the site.

<PageParserPath VirtualPath="/PerformancePoint/Pages /ppssample.aspx" CompilationMode="Always" AllowServerSideScript="true" />

Once this was in, the error was resolved and I could install the Dashboard Designer as standard.

Video Showcase – Internet Search #in #SP2010

October 31, 2010 Leave a comment

SharePoint Internet Search 1.6

A Web Part to place an Internet Search area on the page.
Extended from the original Google Search to include Windows Live (default), Google and Yahoo. Logo’s are provided as standard with configuration of your own logo’s if required.

Compatibility:

  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • SharePoint Foundation 2010
  • SharePoint Server2010

Video Showcase – Google Directions Web Part #in #SP2010

October 31, 2010 Leave a comment

SharePoint Google Directions 1.2

Enter start and destination details (place name, post code, zip code etc…) and click “Get Directions”. A pop up will appear showing Google Directions in accordance with the configuration options chosen in the toolpane.

Compatibility:

  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • SharePoint Foundation 2010
  • SharePoint Server 2010
Categories: Work

Registering Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2010 #in

October 27, 2010 Leave a comment

Today a colleague of mine had an issue at a client about Registering Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2010.

This is a new feature of 2010 to allow for the maintenance of service accounts and even includes password refresh cycles etc.…

If you come across the error:

“The given key was not present in the dictionary”

It is likely that you need to setup some permissions on Active Directory as found in the following post:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/5279f8da-2924-461f-8c35-5b81a2329927

The answer mentions using All Authenticated Users – but I suspect you just need to add the permissions to the appropriate service accounts instead.

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October Cumulative Updates for MOSS 2007 / SPS 2010 available #in

October 27, 2010 Leave a comment

All download links are here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2010/10/27/october-2010-cu-for-sharepoint-2007-and-2010-has-been-released-last-yesterday.aspx

As always only update if you have a problem that requires solving that is fixed by this update.

Also, test it on a non-production system first – preferably with the same content database.

Cheers

Giles

My CodePlex Projects – Now SharePoint 2010 Compatible #in

October 26, 2010 Leave a comment

Just a quick note to say that my I have added my CodePlex projects to my blog and I have also tested them in SharePoint 2010.

I am pleased to say that they work without modification.

https://ghamson.wordpress.com/codeplex-projects/

I will also be updating this site with video showcases for each web part as I get round to doing them.  (Probably start this weekend).

Let me know what you think.

Useful JavaScript Function: HTML Encode #in

October 21, 2010 Leave a comment

Recently I have found the need to HTML Encode text in JavaScript, especially when using update list items and Single Line Of Text or Multiple Lines Of Text fields.

An easy way to do this is use the native functionality of the browser when it processes DIV’s.

Any text inside of a DIV automatically gets HTML Encoded.  So all we have to do is create a DIV on the fly, insert the text and return the output.

1 function HTMLEncode(str) { 2 var div = document.createElement('div'); 3 var text = document.createTextNode(str); 4 div.appendChild(text); 5 return div.innerHTML; 6 }

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