Archives | October 2008

SharePoint excel services charting generates the chart on the server each time the page gets requested. Unfortunately, these charts look beautiful at design time because our desktops have such great video with millions of colors etc, but on the server, the display settings may be set to 16 bit. When SharePoint renders the chart, it uses the current server's display adapter, if the setting are too week the output looks horrible with pixilated charts, ugly font colors , and mismatched spacing. Problem Ugly Charts Solution Up the server's color depth to 32 Bit

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*** Updated 6/1/2009 -- I've noticed that this post along with the contact selector demo are by far the most commonly viewed posts, therefore I added some "common things to look for" section towards the bottom*** What a lovely error this is.  If you've been using SharePoint workflows you've probably come across this error; usually with a few tweaks an clicks, possibly a quick re-save of the workflow and voila, the error goes away.  If you've searched the web for this error you will see that the most common cause usually arises from issues with permissions even more commonly these errors arise...

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So it's a little annoying, you're out and about and your e-mail works great, then you get home and you can send but you can't receive mail. In my case I own my own web-server so I want to at least receive e-mail using my favorite mail client. The error message Outlook is unable to connect to your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server The Solution Here's what I did in outlook. Open Outlook Select Tools >> Options Select the Mail Setup tab Select E-Mail Accounts On the e-mail accounts screen double click on your preferred e-mail account On the account screen click More Settings...

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