Category | MOSS

Problem Users report the following error when attempting to access a document library in SharePoint. An error occurred during the processing of /site/SharedDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx. Code blocks are not allowed in this file. Explanation Ever so often I have clients contact me with a SharePoint library fully corrupted reporting an error such as “Code blocks are not allowed in this file”.  The error is, in fact, limited to a specific view but it’s usually the default view, therefore the error makes the library appear like it is completely inaccessible.  The root cause...

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So I have noticed that Google refers lots of people to my blog for “Fly Out Menus”. I imagine many of you are disappointed when you find that the article is for enabling the fly out only on the top of the page also known as the Top Nav and is not an article regarding the left hand side Current Navigation or Quick Launch, if this is, indeed, your intention then refer to this article: Quick Launch Fly-Out Menus. However, if you are simply attempting to display the quick launch menus across the top of your page in the so-called Global Navigation then you are in luck, read further. To enable fly out menus...

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This is an alternative to the "disable loopback check" which is no longer recommended by Msft due to security concerns related to local activation. Problem You are able to browse SharePoint normally from external sources, but when you attempt to access SharePoint on the local server for anything other than the machine name you are presented with multiple login prompts that ultimately result in a login error Explanation The http request fails because a loopback check runs and fails preventing Kerberos from succeeding (because there's no SPN for the url you are using to access SharePoint)...

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If you are running Windows Server 2003 or a pre Windows Server 2008 R2 build then please refer to this article: http://www.sharepointassist.com/2009/01/27/61738644-f196-11d0-9953-00c04fd919c1-launch-permissions/ . However, if you are running Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher follow the steps below to correct the Event 10016 DCOM error 61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1 related to the IIS-WAMREG Admin Service. Always test these changes in your development and staging environment!!! The DCOM Errors will appear in the System event log as Event 10016 Normally, to correct this problem  you would...

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Problem Day after day I have users asking me how to get additional information about the selected user from the contact selector/people picker per my example at http://sharepointassist.com/2009/02/27/adding-a-contact-selectorpeople-picker-to-an-infopath-form/. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do this, the only way to do this is to wire in a simple web service query that pulls the necessary information when a user chooses a name in the people picker. Upon selection, the web service call is made, returning data to the GetUserProfileByName data connection, the resulting data in the GetUserProfileByName...

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