Ulysses Ludwig's SharePoint blog

Creating a State Service Database for SharePoint 2010 Using Windows PowerShell

Problem SharePoint health analyzer states that the state service is  missing its databse. Solution Create the state server database by following the steps  below 1) Login to SharePoint farm member server under the credentials of a farm administrator 2) Open “SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (don’t just open PowerShell) NOTE: If you receive the “The Local Farm is Not Accessible” error see the following article: http://www.sharepointassist.com/2010/01/29/the-local-farm-is-not-a...

IE Doesn’t remember my SharePoint Password

Problem Your’e working on a SharePoint box  and you keep getting prompted to login even though your machine is a domain member.   Explanation You need to add the site to your trusted sites and allow IE to send your credentials If you need a long-lasting solution add your SharePoint url to all of your user’s trusted sites using group policy – Adding SharePoint to “Trusted Sites” using Group Policy   Solution In Internet Explorer go to Tools -> Internet Options Sel...

Changing SharePoint Timeouts (Execution Timeout)

Problem Every once in a while one of my clients will ask me to change SharePoint’s timeout settings.  It’s an easy change but you don’t make the adjustment in each web application’s web.config, instead the change is a global change made  in the \LAYOUTS\ directory on each web server. Solution To update the execution timeout Login to each front end server Browse to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS Open web.config L...

Building the Perfect SharePoint Development Environment Part 1 – VMware & OS Installation

Introduction In this three part posting I will demonstrate the steps I followed to build out a SharePoint 2007 development environment.   If you follow the steps closely you’ll end up with a solid virtual server that you can clone and re-use as necessary.  Note that you can now build using 64 bit since Microsoft Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint are now 64 bit compatible. Main Components VMWare Workstation V 6.5 (You can also use VMWare Server) Windows Server 2008 S...

Outlook is unable to connect to your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server

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...