Ulysses Ludwig's SharePoint blog

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Problem You’re receive an error message when publishing a InfoPath form to a SharePoint server with forms services enabled.  Explanation I received this error while working on a web application other than the default (port 80) SharePoint site on the server.  For some reason when I created the new web application, which I verified was associated with an SSP, refused to render any InfoPath forms in a browser. Solution After lots of digging on Microsoft’s websites I cam up with ...

Publishing a Workflow Enabled InfoPath Form

Requirement You're creating a Visual Studio and Windows Workflow Foundation workflow for SharePoint and you would like to use InfoPath for the Workflow Initiation, Workflow Association, and Workflow Task Edit forms. Note: The final step is the most important step so don’t skip it. Solution Set the form's Security Level to "Domain" Now publish the form to a local network place **** Leave the access path BLANK ***

Restoring a Site Collection to Another Location on the Same Server

Often times you will want to back up a production SharePoint site collection and restore it to a server (or the same server) that already has one or more site collections defined.  This is very often the case when somebody has corrupted the original site collection but there’s still content you need accessible after you overwrite the original.  What you really need to know here is how to create a managed path then, with an empty managed path you can easily restore your site to that p...

Configuring Kerberos Authentication for SharePoint

When you install SharePoint you have a choice to use NTLM and Kerberos authentication. There's pros and cons for each and I'm not going to get into that here, let's just go through the steps for configuring Kerberos on a SharePoint site running on port 80. Prerequisites Download and install the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 32-bit Support Tools Note that they will still run on a 64 bit machine. Install the Windows 2003 Admin Pack (AdminPak.msi) located in your server's %\windows\sys...

InfoPath “Unknown Error” when attempting to load a browser enabled form

Problem I’ve recently seen this error several times when attempting to preview a form I’ve published to InfoPath forms services. Explanation I’ve logged two possible causes to this problem that are permission and feature related. Resolution Option 1 - Make sure your application pool is running as a service account other than "local system" or "network service". You should update this via "services on server" as shown below but you could also manually update th...