Ulysses Ludwig's SharePoint blog

Unable to browse SharePoint locally or Search Service Fails to Index Content

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 ...

Handling Lookup Columns in a SharePoint Designer Workflow

By far the most common mistake is to forget to specify the proper columns to tell SharePoint how to join the lists Looking up data on an empty column. If this happens make the lookup column required SharePoint Designer workflows are not portable between servers, lists, libraries, or farms. If you need to develop code in a dedicated development environment consider writing Visual Studio workflows. Problem You don't understand how to lookup data between lists in a SharePoint Desi...

“Request Failed” when creating SharePoint application pages with “CodeBehind” in SharePoint 2007

Problem You have developed an ASP.Net (aspx) web application that you are deploying to the applications (_layouts) folder in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) or Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) or you have developed an ASP.Net (aspx) page that supports a feature such as Association.aspx or Initiation.aspx. When deployed you received the following message(s) Solution Step 1 – Copy the assembly to your SharePoint application’s bin directory Copy the assembly (dll) to the bin d...

SharePoint Designer Workflow “stopped”, Document Checked Out

Problem You have a workflow that, on submission of a document, stops because the document is checked out. Solution Step 1 Open your workflow using SharePoint Designer and add a workflow step at the top of your workflow with the name Wait. Step 2 Add a workflow action Wait For Field Change in Current Item Step 3 Update the action to Wait for Checked Out To “to be empty”. Step 4 Test the workflow and verify the wait is executed

Consultant DNS and the FQDN

I work as a consultant and every time I visit a client site with my "workgroup" computer I go nuts trying to access their infrastructure from websites to domain names. This is especially annoying with respect to SharePoint because clients often do not have Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) configured for the fully qualified domain names. You can get around this problem by adding entries to your hosts file located in C:WindowsSystem32driversetc but that gets a little tiresome. Today I ...