Request format is unrecognized for URL unexpectedly ending in ‘/[WebMethodName]’
Today I was trying to deploy a web service to good old SharePoint 2007 using STSDEV. While I know the proper way is to publish it to the ISAPI directory and update the approrpiate files in there to make it...
TaxonyPicker.ascx Error
While troubleshooting errors on my SharePoint 2010 web server today I came across the following error in the event log. Load control template file /_controltemplates/TaxonomyPicker.ascx failed: Could not load type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.TaxonomyPicker’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’. So after a...
SharePoint 2010 Organizational Chart Cached
After setting up the User Profile Service Application in SharePoint 2010 I checked out the new Organizational Browser feature in SharePoint 2010. It worked well, but after updating some of the properties in the profiles directly and checking back I...
Installing SharePoint Designer 2010 (64 bit) with SharePoint Designer 2007 (32 bit)
A common problem many SharePoint developers and designers are facing with the release of SharePoint 2010 is that you can’t install both SharePoint Designer 2010 and 2007 on the same machine unless all your binaries are the same. On my...
SharePoint Site Navigation Settings not displaying Pages in Global or Current Navigation
I experienced a tremendously annoying issue today. After creating and publishing a new page on my SharePoint publishing site I went into the Site Actions > Site Settings > Modify Navigation to hide the newly created page from my navigation....
Windows System Image Manager Execution Failed
Recently I was trying to create a sysprepped image of my Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 instance using the new Windows System Image Manager. The problem I kept encountering was that everytime I tried creating the catalog, and selecting the...
Free SharePoint 2010 Training
Critical Path Training is a offering a 10 week SharePoint 2010 webcast training series at no cost. The webcasts are being hosted by some of the best in the industry including: Andrew Connell Ted Pattison Asif Rehmani Scot Hillier David...
SharePoint 2010 Developer Hands On Labs
Microsoft has released 10 of the developer hands on labs that we had access to at the SharePoint Conference 2009 here. The labs are designed for use on the VPC images we had in the lab, but their easy enough...
SharePoint 2010 Lineup: Preview Guide
I thought I’d build upon my last blog and give a guide overview of the different SharePoint products in 2010. This is an excerpt from the material we got at the SharePoint Conference regarding the product lineup for 2010, and...
Microsoft Announces SharePoint 2010 Public Beta
Steve Ballmer announced this morning in his keynote Microsoft will be launching the public beta in November. Microsoft has been using the product internally with the 5000 members of their SharePoint team for a while now, but they just finished...