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SharePoint 2013 Composed Looks – Getting a Preview Picture to Work...
Author: AllenWang Date: 12/02/2013
SharePoint 2010 Search File Type – Include or Exclude?
This is an old topic, but definitely worth mentioning. The “File Types” page of search...
Author: AllenWang Date: 02/18/2013
Install-SPApplicationContent does not parse XML comment in webconfig xml
If you use custom webconfig files under 14/CONFIG folder to modify web application’s web.config...
Author: AllenWang Date: 11/28/2012
Modify Web.config File Dynamically in SharePoint 2010
Recently I was asked to modify a custom solution downloaded from CodePlex to allow it to updated...
Author: AllenWang Date: 05/20/2012
SP2010 Survey List Error and Event ID 5586
Are you experiencing the following combination of errors from event logs and ULS los? I found it...
Author: AllenWang Date: 05/20/2012
SharePoint 2010 Health Analyser Timer Job Changed Custom Web.Config Machine Key
I recently had an issue with custom machine key in the web.config file on the WFE servers. We use...
Author: AllenWang Date: 03/22/2012
SharePoint 2010: Missing Server Side Dependencies
--- SUMMARY ---SharePoint 2010 SP1 + 2011 August CU multi-server farm's Central Admin site's Health...
Author: AllenWang Date: 10/08/2011
Tech-Ed 2011 Session Videos Available Online
Tech-Ed 2011 sessions available for viewing online … https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/...
Author: AllenWang Date: 08/30/2011
Microsoft Windows 8 Preview
Windows 8 press conference | Showcase in Taiwan...
Author: AllenWang Date: 08/28/2011
Tiny Tower: Why bother with cheat, guide line, strategy when you own a time machine?
This post doesn't really have anything to do with SharePoint, but a little game on my iPhone. Tiny...
Author: AllenWang Date: 07/25/2011
SharePoint 2010 People Search Error: DataFormWebPart.PrepareAndPerformTransform
Here are the error messages I had with this particular problem. 1. People search (a search page with...
Author: AllenWang Date: 04/04/2011
The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available
Does the following error message looks familiar to you? (When you go to Site Actions –>...
Author: AllenWang Date: 03/21/2011
Getting DHCP IP in VMPlayer 3.0
I recently ran into a problem of setting up my guest OS (Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise)...
Author: AllenWang Date: 10/28/2010
How To: Create custom content type and list instance in SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010
There are many blogs and MSDN articles talking about the same topic but I decided to write my own...
Author: AllenWang Date: 09/07/2010
Simple Demonstration of Serialize/Deserialize Objects Stored In XML File Using Web Services
This article demonstrate the basic idea of using Web Services to serialize objects and write them...
Author: AllenWang Date: 06/25/2010
SharePoint 2007/MOSS Central Administration Site – Quick Launch Bar Customization…
The issue that I want to talk about here may not have a direct solution to it, but definitely have...
Author: AllenWang Date: 06/18/2010
New MacBook Pro audio/video problems … solved?
A very good article about new MacBook Pro's stupid audio/video playback problem....
Author: AllenWang Date: 06/23/2009
Blank IE page after 3 failed authentication attempts - IIS 7.0 PassThrough
The problem happened when a user purposely failed 3 login attemps to site that's hosted on IIS 7.0...
Author: AllenWang Date: 05/15/2009
Access MOSS 2007 mobile site on BlackBerry with NTLM authentication
Recently I had come across a problem where my client was using Blackberry to visit MOSS mobile site...
Author: AllenWang Date: 12/29/2008
MOSS & WSS 3.0 December Cumulative Update Now Available
SharePoint office server and WSS 3.0 December cumulative update is now available for download. Check...
Author: AllenWang Date: 12/18/2008