Matt Thornton
IT Consultant, technical project manager, business analyst and software developer in Guernsey in the Channel Islands.Website: http://www.thorntontechnical.com
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I needed to quickly find all files in a particular web that were checked out. I immediately went to Powershell, and after hacking about for a few minutes did what I should have done first – Google’d it. Doing this revealed that Gary had ...
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This may be handy when trying to find specific items in a list based on values of various fields: $web = Get-SPWeb http://yourweb $list = $web.Lists["Your Library Name"] // this is the bit - get items of a particular content type // ? is shorthand ...
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If you’re using SSRS in SharePoint integrated mode, you may come across this error when using report parameters that have a high number of items in them. A recent security bulletin highlighted some issues and vulnerabilities in ASP.net, and a patch ...
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You may be trying to set up SharePoint 2010 to act as the report repository for SQL Server Reporting Services report. This is a pretty nifty feature, especially as it’s available in the Foundation (i.e., Free) version of SharePoint. There is a ...
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Another example of “when SharePoint goes wrong.” On a dev machine, the search service mysteriously stopped working. I can’t pinpoint what caused it, but SP1 and a CU were recently applied and these seem like good candidates for breaking ...
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I just tripped over this problem, and despite a fair amount of Googlage, I didn’t find anything that directly resolved my issue. I was trying to use dbMail in SQL Server 2008 to send an email on a schedule which included the results of a query. ...
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A SharePoint developer’s life is filled with many things, but one of the most common is the old faithful iisreset, coupled with a reset of the Timer Service and the Admin Service. When you’re working on timer jobs, it can get tedious quickly ...
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Exchange is built on web services and as I posted about a while about accessing EWS from SharePoint can be pretty neat. There is a managed API to make your life even easier. However, one issue you may come across is actually getting SharePoint and ...
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This is a peculiar little bug. When creating a List Definition, you may encounter the following error when you try to deploy: The filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect. It took a while to track the cause, seeing as a lot of info out ...
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Interesting coverage of a document repository system in SharePoint 2010 I recently implemented for a client based in Ireland.
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