Symptom You cannot view a list in Datasheet view on a SharePoint website after you install the 64-bit version of Microsoft Office 2010. When you click Actions and then click Edit in Datasheet on a SharePoint 2003 or 2007 site, or you click the List tab and then click Datasheet view on a SharePoint 2010 site, you receive the following error…
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Windows 7 prompting for credentials when accessing SharePoint documents
Sympton You are prompted to enter your credentials, even though the user account that you are using has sufficient permission to access this site. For example, when you open a Microsoft Office file from a Microsoft Office SharePoint site by using 2007 Microsoft Office on a Windows 7-based client computer that has no proxy configured,…
Windows 7 firewall network location
If you have a computer that is connected to a domain and is plugged into the domain network but doesn’t have the domain profile active in the firewall settings of Windows 7 check to make sure you have your domain DNS server set as your primary DNS. I had a client have an external DNS…
How to write e-mails to nerds from RackerHacker.com
Standard e-mail etiquette is pretty obvious to most of us and if you’re good at it, you’ll get your point across more often without stepping on toes or causing unneeded confusion. Simple things like identifying yourself well, avoiding sarcasm and adding context to statements are all extremely beneficial. However, writing e-mails to highly technical developers,…
MotoHelper 2.0.24 Consuming free space
A client of mine’s laptop ran out of free space. I did a scan and noticed the file MotoHelper.log was using it all. After deleting the file it began to consume all the free space again after a few days. I uninstalled the MotoHelper software and all is well. I couldn’ve tried updating it…
Exchange 2003 store won’t mount
One of the Windows SBS 2003 servers I administer had a BSOD and after bringing it back up the Exchange store wouldn’t mount. It gave the error “The database files in this store are inconsistent.” I used the Eseutil.exe utility to check the consistency of the store. “c:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\eseutil.exe” /mh “c:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA\priv1.edb” From the output I noticed 2…
CentOS 6
I noticed CentOS 6 is out. I downloaded CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso. So far it’s working flawlessly with Virtualbox. For those that don’t have the netinstall URLs they are… 32 bit: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/i386/ 64 bit: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/
Add a PDF icon to PDF documents in SharePoint 2010
By default SharePoint uses a white icon for PDF documents. It’s rather plain. To use a PDF icon follow these steps… Download the PDF icon to your SharePoint server. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES Place the image in the IMAGES folder and name it icpdf.gif Edit C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML\DocIcon.xml Insert <Mapping…
ESET Online Scanner
Recently a client of mine got some spyware. I cleaned it up with Malware Bytes as I usually do but she was still experiencing popups in Internet Explorer. I reset IE and ran additional scans but the PC kept getting popups. I downloaded and ran ESET’s Online Scanner and it caught all the spyware Malware…