Work Around your Code

Stsadm -o migrateuser Generates Error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"

2010-03-25T04:26:00.000-07:00

I have been involved in some migration tasks for SharePoint, that includes changing of the domain name. SharePoint has quite easy ways of doing migration, as long as you don't meet some strange error messages (hey, I think this applies to any migration!). I will discuss about the data migration in more detailed, hope by next post (however, if you need some information for data migration in

SharePoint doesn't work well with IPv6

2010-03-09T18:28:00.000-08:00

I have just setup a new server farm for SharePoint. After finish installation for all server farm, I start configuring the Shared Service Provider, include activating SharePoint Search. Once the Search turned on, the whole SharePoint site is inaccessible from the server that hosts the Central Administration, all other Web Front End is ok. The page just displayed 503 - Service unavailable. IIS

SharePoint: How to Move Default Virtual Directory/Site Path Location (Site and Central Administration)

2010-01-13T05:05:00.001-08:00

I have encountered requirement to move all the virtual directories to non-system drive. By just removing the default location from C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\virtualdirectories\xx to another drive and set the path in IIS will not solve the problem, somehow SharePoint keeps their own path to the original location, and displays some critical error instead.So the solution is to update the WebApplication

SharePoint 2007: Shared Services "Provision in Progress"

2008-07-11T01:33:00.000-07:00

I have one development environment that I use to test webpart or any customizations before deploy to the production server. However, I always failed to setup Shared Services for this particular server, which causes all the search, my site, profile, etc are not working. When the Shared Services are in provisioning stage, it's stopped with timeout error, and in the SharedServices list itself, it's

Gmail and IE7: Operation Aborted

2008-06-25T09:50:00.000-07:00

Well, I believe many of you have experienced this annoying issue. You try to load Gmail in IE7 and IE7 will popup "Operation Aborted". I usually try about 4-5 times, and at the end the Gmail can be loaded. I am not really sure what's wrong with this, and I hope it's not done purposely by either Microsoft or Google. Some said that this is Google way of responding to Microsoft and Yahoo saga, and

SharePoint 2007: Default.aspx displayed "HTTP 500 Internal Error"

2008-06-23T20:28:00.000-07:00

I have experienced wierd behaviour in SharePoint, which if I type http://server-name/sitename/, it will show "HTTP 500 Internal Error", but when I type http://server-name/sitename/default.aspx, it shows the page correctly. The action I have done to the site is to edit the permission for this site (break the inheritance). I fixed the problem by inheriting the permission back from the parent site,

Feature '75a0fea7-c54f-46b9-86b1-2e103a8fedba' is not installed in this farm, and can not be added to this scope

2008-06-03T08:25:00.000-07:00

Well, if you come to this page from Google, I believe you are working on demo environment of your SharePoint and try to install Application Templates from Microsoft, and you're kind of puzzled and stress, why the Application Templates cannot be installed, as you have done it smoothly in your own VPC.Well, one of the possible reason is ApplicationTemplateCore is not installed yet on your server

SharePoint Designer: Show Line Break for Multi Text (Plain Text)

2008-06-01T22:49:00.000-07:00

If you have Multiline type column and set it with "Plain Text", you might have difficulty to show it using Data View (that is added using SharePoint Designer) for the content that has a line break. It will show as a single line. If you view the HTML Source of the page, the line-break character is actually printed there. It's just that HTML will not interpret such white-space character as line

Access Denied when Accessing User Profiles and Properties

2008-06-01T22:44:00.000-07:00

If you try to access User Profiles and Properties using account that is not part of Administrators group or account that is used to setup SharePoint, you might have problem accessing "User Profiles and Properties" (Access Denied) although you have been added to Farm's Administrator or Shared Services' Site Collection Administrator. What you need to do:Click on "Personalization Services Permission

How to Setup Loopback Adapter

2007-11-23T06:39:00.001-08:00

Recently, I just got a new notebook, so need to develop something using VPC, but somehow a bit troublesome to configure the network, so decided to use Loopback Adapter instead, so that network can be created easily between the guest and host OS. And just found out that there is extremely easy way to setup Loopback Adapter:1. Open Device Manager2. At the top/root, right click, and select Add

Import Mass Data to CRM 3.0: Unable to connect to the remote server

2007-02-12T07:14:00.000-08:00

If you have mass/bulk data to be imported which is a custom entity in Microsoft CRM 3.0, there is no other better way, rather than built your own application. By default, CRM 3.0 only provide Bulk Import for Account, Contact and other several system entities (if any). Good luck if you have a lot of custom entities that is not possible to use built-in Bulk Import.And I am not lucky that my project

MS CRM 3.0: Callout's Configuration

2007-02-07T02:51:00.000-08:00

As you know that you won't be able to use configuration settings from web.config, since Callout is executed inside CRM 3.0. I am not sure how the execution of Callout, but I suspect it's still under w3wp process, but it's already handled by CRM 3.0 execution and we are not able to use common function in ASP.NET. It's a common requirement that we need to put some configuration like connection

Refactoring: Replace Method with Method Object

2006-10-28T23:39:00.000-07:00

Well, reading Refactoring book from Martin Fowler, I feel some case of the refactoring I have used before without realizing it. The most interesting I have found so far is Replace Method with Method Object. The idea is if your method is too long, you should find a way to shorten it to make it more readable and self-explained. Well, self-explained can be done using comment in the code. But

Javascript: Debugger

2006-08-17T02:47:00.000-07:00

Although I already quite spent times at coding Javascript, I just knew this useful feature in Javascript, that we can put debugger keyword at new line of the code (without any semi colon) that will function like breakpoint. If your browser has already set to enable debugging (Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Uncheck Disabled Script Debugging, then when the browser execute that line, it will

MS CRM 3.0: How to display Active only at Associated View.

2006-07-23T05:28:00.000-07:00

For you do customization on Ms CRM, by default, Ms CRM 3.0 will display both active and inactive record in associated view (View that is displayed child entities in the detail of master entity) for Custom Entities. This is different from default associated view of Contact that is displayed in Account detail, which just displays active record. To achieve same view as Contact, you must edit the

Sharepoint: Hide Toolbar for Anonymous User

2006-03-07T17:47:00.000-08:00

In one of my projects, there's a requirement to change UI for Anonymous User. Sharepoint Services by default, display all the functionality to post new item, edit, etc, like in the List/Item Toolbar. And if user is not authorized, than there's screen to request access. This may be good for internal user, but if your Sharepoint is exposed to Internet for anonymous user. This feature looks weird.

Javascript: showModal(less)Dialog

2006-03-07T03:49:00.000-08:00

In Javascript, if you need to open new window using window.showModalDialog or window.showModelessDialog and then submit form inside the new window, then the form will be submitted to new window, which is usually not the way that we want it to be. There's one workaround that is easy to implement. Just put inside tag.What is the difference between window.showModalDialog

Preamble

2006-03-07T03:36:00.000-08:00

Here I want to share to fellow developers what I found that is useful if you find the same case. Hope you can find this useful too. Happy to sharing with you. I have another blog that is not specific to programming, but because my life is around IT, so you will find it a lot about IT :). But hope I'm not categorized as nerd or geeky, but if I turn out to be.. then I just can laugh. Check