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I decided to move this blog to my personal blog, www.bronios.com. So far, I have no problem using wordpress.com. However, I hope to have more control, customization and able to share out some of my own tools. I will move all post to the new blog. If anyone of you experience “Page not found” error, please visit www.bronios.com to find out the article.

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SharePoint, .Net, SQL, MS BI, Collaboration and tech tips

Recently, I got problem sign in to msn messenger (Key port -80048820 error), hotmail.com website and the internet speed is not stable on certain website. I am not sure what was going on to my ISP provider (StreamyX). It works fine previously. I got no problem accessing it in my working place. I got some friends staying nearby also having this problem. After debugging with some try & error methods, I manage to solve this problem. This case may not apply to everyone depends on the network setting. For my case, I got an ADSL modem (with router) and D-Link Dir300 Wireless Access Point. Here are the steps:

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Is there any form of notification being sent to the submitter of the page?
Yes, default approval workflow does have the following email notification

1. Requesting approval email notification
2. Email notification to contributor regarding approved / rejected pages from the approval.

Here are the steps:

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This post is contributed by my colleague, Abi. I would like to share out here since it is very usefully.

If you have MOSS users in different AD domains, and for dunno wat reason you can’t seem to search these users in the MOSS’s PeoplePicker, run a stsadm command to add the information about the those domains where the user is located.

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First, there is a long post describe how to setup this features. http://aidangarnish.net/blog/post/2007/09/Indexing-and-Searching-PDFs-in-MOSS-2007.aspx.

Here are some steps need to be aware of:

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I am currently working in a consultant company offers MS solution in my home country. We split in to several groups base on our skills and experience. Each of the group will focus on certain technology such as MS CRM, Axapta, Business Intelligence, SharePoint, .net development and etc. I am in the SharePoint and .net development team. Recently, I got chance to work in MS Business intelligence like SSAS, SSRS, BSM and the latest MS Performance Point Server 2007. Hence, I seldom post much articles on SharePoint. However, I got some colleagues actively working in SharePoint and always share their problem and solution among our team. So, I plan to put these useful posts in to this blog as well. Just to share out and for my own reference too. Check out the posts soon!

* Special thanks to SC, Abi, LJ and RC who share out their problem and solution. I will put in their full name if they agree to do so

I come across some problems in Reporting Services 2005 in SharePoint integration mode when using Navigation – Jump to URL. Here are some strange behaviors on the problem:

1. The link won’t work if you link to a page/item inside a SharePoint List.

2. The link is OK if you link to invalid page/item in a SharePoint List (invalid item name but valid path)

3. The link is OK if you link to other site like http://www.microsoft.com or http://www.ajaxworkspace.com

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SSRS provide table and matrix control to let user populate data in different scenario. Table control let user to populate simple format of data where fixed columns applied and rows grow dynamically. Matrix provide more powerful features where it columns and rows can be dynamically grow. In that case, writing a store procedure to support a matrix become easier in some scenarios.

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If you ever get this error during moss or wss 3.0 installation, you can follow the step below to fix it.

Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s):
This product requires ASP.NET v2.0 to be set to ‘Allow’ in the list of Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server Extensions. If it is not available in the list, reinstall ASP.Net v2.0.
Correct the issue(s) listed above and re-run setup.

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Here is an interesting article, “Last mile of Business Inttelligence”. You may face the same problem in the BI world these days.

http://www1.juiceanalytics.com/writing/2007/11/last-mile-business-intelligence/

We are getting error “Value does not fall within the expected range” when try to change the “Page Setting” in MOSS 2007. Yes, again same error message as in here (In fact, this error occurs is various scenarios). This error only happens when you copy an aspx page using SharePoint designer from one server to another severs (development server to production server). Once you try to edit the Page Setting, the error will occurs. We did some googling around but no luck. Some sites mention that the page is link to the old Page Layout’s URL and we are not able to change it since we cannot access the page setting. But, there are a workaround where you can solve it! Here are the steps:

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Are you getting frustrated with “An unexpected error has occurred” in sharepoint 2007? I found some useful tips. You can get more error messages from MOSS especially when they are not written to the application log. Do follow the steps below to get more:

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Our current implementation plan includes building an online collaboration workspace, called AjaxWorkspace. It is a virtual office where user can work, communicate and collaborate with their teammates to complete a task in a centralize location. Users do not need to be physically together in order to accomplish a task. It offers a bunch of collaboration tools to help users to collaborate with each other in a secured online workspace. 

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I am working on a SharePoint dashboard project recently. We have a lot of pie chart and graph integrated using Reporting Services Add-In web part. We have set Target Audience in each web part to offer multiple views to different users. It works fine in the past until this Monday. All the web part with target audience tie to AD group disappear. After spending half day on it, we found that the password for search service and content access crawler account expired. This effect the user profile and cause the target audience failed. Do check out these accounts if you have similar problem.

I  believe many small and mid-size companies, organizations and individuals are not aware of the benefits of online collaboration tool. Apart from this, they too are having difficulties to own enterprise collaboration software which needs high maintenance cost and expertise. Hence, a powerful yet affordable online collaboration service is the best solution to fit in their needs. Our idea is to create an online collaboration workspace which enables everyone to communicate, share information, create tasks and keep track of all the tasks’ status.

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