I have set up our SharePoint 2010 platform and when we were about to migrate our SharePoint 2007 sites and contents into the new platform, we noticed that the document titles are showing incorrectly in SharePoint 2010 search results for documents created with MS Word 2007. When I tested it more with a bunch of [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Incorrect search result title for Word 2007 documents in SharePoint 2010 search
Posted in SharePoint 2010 on March 30, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Changing logical names and physical file names of SQL Server database
Posted in SQL Server on March 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The easy way of renaming a SQL Server database is to open SQL Server Management Studio, select the database name on the tree on the left handside, hit F2 and type in the new name you want. It’s like renaming a file in a folder. But when you do that, the logical name and physical [...]
Changing PerformancePoint Services 2010 Database Name
Posted in SharePoint 2010 on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
[UPDATE - 2/23/2012]: Installing Service Pack 1 introduced the option to specify database name while creating PerformancePoint Service Application. Creating PerfomancePoint service application in SharePoint 2010 is still a nightmare to SharePoint administrators especially when the DBAs are not big fans of GUIDs in database names. No matter we use Central Administration or PowerShell for [...]
Error with per-user identity option in PerformancePoint Services 2010
Posted in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 on March 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I have configured PerformancePoint Services in my SharePoint 2010 Enterprise platform. Everything was configured correctly including Unattended Service Acount. But for some reason, I was getting errors while creating a data source from a SharePoint list in the same site collection using per-user identity option selected. It was working fine with Unattended Service Accoutn option. It [...]
Error 1327: Invalid drive
Posted in Windows on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
While installing device driver for my bluetooth adapter in my Windows 7 computer, I ran into an error (error 1327: Invalid H:\ drive). I have configure a folder called “My Documents” from the network drive H:\ as my primary document folder and I thought that might have caused this error with the installer. I deleted [...]
SharePoint Designer Workflow Actions using elevated permissions
Posted in SharePoint Designer 2010, SharePoint Workflow on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some of us might have encountered a situation where we need to copy or move a document (usually InfoPath form) once it is uploaded/submitted by the user to a different library where the user doesn’t have permission. With SharePoint 2007, we used an open source extension to achieve this functionality. With the extension, we were [...]
How to clear file system cache (timer cache) in SharePoint servers?
Posted in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Stop the Timer service through the Services console. On the computer that is running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or SharePoint Server 2010 and on which the Central Administration site is hosted, open Windows Explorer, locate and then double-click the following folder: Drive:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID [For Windows Server 2008, the folder location is, [...]
Error Crawling SSL Enabled Web Application in SharePoint 2010
Posted in SharePoint 2010 on March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
While crawling SSL enabled web applications in SharePoint 2010, it may fail giving the following error. Error message: An unrecognized HTTP status was received. Check that the address can beaccessed using Internet Explorer. (WebExceptionStatus TrustFailure The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel. This happens mostly when we implement self signed [...]
