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User Profile Synchronization Service on multiple servers

Quick answer: you cannot run User Profile Synchronization Service on more than one SharePoint Server. If you start this service on server #1 and then start it on server #2 the service will be stopped on server #1 and started on server #2. So for the sake of availlibility, if server #1 is down you [...]

Chinese in SharePoint Recycle Bin

A customer has the following issue in the recycle bin of a specific SharePoint 2010 Website. If you delete a list item the name of it is shown in chinese letters in recycle bin: This does not happen in any other lists or libraries on this site. You can translate it back to German with [...]

Display Name not updated on certain sitecollection

I got some weird issues today referring to wrong display names of some users on a site collection in SharePoint 2010. What happend? Some users’ display names have been updated in Active Directory. The User Profile Synchronization runs every night on the SharePoint Farm. All went well. But on a single sitecollection the display name [...]

SharePoint2010 SP1 – Delete a site to recycle bin: confusing warnings

SP1 has a great new feature. Deleted websites are moved to the site collection recylce bin. But not all dialogs seem to be updated as you can see :     But .. the good news: it IS move to site collection recylce bin. NOT to the users recylce bin. But … if you are [...]

SharePoint Language Pack: Where are my OOTB Workflows?

  Let’s say you have a site collection based on an English site template on an English SharePoint Server 2010. You create a Team Site and navigate to the standard library “Shared Documents”. There you want to add one of those neat OOTB Workflows. Let’s say “Collect Feedback – SharePoint 2010” To have this you [...]

SharePoint Language Pack: Where are my OOTB Workflows?

  Let’s say you have a site collection based on an English site template on an English SharePoint Server 2010. You create a Team Site and navigate to the standard library “Shared Documents”. There you want to add one of those neat OOTB Workflows. Let’s say “Collect Feedback – SharePoint 2010” To have this you [...]

Several errors while playing with user policy settings

As I am testing the impact of different settings in user policies I came across several errors I would like to share. If you deny “Manage Lists” in “List Permissions” and then want to create a new webiste you get this. If you clear both checkboxes (grant and deny), it works. —— If you grant [...]

Treffen der Hamburger SharePoint Usergroup

Zu unserem Novembertreffen haben wir Herrn Obesser von der Firma Mindjet eingeladen. Herr Obesser wird uns die Integration und Interaktion von Mindmanager mit SharePoint vorstellen. MindManager 9 als visuelles Front-End für SharePoint mit MindManager Explorer für SharePoint: Visualisieren von SharePoint Inhalten mit MindMaps Aggregieren von SharePoint Informationen Listen-, Site- und Serverübergreifend in MindManager Maps. Mit [...]

SharePoint User Policy and Domain Groups

Scenario: You have to operate a SharePoint web application and you would like to delegate Full Control permissions to your operating team. You create a new security group in your domain (let’s say “SharePoint Operators”) and you want to let this group operate as SharePoint\system. You create a new user policy and add your “SharePoint [...]

Windows 7 x64 Bluescreen bei VMWare Workstation 6.5.4 VM Resume

Beim Resume von VMs, die im Suspended Status sind erhalte ich zuverlässig einen Blue Screen auf meine Windows 7 x64. Bevor ich VMs mit unter 4 GB RAM verwendet habe, trat das Problem nicht auf. Seitdem mein Rechner aber 8 GB RAM hat und die VMs mit mehr als 4GB RAM laufen .. Blue Screen [...]