Yearly Archives for 2011

My slide decks and demos from SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - May 4, 2011

Last weekend I presented at SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen 2011. Event was a great success and it was my pleasure to speak there for the second time. Copenhagen is such an amazing city! I have delivered two sessions on on InfoPath and one on SharePoint, here are the PowerShell slides: Automating…

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My slides from Windays 2011 on SharePoint no-code solutions

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - April 14, 2011

Last week I was at Microsoft Windays 2011 and delivered a SharePoint workshop, Office 365/SharePoint keynote and a session on Developing SharePoint 2010 no-code solutions with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010. Here are the slides: Windays 2011 – SharePoint no-code solutions with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 View…

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I’ll be speaking about SharePoint at Microsoft Windays 2011

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - March 28, 2011

For fifth year in a row I’ll be speaking at Microsoft Windays 2011 (April 4th – 8th 2011.) in city of Rovinj, Croatia. I will have one session, and one workshop as follows: Workshop: Developing a SharePoint Web Part, Monday 4/4/2011 – 15:00 – 16:45 (Details in Croatian…) Session: Developing no-code solutions…

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SharePoint 2010 – Service Unavailable

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - March 16, 2011

Problem Last week we installed a brand new SharePoint 2010 farm for a client. After initial configuration, SharePoint was working perfectly (We used these PowerShell scripts to automate most of the installation and initial configuration). However, on the next day, Central Admin greeted us with the following error: Service Unavailable – HTTP…

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I’ll be speaking at Microsoft SharePoint & Office Conference 2011, Italy

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - March 15, 2011

I’ll be speaking at Microsoft SharePoint & Office Conference 2011, Milano, Italy, 19-21 April 2011. I am very happy as I will be traveling to one of mine favorite countries: Italy, meeting some old and new friends, enjoying some pasta and brushing  my Italian language skills. Hope to see you there! Here are my…

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SharePoint Search error: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - March 9, 2011

While configuring SharePoint 2010 for a client we encountered the following error in the search crawl logs: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070422) Had no idea how to fix it because all…

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Automate PDF configuration for SharePoint 2010 via PowerShell

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - February 15, 2011

Configuring PDF related stuff for SharePoint 2010 (and 2007) is very simple, yet annoying and often forgotten SharePoint configuration step. There are nice articles (link, link) to help you configure it but when you do it manually chances are you will misconfigure something. I wrote a simple PowerShell script to automate this, and it…

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Could not save changes. The Content type is in use.

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - February 10, 2011

When trying to delete a content type from SharePoint Designer you might run into following funny error message: Could not save changes. The Content type is in use. You need to check: This content type is not being referenced by a list or document library This content type is not…

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Book review: SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - February 1, 2011

Few weeks ago I was creating a solution for a customer and I wanted to provide the optimal disaster recovery for their needs. Via twitter I got in contact with John Ferringer, Sean McDonough the authors of SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide. They were very helpful and answered my questions. I…

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SharePoint 2010 links for new developers (version 2011)

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - January 30, 2011

I am reposting my original post with new links and (+ some borrowed from Wictor Wilen class links). ————————- I recently taught a couple of SharePoint 2010 courses for new SharePoint developers. Here are some links I usually email to them after the course: (Please comment below if you think…

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