Archive for the ‘Configuration’ Category

Connecting two web parts declaratively using a file provisioning module

Posted: 31st October 2011 in Configuration, Deployment, SharePoint, Web Parts
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I just like to start by saying that this post is not ground breaking. However, when I tried to do this it did take me a while to find the answer, so I thought I’d just blog to add it to the grey matter. As I’m sure you are all aware you can provision multiple [...]

Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.ReportingServices.UpgradeScripts, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91′ or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.

Posted: 20th July 2011 in Configuration, Sharepoint 2010, SSRS
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Came across the above error on all the reports served through SharePoint in integrated mode. Not sure why this happen, but you seem to be able to resolve it by restarting the reports service. Go to the Reporting Services Configuration Manager ( seen in figure below), connect to the server, then stop and start the [...]

Blocking anonymous access to a SharePoint list while still being able to write to it

Posted: 12th July 2011 in Configuration, Security, SharePoint
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Scenario: Using a Data View Web Part to create a form to submit anonymous user’s enquiries.  These enquiries were submitted to a list called “Contact Us” on the root sites.  This was all very well, but as it was a internet exposed publishing site,  the anonymous user had to have RW access to the list [...]

Reading from web.config’s AppSettings in a SharePoint timer job

Posted: 8th April 2011 in Configuration, SharePoint, Sharepoint 2010
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Well, this was not as straight-forward as i first thought. Why? Because the timer job does not run in the same App Domain as the web application. They are in two separate processes : W3WP.EXE  and OWSTIMER.EXE for the Web Application worker process and the SharePoint timer respectively. So, how do you go about it? [...]