The Baretta

The other day a few users were complaining that they were unable unable to edit pages on a site that they had Contribute Access to. After many tries at checking everything was published, I found this blog from Harry Chen: http://sharepointconnoisseur.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/access-denied-issue-while-editing.html Turns out, that read access had been removed (unsure how!) from the site collections Master Page & Page Layout gallery.  Following Harry's instructions I was able to add the access back to the library and the issue was resolved. Here's how: Go to Site Actions –> Site Settings -> Master pages and page layouts -> “Library” tab from ribbon -> “Library Permissions” button at the top, right -> Add the users or group to permissions here with at least Read access enabled. Now, owner groups will have the permission to edit the pages.

Here's an error message I received a few weeks back from a user who was having trouble accessing a page: Strange... Anyhow, my first thought was - Faulty Web Part - so made my way to SharePoint Designer to fix/remove the web part from the page, only to find that I was unable to connect to any sites on the entire Web Application! Here's the Error I was receiving when trying to access SharePoint Designer: "An error occurred while trying to fetch data from your SharePoint site. Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt" Now I'm thinking 'oh shit..' well not to worry, all I needed to do was a simple IISRESET and the issue was resolved.

Hi All,                 Our company is in the process of creating multiple websites for the internet on SharePoint.  Although we are still in the early stages, I thought you may be interested in this breakdown of Browser Compatibility for SharePoint.  This is just a basic quick-test, on our company Intranet, but once we delve further into the project I will give updates via this blog: Basically, all 32-bit versions of browsers are supported (meaning they will help you if you're having issues,) by Microsoft except Safari, and the 64-bit version of Safari is supported with ‘limitations’.  See the info and Matrix here: ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263526.aspx ). The issue is when ActiveX or Silverlight comes into play, where some browsers either do not use ActiveX/Silverlight or render it differently, or do not render it at all. So, best way to see how they work is to test, so here’s some in...

After dining at Bhoj on valentines day, I thought it would be nice to give some feedback.  For those interested, you can find more direct information here:  http://www.bhoj.com.au/docklands/  . Location:  54 New Quay Promenade, Docklands, Melbourne.  Although it's not the easiest of locations for many Melburnians to get to, the travel time is often worth the effort, which was definitely the case for this experience. Atmosphere:  Clean, friendly, quiet and slightly classier than the usual places I frequent.  I'd suggest sitting outside as it started to get slightly too loud inside as the tables filled out. Price:  For the docklands, very reasonable.  We paid $55 each for a 3 course meal and your looking at around $30 for most bottles of wine.  On a normal night main meals are around $15-$20 each, or $40 for the banquet. Food:  If I was to go to this restaurant again, I would definitely go for the banquet.  You get ...

Name: The Mana Bar Address: 336 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Theme: Video Games Open Times: 3PM-11PM Weekdays, 12PM-11PM Weekends The Mana Bar; I'd like to give you a thorough review of it.  The vibe, the people, the games, the prices.  For those that don't know, Mana Bar is a place where alcoholic beverages & video games are offered in the same venue.  You can buy a beer, pick up a control, shoot someone in the leg, have a sip of your beer and receive a roundhouse kick to the head all within 20 seconds. When we first arrived to check out Mana Bar, we waited outside for people to leave as they had reached their 50 patron limit.  Usually I'm not one for waiting in lines, but the bouncer was a great bloke who told us all about their liquor licensing restrictions (which they are looking to extend to hold more people, and hold them later into the night) and we kept ourselves entertained by peeking through the windows to see all the on-screen carnage ...

A few weeks back...  wait.  I'm only lying to myself, let me start again. A few months back, I moved desks at work.  At the time, I merely pushed aside the old desk-owners belongings and plunked my own right in the centre.  My computer.  My books.  My pencils.  My keyboard filled with my skin dust.  It instantly became My Desk. It wasn't until a few days back (truth) when I became severely low on work for the day, that I was scrounging around the depths of the third draw only to find that the majority of stuff in there was not mine! The challenge had been set, how much stuff could I viably throw out without someone asking me later down the track where it had gone. Now the interesting part of this story isn't how much I threw out (it was substantial), but what I threw out, and what I learnt. Here's a list of useless things I found in my draw: Receipts for the departments fruit bowl for the past 5 years (1 for each week) P...

I feel like there are many sites/blogs/articles etc that list all the wondrous things that InfoPath can do.  They praise how user friendly it is for non-coders, how quick it is to design forms in comparison to Adobe & Visual Studio.  What none of them tell you is that if you want to design a code-less InfoPath form, you are severely restricted in many areas that you wouldn't realise, until of course you need to implement that functionality. "Why would you need to stick to a code-less InfoPath form?" you ask?  Well, in our organisation, the reason is simple.  We plan on creating many automated forms, and we plan on pushing them out to the various departments so that they can administer small changes themselves, only asking for help when they need technical advice. So as a coder who knows what can be achieved with a cheeky bit of C# here and there, I am going to list of issues I've found while trying to create a code-less form: ...