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I'm in the process of updating an Excel spreadsheet that is failing when it is running inside of Internet Explorer. The issue is related to the ActiveSheet and other global properties having a value of Nothing when the code is assuming they have valid references. As I am going through this spreadsheet, I am noting a wide variety of programming deficiencies and inefficiencies. Here is a list of some of the issues encountered: ...
In my SharePoint experiments with form-based authentication (FBA), I have been installing self-signed SSL certificates since I am developing in a virtual machine without a certificate authority. Last night, I shut down my virtual machine instead of the usual Suspend operation. This morning, I started the virtual machine but SharePoint wasn't working and said: Cannot connect to the configuration database. I then tried to open SQL Server Management Console and tried to connect, only to receive the following message: I didn't freak out, but I did check the SQL Server Service which was running, and then the SQL...
I recently set up an isolated, single-server SharePoint site with forms-based authentication (FBA) with the hopes that it would eliminate the need to create unrelated user accounts for all of the SharePoint users. The FBA setup and installation went fine and I used the SharePoint FBA tool on codeplex to administer the accounts and users which is great. Unfortunately I didn't realize that disabling "Client Integration" in the SharePoint Cental Admin / Application Management / Authentication Providers would have such a dramatic effect on usability. Some of the challenges are using SharePoint Designer, the MySites functionality is impacted, inability to...
I recently implemented Forms-Based Authentication (FBA) in MOSS 2007 and had it working great. Unfortunately we had to reinstall the system and I actually had more issues getting FBA to work correctly on the reinstall than I did the first time. It turned out that the issue was mixing different implementation methods that counteracted each other. The simplest way to configure FBA is to edit the machine.config file on the server (%WINDOWS%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config) and change the LocalSqlServer connection string to the ASPNETDB user store or other database with the user information. This takes advantage of the pre-configured AspNetSqlMembershipProvider and AspNetSqlRoleProvider in...