Heres my profile on LinkedIn. 

 

Cheers,

Puneet.H

I got this exception while developing on the SharePoint enterprise search.

"Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query.SearchServiceNotFoundException: The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service.
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query.FullTextSqlQuery.Execute()"

 

And i could not access the search settings in the shared service provider. I was getting the following message: "The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on Server page in SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress"

 

The way to get start back again is to restart the Office Search service. This can be accessed via the "services.msc" in the command prompt.

 

Thanks,

Puneet.H

 

I was using the SharePoint designer and instantiated the User Control (placed in CONTROL TEMPLATES) I created for the top navigation bar in the master page.

Since i was working with the split mode. I didnt see any HTML of the user control in the page. So this is the tricky part, i had not given the id for the instance on the page.

 

Enjai,

Puneet.H

 

 

 

 

 

 

I ain't nerdy as you guys think i am.

 

-Puneet.H

 

I was configuring my WSS 3.0 installation and was getting this exception logged in the eventviewer on every page refresh and getting a message "Some or all identity references could not be translated".

The solution to this problem was "stsadm.exe -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin -password".

Yippee, the central administration came up. 

 

Description:

Failed to register SharePoint services.

An exception of type System.Security.Principal.IdentityNotMappedException was thrown.  Additional exception information: Some or all identity references could not be translated.

System.Security.Principal.IdentityNotMappedException: Some or all identity references could not be translated.

   at System.Security.Principal.NTAccount.Translate(IdentityReferenceCollection sourceAccounts, Type targetType, Boolean forceSuccess)

   at System.Security.Principal.NTAccount.Translate(Type targetType)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.CurrentUserIsAdministrator()

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedObject.Update()

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPService.Update()

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDiagnosticsService.Update()

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedObject.Update(Boolean ensure)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ServicesTask.InstallServiceInConfigDB(Boolean provisionTheServiceToo, String serviceRegistryKeyName)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ServicesTask.InstallServices(Boolean provisionTheServicesToo)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ServicesTask.Run()

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()

 

Enjai,

Puneet.H 

 

To configure the icons for PDF documents to show up in search results (read more about configuring MOSS search to index PDF documents) or in the default view of the document library, follow the steps below: 

 

1. Copy the .gif file to

    SharePoint Server 2007- Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images

 

2. Edit the Docicon.xml file to include the .pdf extension. To do this, follow these steps:

Puneet.H

 

I was trying to configure MOSS search to index PDF documents present in the document libraries. Here are the steps:

 

1. Download Adobe Reader 8.x from here and install it on the server.

2. Add the filter extension to the File Types crawled:

3. Modify the following registry default values with the new CLSID for the Adobe IFilter:

    {E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603} (run regedit in the command prompt )

4. Add the Installation directory of the Adobe Reader v.8 to the System Path. For example, if the Reader is installed on "D:\Program  Files\Adobe", then add "D:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader" to the system path by:

           Right Click on My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> Path (Under System Variables) -> Edit -> (Add "D:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader"). 

5. Restart the search service by running the following commands in the prompt:

Enjai Maadi,

Puneet.H

 

I was trying to create an out of the box survey programmatically and wanted to add the question and choices to it too. Below is the sample implementation in C#.

 

                    SPWeb web = SPControl.GetContextWeb(HttpContext.Current);

 

                    // create the out of the box survey using the list template

                    Guid surveyId = web.Lists.Add("Name of the Title", "Description of the survey", SPListTemplateType.Survey);
                   

                    SPList survey = web.Lists[surveyId];

                    

                    string Question = "what?";

                    StringCollection choices = new StringCollection();

                    choices.Add("choice1");

                    choices.Add("choice2");

                    choices.Add("choice3");

 

                    // Set the question and choices for the survey
                    survey.Fields.Add(Question, SPFieldType.Choice, true, false, choices);

                    // save the changes back to the list

                    survey.Update();

                    

                    // save the changes made in the site
                    web.Update();  

 

Enjai Maadi,

Puneet.H               

 

We just pulled a fast one on the new hires the other day. We welcomed them with pomp and grandeur. We had elephants, drums et all. The video can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GpPcMVbmtw. You can also watch the video below... 

 

 

-Enjai Maadi,

Puneet.H

 

 

 

 

Found this link which lets you download a chart web part. You can use it as a bar chart or as a pie chart.  Pretty simple and kool web part.

Check it out at ListCharts - new web part.

 

Enjai Maadi,

Puneet.H

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I found this blog which highlighted the key lessons  and benefits of Agile with Offshore development team. I have summarized the key points below:

 

 

This is the funniest of the mails going around on the debacle of the Indian Cricket Team at the World Cup.

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I was working with an XML file which had spit out HTML . This XML file  contained a document.write("<script> .... </script>"); which was breaking the xml file.  For more details go HERE. Anyway, the problem was fixed by writing the javascript in a seperate .js file and it was included in the HTML page.

 

Enjai,

Puneet.H

 

 

 

I was looking out for some BDC related stuff and for some walkthroughs and tutorials.

Here is the MS Virtual Lab link to the walkthrough which i found really helpful.  You have to be a MSDN subscriber and a MSN passport account helps.

 

Also editing the application definition file by hand is a pain. Using BDC MetaMan is advised. You can find it here.

 

Enjai,

Puneet.H

 

Well, i had a SharePoint site running Forms Authentication and i had to get a file from the document library for editing. So i decided to give Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges method a try. This takes a void function which will be run in elevated priveleges. So creating/deleting MySite for users while adding them from a legacy system can be done without the application running in System Account.

 

Heres the sample code: