http://www.windowsitpro.com/authors/author/author/5491055/rss/5491055en-USSun, 27 May 2012 03:32:06 GMTSun, 27 May 2012 03:32:06 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/deploy-visual-studio-business-data-connectivity-model-bdcm-solution-sharepoint-changing-identity-142520
By Stefan Kowalewski
What to do in SharePoint after you try to deploy a VS BDCM model solution and get an error message that begins: Error1 Error occurred in deployment step ’Add Solution’.]]>Stefan KowalewskiMon, 12 Mar 2012 16:05:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/deploy-visual-studio-business-data-connectivity-model-bdcm-solution-sharepoint-changing-identity-142520http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/fix-sql-server-2008-r2-reporting-services-142491
By Ethan Wilansky
When you configure a Reporting Data Source for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services (SSRS) in Microsoft SharePoint integrated mode on a SharePoint 2010 farm, an error appears for the Projects.rsds file in the DataConnections report library.]]>Ethan WilanskyThu, 08 Mar 2012 12:45:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/fix-sql-server-2008-r2-reporting-services-142491http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/business-connectivity-services-142088
By Ethan Wilansky
Building a complete BCS solution is no easy task, but tips from our experts can help. These 6 lessons are the results of in-the-trenches experience. Take them to heart and save yourself some headaches.]]>Ethan WilanskyWed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/business-connectivity-services-142088http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/change-property-bag-value-sharepoint-list--141581
By Ethan Wilansky
Using Windows PowerShell to assign a different value to a SharePoint list.]]>Ethan WilanskyMon, 12 Dec 2011 12:32:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/change-property-bag-value-sharepoint-list--141581http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/sharepoint-2010-development-lifecycle-fix-136367
By Ethan Wilansky
Tips for how developers can successfully deal with SharePoint deployment and configuration challenges.]]>Ethan WilanskyFri, 12 Aug 2011 15:09:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/sharepoint-2010-development-lifecycle-fix-136367http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/Failure-loading-item-picker-error-136309
By Ethan Wilansky
The underlying SharePoint BDC code didn’t catch this and the error message isn’t exactly specific. What should you do?]]>Ethan WilanskyTue, 31 May 2011 16:09:02 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/Failure-loading-item-picker-error-136309http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/report-server-encountered-sharepoint-error-136099
By Ethan Wilansky
Did you set the Author field on all Webs in all site collections in all SharePoint Web Applications?]]>Ethan WilanskyMon, 09 May 2011 16:48:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/report-server-encountered-sharepoint-error-136099http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/control-the-visibility-of-bdc-type-descriptors-in-external-item-picker-130033
By Tomek Stojecki
Want to hide some of the type descriptors that appear in the item picker? Here’s how.]]>Tomek StojeckiFri, 01 Apr 2011 06:35:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/control-the-visibility-of-bdc-type-descriptors-in-external-item-picker-130033http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/q-how-do-i-make-filter-descriptors-on-an-entity-in-my-bdc-model-display-as-i-want-them-to-
By Stefan Kowalewski
Opening the entity in the SharePoint entity picker, you find all the filter descriptors are listed in the Find dropdown box, but the one you want isn’t selected as the default.]]>Stefan KowalewskiWed, 16 Mar 2011 13:46:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/q-how-do-i-make-filter-descriptors-on-an-entity-in-my-bdc-model-display-as-i-want-them-to-http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/automate-retrieving-and-deleting-a-bdc-application-model-in-sharepoint-2010
By Tomek Stojecki
Automate BDC application model deletion and save some time.]]>Tomek StojeckiThu, 13 Jan 2011 15:19:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/automate-retrieving-and-deleting-a-bdc-application-model-in-sharepoint-2010http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/sharepoint-q-a-attempting-to-configure-search-scope-settings-for-a-site-collection-throws-an-error
By Ethan Wilansky
The error message says The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service. Here’s one solution involving configuring service application associations in SharePoint.]]>Ethan WilanskyWed, 12 Jan 2011 12:52:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/sharepoint-q-a-attempting-to-configure-search-scope-settings-for-a-site-collection-throws-an-errorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/configure-a-load-balancer-to-accept-only-ssl-requests
By Ethan Wilansky
After configuring a load balancer to accept only SSL requests for a SharePoint 2010 FQDNs, some URLs in SharePoint 2010 are not translated properly to https.]]>Ethan WilanskyMon, 27 Dec 2010 13:39:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/configure-a-load-balancer-to-accept-only-ssl-requestshttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/sharepoint-q-a-how-do-i-display-a-user-friendly-value-
By Stefan Kowalewski
SharePoint InfoPath tip for when you don’t want to display the ID of the selected value but something more user friendly.]]>Stefan KowalewskiMon, 06 Dec 2010 15:45:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/sharepoint-q-a-how-do-i-display-a-user-friendly-value-http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/sharepoint-q-a-how-do-i-apply-a-filter-based-on-a-url-to-an-external-list-
By Tomek Stojecki
How to filter an external list in SharePoint.]]>Tomek StojeckiMon, 22 Nov 2010 14:57:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/sharepoint-q-a-how-do-i-apply-a-filter-based-on-a-url-to-an-external-list-http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/sharepoint-q-a-how-do-i-smoothly-deploy-reports-hosted-in-sharepoint-
By Stefan Kowalewski
How to make the deployment of reports through the development, QA and production environments smoother.]]>Stefan KowalewskiMon, 15 Nov 2010 10:18:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/sharepoint-q-a-how-do-i-smoothly-deploy-reports-hosted-in-sharepoint-http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/technology/speeding-infopath-2010-custom-form-deployment-to-external-lists
By Ethan Wilansky
Learn how to deploy your own custom InfoPath forms to external lists.]]>Ethan WilanskyFri, 05 Nov 2010 15:31:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/technology/speeding-infopath-2010-custom-form-deployment-to-external-listshttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/q-how-do-i-propagate-bdc-model-updates-to-an-entity-picker-to-resolve-the-parameter-is-missing-error-
By Ethan Wilansky
How to resolve the Parameter is missing error in SharePoint]]>Ethan WilanskyFri, 24 Sep 2010 16:54:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/q-how-do-i-propagate-bdc-model-updates-to-an-entity-picker-to-resolve-the-parameter-is-missing-error-http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/sharepoint-q-a-infopath-designer-2010-message-says-by-default-this-control-will-send-data-to-the-server-whenever-its-value-changes-126025
By Ethan Wilansky
Here’s a tip for how to fix the List URLs in the manifest.xsf file and republish the form.]]>Ethan WilanskyThu, 23 Sep 2010 16:40:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/sharepoint-q-a-infopath-designer-2010-message-says-by-default-this-control-will-send-data-to-the-server-whenever-its-value-changes-126025http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/sharepoint-q-a-how-do-i-display-a-more-user-friendly-error-message-
By Stefan Kowalewski
Error messages are useful in debugging, but they’re not exactly what you want your users to see when they access your application--here’s how to display a different message.]]>Stefan KowalewskiThu, 02 Sep 2010 16:25:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint/sharepoint-q-a-how-do-i-display-a-more-user-friendly-error-message-http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/sharepoint-q-a-how-do-i-submit-the-infopath-2010-form-programmatically-to-an-external-list-
By Tomek Stojecki
To submit the InfoPath form programmatically to an external list, you will need to inspect the manifest.xsf, for starters.]]>Tomek StojeckiThu, 12 Aug 2010 21:27:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/sharepoint-development/sharepoint-q-a-how-do-i-submit-the-infopath-2010-form-programmatically-to-an-external-list-