SharePoint Error:Task Update was Not Accepted
Today I ran into a situation where one of the SharePoint Powers users got the message when updating a SharePoint Task Status or completing a workflow assigned to ..
Error:
Task update was not accepted.
SharePoint Task update not accepted
Also the user received an email below:
I started to investigate the cause of this unusual behaviour and one thing that came to my mind was to check whether the user is a vaild user or any of his permissions changed. Everything looks good and all the permissions were retained as defined.
After a bit of search I was able to figure out that the User who logged in has a change in the AD account due to various reasons. They changed the User account in AD, created a new account and tied it to the same email account. We use Windows authentication for Sharepoint.
After adding the respective user's new account to the assigned to task, the user was able to update the Sharepoint tasks assigned to him.
SharePoint On Premise and Exchange Server in the Cloud
Today's Buzz word in the IT CIO's agenda is "Cloud" (Cloud Computing). Even I just heard a few days back about the Ash Cloud which was a Big thing and attained a lot of attention worldwide. In My opinion any thing realted to Cloud is always a Big thing.
Recently I was asked to do the research and submit a summary report on the combination of SharePoint on Premise and Exchange Server as a hosted option in the Cloud.
First thing what I know is that Microsoft has the BPOS for SMB's as SaaS. This comes with a bundled up package of SharePoint, Exchange and Office Live meeting.
But our major concern is where do we stand if we go for Exchange Azure and have our SharePoint on premise. We have been using Groupwise for almost quite some time till today and migrating from Groupwise to MS Exchange in the Cloud may not be as easy as it looks. I suspect most of us won't get there without a significant amount of help, time, and money.
So we decided to do additional research on closing the loop between SharePoint on Premise and Exchange Azure with all the deviations, Complaince and Complaints. One thing we wanna make sure is we wouldn't be asked for any additional tools to integrate the On Premise SharePoint data to the Exchange Cloud.
Any help in this regard is greatly appreciated.
Will update the content as soon as we finalize the report and having all possible solutions in hand.
After speaking to Jason Medero and couple of other SharePoint folks at the NJSPUG today, there shouldn't be any problem talking to your outlook client as long as the active directory user profile info has been tied up with the respective email ids.
IIS Reporter v2.0
I have been looking for a free tool quite some time to figure out the number of current users logged into SharePoint.(IIS) Even though you could get this information through the IIS logs but it is tedious so IIS Reporter v2.0 to the rescue!!! The actual count may not exactly show the number of connections but itz kind of Bellpark Solution to get an idea of how many were connected to the SharePoint Application. Hope this helps. If you are interested you can find a similar product available on Code Plex for SharePoint to get the same information.
SharePoint, Be My Valentine: From a Glorified Network Share to an Enterprise Platform
I really liked the way Dux made this anology of SharePoint to "My Valentine"
Being known Dux for his sense of Humor, it is always great to see Dux in action especially in his seminars and the workshops. I personally know Dux for quite some time now and always try to get with him. His Favorite answer is "IT Depends"
Dan Holme’s Viewpoint on SharePoint- From Winter Olympics
Dan Holme's Viewpoint on SharePoint
What an IT Pro Learned From Working at the Olympics
Last night, 80,000 of my closest friends and I sat in BC Place and experienced the closing ceremonies of the XXI Winter Olympics. It's always an emotional experience, to watch the games come to an end, to see the city empty of its throngs, and to begin the process of tearing down this little enterprise of 2000+ employees at NBC Olympics. I know how lucky I've been to experience six Olympics, and it's been great to share this one with you.
New features in SharePoint Server 2010
Moss 2010 is coming up with lots of new features and functionality that will help a system engineer to work more efficiently. In our sneak preview we found Microsoft has improved the MOSS-2010 on its technical part rather than changing the user appearance in 2010 in comparison to MOSS 2007. So you will see most of the things similar to MOSS 2007, but with more features and ease of use.
Microsoft really worked on it and luckily this time SharePoint 2010 seeks to facilitate each of aforesaid challenges. Now SharePoint 2010 supports:
• Latest .NET 3.5 platform enhancements (such as WCF and LINQ)
• Silverlight 3.0
• The Business Data Catalog (BDC) has become Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
• BCS now supports full read/write capabilities
• SharePoint Designer 2010 receives a major upgrade. It now supports creating more complex workflows that are more re-usable.
• Visual Studio 2010 will come with SharePoint 2010 tools that far exceed the extensions available for Visual Studio 2005/2008.
• Web Parts and other SharePoint pages can be built with graphical editors and debugged without leaving the Visual Studio environment.
• The experience will be much more like that of ASP.NET web applications.
The points mentioned above are couple of new add-on/support features that have been added to SharePoint 2010. Based on the features, we categorized them in three main categories as below
SharePoint 2010 Application Layers
SharePoint 2010 Platform Improvements
SharePoint 2010 Development Tools Improvements
Click on each link above to read more about the SharePoint 2010 new features.
Working with Reporting Services Using Microsoft Sharepoint
Introduction
There are many instances in which the business process requires executive reports or some company performance reports to show up on intranet sites. Companies do use different portals to build their intranet sites. Microsoft’s SharePoint technology is one such tool. The main task is how we display the reports stored under SQL Reporting Services on the SharePoint site. Microsoft does provide two Web parts with SQL Reporting Services SP 2. In this section I will share information on using the current web parts provided by Microsoft and then explain what exactly happens behind the scenes to display the report. Finally I will explain how you could create your own web part.
The two web parts provided by Microsoft are Report Explorer and Report Viewer.
Click on the link below to read the complete article
Working with Reporting Services Using Microsoft Sharepoint
Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Resources
First thing first, I looked for good SharePoint sites which can be bookmarked as your useful MS SharePoint resources. This is a partial list and I will keep updating it time to time.
Microsoft Website Resources Links
- Windows SharePoint Services Developer Center (MSDN site)
- MS SharePoint Official website
- MS SharePoint Learning Resources
- SharePoint Server 2007 Whitepapers
- Ms SharePoint Server 2007 Live and On-Demand Webcasts
- Ms SharePoint Server 2007 Podcasts
- Moss 2007 Community
- Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog
TheMossBlog.com
TheMossBlog.com
Looking at the popularity of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), The Synapse Web Tech team has launched a blog containing tutorials and latest news about SharePoint.
MOSS is a product of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies and is built on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS).
In the upcoming articles we will cover functionality and features of MOSS as a Collaboration tool, Enterprise Search tool, Blogging tool, and Office Integration tool. Additionally, we will cover Webparts, an extensive feature of MOSS with a focus on how to include/add/edit and modify or create your own Webparts.