Colin Bowern - All Comments

re: Diagnosing the Unknown Alias problem in SharePoint

Geoff — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:42:12 GMT

Great diagnostic work. This is exactly what has just happened to us. There seems to be little available from Microsoft about this so I'm gonna log a ticket. THey can't ignore us forever, right?

re: Accessing SharePoint List Items with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Dave — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:15:18 GMT

Here is a link to another option for connecting to Sharepoint List data from Reporting Services- www.teuntostring.net/.../finally-fixed-problem-w-reporting-over.html

Link to the orginal article explaining the code- www.teuntostring.net/.../reporting-over-sharepoint-lists-with.html

The 'Enesys RS Extension' product is based on the code in this blog article.

It helps to read the comments for trouble shooting and installation.

I was able to set this up on a vhd and filter sharepoint list data in the filter tab.

Only supports reporting on one list.

re: BUG: Exchange Server 2007 rewrites Secondary Email Addresses when using POP3/IMAP

Kevin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:41:28 GMT

What is the status of this issue? I have a desperate need for a fix.

re: Diagnosing the Unknown Alias problem in SharePoint

m@ — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:13:28 GMT

I just wanted to pass on that we are experiencing the same issue (Random and usually discovered by the user community)

Our work around has been un-checking and re-checking the “Overwrite files with the same name” flag in the non-working library (Email Settings).

We are not sure why this flag reset gets the mail “receiving” going again for that library but it does.

Any additional information on the culprit would grateful.

Great blog BTW!

re: Compressing IIS and Windows Media Server Logs with PowerShell

Prasanth Rowlo — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:08:35 GMT

You can mail me at prasanth.rowlo@bt.com

re: Compressing IIS and Windows Media Server Logs with PowerShell

Prasanth Rowlo — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:07:27 GMT

Hey Collin,

I don have complete idea on poweshell scripting. can I have a script to compress/zip and to delete iis logs older than 7days.

re: Diagnosing the Unknown Alias problem in SharePoint

Kurt — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:13:54 GMT

Great work here. I used the script above to re-insert the mysteriously missing entries from EmailEnabledLists. However, when I recycled the timer, and it processed the very next one, the entry was once-again nuked from the EmailEnabledLists table. This is bad...

Any traction anywhere on this???

re: Importing Multiple Certificates

Pepe — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:40:14 GMT

Very nice command. I am in a similar situation, migrating a lot of PCs, with several of them having up to 50 certificates. Do you know about any command to export the certificates + key into PFX files, to make a batch file with it?

I am searching all the web, and the Microsoft's documentation, without any luck!

re: Diagnosing the Unknown Alias problem in SharePoint

Patrick — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:27:20 GMT

Colin,

Glad i read your blog.I have done i could to configure WSS list o receive incoming mails but NO SUCCESS.

I keep seeing this in WSS LOG:

05/02/2008 14:01:42.09 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x1324) 0x1300 Windows SharePoint Services E-Mail 6871 Information The Incoming E-Mail service has completed a batch. The elapsed time was 00:00:00. The service processed 0 message(s) in total.

I can see my emails in my drop folder for some seconds and then dissapears..

MS Share point Team where are you??

If you have any solutions for this please email me to : naijacoder@hotmail.com

Thanks Colin

re: Basic Pipeline Component Project Templates

Peter — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:03:35 GMT

I have created custom pipeline,I want calculate tax flat $15 for order, i written the code below.

I have to put dll in GAC and working the pipeline fine.But its not written $15 always written $0.

Please help me on this.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

using Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime;

using Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop;

using Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop.Orders;

using Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Orders;

namespace TaxCalculationPipeLine

{

[ComVisible(true)]

[GuidAttribute("2D99EC4E-1ACF-4720-B525-D7AD25174B54")]

public class TaxCalculation : IPipelineComponent, IPipelineComponentDescription

{

// Status codes for pipeline components

private const Int32 StatusSuccess = 1; // success

private const Int32 StatusWarning = 2; // warning

private const Int32 StatusError = 3; // error

#region IPipelineComponent Members

void IPipelineComponent.EnableDesign(int fEnable) { }

public int Execute(object pdispOrder, object pdispContext, int lFlags)

{

Int32 ReturnValue = StatusSuccess;

IDictionary orderForm = (IDictionary)pdispOrder;

IDictionary context = (IDictionary)pdispContext;

// Accessing an IDictionary

orderForm["order._cy_tax_total"] = new CurrencyWrapper(15.00M);

return ReturnValue;

}

#endregion

public object ContextValuesRead()

{

List<object> ReturnValue = new List<object>();

ReturnValue.Add("orderform.cy__tax_total");

ReturnValue.TrimExcess();

return (object[])ReturnValue.ToArray();

}

public object ValuesRead()

{

List<object> ReturnValue = new List<object>();

ReturnValue.Add("orderform.cy__tax_total");

ReturnValue.TrimExcess();

return ReturnValue.ToArray();

}

public System.Object ValuesWritten()

{

List<object> ReturnValue = new List<object>();

ReturnValue.Add("orderform.cy__tax_total");

ReturnValue.TrimExcess();

return ReturnValue.ToArray();

}

Thanks and Regards,

Peter Balu.

re: Diagnosing the Unknown Alias problem in SharePoint

Peter Seale — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:20:17 GMT

Thanks for taking the time to gather all this up. We're experiencing the same problem and have opened a case; I'm going to forward them to this page to summarily describe what is happening. I'll let you know how this works out.

re: Diagnosing the Unknown Alias problem in SharePoint

John — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:10:14 GMT

Not sure if this is exactly the same thing, but I have a problem with MOSS publishing sites. We frequently have a case where our user in the Approvers group for a site collection doesn't get notified when a page has been Submitted For Approval. When we check the user's MySite profile, their Work E-mail field is blank. We have also seen the same scenario with the user who submitted the page for approval not receiving a confirmation email when the page gets approved.

Right now our fix is to remove and re-add the user to the Approvers group.

John

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