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Entries for April, 2009

SharePoint Service Pack 2

Yesterday Service Pack 2 was released for SharePoint. In my post “ Office Service Pack will be available on 28 April” you can read about some changes that are included in the service pack. More information about the Service Pack can be found in the KB articles: Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and [...]

Handle access denied for application pages

Within SharePoint you have the ability to create custom application pages. Application pages remain in the layouts folder of SharePoint. Each user can access these pages by typing in the URL in the explorer bar. When you would navigate to one of these pages and you do not have enough rights, you would expect that [...]

Access SharePoint Data from the Database

When you are developing webparts or other kind of solutions for SharePoint it is possible you work yourself in a situation where you use the SharePoint API for your solutions but you do not want to use it because it is insufficient. When you are in a situation like this you can choose to connect [...]

Office Service Pack will be available on 28 April

The Microsoft Update Product Team Blog announced today that Office Service Pack 2 will be released on 28 April this year. The formal changes you can aspect for the server products are: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in [...]

Access denied while crawling sites

Today I received the strangest error when I was configuring my SharePoint Virtual PC to crawl my websites. The crawler inserted a error for each web application containing the following text: Access Denied. Since this was a new environment and I certainly know that the accounts where set correctly I was a bit amassed about [...]