SharePoint 2010 Error: domain/my Cannot be found

So, this morning i was trying to access my personal site and my profile pages in our new SharePoint farm. But what i got was the HTML 404 The Page Cannot be Found. After spent hours looking for the solution of this issue, finally found the way to figure this out! Yippi! 1st step--- Log on to your Central Administration > Application Management > Create Site Collection 2nd step--- Point to Web Site Address and click on the link Define Managed Paths. 3rd step--- Add a new path 1. my, choose the type Explicit inclusion, Add Path2. my/personal, choose the type Wildcard inclusion, Add Path 3rd step--- Go back to Create Site Collection page. Put...

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SQL Server 2008 R2: Connect to Different Domain and Server Name

Have struggled with this problem almost all day. I couldn't connect to another domain server using SQL Management Studio 2008 R2. Precisely, my other domain server is using Hyper-V and i called the server name as DOMAIN1. In this case i couldn't get access easily by using the server name but what i need is connect using the IP Address of DOMAIN1. In this case i defined the IP address of DOMAIN1 as 192.168.0.11 1st step--- Make sure you can connect to DOMAIN1, add another IP Address. In this case, i am using IP 192.168.0.* so i can connect. For example i defined the IP address of my SQL Server computer as 192.168.0.9 2nd step--- Check the DOMAIN1...

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SharePoint 2010: Specify the Default Database Server

If you have look at my posts before this, this post is connected to Migrating SharePoint 2010 Databases from SQL Server 2008 Express Edition to SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition. After detach and attach all MOSS 2010 databases from SQL Server Express, now we have  to go back to SharePoint Central Administration.  1st step---Log on to your Central Administration as farm administrator. 2nd step---In the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Page go to Application Management > Databases > Specify the default database server.3rd step---In the default database server page, fill in the Domain\SHAREPOINT_DB_Instance of the SQL Server...

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SharePoint 2010 : Detach SharePoint databases from SQL Server Express Edition & Attach to SQL Server Enterprise Edition

As default on the new installation, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2010 using SQL Server Express Edition to store the databases. To migrate MOSS 2010 databases to SQL Server Enterprise edition, you need to install SQL Server Management Studio first so you can manage all Database Engine easily. Before you do databases detach, please read this article carefully from Microsoft official site. According to the information and requirements provided by Microsoft you will need to stop some of the SharePoint services. You can manage by using Administrative Tool > Services, but i'm using a very quick tool from CodePlex called SharePoint 2010...

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SQL Server 2008 Express Edition Error: Cannot show requested dialog. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Parameter name: nColIndex Actual value was -1. (Microsoft.SqlServer.GridControl)

This morning i have found the way to detach SharePoint databases from SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and then attach all databases to our new SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise edition. But then i found problem on re-attach the databases to SQL Server Express edition. It returns me an error as shown on the image below. TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio------------------------------ Cannot show requested dialog. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Parameter name: nColIndex Actual value was -1. (Microsoft.SqlServer.GridControl) ------------------------------ BUTTONS: OK ------------------------------ Then...

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Infopath 2010: Get and Set Value of TextBox Field Using Visual C# onEvent Button Click

I've been working on InfoPath 2010 since a week ago (i'm totally new on it). This was something that i needed to do, and after few hours testing and googling it, finally i could figure out how it works in InfoPath. 1st step---Right click on your button and choose Button Properties. Click on Edit Form Code... button. 2nd step---Find the function for the button event. In this case mine is as shown below.public void updateButton_Clicked(object sender, ClickedEventArgs e){    //write your code here} 3rd step---Put this codes below //scripts to get value of Infopath field XPathNavigator Period1 = this.MainDataSource.CreateNavigator().SelectSingleNode("//my:myFields/my:period_1",...

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SQL Query: Adding Active Directory Users Attributes To An Existing Table Or Specified Column

OK, here it is, i was trying to create a timetable SharePoint webpart for our school, and using SQL Server Database. And i want the timetable appears as the domain user logged on to SharePoint. So my first step to create this webpart was creating the database and tables. From the previous topic i have explained how to get the Active directory users and attributes, and so i improved the sql query to copy all my AD retrieval results into my 'teacher' table.Below is the query that i ran: use TimeTable go INSERT INTO teacher(initials,logOnID,preferredName) SELECT initials,samAccountName, displayName FROM OPENQUERY(ADSI,'SELECT initials, samAccountName,...

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SQL Query: Retrieve Active Directory Users List

Today i was struggling getting the active directory users list from our domain, but finally it worked. Here's the query. 1st step---Thanks to Alina from MSDN blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alina/archive/2009/04/16/ldap-query-to-get-a-user-memberships-in-sql.aspx) for this awesome SQL script: EXEC master.dbo.sp_addlinkedserver @server = N'ADSI', @srvproduct=N'Active Directory Services', @provider=N'ADsDSOObject', @datasrc=N'bisdragons.com' GO Note: Change @datasrc=N'your_domain.com'  2nd step--- Run this query:SELECT samAccountName, givenName [First Name], sn [Last Name],mail FROM OPENQUERY(ADSI,'SELECT samAccountName,givenName, sn, mail FROM ''LDAP://OU=Teaching Faculty,OU=Staff,DC=BISDRAGONS,DC=COM'' WHERE objectClass=''Person'' AND objectClass = ''User'' ORDER BY samAccountName')...

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SharePoint 2010: Change Preferred Name To FirstName + LastName Instead Of Domain\Username

In this tutorial i would like to share how to change your account preferred name in SharePoint Server 2010. 1st step--- Log on to SharePoint Central Administration as Farm Administrator. 2nd step--- Go to Application Management > Manage service applications. 3rd step--- Scroll down to User Profile Service Application and click on the hyperlink. 4th step--- Go to  Manage User Profiles. 6th step--- Put the username that you would like to change its profiles on to Find profiles textbox. Then click Find. Once it shows the result, rollover to the Account Name and click the little arrow, choose Edit My Profile. 5th step--- Now you...

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SharePoint 2010 Error: Requested registry access is not allowed

Did you find this error? Well i just did few hours ago, and after struggling many hours, i think i finally have found what the problem is. The first issue came because i did repair my SharePoint site, because i did a mistake by changing the farm account and suddenly my SharePoint Central Administration page can not be accessed. So, after i repaired my SharePoint using SharePoint Server 2010 installation CD, my Central Administration worked fine. But wait, it wasn't fine at some pages, like i couldn't access Security > General Security > Configure managed accounts. It returned me an error : Error: Requested registry access is not allowed and not even that i couldn't delete or edit any of my web applications, and i couldn't access all my SharePoint site or web applications, it says my...

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