Monday, August 27, 2012

One Note: An error occurred while attempting to sync this section or notebook

So this is one that comes up often, when attempting to sync up a One Note Notebook with a SharePoint 2010 site, you will get a red icon on the notebook and some variation of: "An error occurred while attempting to sync this section or notebook."

Basically this is due to the fact that "Require Documents to be checked out" is enabled on the library.  From everything I've seen online, this is a known bug with Microsoft, but no fix available that I could find.  Now the workaround of course is to uncheck that setting in the Library Settings/ Versioning Settings, BUT forcing Check out is a huge part of certain governance standards, so make sure you check with the site users so that they can determine which need is more pressing.




Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Office App Store for SharePoint 2013 is now live

One of the new features of SharePoint 2013 is the creation of an "App Store" for custom widgets and templates for all to share either as free downloads or as a pay for model.  The link to the SharePoint specific portion of the office app store is below:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps-for-sharepoint-FX102804987.aspx

As the Apple vs. Android app stores have shown, the key is consistency of the apps, and making sure that they are vetted properly.  This feature will be a huge component of 2013, but as an admin I potentially see some governance opportunities as to how to handle these.  That would be along the lines of coming up with an approved list or process of allowing these into various environments, and creating an internal app store that our developers can use to share features across farms and platforms.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

SharePoint 2013 Presentations


With Microsoft Office "Wave 15" and SharePoint 2013 right around the corner, Microsoft has started to post several videos and slides around the upcoming product.  Below is a link to the IT Pro track on Technet, from a high level overview to Architecture and Upgrade modules.
For It Professionals:
TechNet

Also there is a MSDN link for Developers with the same type of information:
MSDN

"Value does not fall within the expected range." When activating Microsoft Publishing after 2010 upgrade


We recently did an upgrade from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010, and one of the site collections wouldnt allow Publishing to be activated. It either threw a Columns error or the "Value does not fall within the expected range." error when attempting to access. Via STSADM or PowerShell, it would error out as well, including removing completely and attempting to re-install. (note
this problem Site Collection is a legacy WSS 2.0 site collection that had been upgraded to WSS 3.0, MOSS and now to SP2010 which is bad, but we never had the ability to force new sites to be created)

In doing a side by side comparison between the problem Site Collection and one that worked using the Get-SPFeature -url http://SharePointsite, it showed that the Publishing service is actually composed of 3 seperate features.
1)PublishingSite
2)PublishingLayouts
3)PublishingResources

I enabled them in the above order by running:
Enable-SPFeature -Identity PublishingSite -url Http:://SharePointsite
Enable-SPFeature -Identity PublishingLayouts -url Http:://SharePointsite
Enable-SPFeature -Identity PublishingResources -url Http:://SharePointsite

And that did the trick.