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Photography
Paul Liebrand
I decided to create another blog that is dedicated to one of my hobbies – photography. Over the next few weeks I’ll be uploading some highlights from over the last few years that I have been doing it. Some of the photos I have upload so far include my adventures at some SharePoint conferences (featuring Steve Ballmer, Tom Rizzo, and Huey Lewis and the News), my first wedding, some 4th July fireworks shots and many more.
Please take a moment to check it out and feel free to leave a comment. [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 25th '10 |
Simple Pattern / Solution for Cross-thread operation not valid
Paul Liebrand
If you have ever done any threaded programming in WinForms you have more than likely run into the following error message at some point:
InvalidOperationException was unhandled
Cross-thread operation not valid: Control ‘’ accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on.
This exception is normally displayed while running in DEBUG mode. In release mode, everything appears to run as expected but at some point you will definitely run into a thread deadlock issue.
The follo [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 16th '10 |
Project Server 2007 “Error: ActiveX component can’t create object” when building Cube
Paul Liebrand
We recently received the following error message when we attempted to build the cube within Project Server 2007:
Failed to build the OLAP cubes. Error: Analysis Services session failed with the following error: Failed to connect to the Analysis Services server . Error: ActiveX component can’t create object
TechNet has an article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197608(office.12).aspx) on this specific error message that basically says you need to make sure you have the SQL Se [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 16th '10 |
Document is locked for editing – Part 2
Paul Liebrand
In 2008 I made a post about the infamous “locked for editing” message many people experience while using Office with documents stored in SharePoint. This post addressed the issue that can occur outside the normal “locking” mechanism Office and SharePoint.
I recently had a problem where I attempted to edit an Excel spreadsheet and I was presented by the following message:
Being a good SharePoint citizen, I waited about 20 minutes to give SharePoint the chance to unlock this file. Even u [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 12th '10 |
Devon and Christina – Almansor Court, Alhambra
Paul Liebrand
Devon and Christina’s wedding was the very first wedding I have ever been hired to shoot. As an aspiring photographer I was extremely nervous but they had the confidence in me to pull it off. Without a doubt, this was the most stressful photo shoot I have ever done but I think it all came together at the end. I still have much to learn both around my camera and shooting weddings in general.
We were able shoot Devon and Christina this close without them seeing each other before the wedd [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 6th '10 |
Project Server 2007 and SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Issues
Paul Liebrand
I ran into an issue attempting to get Project Sever 2007 working with SQL Sever 2008 Analysis Services and thought I would create a post about it in case other people are experiencing the same issue.
The first thing to note is the article on TechNet are written as if everything is installed on the same server; that is not the case in my environment. High level overview of my environment:
SharePoint Farm
Distributed SQL Server 2005 (stores SharePoint DBs and Project Server 2007 DBs)
Distributed [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 3rd '10 |
SPoint.me “The SharePoint Social Network” has arrived!
Paul Liebrand
I would like to assume many people have heard of the SharePoint related site called SharePointMagazine.net, brought to us by Arno Nel (@arnonel). The SharePointMagazine.net site has a tremendous amount of great content from many guest authors and you should check it out of you have not already.
So why this blog post? Well Arno has done it again! Today he announced SPoint.me, The SharePoint Social Network. This social networking site takes a little bit of each of the social network sites we use t [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10 |
My ClusterShot Photo Store
Paul Liebrand
I came across a service called ClusterShot a few months ago that gives photographers an outlet for selling their photos. The service allows a photographer to set a price but also accept offers. With the ability to import photos from other services such as RSS and Flickr it made it real easy for me to bring my photos into the service.
ClusterShot can be used for free with some limitations. I recently decided to upgrade my account to PRO status which gives me a “store front” and allows me to f [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 20th '10 |
My friend IDrive
Paul Liebrand
A few years ago after I experienced numerous hard drive failures and almost losing my entire photo collection I decided to invest in an online backup strategy. After evaluating a few options, I decided to go with IDrive and I have been extremely happy.
It costs about $4.95 per month for 150 GB of storage. One thing to note is that each file can have up to 30 different versions and the versioned files do not count against your storage limit.
The versioned files saved me a few months back when my [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 14th '10 |
“Accidentally on Purpose” by Swift Dixshun
Paul Liebrand
Swift Dixshun recently released his latest hip-hop album, “Accidentally on Purpose.” Why do I care? Although I am not the biggest fan of hip-hop, this album has some personal significance to me. My younger brother, Mark Liebrand, produced 2 songs and recorded about 6 others from this album.
This is a momentous accomplishment for him and if you are in the least bit interested in hip-hop or simply want to support their movement, check this album out!
You can follow my brother on Twitter @dspro [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 5th '10 |
UPDATED – Open Text Email Management for Exchange 10 – “What happened to all my archived email?”
Paul Liebrand
Nothing like receiving an email from an end-user that reads:
Why do I receive a message from Outlook that says “The owner deleted the document on the server. Please contact your administrator.” on most of my emails that have been archived?
Let me take a step back for a moment. About two months ago, we implemented Open Text’s Email Management for Exchange 10, latest and greatest release, in our organization. The method we chose to archive email was via Microsoft Exchange 2007 Managed fold [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 6th '10 |
SharePoint Conference 2009 (“SPC09”) Postmortem
Paul Liebrand
The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 (“SPC09”) has finally come to a close and I hope to wrap up my thoughts about what I saw at the conference in this post.
I first need to say that this has by far been the best conference I have attended. This is not necessarily because of all the great content but more of the social aspects that surfaced during the conference. With all the communication happening on Twitter around the announcements, features, thoughts, etc, about the sessions I felt [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 23rd '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Conference Keynote thoughts
Paul Liebrand
Generally speaking, most of what was shown during the keynote can be seen in the SharePoint 2010 Overview videos available on the website. However, here are a few things that caught my attention that I am not sure I knew:
Full development support on Windows Vista/Windows 7
Development Sandbox environments
I am also really excited to see more on the Business Connectivity Services (“BCS”) – previously the BDC. It seems the whole process around getting SQL information into has been simplifi [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
Gmail Productivity Tip
Paul Liebrand
I must have been living under a rock to only have been shown a feature of Gmail that has been around for awhile. I am not even sure what the “feature” is called but I am going to totally start using it when signing up for sites that may potentially generate a lot of spam.
Essentially, if you Gmail address is first.last@gmail.com you can add a plus (+) after your alias and it will still make it to your account. For example, first.last+spamtest@gmail.com.
The email will still come to you as ex [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 14th '09 |
WSSWiki.com
Paul Liebrand
I have decided to shutdown http://www.wsswiki.com and all traffic will now be directed to SharePoint Dev Wiki (http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com) – a site maintained by Jeremy Thake (@jthake). This weekend, I plan on publishing some of my articles from WSSWiki on SharePoint Dev Wiki.
I believe the SharePoint Dev Wiki has good content that all SharePoint developers and administrators should use and I hope redirecting my traffic will help this community site grow.
Thank you! [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 7th '09 |
Blog News
Paul Liebrand
I moved my blog off WordPress.com to my own host. If you are experiencing any issues with the blog or the RSS feed, please let me know.
Thank you
[Update – 10/4/2009]
Due to a problem on my host I had to revert back to WordPress.com. I’ll update you as necessary.
[Update – 10/6/2009]
Ok – I am off WordPress.com again… for now. Please let me know if you are experiencing any difficulties with my site. [read].
Posted: Sun, Oct 4th '09 |
SharePoint Development to BIN folder and extremely slow initial render times – Solution!
Paul Liebrand
My fellow co-workers and I have been dealing with an extremely slow build > render process when we are developing SharePoint solutions that are deployed to the BIN folder for over a year now.
We are all using are own Windows Server 2003 image hosted on a VMware ESX Server farm with tons of other VM’s.
We all know that SharePoint can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes to fire up the very first time you hit it and we accept that fact. However, we found ourselves waiting for up to 1 mi [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 18th '09 |
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