Author Archives: Richard Ginzburg

SharePoint 2007 listitem manager

Posted on 2014-03-10 by Richard Ginzburg

For a while now I’ve tried to find a tool that would allow me to export a SharePoint 2007 list to Excel, modify the data and then import it to another system. In my case I wanted to move data … Continue reading →

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“No authority could be contacted for authentication” in SharePoint farm

Posted on 2014-03-03 by Richard Ginzburg

Just ran into this when trying to access SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration on for my MOSS farm. Turns out the AD somehow got corrupted when I restarted the servers in the farm. The solution was to remove the servers from the domain, … Continue reading →

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Getting current page URL (or it’s parts) in C#

Posted on 2013-06-18 by Richard Ginzburg

Here is an easy reference for how to get different parts of an URL in C#. I’ve color-coded the example URL below for easier matching with the values of the properties of the HttpRequest. URL used for this example: http://localhost:12345/site/page.aspx?q1=1&q2=2 … Continue reading →

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“File Not Found” error in SharePoint 2007 site manager

Posted on 2013-01-14 by Richard Ginzburg

When trying to edit a list from site manager in my SharePoint 2007 environment I got the following error: File Not Found. at System.Reflection.Assembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection) at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, … Continue reading →

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Some uploads are gone…

Posted on 2013-01-10 by Richard Ginzburg

Thanks to the wonderful WordPress 3.5 upgrade some of my uploads and screenshots got deleted… Sorry… 🙁

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Target display mode iMac -> MacBook Pro 2011 with Thunderbolt

Posted on 2012-10-30 by Richard Ginzburg

This was not as easy as it seemed. A checklist to get target display mode working: Make sure both your iMac and your Macbook Pro are equipped with Thunderbolt. It only works Thunderbolt -> Thunderbolt or Display port -> Display port, … Continue reading →

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Fix for VPN connections on Mac OSX using SonicWall NetExtender (pppd)

Posted on 2012-10-17 by Richard Ginzburg

Seems like Apple broke pppd with one of the latest patches to OSX. My SonicWALL NetExtender stopped connecting unless run as root. The error i got was: FATAL: An immediately fatal error of some kind occurred, such as an essential … Continue reading →

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Aborting import operations in Commerce Server 2007

Posted on 2012-06-20 by Richard Ginzburg

Today, my Biztalk ran wild and initiated a bunch of Commerce Server catalog import operations. While trying to find a way to abort all of those I came across the CatalogStatus table in the product catalog database. According to MSDN this … Continue reading →

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ObjectList is in an unknown state in sitemanager.aspx

Posted on 2012-05-14 by Richard Ginzburg

Just a quick note, mostly for myself: the following error at sitemanager.aspx results from view state not being active. The language setting is unfortunately Swedish, so I doubt this will help anyone… Webbplatshanteraren: ObjectList ObjectList1 är i ett okänt tillstånd. … Continue reading →

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My SharePoint 2007 site spontaneously got into read-only mode

Posted on 2012-05-07 by Richard Ginzburg

Just a short post this time: if you experience symptoms like: no one able to edit anything on a MOSS site weird permission denied errors for admins buttons in the GUI disappearing then maybe your MOSS site got into read-only … Continue reading →

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