Month: April 2010

SP2010: Error activating SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure

Today I ran into an error when trying to enable the “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure” feature on an existing SharePoint site. The logs told me: “Feature Activation: Failed to ensure feature dependencies for feature ‘PublishingSite’ (id: ‘f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa’), exception thrown: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to create the ‘Site Collection Documents’ library. OriginalException: A

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SP2010: Error when trying to add FBA user to sharepoint group

I ran into an error when I tried to add a FBA user (ASP.NET membership) to a SharePoint group. It told me: “The user or group ‘providername:username’ is unknown. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility.FilterValidLoginName(String loginName, SPSite site)”. Weird, because the exact same piece of code had worked properly in 2007 and even in 2010 beta. The only thing

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SP2010: Cannot get membership provider with name…

Today I was yet again playing around with SharePoint 2010 which is RTM now! I’ve downloaded the RTM version from MSDN and installed it on my workstation. Earlier, I had some problems setting up a claims based authentication site with mixed mode authentication (windows + forms auth). I wanted to try that in the RTM

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SP2010: REST Data Sources within SharePoint Designer

With SharePoint 2010, there are multiple methods of getting data from a list. There’s the object model (client / server side), there’s webservices and there’s REST (which is kind of a webservice itself). With REST, you’re able to get data out of a list and view it on other sites. Those other sites don’t need

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