Andrew Kennel
Web Developer
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PHL ParkingVirtual Environments
May 7, 2008D has asked for a staging server. He wants a Sharepoint environment we can use to allow normal users to try out new applications before we roll them into production. It’s a good idea, and one that we talked about in the past, but never acted on.I don’t have any additional hardware at the moment,…
Continue Reading →Finally got our Dev server restored
April 23, 2008D had asked me to rebuild the Test Server a few weeks back. He was having some trouble with one of his applications, and we thought it might have been caused by installing the .Net 3.5 framework. This wasn't the case, but the Test server has been with us from the very beginning and had…
Continue Reading →Quick Batch Script for installing the “Fantastic 40” Sharepoint Templates
April 23, 2008After rebuilding the Dev Server, one of my first tasks was re-installing the Fantastic 40 templates that Microsoft gives away. Half of these templates are .STP files which need to be added to a Site Collection via the GUI. The other 20 are .WSP files, and need to be added via the command line. You…
Continue Reading →Using Sharepoint Designer to Backup/Restore a Site
April 23, 2008I mentioned in an earlier post today that I'd rebuilt the dev server. After my first rebuild of the test server, I had a running server, but could not restore the old sites from backup. The server was left running this way for about a week while I worked on other problems. During this time,…
Continue Reading →Strange user account problem
April 21, 2008Our developer ran into a problem with one of his applications last week. One of the people trying to use the application was running into an error. This application is just a simple ASPX form that is filled out by the user. A bit of digging in the logs revealed that the application was pulling…
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