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Today, after 3 weeks of (well deserved ) holiday, I noticed that I couldn’t reach my custom developped SharePoint webservice anymore on a test-environment.

After searching some time, I discovered the MS UrlScan Security Tool had been installed which blocked all calls to the webservice and simply returned a 404 because the url contained a “.” character in the path to the webservice asmx.

You’ll find numerous posts online about difficulties with UrlScan and SharePoint installed together, just don’t mix them

After 2 InfoPath projects together with MOSS 2007, I noticed that I overlooked an important checkbox in the InfoPath publishing routine:

By checking it, you make the column editable in SharePoint…

Really, I spend the last 4 days searching why specific InfoPath 2007 web enabled forms would not work. When suddenly a colleague of mine decided to turn off PointFire translations on SharePoint, suddenly all forms work as they were designed to. Also the calender picker did it’s work.

The error I received was:
“There has been an error while loading the form. A required resource could not be downloaded. To try to resume the download, refresh the page.”

These issues should be fixed in the newest (V2) release of PointFire, but yet …

… a good lesson to keep in mind: When developing in SharePoint, try to switch off Pointfire once in a while. (And try to avoid InfoPath as much as possible in your solutions).

Today my Outlook 2007 began an automatic archiving routine: showing a funny error message:

Didn’t know my doors should be closed for this one

Today I spent a lot of time searching for the right GetScreen tool. GetScreen is an old application that can be used to remote control a computer, much like VNC. Apparently most of the websites try to block the download, since it can be used by Trojan Horses to remotely take control of a computer. The tool itself is pretty harmless. Before executing, the executing user needs to have Administrator rights on the computer you want to control. Please read further to find the download-link attached to this message. (more…)