I have been migrating a number of MOSS 2007 web sites to SP 2010 recently and I came across the following quirk. The site migrated OK to 2010 but then when I displayed the site using IE8 there was no vertical scroll bar even though the site disappea ...[Read more]

We all like the HTML / XML in our Master Pages and Page Layouts to look nice so that they are easily read. However, every so often SP 2010 trips you up and this is one of those occasions. Take the following in a Master Page or Page Layout :- Y ...[Read more]

Upgrading the company blog site from MOSS 2007 to SP 2010 I came across a strange error message.  "Invalid List Template".  The log entries looked like this :-   Failed to find <ListTemplate> tag corresponding to ID "301&quo ...[Read more]

The Problem :- I had a problem with a very simple Intranet site which only had web parts in it and no variations when I upgraded it from MOSS 2007 -> SharePoint 2010. It failed with the error message "One or more fieldtypes are not insta ...[Read more]

I was upgrading a site (I thought) from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 using the attach Content Database method. When I tred to access the site I got the following error message :- Server error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=9 ...[Read more]

I have been trying to get the Developer Dashboard working with MSS 2010 Beta 1 and having a few problems.  There are a number of blogs out there which claim to make it work but most seem to assume you have MSS 2010 beta 2.  This is the only one I ...[Read more]

I was updating a site from MOSS 2007 -> MSS 2010 and I tried to access the site and kept getting a blank screen and the word "Done" in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.  So I looked in the IIS log and noticed that there were ...[Read more]

I had a problem recently where customers were complaining that they could not create folders within a MOSS 2007 document library and get them approved when the folder was created from Microsoft Word 2003 or Word 2007.  However, when I created the fo ...[Read more]

I had an issue recently when I needed to know whether a particular menu item (from asp:menu) was a site or a page.  Finding the answer was not very easy as blogging for this did not seem to turn up many answers.  Some people created a publishing web ...[Read more]

I had a bit of a disaster the other week.  My file server of 12 years vintage finally died, taking the RAIDed disks with it.   So I took the plunge and decided to go Virtual.  I purchased a server with an AMD Phenom 9650 quad core processor and 8G ...[Read more]