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The beep sound is from the keyboard itself and it can be annoying sometimes to some people. It can be simply turned on by pressing “Alt” and “~” keys a the same time. Good luck!

When a SharePoint 2007 FBA site is converted to SharePoint 2010 FBA site, all the FBA users and permissions are no longer functional because the users names are different format in the new SharePoint 2010 FBA site. One way to migrate the users/permissions is to use the following method  $w = Get-SPWebApplication “http://site_url/”   $w.MigrateUsers(1) However [...]

The following PowerShell Script can be used: $w = Get-SPWebApplication “http://site_url/” $w.UseClaimsAuthentication = $true; $w.Update() $w.ProvisionGlobally() More info can be found at technet

I had a really weird error on a SharePoint Site based on Publishing Portal Site Template. The out of box approval workflow has been disabled. However, user can’t see the “Publish” button on the Page Edit Tool Bar even user has been given full access to the site. User can only Submit for Approval. After [...]

A lot of people suggest adding the application pool account used by SharePoint 2010 to Local Administrators group, which does solve the problem. However you will receive a warning from the SharePoint Health Analyzer. Microsoft’s advice does not help. You may want to try the following command as suggested by Javi (run it with the SharePoint [...]

run the following command netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable

GLOBAL#0 = Global template (1033) STS#0 = Team Site (1033) STS#1 = Blank Site (1033) STS#2 = Document Workspace (1033) MPS#0 = Basic Meeting Workspace (1033) MPS#1 = Blank Meeting Workspace (1033) MPS#2 = Decision Meeting Workspace (1033) MPS#3 = Social Meeting Workspace (1033) MPS#4 = Multipage Meeting Workspace (1033) CENTRALADMIN#0 = Central Admin Site [...]

In my ASP.NET/C# code, I used DirectoryServices to manage a remote IIS website. However, when a method Site.Invoke is called, this exception got thrown. This is a permission problem. The account running ASP.NET code on IIS doesn’t have permission to access remote server. So ASP.NET Impersonation has to be used to solve the issue.

We moved an ASP.NET 3.5 application from IIS Server 6.5 yo 7.5 and then this error starts to show. Solution: Change the associated application pool’s ASP.NET framework version from 4.0 to 2.0.

Windows 2003 server has service “WebClient” disabled by default.   This service has to be on in order to access “File Share” by SharePoint Webdav. Below are the procedures to enable this service.   1. Login to the server with administrator account. Click Start–>Run, type in services.msc, press enter.   2. Locate the service called [...]