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I am a 26 year old female SharePoint Enthusiast. I work for B&R Business Solutions from my home in Olathe, KS. I have been working with SharePoint since I attended the Portal University in 2005. I hold a BA in Computer Science from the University of Missouri - Kansas City. I love playing Rockband, organizing user group meetings, working with MOSS, attending Code Camps as a speaker, and having bizarre conversations about geek things with cool people. If you have any comments or questions fill out the contact form and I will try my best to help.

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September 2009 Entries

Repeated Authentication When Booting A Shared Service Provider


I created a brand spanking new environment, Server 2008 x64, SQL Server 2008, WSPBuilder, and Visual Studio 2008 Team Systems…All the awesome that you would expect out of a base development environment for SharePoint.  I get to the Shared Service Provider and it keeps prompting me to authenticate repeatedly.  I checked the logs and it looked like it wasn’t even passing credentials in the Event Viewer.  I got that generic can’t pass the token or whatever error.  So I thought maybe it’s related to a trusted site issue and add the site to the trusted sites.  Of course that doesn’t fix the issue…Lame…

On a whim I decide it’s time to throw in the registry hack for DisableLoopbackCheck (http://www.information-worker.nl/2009/06/23/disableloopbackcheck-on-windows-server-2008/).  I restarted my computer boot up Central Admin and hit up the Shared Service Provider Admin Page…Guess what…It passes my credentials and let’s me see the Shared Service Provider.  Normally in this situation I see a 401 error or I get past this point, but the content databases will not start a crawl.  So if you see multiple prompts on your Shared Service Provider and notice that credentials are not being passed you might want to try out the registry hack.  I had this problem, because I decided to use the urn http://sharedservices instead of a server and port number.  I hope this tiny piece of advice helps you out a bit. 

In future I will be posting some information on how to build a roll up to list all site collections and sites within a web application.  If I have some time there may be a nice little codeplex project that I throw out there, because John Alexander asked nicely and he’s cool.  Until next time…

posted @ Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:59 PM | Feedback (0) |


SharePoint Saturday Kansas City 2010 Hands on Labs


I sort of underestimated the love of free hands on 2010 training.  We have about 71 people signed up with about 50 or so people for the hands on lab sessions.  I opened up the registration a couple of weeks ago.  It's insane the kind of draw that we are receiving.  In February I opened up registration with barely 20 people on the Click to Attend.  The guys I worked with had to push to get out publicity.  I called up all the local recruiters.  With 3 months to spare we are at 71 out of 250.  I am going to start the publicity to user groups within a 300 mile radius plus bombard the local training facilities and colleges with flyers.  I can't believe the draw that SharePoint has in a 1.9 million population town.  I started looking around for 2 trainers and one of the group leaders, Bob Davis, found me two ready and willing people to pick up another few sessions for 101.  I am now waiting for the go ahead from Johnson County Community College to see if they have the space for a 6th room.  This is good, because I can run 4 lab sessions at varying times.  I am going to create the schedule well in advance, so people can pick and choose 101 hands on labs based on session times.  If it all works out we have 4 lab sessions one that starts right after the keynote, one that starts a session in, one that starts right after lunch, and one that starts right before the end of the day.  That way this time around people get the hands on labs, plus they get to attend any sessions running on the other tracks.  I think we have a better schedule and will have a better all around event.  If you guys want to sign up for the 101 lab tracks remember to register as soon as possible.  Once the publicity goes out and we start promoting harder the entire 250 slots will sell out quick.  We might get a few cancellations, but this time around I can see things selling out by November. 
For anyone still interested in speaking you have plenty of time to submit, because we will not be closing abstract submissions until November 1st.  If you have multiple topics that you would like to submit on then please send them in.  The more submissions the more chances that you do not overlap with other speakers.  I will say we have a good diversity of submissions and the topics will be rock solid this time around.  The topics vary fro 2007 to 2010, so if you're still looking for some 2007 we're not fully converted.
We also have some sponsor slots and the document is sitting on our website.  If you are interested in sponsoring please contact our email at sharepointsaturdaykc@gmail.com. 
For anyone interested the website is located at http://www.sharepiontsaturday.org/kc.  There is a wifi form for attendees, speakers, and sponsors plus hotel information for the discount.  All SharePint events will most likely be held at the same place.  We are trying to consolidate everything in one place.  The area is really nice, because down the street is a huge shopping center (Town Center) with all kinds of great food places (and my favorite sushi place, Sushi House).
I hope that I see you guys at the event.  If I forget who you are I'm really sorry I'm probably thinking about the event, moving, and my cousin's wedding all at the same time.  Hope you guys have a good weekend!

posted @ Saturday, September 19, 2009 5:02 PM | Feedback (0) |


If Music Be the Food of Love, then Play On…


No this is not SharePoint or Silverlight related at all.  Tomorrow is 09/09/09 and the Beatles, one of my favorite bands of all time aside from Green Day and Three Dog Night, are releasing there albums in digital format entirely remastered plus as a bonus Harmonix is releasing a special version of Rockband.  I can probably throw away $60 for the game, but not so much the money for the remastered tracks.  Growing up my dad was born in the 50’s, so his music was primary the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Turtles mixed in with Vietnam War Protest Music.  We never really listened to a whole ton of 80s pop or hair bands, so I missed out on one era and gained the music of his era.   I didn’t even know that Green Day existed until middle school/high school.  My first non-60s era tape was Ace of Base the Sign at Age of 13.  In the car on road trips wherever we went we sang such songs as “I am the Walrus” and “Love Me Do”.  So when the anthology came out I was stoked, but we couldn’t afford the box sets.  So I had to watch tv and listen to the radio for the specials.  When my family went to New York City for the first time when I was in my teens we saw the spot where John Lennon died.  It was one of the sadder moments in life.  I hated it when I found out George Harrison had died.  I have to say though John Lennon is one of my favorite Beatles, but not for the reasons everyone would think.  I have the “Imagine” album and “Past Masters Volume 1” and I have to say his passion for Yoko were what sold me.  My absolute favorite song of his is from “Imagine” called “Oh Yoko”.  It’s one of my IPhone Ringtones.  Some people bash the album, but I like it because of the emotions it invokes.  Although, I have to say some of my favorite Beatles Only songs are “Here Comes the Sun”, “Norweigan Wood”, “When I’m 64”, and “I’ve Just Seen a Face”.  No these are not the only Beatles songs I love just about everyone as much as I love Green Day.  If you guys want to post your favorite Beatles albums and songs go right ahead.  It’s a day of celebration.  The boys from Liverpool are back.

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posted @ Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:47 PM | Feedback (0) |


SharePoint Saturday Kansas City General Registration Open


I have been grinding the  midnight oil trying incredibly hard to make this event better than last year.  Kevin Hughes, Brian Laird, and Bob Davis are helping me out tremendously.  We’ve had some good speaker submissions and we are continuing to receive more (don’t worry still spots left if you are interested).  We have  total of 24 slots for speakers plus a keynote and 2 separate 101 sessions hosted by our local guys, Bob Davis and Howard Davy.

We have just opened up registration at http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/kc.

On the website we also have listed the event hotel with the discount available.  We also have two types of registration this year, so that we can determine who wants to go to the 101 sessions.  There are only 60 slots open with 30 slots for the morning and 30 for afternoon.  You can specify your preference.  We are going to allow slot preference based on a first come first serve basis.

We have also released the Call for Sponsors, so if you are interested in picking up a sponsorship slot the document is linked on the website with the various levels (gold and silver).  Each level has specific items.  The only thing thus far snapped up is the snack sponsorship.  I will be updating the document accordingly.

We are also going to make some plans for a SharePint and some other events.  Check back in the future for updates on our website.  I hope to see you guys at the event.

posted @ Friday, September 04, 2009 7:29 PM | Feedback (0) |