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SharePoint 2010 Social Collaboration Web Parts Missing

Today one of our SharePoint guys messaged me over Lync with a need to setup social web parts in SharePoint. What he noticed was that he was looking for the note board, organization browser, tag cloud , etc. It seems that somewhere in the past this feature was lost. Possibly during the SharePoint upgrade from 2007 […]

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Technical

SharePoint 2010 Visual Upgrade Missing

I’ve run into a problem where I was unable to slect the visual upgrade option for a few SharePoint Sites and Lists.   After some Google searching and much trial and error I was able to enable the option for Visual Upgrade by going  to Site Action > Site Settings > Manage Site Features and activating the “SharePoint […]

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Personal

Performance Point Server Error – “The Unattended Service Account”…

So I got an error in SharePoint 2010 today: The data source cannot be used because PerformancePoint Services is not configured correctly. Additional details have been logged for your administrator. This all started with a SharePoint user attempting to use Performance Point.  While in the dashboard designer the following error was given when attempting to create a new data source   I then took another […]

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Personal

SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Update = Fail

Today I took on the fun task of updating a SharePoint 2010 Server to server Pack 1 followed by cumulative updates.  Everything seemed to go well up until running the Configuration wizard which bombs at the end.    Now the CU update documentation says ‘nothing’ about rebooting the machine.   In the update logs there is an […]