SharePoint PerformancePoint Scorecard intermittently not displaying indicator. The following Application Log error generated once a page request is made. [sourcecode] Exception details: System.TypeInitializationException: The type […]
NTLM Authentication failed despite login id and password is correct.
NTLM (NT Lan Manager) is a form of authentication protocol provided by Microsoft [Check NTLM -Wikipedia for details]. Though it is no longer recommended by […]
Basic SEO Implementations and Guides
SEO optimization is rather manually edited on per-post and per-page basis. Nonetheless, below summarizes some of the things that you may want to follow in […]
SharePoint Calendar Connect to Outlook is not working. Events not synchronized
I came across this funny issue when my client is trying to download/synchronize SharePoint calendar events to his MS Outlook. The calendar instance is added […]
Turn on/off/ondemand Developer Dashboard of SharePoint 2010 using Powershell
Honestly, I personally prefer using Powershell than the old traditional Command Prompts. (no offense to those CMD lovers =X ). It will come to this […]
Add SPUser to SPGroup using Powershell
Adding user to SharePoint group manually is a painful process. Not to mention if you have tons of users using your SharePoint site. To make […]
Search Request was unable to connect to the search services
Search return error intermittently. In my case, it’s about 50% chance to get this error message every time when i perform a search in FAST […]
Using Powershell to make MS SQL query
Making SQL query is pretty simple, hope the following give you a quickest way to get sql data without using SQL Management Tool. (Note: Windows […]
FAST Search for SharePoint 2010: Query return “The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service”
This error thrown when you perform search on FAST Search Center. Firstly, make sure you follow the steps from MS here. After setting up the […]
Connection to contentdistributor FQDN:13391 could not be validated. Check your certificates and ssa configuration and make sure that instance of FAST Search Server backend is running.
Congratz! You are at the right place! I encountered this issue when executing the SecureFASTSearchConnect.ps1. I tried the following steps provided by Microsoft HERE and it […]