Velox inpressis: Capacitas quidem ratio Center consiliumque pro SharePoint

I just fired up the capacity planning tool that’s all the rage these days.

Ego vero facile et celeriter ut exemplata a client environment feci praeterita aestate.

Cum quidam trepidationis, Bulla ultima OK ego conabar eam commendari et aliquid quod est simile ad quod bellum dedimus nostri client (we actually threw in a second application server for future excel use). I take that to be a good sign and increases my confidence in the tool.

It seems pretty powerful stuff a much better starting point than a blank page.

I like that lets you get into some good detail about the environment. How many users, how you project they will use the system (publishing, collaboration, etc), branch office and connectivity / network capacity between them and the mama server. Good stuff.

It asks broad based questions and then lets you tweak the details for a pretty granular model of your environment.

I hesitated downloading it because I have so many other things to look at it, read and try to digest. I’m glad I did.

It’s an easy two-step process. Download system center capacity planner and then download the SharePoint models. It runs nicely on Windows XP.

Based on my quick impression, I don’t see how it might account for:

  • Quaerere: Total documents, maybe types of documents, languages.
  • Excel server: how much, if at all?
  • Forms server: how much, if at all?
  • BDC: how much, if at all.

Those may be modeled and I just didn’t see them in the 10 minute review.

I will definitely use it at my next client.

If I were not a consultant and instead working for a real company :), I’d model my current environment and see how the tool’s recommended model matches up against reality. That would be pretty neat. It could lead to some good infrastructure discussion.

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Solutio: System.IO.FileNotFoundException in “SPSite = novum SPSite(url)”

UPDATE: Ego missae hoc ad quaestionem hic MSDN (http://forums.microsoft.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2808543&SiteID=1&mode=1) and Michael Washam of Microsoft responded with a concise answer.

Creavi telam ministerium agere Latitudo autem ante faciem BDC-amica to a SharePoint list. When I used this from my development environment, id operato simila. Cumque proficiscerentur de hoc novum server, Ego hunc errorem inciderunt:

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Textus applicatio ad http://localhost/sandbox non est inventus. Quin ut vos typus recte URL. Si URL debent existentis contentum seruientibus, ratio administrationis necessaria ad addere novum URL petitionem mapping intento applicationem. at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite .. ctor(SPFarm firmam, Uri requestUri, Boolean contextSite, SPUserToken userToken) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite .. ctor(String requestUrl) at Conchango.xyzzy.GetExistingDocument(String minId, String maxId, String titleFilter) in F:\Documenta et luctus Paulus mi documenta Visual Bulla MMV, volutpat xyzzy BDC_DocReview BDC_DocReview DocReviewFacade.asmx.cs:Linea 69

Hic est recta 69:

usura (SPSite = new site SPSite("http://localhost/sandbox"))

Ego conatus diversis varietates in URL, servo usura possidet realis nomen est scriptor, suo loco IP, Rhenus oppugnant in URL, etc. I always got that error.

EGO adsuesco Google to research it. Lots of people face this issue, vel illum variationes, sed non videbatur ita solvi.

Ita dumtaxat ut non MUSCUS Tricksy occurrere feugiat aduersus errorem 12 hive logs. Tandem, de 24 horarum collegam meum, commendatur ut faciam, Ego sedatus ex 12 et invenit hoc log alveare:

Exceptionis probatio, dum occurrit loci conparandi firmam:
System.Security.SecurityException: Rogatur pateat quod non liceat registry.
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowSecurityException(ExceptionResource resource) at
(String nomine, Boolean writable) at
(String nomine) at
() at
() at
(SPFarm& fundum, Boolean& isJoined)
Contio fuit, qui defecerunt in Zonam:  MyComputer

Hoc novum aditus patefactus investigationis, Lorem fuit ad. Qui eduxit me ad hoc forum stipes: http://forums.codecharge.com / posts.php?post_id = (LXVII)CXXXV. That didn’t really help me but it did start making me think there was a database and/or security issue. I soldiered on and Andreas Connell scriptor post finally triggered the thought that I should make sure that the application pool’s identity account had appropriate access to the database. I thought it already did. Autem, collega ingressus dedit app piscinæ propter identitatem plénum aditum ad SQL.

Vt illa mutatio, everything started working.

Quid deinde factum sit, sicut melius dici haiku poem:

Quaestiones manus tollere.
You swing and miss. Try again.
Successu! But how? Cur?

Ut non solum relinquens, minimum praeferentes dare licentiam postulatam (probabiliter et cum oculo ad scribendi a blog ingressu; Delebo eam ferrum, muhahahahaha!).

Successiva illa removentur ab permissiones app piscinæ propter identitatem donee … there was no longer any explicit permission for the app pool identity account at all. The web service continued to work just fine.

We went and rebooted the servers. Everything continued to work fine.

Ita, ut metent: we gave the app pool identity full access and then took it away. The web service started working and never stopped working. Bizarre.

Si quis autem ignorat, quid fecisse, commodo licentia a ineo.

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Solutio (quaedam): Usura Paro prioritatis ex labor SharePoint Designer

Ego sicut hoc negotio missionis:

  • A user oneratorum a tabellae ut documentum bibliotheca.
  • Quæ deligit content type et notitia necessarie ingreditur meta. Unum de agri data est vexillum meta, "Urgent".
  • Hoc saltem a SharePoint Designer quod workflow, inter alia, uses the "Collect Data from a User" Actio.

"Collect Data from a User" Item creat in negotium album approbatione postulantes ut Documentum.

Album opus propter opus fecit mauris instantias probandum.

Solutio: Put the word "URGENT:" into the title of these tasks.

I would have preferred to specify the priority field directly. Autem, Id aliquot de causis potui:

  1. Colligere notitia ad update mechanism actionis est non dat aliquid praeter agri title (et illis insuper agros propter quod vis colligere notitia).
  2. The "assign a to do item" actio habet idem forsit.
  3. Insert suus possit an item in album (i.e. an item in negotium album per se inserunt) but this not a blocking action. That means that the workflow will not wait for the user to complete that task.

Ego paucis ante inceditur (Gratanter) realizing we could just put "urgent" in title.

  1. Workflow committitur super cum novum negotium album, quod se ita rem creatam, quomodocunque Cross References ad tabellae ut coepi primum workflow, pull out the urgent flag value and update priority as needed.
  2. Do something similar with an event receiver. On create of the task, locant adiunctam tabellae priores opus update.
  3. Use the "create list item" action in conjunction with the "wait for field change" action and an event receiver. If we create a list item, we can specify all the fields we want. Use an event receiver to update the original item when the user completes the task and the "wait for field change" action’s condition would be met and the workflow would proceed. (Propter aliquam causam,, Ego plus minusve insedit aditus ante iudicando ad prudenter ambulare a paulisper).

Incommodum est ad solutionem (declinavimus a manifestum facto solus erat titulus indicat textus necessitas). Since "collect feedback" title nomina tantum accipit difficile coded, I need to use two different collect feedback actions whose only difference is that hard coded title.

Sed, ibi suus saltem a solutio quod mos non postulo vicis receptatores vel actiones SPD.

Si quis in hac soluta est a magis ingeniose, placet me cognoscere.

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Dominica Funny: Custodiens filius tuus in digitos

One of the many joys I take in being the parent of a ten year old boy is finding new ways to make him laugh or think a little differently about questions and things in the world. I’ve used these techniques over the years:

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Detorquere Quaestionibus:

Eius: Quo die est?

Pater: Ante unam diem mercurii.

S: No, what day of the month is it?

D: Oh, it’s 4 days after Jan 25.

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Tickle him and tell him you’ll stop when he stops laughing.

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Go down stairs to the TV room and announce, "It’s good to be the daddy." Igitur, pick him up to get the warm spot on the couch and change the channel to something good, like the Scifi channel.

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Read stories out loud. Insert ridiculous sentences in the middle of the story. My favorite is to add "killing him instantly" when the main characters encounters some minor trouble. Verbigratia, "the knife slipped in his hand, cutting his index finger, killing him instantly." Nothing quite gets your son out of a complacent and passive listening mode as the main character being killed instantly.

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Read stories incorrectly. Read sentences backward. The best part of this is that the first couple of times I did this, my son thought he was helping me out by pointing out that I wasn’t reading the words in the right order. The down side is that he really doesn’t want me to read to him any more.

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Go to Burger King for lunch. My son would eat BK morning, night and day if we let him. When going, tell him, "I know you hate going there, but we simply have no choice." When he tries to explain that he loves BK, talk over him and say things like "We don’t have time to argue about it! We’re going and I don’t want to have a discussion!"

(This reminds me of my favorite Borg joke: "Borger King: We do it our way. Your way is irrelevant." hahaha!)

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Open a book to page 9 and say, "hmm, that’s an odd page".

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Fill the world with arch enemies. "We’re going to run quick over toe 7-11, arch-enemy of 11-7".

"Your aunt lives in Ringwood, arch enemy to the town of Squarewood."

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We drive up to Massachusetts from New Jersey several times a year and it often takes about 5 hours door to door. As we arrive home and pull into the driveway say, "oh, I forgot, we need to make a quick dash to Home Depot."

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When watching a violent episode in a TV show (such as Heroes), tell your son, "some times, at work, I need to destroy my enemies by burning them alive using the powers of my mind. I don’t like doing it, but you gotta do what you gotta do."

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When watching bad horror movies (see "It’s good to be the Daddy" above), ascribe improbable motives to the evil character. Puta, tell your son that the reason Jason is so angry is because he wants some cake and they won’t let him have any.

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Explain phone numbers incorrectly. Instead of telling your son to dial "201-111-2222", tell him it’s "2-011-1-12222".

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What tricks do you use?

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Hospes blogging?

It seems fairly common in the political blogging world for a given blog to host a "guest blogger". When I’m in political blog land I must be wearing a different pair of eye glasses because it never occurred to me that "guest blogging" might make sense for a technical blog like mine. That is, until I read this post by Kanwal Khipple over at The Best of SharePoint Buzz- January 2008.

Thinking on it, I believe there could be a lot of people out there in SharePoint land that have the itch to put together an article, short or long, technical or more business oriented, etc, but don’t run their own blog for all the usual reasons. If you’re one of those people, I’d be happy to host it. You can reach me via email or leave a comment. I haven’t thought through any kind of guidelines, but I suppose that I’d want it to be oriented around SharePoint, but I also like to throw in some personal observations about consulting now et igitur. I’m also trying to publish a "Dominica Funny" every week and I’m bound to run out of ideas for that.

If you’re a regular blogger already but would like to experiment with guest blogging, I’m definitely open to that too, either as a host or a guest 🙂

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Solutio BDC ADF Import Failure: “Sequens erroris inciderat:”

Quondam etiam innectis BDC per manum ADF files (iniquitatem meam, ut "salvum me PRATUM!" cred) et ledo hoc laetificum errore:

imaginem

"Application definition import failed. Sequens erroris inciderat:"

Ut potest, illic 'an erroris, sed … quid dicturus est turpis.

In meam, the issue turned out that I had started off with a functional ADF for a different project that connected to a database and executed a SQL query against a view. In this new project, I am calling a method on a web service. I had stripped out the DB specific stuff and added my web service stuff, sed defecit ad update <LobSystem>’s Type attribute. I switched it to "WebService" et ad beate moveri newer et magis excitando momento errores, quae tractanda sunt in ordine suo.

Hic est iniuriam LobSystem:

<LobSystem
xmlns:xsi =http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
xsi:schemaLocation =http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/03/BusinessDataCatalogBDCMetadata.xsd
Type="Database"
Version="1.0.0.0" Name="xyzzy"
xmlns="
http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/03/BusinessDataCatalog">

Hoc est rectam:

<LobSystem
xmlns:xsi =http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
xsi:schemaLocation =http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/03/BusinessDataCatalogBDCMetadata.xsd
Type="WebService"
Version="1.0.0.0" Name="xyzzy"
xmlns="
http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/03/BusinessDataCatalog">

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BDC viable videtur a replacement pro Lookups

UPDATE: Hoc MSDN dispositis habet aliquid interesting animadversiones ex JXJ fundatur eius, maxime negative, Hanc viam experientiae descendentis: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2623565&SiteID=1

We have a business scenario where we need to link two documents libraries via a common "document ID" agrum.

We often use a lookup column to implements links like this. There are several drawbacks to lookup columns, quorum tres sunt,:

  1. Only one column from the lookup lookup library can be linked.
  2. Perficientur: The source library could contain hundreds of entries. That’s too many entries in the lookup.
  3. Quaerere: There is no integrated search. I don’t mean in the MOSS sense of search, Sed nihil est quaerere / spurcamen multipliciter columnas principium tabellae bibliothecam pagina vis collocare.

Subnixum BDC, we can use a "business data" column type and it provides a superior search and even allows multiple columns of data to appear in list views.

Proin praeparant aliqua de re plura scribam cum aditus consilium.

Si youve 'operatus est, et ante hoc angulo quidquam comments, Placere participes!

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Error solutionem BDC Import: “Non oneratis Type describitur per TypeDescriptor TypeName scriptor …”

Ive 'been opus in BDC hodie, coding ADF files by hand and generating myself some errors. One such error:

Applicatio definitio important defecit. Sequens erroris inciderat: Non oneratis Type describitur per TypeDescriptor TypeName scriptor. Nomen modularis: typeName error invenitur vel paulo ante Line: '35’ et Position: ’20’.

MUSCUS praetulit hunc errorem Ego conatus ad important lima ADF pron.

Ego investigentur quam Internets et invenerunt me indiciunt lob, sicut in nómine (ex <LobSystemInstance>) in mea <TypeDescriptor> node cum essem referenced in nomine ipsius lob (ex <LobSystem>).

Iniuriam:

<TypeDescriptor TypeName="Conchango.KeyValue, Instantia nomen lob" Name="KeyValue">

Corripe:

<TypeDescriptor TypeName="Conchango.KeyValue, Lob Name" Name="KeyValue">

Spero hanc unam alteramve horam aliquem salvat tempore.

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