Ben Walters InfoPath MVP : MOSS

SharePoint Saturday Melbourne! 14th November

Ben Walters — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:45:38 GMT

It’s now officially official, SharePoint Saturday Melbourne is locked in and scheduled for November 14th the site is now live and we are accepting Speaker Submissions so head on over to http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/melbourne and start getting those...(read more)

SharePoint Saturday Sydney Registrations now open

Ben Walters — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:11:16 GMT

Registrations for SharePoint Saturday Sydney are now open, so if you are planning to attend I recommend you head over now and follow the “Click to Attend” link Also don’t forget if you have any session ideas you can also forward them through using the...(read more)

ANNOUNCING SharePoint Saturday Sydney!

Ben Walters — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:01:00 GMT

It’s official SharePoint Saturday will be happening on the 8th of August at the Microsoft office in North Ryde. For those of you who don’t know SharePoint Saturday is the tech community craze that’s been sweeping the U.S. (and more recently the world...(read more)

Get SharePoint host headers working locally in Windows 2008 R2

Ben Walters — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:09:52 GMT

So as we all know by now I recently rebuilt my machine with Windows 2008 R2. My main reason for doing this is so I could have a fully functional SharePoint development environment that runs locally without the need for virtual machines. Plus I now have...(read more)

SharePoint Timer Service issues when upgrading to SP2

Ben Walters — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:35:22 GMT

Last week I had my first official deployment of SharePoint SP2 in the field. While most of the install succeeded with out any issues I did run into a problem while I was attempting to run the configuration wizard. The error I received indicated that the...(read more)

Office SP2 to release next week

Ben Walters — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:11:01 GMT

Officially the second service pack for the Office suite will release next week, and while I’m sure there are a whole swag of features, additions and security improvements that will not be immediately visible to the naked eye. There are a couple of things...(read more)

SharePoint 503 Service Unavailable Error

Ben Walters — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:31:11 GMT

For the last couple of days I’ve been doing some work on a SharePoint event handler which was progressing at a good rate until I started getting a “503 Service unavailable” error after deploying an update. After some searching it turned out that when...(read more)

SharePoint Designer Workflow Gottcha

Ben Walters — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:06:02 GMT

Recently I’ve been working on improving some internal processes at Stargate, one of these processes related to submitting travel requests. I ran into issues however, when I started building the workflow in SharePoint designer. My workflow was pretty simple...(read more)

Setting portal breadcrumb for your MySite host

Ben Walters — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:39:12 GMT

One of the requests I get a lot when setting up a MOSS intranet’s is that the user has a way to link back to the main portal from their MySite, much like the bread crumbs that appear through out the other areas of MOSS Doing this is actually pretty easy...(read more)

SharePoint Server 2007 Anonymous Access Gotcha!

Ben Walters — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:51:13 GMT

Today for the first time I was attempting to create a SharePoint site with Anonymous Access. As I usually do when attempting to trying something new I fired up my MOSSDEMO image and promptly created a new web application. However after following all the steps to the letter in Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 book I was still being prompted for windows credentials when I attempted to access the site.

After attempting the set up 2 or 3 times it dawned on me, "I was using windows authentication to access the WSS_Content database" so when I hit my site SharePoint was passing through the authorisation request hence resulting in a prompt for windows credentials.

After creating a SharePointSvc account on my SQL server and setting up yet another web application my Anonymous access was up and running. Now to get forms authentication going!

[Update:]

Ok so put some egg on my face turns out my issue had noting to do with using a SQL account my problem was that my Network Service account didn't have access to my WSS Content database, added the service account to my SQL server and Bob's my uncle everything worked a treat.