Creating a shared data source within a SharePoint document library

When using Reporting Services in SharePoint integration mode, reports or shared data sources can be added to any document library.

SharePoint document library

Contrary to what is sometimes believed, there is nothing special to do for enabling the proper handling of those reports or shared data source within a document library. You can just upload a report you have created locally using Business Intelligent Development Studio or Report Builder like you would do with any document: Continue reading

The super user account utilized by the cache is not configured

Have you ever encountered this warning in your event log? The following TechNet article provides all the details why configuring the object cache with dedicated account may be necessary (and in any cases recommended).

The article provides step by step instructions for configuring object cache user accounts for a specific SharePoint Web Application. However, for some reasons, the instructions are provided as a mix of Central Administration manipulations and PowerShell script execution.

I would highly recommend using the PowerShell script provided by Chris O’Brien in the post Set object caching user accounts with PowerShell.

The script works perfectly and lets you configure multiple Web Applications in one go.

Don’t forget to IISReset after running the script.

SharePoint 2010 – Event 7043 – Load control template file TaxonomyPicker.ascx failed

Want to get rid of the following error

Load control template file /_controltemplates/TaxonomyPicker.ascx failed: Could not load type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.TaxonomyPicker' from assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c'.

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Moving to Mercurial

At Enesys, we have recently moved from Subversion to Mercurial for handling source versioning. It’s not that Subversion  suddenly became not good enough to handle this task. However, a distributed control version system (DVCS) like Mercurial includes features that are either welcome additions or can solve some of the shortcomings one may be facing when using a central VCS like Subversion. Continue reading