Just read a very interesting, well written article on Why IT PMOs fails by Ken Hanley. I agreed with him word by word. He has explained reasons that why PMOs fails as companies creates them for all wrong reason and in the end he also state some tips to PMO people for not becoming infamous project Nazis as he called them.
Read it here and enjoy!
I came across this error while I was trying to upload documents in my newly created document library with “Open with Explorer” option.
After doing some Google I figured out that the main reason for this error to come was that “Desktop Experience” feature was not installed on my Win 2008 OS.
Now below are the steps copied from MS site for Installing the Desktop Experience feature
To install Desktop Experience using the Initial Configuration Tasks Wizard
1. In the Customize This Server section, click Add features.
2. Select the Desktop Experience check box, and then click Next.
3. Complete the wizard by clicking Install.
To install Desktop Experience using Server Manager
1. Open Server Manager: click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and click Server Manager.
2. In the Features Summary section, click Add features.
3. Select the Desktop Experience check box, and then click Next.
4. Complete the wizard by clicking Install.
At this point your system requires a restart and after that when you try to use the feature of “Open with Explorer” of document library, it wont give you error.
And if incase after installing Desktop experience feature you still encounter the same error then better check the Web Client service. Enabled it if incase it is disabled. This error will hopefully fly away.
Happy Share pointing
SimpleViewerSimpleViewer is a free, customizable image gallery. It allows you to display your images on any web page in a professional and intuitive way. But What if some one wants to save those images for any reason. There are two methods
This error come in SQL 2005 while working with database email. this microsoft knowledge base can help in removing the error
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186358(SQL.90).aspx
If you have installed fresh instance of SQL 2005, these two error would pop up if you havent configured your database mail or SQL mail accounts.
To remove the error you can first check if Database Stored Procedure are enabled by going into Surface Area Configuration ->Surface Area Configuration for features and enable it by going to SQL Mail and database Mail
Try to start the SQL service again and make sue that agent services are aslo restarted.
Happy Emailing !
You can take backup of your all or selected database and schedule them in SQL Server 2005. This can be done easily by Sql Server Management Studio under Management->Maintenance Plans.
There is a very good article which describes it. Click here for the article/post
Recently i have visited this good site for Project Management in search of earning some PDUs and one page that took my intrests was this one on the site and i think it might help other PMPs to clarify their thoughts regarding PDUs and there categories and sub categories
here you go http://ricoslist.com/?page_id=38
Listening to The PM Podcast™ will give you 30 Free PDUs (Category C PDUs).
Yes you can earn 30 free PDUs just by listening to The Project Management Podcast™. Best of all… it’s free!
This website had many great podcast to offer for free to listen that really help not only increasing knowledge base but also is a source to earn PDU.
Please visit here to listen to one of the podcast and claim PDUs
I came across this error while working on ASP.net 4.0 application on external domain host. By adding following code to your web.config file, the problem should be resolved.
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While populating item in dropdownlist in a formview on page load i got this error
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
This error pops up when master page is used in a page with formview . In .net 4.0 and in visual developer express 2010 there is now two content place holder so its essential that correct content place holder is addressed Here is the code which wil remove the object reference error
Suppose we are finding a dropdown list in a formview to pouplate with some thing so declare one local variable of drop down list
DropDownList ddlSomething = new DropDownList();
now finding content place holder and form view
ContentPlaceHolder ph = (ContentPlaceHolder)this.Master.FindControl(“MainContent”);
FormView fv = (FormView)ph.FindControl(“FormView1″);
finding dropdownlist and adding iten to it
ddlSomething = (DropDownList)fv.FindControl(“ddlSource”);
ddlSomething.Items.Add(“Please select”);
Key is to see the content placeholder’s Id in which the ormview is placed, By addressing it correctly the issue will resolve. this post is also applicable to any version provided the contentplace holder’s name is mentioned correct.
Hope this post would save atleast some time of ppl out there.
