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Project Nazis — The infamous PMO that fails

Nadia A — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:07:23 +0000

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!

“Your client does not support opening list with windows explorer”

Nadia A — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:51:07 +0000

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

Save Images from Simpleviewer

Nadia A — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:02:02 +0000

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

Right click the image and click the option open in new window. This will open the image in new browser window. save the image by right clicking again and you are done

Another option is little complex and needed when the image gallery owner has disabled the feature of saving the images. In that case you need to be little smart. Simpleviewer saves its config in a xml file. You need to point your browser to the link of the gallery and change the last part to gallery.xml. This will open the xml file in your browser and you see the names of the image files in the gallery.xml. Just add images directory /name of image.jpg to the link of the gallery and the image is there for you to save.
Enjoy

An attempt was made to send an email when no email session has been established

Nadia A — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:53:17 +0000

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 a stored procedure could not be found, SQL Mail may not be installed in the instance. (SqlManagerUI) or SQL2005 [264] An attempt was made to send an email when no email session has been established.

Nadia A — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:46:27 +0000

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.

If a stored procedure could not be found, SQL Mail may not be installed in the instance. (SqlManagerUI)

SQL2005 [264] An attempt was made to send an email when no email session has been established.

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 !

How to take backup of all databases and schedule them in SQL Server 2005

Nadia A — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:44:07 +0000

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

PDU Category Caps & Rules for Project Management Professional

Nadia A — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:34:32 +0000

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

The PM Podcast™

Nadia A — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:08:54 +0000

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

Security Exception:The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application’s trust level in the configuration file.

Nadia A — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:49:04 +0000

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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Form View error while finding its controls: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Nadia A — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:09:12 +0000

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.