Monthly Archives: December 2008

Ho ho ho, make your SharePoint portal snow!

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To make your SharePoint portal snow, add the following line into the <head> section of your master page:

<script src="http://s3.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/snow/snowstorm.js?ver=2" type="text/javascript" />

The unsupported easy way to do this is to simply open default.master located in TEMPLATE\GLOBAL and add it directly in there.

If you don’t want to link directly to the file on wordpress, simply save the .js file somewhere in your layouts folder and reference it like that.

Thanks wordpress for making this available for us to pillage :) That’s the Christmas spirit!

Generate thumbnails automatically in SharePoint

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If you need to insert a thumbnail into your content, use the following url as the image source:

http://servername/_layouts/AssetUploader.aspx?Size=Medium&ImageUrl=/TestSite/Pictures/TechnicalLead.jpg

The ‘Size’ parameter can be set to Small or Medium, and the ‘ImageUrl’ parameter is the location of the image that you wish to generate the thumbnail from. This image must be located within the site collection. If the url to your full size image was http://servername/sitename/listname/filename.jpg, the value to pass here would be /sitename/listname/filename.jpg.

I’ve found this comes in handy when creating announcements with links to screenshots or photos, where you require an image to be dynamically resized to a thumbnail.

Installing CRM 4.0 on Windows Server 2008

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Installation Failure

Installation Failure

While installing CRM 4.0 on Windows Server 2008 I was faced with the following error message during the installation:

“Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.ConfigureAspNetAccountAction failed.”

To resolve this issue, ensure that you select Network Service when asked to configure the service account for the installation.

Here is the full article from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950100