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Sameer Surve

I have been in the Software Industry for more than 16 years and am currently a senior consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services covering US West Region. After many years of procastination for not writing a blog, here is my attempt at it. My current te

SharePoint 2010 cannot crawl PDF files

Background Environment: Windows 2008 SP2, SharePoint 2010 October CU, SQL Server 2008 SP2 PDF files...

Date: 05/15/2012

How SharePoint 2010 handles multi-valued claims?

Recently ran into an issue with how to handle multi-values coming in via custom claims. For e.g.if...

Date: 01/19/2012

Capturing HTTP traffic on SSL enabled sites

Background On number of occasions there arises a need to capture HTTP traffic. In dev environments,...

Date: 03/25/2011

Synchronizing SharePoint profiles data from LDS

Background On number of occasions, when using claims authentication, Trusted provider bases its...

Date: 01/14/2011

Performing health check if SharePoint is up or running or not on site controlled by SiteMinder

Background Client has Load balancer which needs to perform health checks on port 80 to verify if...

Date: 08/12/2010

Component Services: Launch and Activation Permissions Disabled in Windows 2008 R2

Environment Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2008 Issue On Windows 2008 R2, when one Navigates to Component...

Date: 10/21/2009

'No such host is known' error when configuring SSRS 2008

Environment SQL backend, SSRS server: SQL 2008 SP1 SQL backend is behind the firewall with only...

Date: 06/15/2009

Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies message while connecting to Performance Point Server 2007 Dashboard Designer

Technologies involved Performance Point Server 2007 Performance Point Server 2007 SP2 SQL Server...

Date: 06/02/2009

Search status stuck in "Waiting on Initialization" or "Propagating to query server" messages for a long time

Technologies involved Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SQL Server 2008 Environment WFE...

Date: 03/24/2009

Portofolio - Project Server gateway Error "Authentication data undefined for specified Project Server and current user"

Technologies involved Project Server 2007 (SP1, Infrastructure Update) Portfolio Server 2007...

Date: 02/09/2009

When trying to build an OLAP cube, we kept getting "Your permissions on the server computer do not allow you to administer this analysis server".

Technologies involved Project Server 2007 (SP1, Infrastructure Update) SQL Server 2005 SP2 Issue...

Date: 01/08/2009

Infopath error: "The required version of the Microsoft .NET Framework is not installed on your computer or the InfoPath Primary Interop Assembly (PIA) is not registered"

Issue User get’s a listed below error when opening a new or existing InfoPath form because of an...

Date: 09/26/2008

Enabling SSRS in SharePoint Integrated mode using Kerberos

As with any production environment, the next exercise (after configuring SSRS in SharePoint...

Date: 09/12/2008

“The target location you specified is not supported by the report server” message when configuring SSRS in SharePoint Integrated mode

Client kept getting “The target location you specified is not supported by the report server”...

Date: 09/09/2008

Email enabled document libraries stop receiving emails

We have encountered issues related to email enabled document libraries stop receiving emails. After...

Date: 09/09/2008