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"There was a problem retrieving data for this field. Updating values in this field is disabled temporarily. You can still update values in other fields."

Aravind Cheziyan — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:25:27 GMT

While trying to update user profile of a user in SharePoint 2010 I got this error "There was a problem retrieving data for this field. Updating values in this field is disabled temporarily. You can still update values in other fields.".

The SharePoint farm was using cross-farm services. The "Managed Metadata Web Service" was shared between the farms. This issue can be resolved by enabling "This service application is the default storage location for Keywords." option for the " Managed Metadata Web Service Proxy".

Newly created Custom Active Directory Attributes Missing From SharePoint 2010 User Properties

Aravind Cheziyan — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:08:00 GMT

I created few new custom active directory attributes to my User Object. But this newly created attributes were not appearing in my "User Profile Properties" under "User Profile Service Application". I tried to sync up my user profile using both "Start Incremental Synchronization/Start Full Synchronization". But still it didnt appear. So, I did few steps after which the new attributes showed up in my "User Profile Properties". The steps are below:

1) Open "ForeFront Identify Manager". This is located at "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Synchronization Service\UIShell\miisclient.exe"

2) Go to "Management Agents" tab.

3) Select the "Active Directory Domain Services" Type.

4) Then click on the "Refresh Schema" on the right right of the screen.

5) This will prompt you to continue. Click "ok"

6) Then it will prompt for for crendentials of the Administrator. Provide the credentials.

7) Then it will update all the Schema between the Active Directory and SharePoint User Properties.

Prerequisites for creating sharepoint 2010 apps in Visual Studio Console Application

Aravind Cheziyan — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:48:00 GMT

I wanted to test my sharepoint application using console application using VisualStudio 2010. I was able to add the reference to "Microsoft.SharePoint" dll. But while compling the code, the compiler was throwing error. To resolve this issue
make the followinf changes:

1) Select ".Net Framework 3.5" in the New Project Dialog Window while creating a new project.

2) For existing project follow this: Go to the Application tab of project properties and verify that .NET Framework Version 3.5 is select as the Target Framework.

3) Change the configuration manager to "x64". This can be done by: Go to Configuration Manager, Select x64.

4) If x64 is not available select and in the New Solution Platform dialog box select x64 as the new platform copying settings from x86 and checking the Create new project platforms check box.

hope this helps!

How to copy files from a machine in different domain through Task Scheduler in Windows

Aravind Cheziyan — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:13:31 GMT

I had a requirement to copy files(build output files) from my remote build machine to a SharePoint Virtual Machine automatically . These two machines were in two different domains. To get this task done, I created a batch file which will copy the files from build machine to SharePoint Virtual Machine.

The batch file code is simple as shown below :

xcopy \\buildmachine\BuildDrops \\sharepointvm\BuildDrop\Packages /S

But the issue here is I had to provide my credential to access the build machine every time. I was not ready hard code my credentials in the batch file code(since the machine will be accessed by different resources). Then I thought why not use "Credential Manager" which is available in "Control Panel" in Windows Server 2008. Once my credentials are stored here then I need not provide credentials every time the Scheduler Task tries to copy the files from build machine.

The credentials can be stored in the "Credentials Manager" permanently using the below command :

net use \\buildmachine\BuildDrops /savecred

This will prompt for user name and password. On successfully validation the user name will be stored in the "Credentials Manager".