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I have an SSIS package that imports data from various comma-delimited text files that use quotes as the text delimiter. The package works fine on my local machine, however when I deploy it to the server, the quote delimiter is ignored and all my data contains the quotes around the text. Worse, inte... [More]

I had an issue with creating appointments in Exchange using EWS. The appointment would create fine, the time would be correct, but the Time Zone set would be Monrovia, Rekiyavik (UMT). After much searching on the internet, I finally found this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc5003... [More]

Our SharePoint database server ran out of disk space. In addition to causing the obvious problems, we were also seeing this message in the SharePoint front end server logs: Failure trying to synch web application ddbd3051-0aa4-4db5-8197-e450a718dede, ContentDB 7393dd21-a0fe-42f6-8d6b-b87c8ce31496&#... [More]

Had one user of our SharePoint intranet unable to access the Edit Page (or indeed any other Ribbon toolbar buttons). The button was there and available but clicking it had no effect. Turns out there is an issue with DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 add-on for IE because it interferes with JSON call-backs... [More]

In InfoPath 2007, I created several forms that load the user’s contact details into fields using the getuserprofilebyname service. When we upgraded to SharePoint 2010 the forms still worked, but the user details were being changed every time the form loaded. Turns out that the “Refresh value when ... [More]