Cannot create InfoPath.ExternalApplication object. Error code = 0×80080005

Issue: Error message when you install an InfoPath 2007 Client Form Template (i.e. a non browser-enabled form) on a Windows Vista or higher computer: “Cannot create InfoPath.ExternalApplication object. Error code = 0×80080005

Resolution: To work around this issue simply:

  1. Oen Windows Task Manager
  2. Stop any InfoPath or Microsoft Outlook process
  3. Restart the installation of the Form Template

How To: Find All ContentByQuery Web Parts for a Farm?

Question: How to find all ContentByQuery web parts for a Farm?

Answer:

  1. Run this command: stsadm -o enumallwebs -includewebparts > D:\Data\enumwebs.txt
  2. Open up the enumwebs.txt file just created, and then search for “ContentByQueryWebPart” and take note of the URLs
  3. Open up IE, then navigate to each URL and add on ?Contents=1 to determine the title of the web part
  4. (Optional) Export the web part if you want to take a closer look

FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 – Get All Results Back

On FAST ESP, there used to be a technique to get back all documents in your index – enter the minus character, followed by a term that wouldn’t be in your index.

For example: -394kidfdkadkfl2k2

This would bring back all documents.

In FAST Search for SharePoint 2010, this does not work.

The trick instead, is to simply enter the hash character ( # ) by itself / without the parenthesis in the search query textbox.

How To Remove InfoPath Branding

Have you ever wanted to remove the annoying “Powered by InfoPath” logo that users see when accessing InfoPath forms in the browser?

The good news is that this is pretty straightforward.  Just follow these simple steps:

  1. Log on to one of the servers in the SharePoint farm (e.g. an App Server)
  2. Run the following command:  stsadm -o setformsserviceproperty -pn AllowBranding -pv false

Enjoy!

How To Delete the SSP on SP2007

On SharePoint 2007 every now and then you may have a need to delete the SSP so that you can then recreate it.

The trouble is that deleting it through the UI isn’t very reliable.  However, it is reasonably straightforward to do so using stsadm, using the following command line syntax:  stsadm -o deletessp -title “[SSP Title]” -force -deletedatabases

For example: stsadm -o deletessp -title “SSP01″ -force -deletedatabases

Copy & Paste Stopped working in your RDP Session?

Many times you might be connected to one of your servers and all of a sudden copy and paste stops working.

It’s quite frustrating because you might have a really long PowerShell command, or script that you need to run on the server – and you’ll be there all day if you need to manually type it in.

The simplest thing to do here is to:

  1. Load up Task Manager in your RDP session (right click on the Taskbar, then select Task Manager), then
  2. On the Processes Tab, find the “rdpclip.exe” process
  3. Right click on it and select End Process
  4. Open up a command prompt, and type rdpclip.exe
  5. Resume using copy and paste 🙂