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...
Author: Sameer Surve 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...
Author: Sameer Surve 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,...
Author: Sameer Surve Date: 03/25/2011
Synchronizing SharePoint profiles data from LDS
Background On number of occasions, when using claims authentication, Trusted provider bases its...
Author: Sameer Surve 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...
Author: Sameer Surve 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...
Author: Sameer Surve 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...
Author: Sameer Surve 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...
Author: Sameer Surve 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...
Author: Sameer Surve 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...
Author: Sameer Surve 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...
Author: Sameer Surve 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...
Author: Sameer Surve 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...
Author: Sameer Surve 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”...
Author: Sameer Surve 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...
Author: Sameer Surve Date: 09/09/2008