Monthly Archives: November 2010

Managed Metadata Service – The required feature is not enabled for this column type

Posted on November 29, 2010 by

I was recently attempting to add a new managed metadata type site column to an existing SharePoint 2010 site collection but when I tried to select a term set I saw the following error: The required feature is not enabled for … Continue reading →

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Access denied – Microsoft loopback security check

Posted on November 17, 2010 by

I recently experienced an issue with a server which had me scratching my head for a couple of hours.  Fortunately my colleague had previously experienced this issue and promptly directed me to a Microsoft KB which allowed me to resolve … Continue reading →

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The crawl rules may have to be modified to include this address. (0x80040d07)

Posted on November 17, 2010 by

I was recently reminded of a problem I had previously experienced but subsequently forgotten with regard to MOSS content crawling. In this particular instance I was using a custom protocol handler but I believe this issue will apply to the … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 anonymous access

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

To enable anonymous access in SharePoint 2010 the following steps will need to be completed. It may look like there is a lot of steps to follow but it will only take a couple of minutes to complete and is … Continue reading →

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The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service

Posted on November 4, 2010 by

I had an issue on a SharePoint 2007 server recently that wasn’t immediately obvious to me (it may well have been obvious to you however). Whenever searching using the Microsoft Search product the following error would be returned immediately: The … Continue reading →

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Creating new CustomActionGroups for CustomAction items

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

I recently wanted to add some links to the Site Settings page of a SharePoint 2010 server when installing a custom feature.  By default there were seven groups available to choose from where I could place my feature related links, … Continue reading →

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