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I’ve been trying to schedule a backup of our WSS site using SharePoint SUSHI and had two different problems:

1) After setting required parameters and clicking “Create Scheduled Backup” in the command prompt I was getting the following error:  ERROR: Invalid starttime value.
Well, actually the format of the date as it was created was wrong. Possibly just because of the regional Options… The server’s regional options where I run SharePoint site is Italian. So, to go around this I just copied the generated SCHTASK command and modified the time value:

Original command was like this:

D:\>SCHTASKS /create /sc DAILY /mo 1 /tn "Catapult SharePoint Autobackup" /tr "C:\SharePoint Utils\sushi.exe -autostart:Catapult_SharePoint_Autobackup" /s \\WSSSERVERNAME /st 01.00 /F /u DOMAIN\UserName ERROR: Invalid starttime value.

I made it look like this in a Notepad:

SCHTASKS /create /sc DAILY /mo 1 /tn "Catapult SharePoint Autobackup" /tr "C:\SharePoint Utils\sushi.exe -autostart:Catapult_SharePoint_Autobackup" /s \\WSSSERVERNAME /st 18:30 /F /u /RU DOMAIN\UserName /RP password

After running this command in a command prompt window the tasks was successfully created. However, there I have encountered another problem to resolve as described in point 2.

2) When I tried to Run the scheduled task the I got the following error:

"Catapult SharePoint Autobackup.job" (SharePoint) 2/4/2010 8:48:00 AM ** ERROR **
    Unable to start task.
    The specific error is:
    0×80070005: Access is denied.
    Try using the Task page Browse button to locate the application.

Searching Internet led me to Microsoft’s KB article related to this error, however in my case the error was due to the ‘space’ character in the folder path: “D:\SharePoint Utils\sushi.exe“. Simply renaming the folder name and modifying the task with correct path resolved this problem.

Hope this information will help someone who has encountered the same problem.

Anyone ever had difficulties with small font size when browsing some web pages (this happens to me especially when I browse TechNet) with Mozilla FireFox and noticed that some parts of text are extremely small like in the bellow image?

This can be easily fixed in FireFox as follows:

1. Select Tools => Options
2. Click on ‘Content’ tab => Advanced

   

3. Now change the minimum font size to a desired value.

   

When you pass to Windows 7 from Windows XP you will notice that the Windows Explorer doesn’t explode by default the folder you’re currently browsing in the left pane.

To bring back this functionality you can do the following:

1. Click ALT button on your keyboard to bring the menu.

   

2. Click Tools => Folder options…

   

3. Enable ‘Show all folders’ and ‘Automatically expand to current folder’.
4. Enjoy!

Recently I have received several calls from our users saying that whenever the try to open a document library in DataSheet view the get the following error message:

" The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed, your browser does not support ActiveX controls, or support for ActiveX controls is disabled. "





All of our office computers have:

- Windows XP SP3

- Microsoft Office 2003 Professional SP3

- Microsoft Office 2007 Compatibility Pack

Poking around on the Web, I found several solutions for folks who were using Office 2003. Here’re the most common solutions I found for Office 2003:

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When you install XP Mode on Windows 7 by default all the virtual machine files are saved under “%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Virtual PC\Virtual Machines\”. The file that has *.vhd extension is a virtual hard disk file. Recently, I had to move the vhd file to another drive and I accomplished it this way:

1) Run Windows XP Mode virtual machine and go to Tools –> Settings

2) Then select Close and in the right side click “Prompt for action”

3) Click OK and close virtual machine. This time when you close it the following window will appear:

4) Select Shut down and click OK. The virtual machine will shutdown.

5) Now, click Start button, enter the following path:“%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Virtual PC\Virtual Machines\” without quotation marks and hit Enter.

6) This will open the folder where the virtual machine file reside. Move the vhd file to desired location by cutting and pasting.

7) Once done moving the file, open the ‘vmc’ file with Notepad, which is a configuration file of the virtual machine. VMC file is an xml formatted file containing configuration of the virtual machine. Find the line that refers to vhd file location. For example “XP Mode.vhd” with the full path in front of it. Modify the path accordingly to point to a new location:

Now you may start the XP mode virtual machine.