Canadian SharePoint 2010 Journey Contest (Via Noorez Khamis)

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“If you are a resident of Canada or represent an organization doing business in Canada, you’re invited to share your unique story on SharePoint 2010 to win the chance of being professionally filmed and showcased on the Canadian site for Microsoft SharePoint.

Winners also get a complimentary conference pass to attend the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, California from October 3-6 2011 (a $1,199 value.)

1st prize	Your story professional filmed, plus a pass to the Microsoft SharePoint conference 2011
2nd prize	One pass to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011

Contest Categories

Your story must demonstrate how SharePoint 2010 was used in one of the following 3 categories:”

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SharePoint 2010: Search Service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component (Via Nick Kellett)

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“Had a strange Search error in a new SharePoint 2010 farm:

The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component 'bae8d161-c132-4570-aa0d-57baf6cf9d9b' in search application 'Search Service Application 1' is in a good state and try again."

I was unable to start any crawls as a result.”

For complete article, visit Nick’s blog here.

Bug With SharePoint 2010 XSLT DateFormatFunction(VIA estruyf)

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“Yesterday I found out that there is a problem/bug using the XSLT ddwrt:DateFormat function. The problem/bug occurs when the regional settings is not set to English (United States).

When a day got the value between 1 and 12, the ddwrt:DateFormat function will recognize this as the month. The month value will be used as the day.

So if the day value is less than 13, you get the following problem:

US Date Format	ddwrt:DateFormatTime(date, 1043, ‘dd-MMMM-yyyy’)
8/6/2011	8-June-2011
2/3/2011	2-March-2011

When the day value is larger than 13, you get the correct formatting:

So if the day value is less than 13, you get the following problem:

US Date Format	ddwrt:DateFormatTime(date, 1043, ‘dd-MMMM-yyyy’)
8/19/2011	19-August-2011
2/30/2011	30-February-2011

I did not notice it in the beginning, because my settings are always set to English (United States) on my development server. When I implemented the XSLT stylesheet on a different environment, where the regional settings were set to Dutch (Belgium), some of dates were incorrectly formatted. ”

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