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When creating my SharePoint 2010 sandbox farm I wasn’t able to get past connecting to the database server.  This is the error I was seeing:
An error has occurred while validating the configuration settings.  An exception of type System.ArgumentNullException was thrown.  Additional exception information: The errorData argument cannot be null or zero length.  Parameter name: errorData
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http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx
not exactly sure what day they will release the bata version.

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The jump from 2003 to 2007 wasn’t that bad. But I have a feeling that people are going to have fun with the new interface in SharePoint 2010, not to mention the changes to SharePoint 4.0 Central Administration. This should be fun!

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SQL database login failed. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.

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(The specified address was excluded from the index. The crawl rules may have to be modified to include this address. (The item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it.)

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For one reason or another, Central Administration wouldn’t come up and the only thing i could see was HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable..
easy fix.
Check the Application Pools for SharePoint Central Administration v3 and make sure it’s running.
done!

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After upgrading to Windows 7, I’m unable to view List’s in Datasheet View.
Error:
The list is displayed in Standard view. It 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, [...]

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This is the connection string I use for all my BDC files.  Once the file is imported into the BDC, I then assign permission accordingly.
<LobSystemInstances>
<LobSystemInstance Name=”BDC_Unique_Name_RI”>
<Properties>
<Property Name=”DatabaseAccessProvider” Type=”System.String”>SqlServer</Property>
<Property Name=”AuthenticationMode” Type=”System.String”>RevertToSelf</Property>
<Property Name=”RdbConnection Data Source” Type=”System.String”>Database_Server_Name</Property>
<Property Name=”RdbConnection Initial Catalog” Type=”System.String”>Database_Name</Property>
<Property Name=”RdbConnection Integrated Security” Type=”System.String”>SSPI</Property>
<Property Name=”RdbConnection Pooling” Type=”System.String”>false</Property>
<Property Name=”RdbConnection Trusted_Connection” Type=”System.String”>false</Property>
<Property Name=”RdbConnection User ID” Type=”System.String”>User_Name</Property>
<Property Name=”RdbConnection Password” Type=”System.String”>User_Password</Property>
</Properties>
</LobSystemInstance>
</LobSystemInstances>
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If your site is missing the Search Web Parts, make sure you have the Feature enabled on your site.
Site Collection Administration–>Site Features
Office SharePoint Server Search Web Parts
Office SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection features

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Changes to the content source cannot be made while it is not idle. Wait for the current action to complete and retry your changes.
If you receive this error make sure you are not crawling anything. Simple, yes, but I spent a few minutes trying to figure out what was going on.

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