The Social Enterprise

I'm sure that at one point or another Microsoft and will do what they do best, copy catch up with facebook and bring some of that social goodness to the enterprise through their Sharepoint Collaboration Platform. In the mean-time how about taking a look at some of these abuzzing platforms that are bringing the Social Enterprise to a Corporation near you now.

yammer.com
Chatter
Jive
Cubetree (SuccessFactors)
theFlowr

TFS 2010 Excel Report Dashboards Error: "Unexpected callback response! 400 Bad Request

Recently while migrating some Team Portals to a new Sharepoint Server, I started receiving the following error when accessing the excel report dashboards:

"Unexpected callback response! 400 Bad Request
Bad Request - Request too long"

There is a blog post by Grant Holiday http://blogs.msdn.com/b/granth/archive/2010/08/13/sharepoint-2010-error-http-error-400-the-size-of-the-request-headers-is-too-long.aspx that describes the error.

The original cause for the error is linked from his blog and it is somewhat of a mind stretch to understand. But from a practical point, the error was occurring due to a difference in setup between our old sharepoint server and the new one. The old server was using NTLM and the new one had been configured for kerberos.

TFS 2010 Portal Customization Warning

If you are customizing the SharePoint portal for TFS 2010 here is a small warning/tip.

If you are dealing with the "Work Item Summary" web part beware that if you rename the underlying team query for it.

IE8 will become unresponsive, prompt weird error messages, and your team portal will refuse to load again. A colleague of mine experienced this issue this morning, and we were scratching our heads for a bit before finally arriving at a solution.

the 2010 Batch

I was recently tasked with bringing up a installation of Team Foundation Server 2010 here at work. I believe we have now navigated most of the technical roadblocks and are moving ahead just fine.

When I started this task I expected like any other Microsoft software. TFS would have dependencies with other MS technologies. What I had not realized is how much more dependencies the 2010 batch of technologies has than any other previous incarnation.

Take this as a cautionary tale dear reader. If you are embarking in the adoption of the any 2010 batch of MS technologies, be aware that they work best with one another and not so much across the year barriers.