SharePoint eMagazine launched

Grab your copy here: http://www.sdn.nl/IW/FreeMagazine/tabid/139/Default.aspx

The first edition is all about SharePoint 2010 and contains the following articles:

• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise – Sjoerd van Lochem
• Customizing the SharePoint Ribbon – Marianne van Wanrooij
• Visual Studio Extensions – Niels Loup
• Working with data in SharePoint Designer 2010- Laura Rogers
• Sandboxed Solutions – Mirjam van Olst
• New ECM features in SharePoint 2010 – Robert van Son
• Creating new visual experiences with Visio Services – Toni Frankola
• A SharePoint User eXperience – Sandra de Ridder
• Introduction to the Business Connectivity Services – Nick Swan
• SharePoint 2010 Client Object Models – Ton Stegeman
• Understanding Identity in SharePoint 2010 – Michiel van Otegem
• Happy Together in 2010! – Dux Raymond
• SharePoint 2010 Chart Web Part – Agnes Molnar
• Enrich your SharePoint 2010 portal by integrating SAP applications –     Cyrille Visser , Johan Kroese and Huub Montanus
• SharePointComic – Dan Lewis

It looks very promising and it should be interesting to follow the magazines to come!

SharePoint Saturday EMEA- online

In case you have missed it – or forgotten all about it, as I had – note there is an online SharePoint Saturday event coming up January 23! Register here.

Cannot publish pages in SharePoint 2010

If you have created your SharePoint 2010 farm manually without running the farm Configuration Wizard, you might encounter this error when you try to publish a page or stating a workflow:

“The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For more information, contact your server administrator.”

The problem is stat the State service is not configured since the Farm Configuration Wizard has not been run. Configure it with PowerShell using these instructions from Technet:

1. On the Taskbar, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Windows PowerShell Modules.
2. In Windows PowerShell, create a service application by typing $serviceApp = New-SPStateServiceApplication -Name “State Service”
3. Create a State Service database and associate it with a service application, by typing New-SPStateServiceDatabase -Name “StateServiceDatabase” -ServiceApplication $serviceApp.
4. Create a State Service Application Proxy and associate it with the service application by typing New-SPStateServiceApplicationProxy -Name “State Service” -ServiceApplication $serviceApp -DefaultProxyGroup.

Once these instructions are run, you have a shiny new State Service Service Application and you should be able to publish pages again. Remember to verify that your web Application is associated with the State Service Service Application.