Misc

Second day at Teched. Keynote: Windows 8 Lots of different features of the new Windows 8 are shown. Windows 2 GO demo was cool – you can boot an entire Windows from usb 3.0 stick. If you unplug the stick you have 60 seconds to replug it and everything continues to work. First Session: Introducing the New Visual Studio 2012 Unit Testing Experience (Peter Provost) Peter showed some new features of the new Visual Studio – looks great.

When accessing Central Administration with Google Chrome you will get the following: “This webpage is unavailable” with the description: Error 312 (net::ERR_UNSAFE_PORT): Unknown error. In order to fix that edit the Properties of the Chrome link and append the following to the “target” value: –explicitly-allowed-ports=42 where 42 is the port for your Central Administration. You can add more ports if you want, in total it should like this: C:\Users\mmelcher\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –explicitly-allowed-ports=42,84,87 Still dont like it - ports are not unsafe by default - but at least there is an option to allow it.

If you ever had problems running the datasheet view with one of the following reasons: A datasheet component that is compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed. A Microsoft Office 2003 Professional edition is not installed on the computer. The Web browser does not support ActiveX controls. Support for ActiveX controls is disabled. Try installing the old Office components: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7554F536-8C28-4598-9B72-EF94E038C891&displaylang=en