I got the following critical error :-

Web Controls Critical 7043 Load control template file /_controltemplates/TaxonomyPicker.ascx failed: Could not load type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.TaxonomyPicker’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’.

The fix for this is simple, open the TaxonomyPicker.ascx control which is in the hive under ControlTemplates (the full path is usually C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES) and take a look at the top of this file:-

<%@ Control className="TaxonomyPickerControl" Language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.TaxonomyPicker,Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

Highlighted in this snippet is the , which is the html encoding for a comma (,), by adding an actual comma and a space after it this issue is fixed, so this line should look as below:-

<%@ Control className="TaxonomyPickerControl" Language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.TaxonomyPicker, Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

Thats it fixed, the error is gone, if only all critical errors that appeared were that easy to fix.

I couldn’t work out how to get this PC to boot off USB drive, tried selecting the drive with the boot menu and changing the boot device to the USB drive, with no luck. I stumbled upon this post here, where I found my solution. All I had to do was to change the boot order to make all the USB devices appear at the top of the boot order in the BIOS making the hard drive the last device and it worked a treat. Seems pretty odd you need to this, my thoughts would be this is a bug in the bios.

Anyway Netbook is now running a treat with Windows 7, only had to install the Wireless Driver.

The one thing that I couldn’t find in this interface was the two features I use the most, “Post Draft to Blog” and “Post Draft and Edit Online”. I use these a lot as I blog from multiple PC’s so it’s fairly normal for me to start on one PC and continue on another. Although missing from the ribbons, when you look a bit deeper these features are still there. You can find these options by selecting the “Quick Access Toolbar” in the top left corner (where file used to live), then selecting “Save”.

Since I use these options all the time, by right clicking on the item you can add them to the Quick Access Toolbar so they displayed across the top.

A trap that I found out from Ben Walters presentation at this months MOSSIG meeting was that Microsoft’s recommendation is to use the 32 bit version of Office 2010 even on a 64 bit Operating System, unless the user needs to manipulate large files, which I’m guessing is over 4Gb given that’s the 32 bit memory limit. Another interesting point for this was also that the plug-ins are going to be harder to get in 64 bit which probably a fair point. This little gotcha isn’t very well publicised but I found this line of text “In enterprise environments, the default is to install Office 2010 32-bit on computers that run either 32-bit or 64-bit editions of Windows operating systems. We recommend this option.” which I found within this TechNet article.

Anyway time to uninstall 64 bit and go back to 32 bit.

Luckily the fix here was an easy one, I simply had to alter the “rsreportserver.config” file and make the following change.

From:

<Add Key="SecureConnectionLevel" Value="2"/>

To:

<Add Key="SecureConnectionLevel" Value="0"/>

Which resolved the issue and displayed the page.

There is more detail on this here. This basically means that this will need to be revisited again when it comes time to enable reporting services out to the web via an SSL.

In terms of the actual problem I’m not sure of what the exact cause is here although I suspect it’s related to this issue with MSXML.

For some reason the copy and paste of this last point of this post didn’t come through, thanks Jason for picking this, anyway it’s all updated now.

With the release over the weekend of the RTM of Windows 7 I’ve been doing a wholesale upgrade of all of our PC’s. On my laptop this was easy as I have a DVD drive, but we also have a couple of Netbook / Ultra Mobile PC’s a Fujitsu U1010 Tablet and an Asus EEEPC. What you  need to do this is a USB drive that is 4Gb or greater. Another thing to also note is that some of these USB drives come with a special partition installed by the manufacturer which will not allow the Win 7 partition to boot. In my case I used a San Disk 8Gb Cruzer which come out of the box with a U3 partition on it. I think this same process can be used for Vista installations but I haven’t tested this.

Remove U3 Partition

To remove the U3 Partition you simply have to download this utility, and run it as an Administrator. If you’d like to reinstall the U3 tools after you’ve finished you can download this utility to restore the partition to your flash drive.

Formatting the Flash Drive

1. Plug in the flash drive and let windows detect it.
2. Open a “Command Prompt” as “Administrator” Right Click on the Command prompt and select “Run As Administrator”, now type the following commands into this window.
3. Type “diskpart”
4. Next we need to find the drive number of the usb disk for the next step by entering “list disk”. Each disk will be listed with a number next to it, in my case this was disk 1.
5. The next step is to format the drive, simply substitute your disk number where I use 1. At this point it’s probably time for a coffee as this will take a few minutes.

select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=NTFS
assign
exit

Making the drive bootable

1. Insert the Windows 7 DVD or mount the iso.
2. In the same Command Prompt that was open before change the directory to DVD’s boot directory (“\boot”) which is “bootsect.exe” is located, this is the tool that will be used for the step of this process.
3. Run following command, assuming the “F:” is the usb drive. “bootsect /nt60 f:”

Copy the Contents of DVD to the Flash Drive

1. Select all files on the Windows DVD and copy them over to the USB Key. The easiest way to do this is to use Windows Explorer.

Once you’ve done all the steps above your ready to go. Simply change the bios to boot off the usb device and the Windows 7 install should be ready to roll.

• “DO NOT” to use either full path’s ie “http://mysite/page.aspx” but to instead use a relative path ie “/page.aspx”.
• “DO NOT” ‘%20’ for spaces, just leave spaces ie “/My%20Home%20Page.aspx” should be entered as “My Home Page.aspx”.

Today I found a solution to this here. The solution is to add the following registry key, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OfficeLive” then Office Live will be able to create the necessary DWORD to make sure it isn’t displayed again.

A more detailed description of the problem can be found here.