Media Center Status Application version 0.6.1 released

After beta period and excellent feedback from users, final version of 0.6.1 is now released.

New features

• Uses OAuth to authenticate to Facebook and Twitter (meaning that logging in works better, is faster and is future proof)
• Uses Facebook Graph API to communicate with Facebook (also making the application more future proof)

Fixes

• Fixed stream publishing to Facebook when Amazon query was enabled but no hit was found
• Removed unnecessary Amazon link from Facebook stream post
• Publishing media details fetched from Amazon now works again

Download here

SharePoint 2010: Failed to instantiate file “Azure.thmx” when creating new site collection

Problem:
When creating new site collection with Publishing site definition, you get error:

“Failed to instantiate file "Azure.thmx" from module "OOBThemes": Source path "lists\themes\Azure.thmx" not found.

Solution:
Looking at the logs at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS, you see more detailed error message which says:

“Failed to instantiate file "Azure.thmx" from module "OOBThemes": Source path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Template\global\lists\themes\Azure.thmx" not found.”

So, go to the folder mentioned and verify that Azure.thmx exists. In my case looks like someone has been modifying it, and renamed it to Azure.thmx.zip.

I just love these shared development environments.