SharePoint - Setup, Upgrade, Administration and Operation Forum

Configuring Incoming/Outgoing Mail in Sharepoint via Ipswitch Mail Server 8.10

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:06:35 Z

I'm currently running a sharepoint server in a development lab and am having problems getting my email server (Ipswitch Mail Server 8.10) to relay the alerts. I'm told it can do this but I've had no luck. I've enabled SMTP, tried to follow technet postings, yet I'm no closer.

I've tried the following posts:

1) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc561011.aspx

2) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/322023

3) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288949.aspx

What it's come down to is that I can't get the virtual smtp server started to relay "any" mail because it says port 25 is already in use (Ipswitch Mail Server). If I move the mail to another server and configure the microsoft SMTP client to use 25, am I supposed to forward from port 25 (SMTP connector) to another box running my mail server to make way for SMTP to use port 25?

Jay

WSS 3.0 SP2 Breaks Exchange 2010

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:34:47 Z

Hello!

I have a freshly installed Server 2008 R2, with Exchange 2010, OWA, SSL working great. Access is at https://www.domain.com/owa.

I attempted to install WSS, and successfully did so and setup to http://www.domain.com, as I intend to run it publicly.

My issue, is that OWA/Activesync stopped working completely, while sharepoint ran flawlessly.

I don't even know where to begin, any help is appreciated.

Can't map sharepoint in explorer (map network drive)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:02:19 Z

Hi , i've finished installing sharepoint 2007 enterprise on a windows server 2003.

Next to this, I would like to map a network drive , more specific a URL.
But when using the explorer, using map network drive, or using the wizard to connect with http: sites, it doesn't work.
The you entered doesn't appear to be valid

My sharepoint is simply installed at http://localhost/sites/ddc

When I want to connect to another sharepoint site, which i have also done from my local desktop succesfully, the same issue happens.

Is there a specific service/setting in windows server 2003 or sharepoint which is required to enable this?

Business Intelligence professional

Access Denied for "User Profiles And Properties" under Shared Services Administration

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:28:04 Z

Hi All,

When I am trying to access the "User profiles and properties" under the main Shared Services Administration > SharedServices1, I get the "Access Denied" error. What group should I be a member of?

My account has full control under the policy of web application associated with Shared Services web application.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!!

Remove Sites In Category but make sure to keep the Site in SharePoint/MOSS

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:10:03 Z

Hello,

It looks like when I created Sites In Category that the sites are reflected in all other sites. I just want the one site that belongs to that Category to be visible. This has become very confusing to the end users.

Also, is there a way to make the top Category go to the main Site for that Category or have a Site under the Category go straight to the Site? The way it works now is I click on one of the sites below the Category that opens a page with the link for that Site.

Products --------> CATEGORY
Documentation
Graphic Design
Product Design
Programming
Research
Quality Assurance

Thx,

DMC2

Best Practices Analyzer Error Concerning Central Site Admin & Timer Service Accounts...

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:35:09 Z

I'm running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a simple single-server installation on a Windows Server 2003 Std operating system. My Microsoft Updates are current, including the WSS 3.0 SP1 (KB936988) and an update for the Windows Internal Database (KB921896).

The Windows SharePoint Services Administration service's Properties --> Logon tab shows the "Local System Account" in use there. The same tab for the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service shows it to be using the "NT Authority\NetworkService" account. The server's desktop logon is a domain user account with local administrator authority specific to that server.

An execution of the "Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" produces one (1) error of severity level 1 that states --

"The same account that you use to run SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration must be configured as the SharePoint Timer Service. ... If the account that you are using to run SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration is the correct account, you can log on to the Web server where the SharePoint Timer Service [is?] running as the wrong account."

There is an STSADM command to change the user account for the Timer Service further down in the BPA's explanation. However, I see from another user's loosely similar situation ( http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30290687/whos-running-the-central.aspx ), that he had trouble reconnecting to other services afterwards. The Network Service account has an automatically generated password and the local System account has none if I am not mistaken.

The confusing grammar of the BPA aside, how can I tell which user account logon needs to be used with these services? Being new to WSS, why am I syncing the user account logons of these two services with STSADM instead of at the logon tab properties of the services themselves? I'm concerned about executing this command without being sure how to fall back with it.

I would appreciate any clarification and/or insight into this error and its correction you could share. Thanks.

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FULL ERROR MESSAGE TEXT

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Title: The SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration Web application account and the Windows SharePoint Services Timer Service account must be the same
Severity: 1
Description:
The same account that you use to run SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration must be configured as the SharePoint Timer Service. If they are not the same, the system may not be able to send Alert Notifications and you will not be able to add a content database to a web application using the Manage Content Databases page. Although there are built in mechanisms to keep these accounts synchronized, it is possible to manually change the SharePoint Timer Service account. If the account that you are using to run SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration is the correct account, you can log on to the Web server where the SharePoint Timer Service running as the wrong account. From a command prompt change to the directory where the SharePoint Timer Service is running, this is typically C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN, and run the command: stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -identitytype configurableid -userlogin domain\account -password password. Although you could directly update the SharePoint Time Server account by opening Administrative Tools, Component Services, you should use this approach only as a last resort. To avoid inconsistencies between the configuration database settings and what the accounts for the services, changes to SharePoint service accounts must be completed through SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.

Configure intranet domain service name

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:25:21 Z

I just created a web application for intranet.

Our current configuration is the internet and intranet site are both on the same MOSS 07 server. The internet url is www.mycomany.com

Currently the intranet is httP://sharepoint:2010

What steps do I need to do in central admin and iis now in order for the URL be www.intranet.mycompany.com (not sure if need the www.)

Thanks

Unable to Open USERDISP.aspx

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:33:28 Z

Hi All ,

I try to log into pahe "_layouts/userdisp.aspx" i am getting page cannot be displayed error , can anyone suggest me how to go about the same .

Thanks
Srujan.N

srujan

How do you remove the name of the person who writes an announcement when the announcement list is added to a web part page?

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:10:39 Z

Hi,

How do you remove the name of the person who writes an announcement when the announcement list is added to a web part page?

Thanks

New Users Getting 403 Forbidden Error

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:20:13 Z

Hello,

We have a Sharepoint 2007 server that has been active for almost 2 years. There are multiple sites on it. One of the sites - APP - has six subsites. Permissions are set via the three standard groups - Visitors, Members and Owners. Any users in one of those group now can access the top level site (http://server/APP). If I add a new user to any of those groups, when they try to access the main page (APP/default.aspx) they get the 403 FORBIDDEN error. However, if they try to access one of the subsites directly (APP/Site1/default.aspx) they have no problem and get into the site.

Help?
Thanks,
Des

Login required when redirecting

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:50:22 Z

Hello,

I've setup a DNS record to point to our SharePoint server and created a GPO to set this as the default home page. When users access this page when logged in to the domain they are prompted to authenticate. This also happens when opening any document that the enduser has access rights to. But when I change this to the server name in the URL they are not prompted to authenticate. How do I fix this as I would like everyone to use the http://Portal.xxxx.com URL.

Thx,

DMC2

MOSS 2007 + Server 2008 R2 + Sql Server 2008:Blank Page

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:20:59 Z

I have just completed a MOSS 2007 SP1 install on my Server 2008 R2 System. Everything seemed to install correctly. When I go to the System Center Admin Page it gave me an HTTP 500 Cannot display Webpage. So I turned of the IE8 Setting for friendly error messages. The page now returns just a blank White Page.

Anybody know where to go from here? I am a novice and I know enough about Sharepoint and IIs to be dangerous

Thanks

Application synchronization failed for "Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchService"

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:51:05 Z

Hi everyone,

A domain controller have been recently demoted and then promoted for a new domain. On this server, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 was installed Sharepoint. I've created the three missing groups: WSS_ Admin_WPG, WSS_RESTRICTED_WPG, WSS_WPG.

I've also followed these instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/934838 and thanks to this link: http://blog.tylerholmes.com/2008/03/restoring-shared-service-provider-admin.html, I was able to restore the SSP.

Everything seems to work better but i'm getting this error in the Event Viewer:

Event ID:6483:

"Application synchronization failed for Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchService.

Reason: Column already has a DEFAULT bound to it.

Could not create constraint. See previous errors.

Techinal Support Details:

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Column already has a DEFAULT bound to it.

Could not create constraint. See previous errors.

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteNonQueryTds(String methodName, Boolean async)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(DbAsyncResult result, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()

at Microsoft.Office.Server.Data.SqlSession.ExecuteScript(TextReader textReader, Int32 commandTimeout)

at Microsoft.Office.Server.Data.SqlSession.ExecuteScript(String path, Int32 commandTimeout)

at Microsoft.Office.Server.Data.SqlSession.ExecuteScript(String path)

at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchSharedApplication.InstallSearchSchema()

at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchSharedApplication.Install()

at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchSharedApplication.Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ISqlRestore.OnSqlRestore()

at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SharedResourceProvider.SynchronizeApplications(SharedComponentSecurity sharedApplicationSecurity)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. "

And when I try to start the "Windows SharePoint Services Administrations" service, a warning is displayed: "The Window SharePoint Services Administration service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do ..." . And we have then an error in the event viewer: Event ID 0 Source: SPAdmin.

"Service cannot be started. System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The specified local group does not exist

at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation.Win32.SPNetApi32.NetLocalGroupGetMembers(String groupName)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationService.SPAdministrationService.RegisterSPAdministrationOperation()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationService.SPAdministrationService.OnStart(String[] args)

at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.ServiceQueuedMainCallback(Object state)"

Does someone have an idea about these errors ?

Thanks,

Office documents does not open in from the sharepoint site with forms based authentication

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:38:05 Z

Scenario: The client machine is using Windows XP. Office 2007 is installed. The internet facing sharepoint site is running. In that site we have document and report library. There are .doc,.docx,.xls,.xlsx documents saved in these libraries. Forms based authentication is implemented on this site and we are using IE6 . The site is secure and the SSl is enabled. when I take the cursor on any of the files I can see the drop down arrow. I expand this arrow and see the option :"Edit in Microsoft office excel". When I click on it I receive the following message box:
===================================================
Some files can harm your computer. If the file information looks suspicious or you do not fully trust the source, do not open the file.
You are opening the following file:
File name: filename.xlsx
From:sites.domain.com
"OK" "Cancel"
===================================================
when i click OK the excel program opens. and I received the following message:
******************************************************
Contacting the server for information
Cancel
******************************************************
after some time I get the following message:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Mocrosoft Office excel cannot access the file 'https://sites.domain.com/sites/demo/replib/filename.xlsx'. there are several possible reasons:

The file name or path does not exist
the file is being used by another program.
the workbook you are trying to save has the same name as a currently open workbook.

OK+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

please advice, whats the cause of the problem and how i can resolve it?

I have the site which uses windows based authentication. If i follows the same procedure as above the .xlsx opens fine.

Is forms based authentication a problem?

also please note, the user has the enough permissions to open this .xlsx

please advice.
regards,
D SHAH

Create Site Collection - Items in lists or libraries say modified by system account

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:50:50 Z

I have recently installed MOSS 2007 SP2 and created a 2 server farm. Both the SQL Server(2008) and web server machines are Windows 2008 machines. I did the install and configuration all using a farm account(SPFarm) which is a domain account and also an admin of the web server machine. This farm account also is used for the web application pool for the central admin IIS web site, the ssp admin IIS Site, and the web application for the site collections and sites I am creating in SharePoint.

After configuring, I added my personal domain account to the Farm Administrators group using Central Admin. This account is also an admin of both the web server and SQL Server machines.

When I log in to the Central Admin site using my personal domain account and create a new site collection(for example a Report Center), making myself the primary site collection administrator, it creates the site collection just fine. When I then navigate to the top level site of the site collection, select View All Site Content and then look at any of the items in the lists and libraries that have been created, they all say created by "system account". When I look at the system account is says that it is created by my personal domain account with a timestamp of the time I created the site collection.

I would have expected all the items in the lists and libraries to say modified by my personal domain account. When I then add or modify any of the items in the the lists or libraries, they then show up as being modified by my personal domain account.

Is this behavior normal or do I have something setup wrong?

Thanks!
Nick

How to upgrade in the newly production server

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:56:49 Z

Hai,
Can anyone help to tell solution to my problem

I have 4 production server ,now my client wants to add one more production server ie total 5 server.
so how can i add all features in the 5 production server.

plz help me

Content Query web part problems

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:25:36 Z

Hello,

I have been having some problems with the content query web part and I am hoping that some of you may have some ideas on what to try. So far I have run into the following three problems.

1. First off, trying to filter by scheduling start date and scheduling end date doesn't work at all. If you set that filter then it simply returns nothing. This has been mentioned before in articles such as this one http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/01c8b5d0-e820-4676-ab5c-63e0cddd117f/ . In other articles that I have read that a common work around for this is to filter on 'Approval Status' since item scheduling will automatically place an article into the approved status on the scheduling start date, and will place it back into draft on the scheduling end date. (I really do not understand why it was done that way)

2. Filtering by 'Approval Status' appears to work, but it really doesn't work completely. If you can contribute to the site/list (where the news article resides) then filtering works fine; however, if you filter by 'Approval Status', and someone with 'Read' only permission goes to the site where the CQWP is, then they can see articles that are in draft or pending status. This means they see all of the old articles since the brilliant method of item scheduling is to automatically set the approval status to approve/draft on the schedule. I think the problem here is that people with Read access do not have permission to view the 'Approval Status' column, but they do have permssion to read all of the list items and the CQWP does not handle this.

3. My last thought was to try and filter based on Article Date greater than [Today-30]. However, date fields do not allow volatile functions in the CQWP settings so that doesn't work either.

One thing I would like to know is if any of you have the same problems as #2? This is one that I have not seen a solution to, probably because most people don't think to sign in with a user that has 'Read' only permission to see what happens. Also, our SharePoint system is on service pack 2, so the issues have not yet been resolved in any of the current service packs.

As mentioned in the article linked above it is obvious that others are having the same problem as #1. Work arounds involve exporting, modifying and reimporting the CQWP to get some kind of descent use out of the web part. Anyone else frustrated?

-Eric

Deploying site with Content > 30 GB

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:48:38 Z

Hi,
we have a site with the content size > 30 GB (in dev due to migration). what should be the preferred approach to deploy it to production.

1) Backup/Restore
2) using STP and then importing data back in prod using Some content migrator tool (say content migrator tool from codeplex) ?

Thanks
Amit

Data different between Authenticated and Anonymous Users

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:49:20 Z

Hello -

I have something strange going on with my sharepoint portal that I have not been able to figure out.

My portal is set up to allow Anonymous access to users outside of my domain so they can browse the portal sites.

However, the Anonymous users do not see the same data as those that authenticated users see.

The Anonymous users don't see all records say for example in a list, but when signed in and authenticated all records in the list will show up.

Has anyone experienced this? I'm not sure what is causing this or how to resolve this. I checked all permissions, and I did a stsadm.exe -o sync to see if that might resolve the issue. I'm stuck at a dead end. I do have some custom workflows that work against the list, some of these workflows show up for Anonymous users while others don't.

I would appreciate any guidance on this if possible.

Thank you,

v/r

JES

FBA not rediecting to default page and no message

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:13:56 Z

Hi frns
I have configures FBA for one of my sharepoint sites and everything is set correctly and when I am opening a page its showing the login page
but here comes the probem
I gave user as UserName as phani and passwors as phani@123
but its not redirecting me to default page.
I configured user phani as site collection administrator from central administrator.

Please do the needful.

How to create variation site on existing sharepoint site

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:16:01 Z

How to create variation site on existing sharepoint site?

Event ID 5783: Synchronization for SSP has failed

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:34:04 Z

I'm getting the warning message below on one of my application servers that's in a MOSS farm. The farm consists of 2 WFE's, 4 app servers, and a SQL 2005 instance. I'm new to this warning, and need some help! It is recurring every 3-4 minutes. I couldn't find anything on the web regarding this one. Does anyone have any suggestions? Everything else appears to be functioning fine in the farm from what I can tell.

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category: Office Server Shared Services
Event ID: 5783
Date:  12/20/2007
Time:  2:07:15 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: CO-SPSAPP04
Description:
Synchronization for Shared Services Provider 'SharedServices' has failed. The operation will be retried.

Reason: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.

Technical Support Details:
System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.
   at System.Collections.Hashtable.HashtableEnumerator.MoveNext()
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SharedResourceProvider.SynchronizeConfigurationDatabaseAccess(SharedComponentSecurity security)
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SharedResourceProvider.SynchronizeAccessControl(SharedComponentSecurity sharedApplicationSecurity)
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SharedResourceProvider.Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ISharedComponent.Synchronize()
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SharedResourceProviderJob.Execute(Guid targetInstanceId)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Best practices for installing Standalone Sharepoint server with AD Integration?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:28:45 Z

Hi,

I have tried to Install MOSS 2007 on a windows 2003 server running SQL Server 2005 and I have failed everytime to get the active directory integration working correctly, either the server fails to recognise any account in the domain or the people picker does not work.

I would like to ask anyone who can help how to setup each of the accounts that sharepoint asks for so that I can rule out my setup.

My setup is as follows.

Windows 2003 Server running SQL Server 2005 + all pre req's

We have a an AD Forest that encompasses 6 domains (I hope my terminology is correct). I wish for my sharepoint server to be able to use accounts from any of these domains.

1) The first account I am asked for on install is the Database Access Account , I have read the following and I would like to know if it is correct?

Important: This account is the Office SharePoint Server 2007 service account under which several Office SharePoint Server 2007 services run. The user account that you specify as the Office SharePoint Server 2007 service account must be a domain user account, but it does not need to be a member of any specific security group on your front-end servers or your back-end database servers. However, the user account that you specify must be a member of the following two SQL Server security roles on your back-end database servers: Database Creator and Security Administrator. It is recommended that you follow the principle of least privilege and specify a user account that is not a member of the Administrators group as your Office SharePoint Server 2007 service account.

Is the above correct and if so does the domain account have to be in any specific domain?

Many thanks

Steve

Can not edit discussion board item when Office SharePoint Server Publishing is active

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:44:13 Z

We use MOSS 2007 on a Windows Server 2003 64-bit machine. When I go to an existing Discussion Board and choose Edit Item from de dropdown menu I get an unexpected error. If I turn off cutomErrors and in the web.config I get the following execption information below.

I found the following threat: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/68c52fd4-cea4-4712-8af6-db60eedca71e which looks a bit similar to our problem, but we did not install hotfix 941274.

I discoverd that this problem only occurs whe the Office SharePoint Server Publishing feature is active.

Greetings,
Ben

Exeption details:

Value does not fall within the expected range.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:


[ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range.]

   Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItemCollection.GetItemById(Int32 id) +217

   Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CachedListItem.FetchAllFields() +1797

   Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CachedListItem.GetFieldContents(String index, Boolean refetchIfFieldNotFound) +155

   Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CachedListItem.get_Item(String index) +54

   Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ConsoleContext.get_CurrentItemCheckoutOwnerId() +297

   Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ConsoleDataSource.retrieveItemVersion() +208

   Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ConsoleDataSource.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +93

   Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.XmlConsoleDataSource.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +265

   Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ConsoleDataSource.ForceInitLoad(EventArgs e) +84

   Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.PublishingSiteActionsMenuCustomizer.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +379

   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +66

   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +191

   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +191

   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +191

   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +191

   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +191

   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +191

   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +191

   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +2428

Bug in OOTB SharePoint Calendar

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:25:43 Z

when too many items are added in the same day/week you can't display in the Calendar View.

Ex: by default, 2 more items to see (collapsed). When clicking on “2 more items”, only one appears and 1 is still collapsed. But if we keep on clicking on “1 more item”, nothing happens and the last item isn’t displayed.

"Cannot complete this action. Please try again." after February Cumulative Update

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:04:53 Z

Has anyone had any problems with the February cumulative update (uber)?

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/03/09/uber-packages-of-february-cumulative-update-are-ready.aspx

We have installed the WSS and MOSS updates on a couple of our dev servers. The install seemed to be clean. We then ran psconfig without error.

With some regression testing we find that most things are fine (I haven't actually tested the "fixes" yet), but custom pages that we have deployed in the "_layouts" folder are getting an error:

"Cannot complete this action. Please try again."

This is accompanied in the log with:

"ERROR: Failed to OpenThreadToken, LastError=1008
ERROR: Failed to OpenThreadToken, LastError=1008"

I can create a very simple new page that seems to work. But ones that make reference to the masterpage - don't.

I found references to trying <identity impersonate="true" /> within web config, but this hasn't worked.

New Connection in SSP wiht FBA

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:08:30 Z

Hi
In SSP "User Prifile na properties" I have to create new connection to SQL DB on which I have my FBA users.
As a type of conection I can see only "AD", "LDAP", "BDC" and "AD Resource". No DB or something.
Does any one know how to do it?

"Cannot complete this action. Please try again." after WSS and MOSS Update

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:06:31 Z

Ravindra R Software Engineer OSI Consulting Email:rranabothu@osius.com

Audience and FBA

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:43:25 Z

Hi
I have to configure Audience for web with FBA. I configured SSP corectly and it's working with user from FBA, but I have problem with Audience.
When I go to SSP -> Audience -> Create audience
First step goes correctly, but problem starts in step two.
I need to define rule: User memeber of group. When I type group i create in sharepoint, peoplepicker don't recognize it. It also not recognize when I type role from FBA. (but if I tried rule: user reports under user, and as user I type user from FBA it's recognized).
What could be the problem?

Deploying farm level Features using stsadm

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:48:33 Z

how to deploy farm level features using STSADM

Import User Profile from another MOSS Site

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:37:11 Z

Hi All,

We already have a MOSS site in our organization (say Site A) that has user profiles imported. We are now about to create Site B.

Is there an option in MOSS to make our User Profiles in Site B to point Site A's data? We want to reduce data redundancy etc.

HTH, Krishnan

Failed to initialize some site properties for Web at Url. Operation aborted (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004004 (E_ABORT).

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:06:05 Z

Hi,

This happens sometimes when users are creating new site in Site Directory. Site creation is done by a custom webpart code. This web part saves site information in SharePoint list, Project Server, SQL. But when this error occurs, nothing is created, event viewer has this error. But it does not happen every time, the same users can get lucky in creating the site next time.

Event log message was: 'Failed to initialize some site properties for Web at Url: 'http://portal/SiteDirectory/Site''. Exception was: 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Operation aborted (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004004 (E_ABORT)) ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004004): Operation aborted (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004004 (E_ABORT))

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.SetWebProps(String bstrUrl, String bstrTitle, String bstrDescription, UInt32 nLocale, UInt16 nTimeZone, Boolean bTime24, Int16 nCalendarType, Int16 nAdjustHijriDays, Int16 nAltCalendarType, Boolean bShowWeeks, Int16 nFirstWeekOfYear, Int16 nFirstDayOfWeek, Int16 nWorkDays, Int16 nWorkDayStartHour, Int16 nWorkDayEndHour, Int32 lFlags, Int16 nCollation, UInt32 nAuthor, String bstrCustomizedCssFileList, String bstrAlternateCssUrl, String bstrAlternateHeaderUrl, String bstrMasterUrl, String bstrCustomMasterUrl, String bstrSiteLogoUrl, String bstrSiteLogoDescription, Boolean bUpdateTimeCreated, DateTime dtTimeCreated, Boolean bUpdateTimeLastModified, DateTime dtTimeLastModified, UInt32& nCollationLCID)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.SetWebProps(String bstrUrl, String bstrTitle, String bstrDescription, UInt32 nLocale, UInt16 nTimeZone, Boolean bTime24, Int16 nCalendarType, Int16 nAdjustHijriDays, Int16 nAltCalendarType, Boolean bShowWeeks, Int16 nFirstWeekOfYear, Int16 nFirstDayOfWeek, Int16 nWorkDays, Int16 nWorkDayStartHour, Int16 nWorkDayEndHour, Int32 lFlags, Int16 nCollation, UInt32 nAuthor, String bstrCustomizedCssFileList, String bstrAlternateCssUrl, String bstrAlternateHeaderUrl, String bstrMasterUrl, String bstrCustomMasterUrl, String bstrSiteLogoUrl, String bstrSiteLogoDescription, Boolean bUpdateTimeCreated, DateTime dtTimeCreated, Boolean bUpdateTimeLastModified, DateTime dtTimeLastModified, UInt32& nCollationLCID)

--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.Update()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.Update()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.AreaProvisioner.InitializePublishingWebDefaults()'

Regards, R.D.M.

Different languages on controls on different variation site

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:54:49 Z

I have three variation site in English, German and Arabic. The German and Arabic sites are having menu and web parts in English because English is my "Source" variation site. So is there any way to have the complete variation site in its own language?

Icons missing

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:52:58 Z

Hello,

I have noticed that when I go to a settings page that several of the lower icons are missing and showing a red X. This happens on several areas. How can I fix this?

Thx,

DMC2

What is Configuration Database in MOSS 2007

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:53:33 Z

Hi Experts,

I want to know something about data base in sharepoint. What database moss uses? Can we add external database to our MOSS server if yes then how?
Let say I create an application, whare is the database of the application?
I have lot of queries about this.

Please make me clear about this topic.

What is the size of a document library I mean how much data a sharepoint library does hold?
How many document library can be created in sharepoint, Is there any limit of Sharepoint site to hold how much data?
What is Quata Template in sharepoint site?

Thanks

Ram Sharma

MOSS 2007 Trial Installation failure

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:29:27 Z

I've been trying to get a clean install of MOSS 2007 trial to play with for a document management project for the last several days and have yet to complete a successful installation. I have a Win2k8 Standard SP2 server that has a few roles assigned to it already (Backup DC, Backup DNS, File Services, Print Services, WSUS, and IIS) and have a seperate SQL 2008 server. I choose the "Complete" install option and everything seems to go just fine until the very end, when the text below the progress bar says that it is in the process of "Applying Updates." At that point it fails with the following message:

Description:
  Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial setup did not complete successfully. We are sorry for the inconvenience. 
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name: Office12Setup
  Problem Signature 01: {10120000-1F00-0000-0000--0000000FF1CE}
  Problem Signature 02: 12.0.4518.1014
  Problem Signature 03: X
  Problem Signature 04: CommandFailed
  Problem Signature 05: Lhpsrv\lpsrvwfe.xml
  Problem Signature 06: X
  Problem Signature 07: X
  OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.272.7
  Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
  LCID: 1033
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Even with this error message MOSS 2007 Trial does show up in the "Programs and Features", so I try to run the Configuration Wizard, which subsequently says that it I need run a repair on the installation. When I run a repair on it this process does successfully complete. After running the repair the Configuration Wizard gives me the following error:

An exception of type
Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfigurationTaskException was thrown.
Additional exception information:
A failure occurred when accessing the registry entry SetupType located at registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\WSS.
Repair this product by selecting it from the Add/Remove Programs menu.

I appear to be caught in a vicious loop. Furthermore, uninstalling MOSS 2007 Trial fails quietly and I'm forced to remove it manually each time.

SharePoint and WSS - importing and exporting sites

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:37:27 Z

I have a few questions, starting with importing and exporting sites. I tried to export a site from our production server and then I was going to import it to our development server. When I exported the site, it was only 3k. Why so small? The site I chose, I'm sure, has a few MB of data. What is exported when I run the stsadm o export command? I was hoping to get the site structure and its data so I can import it to a specific location on our development server. Is that possible? I went ahead and tried to import it and got the following error though:

Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '1178817357.0.2868.0' or later.

Which led our admin person to research it for me and ask the following question. Why do you have MOSS 2007 and WSS installed on the development server, but only MOSS 2007 installed on the production server. I did not know because i did not build either server. My question to this is...Can that be the problem as to why the import (from above) did not work? Should we have WSS installed? Are there some features we are missing? Lastly, would this impact our SharePoint if we tried to install WSS now...after a few sites have been created?

Sorry if these sound like basic questions, but we are very new with SharePoint and are trying to get up and running. Thank you for any responses and help.

Changing the account used to connect to the configuration database

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:48:51 Z

Is there a way of changing the account that connects to the configuration database for sharepoint 2007? I stupidly uses an account that changes its password every 90 days so I had to reset the password today - I don't really want to do that every time. It's a windows domain account.

Sharepoint Site and Active Directory connection

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:29:17 Z

Hi,

What is the use of SSP User Profile? Because, any changes made to it will be overriden by the AD using the sync jobs.

Thanks,
Kiran

Sharepoint Large file upload issue on MOSS 2007 document library. MOSS 2007 on Windows server 2003 SP2, IIS 6.0

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:26:26 Z

We are unable to upload large files of different sizes like 15 MB, 21 MB onto a sharepoint document library(MOSS 2007). In the central administration, the maximum upload size is set to 35 MB. This issue does not happen from the server locally and we are able to upload the documents just fine. But many users are facing this issue and they get "The page cannot be displayed" error message when they try uploading large documents. Please help.