Issue with "inCommon" Webparts for KN

Question

I have been having issues when acessing KN members pages, errors relating to Portrait in common, contacts in common etc. In the logs it was reporting error accessing perf counter System.InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly

 

I actually had an MS person on site with me adn we checked everything in perfmon, no KN Counters to be seen.

I performed a search on the HD on the server to see if the were any DLLs relating to the counters that may not have registerd correctly and came across the following. Funnily enough once I run this it worked OK.

 

 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\WebServices\Shared\KnowledgeNetwork\bin and funnily enough run InstallKNPerfCounters.exe

Answer 1

Thanks for posting this! I was checking on an "out of space" issue and the root problem turned out to be the Knowledge Network beta (for whatever reason) taking up 10GB of space in the Local Settings\Temp folder, and several more GB in the SharePoint logs with the log message you mention above.

Answer 2

I would recomend looking removing this from your environement.  As you may already be aware this is no longer a supported product so keeping it up in your environement (although it was a great add on) is probably not the best idea.