Posted by admin in Articles, Sharepoint on 20. Dec, 2009 | 0 Comments
When using Advanced Search to search for items in a list using a specific property that use a Column name in Greek or any non standard ASCII characters.
after doing incremental crawl and adding the New Metadata Property with the Mapping to the Greek Column, Advanced Search is not working as needed and returns no result for [...]
You have Variations enabled in a SharePoint site based on English language as the main Variation label, and the 2nd Variation Label is for example French language and you want your users to be redirected to the French site whenever they type your site address instead of being redirected to the English site.
By default, the [...]
Am writing this blog to help others who faced such problems and for whom want a quick solution to recover hotmail password.
My email was stolen from sometime and I tried all the ways to retrieve the account which gave me LOTSS of headache before I get it!!! Whenever I try something it doesn’t work !! [...]
Sometimes when you open an excel file from Sharepoint document library you the file opens in Internet explorer using excel services !! if excel services are not configured correctly for this document library then most probably you will get an error such as:
The workbook that you selected cannot be loaded because it contains the following [...]
To Provision a service, 1st enum all services to get the needed all the services and search for the needed service to provision as in the below example:
run: Stsadm –o enumservices
If you are searching for SSP Job Control Service as i did, you can see below that it is disabled so to start it you need [...]
Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 16. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
Slow performance happens on your sharepoint site and users start getting “Request timed out” errors, after couple minutes the slow behaviour disappears and the site is accessible again.
Error message in the ULS Logs:
Possible deadlock detected while acquiring a readerlock.
An unexpected error occurred while refreshing the shared object manager cache. Reason: This operation returned because the [...]
Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 16. Jan, 2010 | 1 Comment
If you are using Excel Calculation Web Part on your SharePoint site you might get the following error:
“Excel Web Access. An error has occured. Please contact your system administrator if the problem persists.”
if you are using Kerberos authentication, then this might be the issue. Try to access your site using NTLM authentication and if it [...]
Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 16. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
Sometimes when you are not able to access the Shared Services Search Settings page you get an unknown error. If your check the ULS Logs, you will find the following:
Windows SharePoint Services Exception Type: System.Web.HttpException Exception Message: The resource object with key ‘S2LeftNav_Administration’ was not found.
this usually occurs if you installed a hotfix or update [...]
Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 16. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
In Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007, when you try to upload InfoPath form from Central Administration Site the installation will fail.
In event Viewer you will see the following error posted:
Event ID: 6759
The Execute method of job definition “SPSolutionDeploymentJobDefinition” (id “c399d875-78f4-42c2-a230-de6842e208bf”) threw an exception. Solution manifest for solution ‘3dc3b0d5-7837-4d88-bda5-104dab188495′ failed validation, file manifest.xml, line 2, character 84: [...]
Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 16. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
When accessing the shared services provider site you get ”401 Unauthorized” error after you get prompted 3 times to enter your username and password.
This normally happens if there was some change in the accounts used to access the shared services site such as changing the domain account or if you are using local account and [...]
Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 16. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
In Microsoft Office Sharepoint 2007, you might see the following Warning message in the Crawl Log after doing an incremental crawl:
http://MyPortal/documents/…1627_172635.aspx
The object was not found. (The item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it.)
Solution:
The first thing you should try is to see if the file exists, [...]
Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 19. Dec, 2009 | No Comments
When you try to do any modifications on your sharepoint site such as uploading or editing a file or adding users and creating pages and you have Quota enabled for your sites you might get this error:
Error Message: Your changes could not be saved because this SharePoint Web site has exceeded the storage quota limit. You must [...]
Posted by admin in IIS, Sharepoint on 09. Dec, 2009 | No Comments
I changed the name of my sharepoint server and since am using a single server, I needed to create a new configuration database.
Disconnecting from sharepoint farm succeeds but when running the configuration wizard again to create a new servers farm and filling the Central Admin site port and authentication type I got the following error message:
An exception [...]
Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 27. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
When uploading larger than 28 MB files to a SharePoint library, you get 404 error. This occurs because SharePoint , IIS , Windows needs to be configured to handle large files.
Solution:
To solve the issue:
- Opened the file : %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationhost.config
In the ApplicationHost.config file, locate the node.
add a large value that matches the size of the Content-Length [...]
Posted by admin in Others on 22. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
When you start your Hyper-V virtual machine you get an error:
“An error occurred while attempting to change the state of the virtual machine WinXP.”
“The virtual machine could not be started because hypervisor is not running.”
to solve this error, do the following:
Open Command line
Run the following commands:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
net start hvboot
once you do that, restart your [...]
