Possible deadlock detected while acquiring a readerlock

Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 16. Jan, 2010 | 0 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 [...]

Excel Web Access. An error has occured. Please contact your system administrator if the problem persists.

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 [...]

Hidden Pages for User info and Variation RelationShips List in MOSS2007

Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments

In sharepoint there is couple hidden pages that is used for administration purposes. I was able to find these 2 of them:
User info list which contains all the users in the sharepoint site, you can you it to delete user permanently from all groups in a site:
http://server/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx
 
RelationShips List which is used in variation:
http://Server/Relationships%20List

To know the feature name from it’s ID or GUID

Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments

To know from the feature ID it’s name, use this list or download the excel file from the following URL: HTTP://blogs.msdn.com/jjameson/attachment/8370432.ashx    

How to Clear Sharepoint Config Cache

Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments

To clear the config cache on the farm, follow these steps:

Stop the OWSTIMER service on ALL of the MOSS servers in the farm.
On the Index server, navigate to:                          
Server 2003 location: Drive:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID and delete all the XML files from the directory. 
Server 2008 location: Drive:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID and delete all the XML files from the [...]

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))

Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 12. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments

Description:
when you browse your sharepoint portal, you get the following error:
Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
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 Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))
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.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Exception occurred. [...]