GAYAN PEIRIS'S SHAREPOINT BLOG [MVP]

Where is gayan?

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:40:00 +0000

Ok guys...I been missing for some time. At least didn’t blog for some time.

I have done few changes in last few months...

First of all, I am moved out from Canberra and moved in to Sydney..yes.. just next to the Sydney harbour bridge..(at least I can see it from my back yard!!!!)

I have join Microsoft!!!! it is very exciting !!! its been around six weeks now and done lost of travelling during that time...

The good news is, I am still working on SharePoint and will be sharing the MOSS love....

This will be the last blog post I will be doing in this site. Please visit my new blog site for more information.

http://blogs.msdn.com/gayanpeiris/

Please use an unused port for this site error in Central Admin Site

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:20:00 +0000

My Central Administration site in MOSS environment was giving me following error message after restarting the server.

IIS was unable to start this site. Another site may already be using the port you configured for this site. Please use an unused port for this site.

Looks like changing the port number through IIS won’t do any good. You will have to do this through the command line. First navigate to following location

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN

You need to use STSADM with setadminport parameter

Type stsadm.exe -o setadminport –port [port number]

Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'. From BDC to CRM

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:17:00 +0000

I had a requirement to bring MS CRM data as search results in MOSS search centre. So I start doing my research. First, I found this nice blog post that explains there is already BDC definition file for CRM is available from MS,

BDC metadata definition file for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0

I follow the instruction in the post and change my SQL server and database name to mach my environment. It worked fine. But, it was only displaying the data when I was accessing it from the SharePoint server. When I try to access the BDC data fro my client machine, I was getting following error message in the event log,

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category: Business Data
Event ID: 5700
Date: 3/07/2007
Time: 6:04:33 PM
User: N/A
Computer: XXXXX
Description:
Could not open connection using 'data source=daustcd01;initial catalog=nea_MSCRM;integrated security=SSPI;pooling=false;persist security info=false' in App Domain '/LM/W3SVC/1229638185/Root-1-128279213588223440'. The full exception text is: Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'.

The BDC definition file is using “PassThrough” authentication mode. I was sure the problem was to do with the authentication. Then I start looking at what are my options here and found following are supported in BDC,

Pass through : The ability of the operating system to pass a client’s authentication information to the back end server. When you use this method, you simply authenticate as the identity of the end user. To avoid losing the logged on users identity when the BDC authenticate to the back end server, you must enable the Kerberos delegation.

RevertToSelf: this allows you to revert this impersonation and authenticate as the underling account that is configured for the IIS application pool. So while IIS runs under the application pool identity, it impersonates the logged on users, and the request runs under the user’s impersonation before it is passed forward.

WindowsCredentials: MOSS authenticates by using MS windows credentials from its default single sign-on (SSO) services.

So I change the BDC definition file to use RevertToSelf authentication mode. Make sure that application pool account in IIS for the MOSS site has access to CRM data. It’s all working fine now!!!!

How come Site Content Upgrade Status page is empty?

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:33:00 +0000

I am still working on SharePoint 2003 upgrade for MOSS 2007 environment. Finaly manage to get the farm environment stabilized. Then I was looking at Site Content Upgrade Status page (Central Administration > Operations > Site Content Upgrade Status) for the list of the sites that can be upgraded.

Guess what? It was empty when I knew it should at least have dozen sites listed. I though this may be a security trimming user interface issue and made sure that my account is under Farm Administrators Group (The link “Update farm administrator's group” , Central Administration > People and Groups)

Still not luck. I have two front end web servers and one index server (or Application server). Then I realise the Central Administration site is running under both application server and one front end server.

I don’t get the site list in Site Content Upgrade Status page when I access the Central Administration site through application server. I simply stop the Central Administration service in application server and only had is enabled in my front end web server.

Sounds very simple!!!! But can waste lot of time if you don’t know what you are doing!!!!

Event ID : 6482 and 6398 errors for SharePoint 2003 Upgrade

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:08:00 +0000

I am currently conducting a SharePoint 2003 upgrade for MOSS 2007 in Load balanced medium server farm with SQL Cluster. I was getting following error message on my front end server.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category: Office Server Shared Services
Event ID: 6482
Date: 23/04/2007
Time: 3:05:36 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVERNAME
Description:
Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance

(1cf3346b-cb9d-430e-ab11-4ca65c7a93a5).

Reason: Object 61f7f45f-d7ac-4948-91f6-b881dffea275 not found.

Techinal Support Details:
System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException:

Object 61f7f45f-d7ac-4948-91f6-b881dffea275 not found.
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.

SearchApi.get_App()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.

SearchApi.SetUsersPermittedToQuery

(String[] userNames, Boolean force)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.

SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.

ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)

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

Following error message in my index server.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category: Timer
Event ID: 6398
Date: 23/04/2007
Time: 3:23:32 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVERNAME
Description:
The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.

AddQueryServerJob (ID d39a43cb-8b90-4094-8f70-f51751700928)

threw an exception. More information is included below.

Index location '\\SERVERNAME\searchindexpropagation' not found on indexer 'SERVERNAME'. Aborting query server deployment for application EntrSharedServices.

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

I did following steps to fix this problem,

Navigate to Check Services Enabled in this Farm (Central Administration > Application Management > Check Services Enabled in this Farm)

There was the error message
Service: Office SharePoint Server Search
Issue: The query server index file location on SERVERNAME is not shared. This location must be shared to allow for this server to receive propagation.
Impact: Index propagation to SERVERNAME will fail.
Action: Use the Office SharePoint Server Search Settings page to create the share.

I navigate to the page Office SharePoint Server Search Service Settings page(Central Administration > Operations > Services on Server > Office SharePoint Server Search Service Settings)

Set up the page.

The above errors were cleared from my event log for good.

I am a very happy man!!!!!!

Server Farm Configuration Not Complete

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:20:00 +0000

I was getting above error message in bright red text on left hand top corner in my Central Administration page. I made sure following services are all running,

Document Conversions Launcher Service
Document Conversions Load Balancer Service
Office SharePoint Server Search
Windows SharePoint Services Help Search
Windows SharePoint Services Incoming E-Mail
Windows SharePoint Services Web Application

Then I check on the Check Services Enabled in this Farm page (Central Administration > Application Management > Check Services Enabled in this Farm) to identify any errors. Its fine too.

Then I had to finally create the Shared Services. This make the error message disappear.

The specified name is already in use.

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:35:00 +0000

I was working on a content deployment job in MOSS WCM site when I receive the below error messages.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category: Timer
Event ID: 6398
Date: 17/04/2007
Time: 11:54:25 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ComputerName
Description:
The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJobDefinition (ID 1afc019a-3e27-43a8-8ddd-2555d397e34c) threw an exception. More information is included below.

The specified name is already in use.

A list, survey, discussion board, or document library cannot have the same name as another list, survey, discussion board, or document library in this Web site. Use your browser's Back button, and type a new name.

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

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category: Content Deployment
Event ID: 4958
Date: 17/04/2007
Time: 11:54:25 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ComputerName
Description:
Publishing: Content deployment job failed. Error: 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The specified name is already in use.

A list, survey, discussion board, or document library cannot have the same name as another list, survey, discussion board, or document library in this Web site. Use your browser's Back button, and type a new name. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x81020012): The specified name is already in use.

A list, survey, discussion board, or document library cannot have the same name as another list, survey, discussion board, or document library in this Web site. Use your browser's Back button, and type a new name.
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.CreateListOnImport(String bstrUrl, Guid& pguidListId, String bstrTitle, String bstrDescription, Int32 lTemplateID, String bstrFeatureId, Guid guidRootFolderId, Int64 llFlags, Int32 iVersion, Int32 iAuthor, String bstrFields, String bstrContentTypes, String bstrImageUrl, String bstrEventSinkAssembly, String bstrEventSinkClass, String bstrEventSinkData, Guid guidDocTemplateId, String bstrViews, String bstrForms, Boolean bCompressedSchema)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.CreateListOnImport(String bstrUrl, Guid& pguidListId, String bstrTitle, String bstrDescription, Int32 lTemplateID, String bstrFeatureId, Guid guidRootFolderId, Int64 llFlags, Int32 iVersion, Int32 iAuthor, String bstrFields, String bstrContentTypes, String bstrImageUrl, String bstrEventSinkAssembly, String bstrEventSinkClass, String bstrEventSinkData, Guid guidDocTemplateId, String bstrViews, String bstrForms, Boolean bCompressedSchema)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.CreateListOnImport(String bstrUrl, Guid& pguidListId, String bstrTitle, String bstrDescription, Int32 lTemplateID, String bstrFeatureId, Guid guidRootFolderId, Int64 llFlags, Int32 iVersion, Int32 iAuthor, String bstrFields, String bstrContentTypes, String bstrImageUrl, String bstrEventSinkAssembly, String bstrEventSinkClass, String bstrEventSinkData, Guid guidDocTemplateId, String bstrViews, String bstrForms, Boolean bCompressedSchema)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListSerializer.CreateList(SPWeb parentWeb, Dictionary`2 listMetaData, Boolean usingPublicSchema)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListSerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.ParseObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.DeserializeObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject, DeploymentObject envelope)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ObjectSerializer.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportObjectManager.ProcessObject(XmlReader xmlReader)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.DeserializeObjects()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.Run()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJob.DoImport()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJob.ExecuteJob()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJob.Run(Boolean runAsynchronously)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJobDefinition.Execute(Guid targetInstanceId)'

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

I have a authoring and production environment in same farm environment. I created a path and Job to migrate content from my authoring publishing site to production publishing site. The production site was created using the publishing template.
To fix above problem, I had to delete the production site and recreate it using the blank site template.

Its all working fine now….

The request failed with HTTP status 407: Proxy Authentication Required.

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:08:00 +0000

I am having a single MOSS server with dedicated SQL server for the back end. I was getting above error message when I was trying to execute the Job in Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs page. (Central Administration > Operations > Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs )

I have the set up the proxy details in my browser as mentioned below,

Configure proxy server settings to bypass the proxy server for local addresses

1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.

2. On the Connections tab, in the Local Area Network (LAN) settings area, click LAN Settings.

3. In the Automatic configuration section, clear the Automatically detect settings check box.

4. In the Proxy Server section, select the Use a proxy server for your LAN check box.

5. Type the address of the proxy server in the Address box.

6. Type the port number of the proxy server in the Port box.

7. Select the Bypass proxy server for local addresses check box.

8. Click OK to close the Local Area Network (LAN) Settings dialog box.

9. Click OK to close the Internet Options dialog box.

An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: OSearch (AccountName)

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:31:00 +0000

I was trying very hard to start the “Office SharePoint Server Search” in my MOSS farm environment. I was getting the above error message for the last 2 days and couldn’t figure out what the hell is I am doing wrong.

Guess what???? I had to enter the domain name followed by the user name to fix this problem. (Ex:domainName\AccountName).

Cant believe it took me long to realize this…..live and learn….

Unable to open shim database version registry key - v2.0.50727.00000

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:04:00 +0000

I am getting above error in my event log after installing the .NET Framework 2.0 hotfix as I mentioned in my previous post.

I had to install following hotfix to fix the problem

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918642

Event ID: 6482, 7888, 6398, 7076, Errors

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:08:00 +0000

I was getting below error messages in my Application event log after my MOSS 2007 upgrade from SharePoint 2003.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category: Office Server Shared Services
Event ID: 6482
Date: 6/03/2007
Time: 4:18:05 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER_NAME
Description:Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchAdminSharedWebServiceInstance (5b92d6ae-445e-4084-b50f-98aa13ee5f97).

Reason: Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.

Techinal Support Details:System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8007000E): Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.

Server stack trace: at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail) at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind() at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.get_IsContainer() at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntries.CheckIsContainer() at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntries.Find(String name, String schemaClassName) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation.Metabase.MetabaseObjectCollection`1.Find(String name) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation.Metabase.MetabaseObjectCollection`1.get_Item(String name) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation.SPProvisioningAssistant.ProvisionIisApplicationPool(String name, ApplicationPoolIdentityType identityType, String userName, SecureString password, TimeSpan idleTimeout, TimeSpan periodicRestartTime) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation.SPAdministrationOperation.DoProvisionIisApplicationPool(String name, Int32 identityType, String userName, String password, TimeSpan idleTimeout, TimeSpan periodicRestartTime) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(RuntimeMethodHandle md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext)

Exception rethrown at [0]: at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation.SPAdministrationOperation.DoProvisionIisApplicationPool(String name, Int32 identityType, String userName, String password, TimeSpan idleTimeout, TimeSpan periodicRestartTime) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPMetabaseManager.ProvisionIisApplicationPool(String name, Int32 identityType, String userName, SecureString password, TimeSpan idleTimeout, TimeSpan periodicRestartTime) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SharedWebServiceInstance.Synchronize() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category: Office Server General
Event ID: 7888
Date: 6/03/2007
Time: 4:18:44 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER_NAME
Description:A runtime exception was detected. Details follow. Message: 'test_sps_xxxx_Ap' is not a valid Windows NT name. Give the complete name: .

Techinal Details:System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: 'test_sps_xxxx_Ap' is not a valid Windows NT name. Give the complete name: . 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.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(DbAsyncResult result, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Data.SqlSession.ExecuteNonQuery(SqlCommand command) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Data.SqlServerManager.GrantLogin(String user) 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()

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

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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category: Timer
Event ID: 6398
Date: 6/03/2007
Time: 4:18:05 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER_NAME
Description:The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerAdministrationServiceJob (ID 09dc64d4-9691-41c3-af8a-61b89a2c1ff4) threw an exception. More information is included below.

Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.

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

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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category: Office Server Shared Services
Event ID: 7076
Date: 6/03/2007
Time: 4:18:05 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER_NAME
Description:An exception occurred while executing the Application Server Administration job.

Message: Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.

Techinal Support Details:System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8007000E): Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.

Server stack trace: at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail) at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind() at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.get_IsContainer() at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntries.CheckIsContainer() at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntries.Find(String name, String schemaClassName) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation.Metabase.MetabaseObjectCollection`1.Find(String name) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation.Metabase.MetabaseObjectCollection`1.get_Item(String name) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation.SPProvisioningAssistant.ProvisionIisApplicationPool(String name, ApplicationPoolIdentityType identityType, String userName, SecureString password, TimeSpan idleTimeout, TimeSpan periodicRestartTime) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation.SPAdministrationOperation.DoProvisionIisApplicationPool(String name, Int32 identityType, String userName, String password, TimeSpan idleTimeout, TimeSpan periodicRestartTime) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(RuntimeMethodHandle md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext)

Exception rethrown at [0]: at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type) at Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation.SPAdministrationOperation.DoProvisionIisApplicationPool(String name, Int32 identityType, String userName, String password, TimeSpan idleTimeout, TimeSpan periodicRestartTime) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPMetabaseManager.ProvisionIisApplicationPool(String name, Int32 identityType, String userName, SecureString password, TimeSpan idleTimeout, TimeSpan periodicRestartTime) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SharedWebServiceInstance.CreateSharedWebServiceApplicationPool(SharedResourceProvider srp) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)

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

I have to install a .NET Framework 2.0 hotfix to fix above problem. You can’t download the hotfix from the web. You will have to contact Microsoft to get it. More details on below URL

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923028/en-us

What happen to OWS.CSS in WSS V3.0 site?

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:51:00 +0000

I have a custom develop menu control that pick up styles from OWS.CSS style sheet. I have noticed when I upgrade the WSS V2.0 site to WSS V3.0, the styles were missing from the menu control. Even the old style OWS style sheet from

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\STYLES

Copied to new location

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\STYLES

OWS style sheet is above location with all the styles, but the site is not picking it up!!!!!

There is a new style sheet in above directory called CORE.CSS. I have to copy al my custom style class to CORE.CSS file to get this working properly.

I still haven’t got to the bottom of this situation and don’t know why there is new CORE.CSS style sheet. I am sure I will find out and blog about it soon….

“Rename your object or delete the existing object”. Error

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:36:00 +0000

I hit another problem while I was doing the gradual upgrade. The site upgrade process was complaining that the site is already exists and stope the site upgrade process before get completed successfully with following error message.

An object of the type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication named "RegionalServices_Pair" already exists under the parent Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService named "". Rename your object or delete the existing object.

I couldn’t find the object mentioned in the error message through STSADM tool. I was trying to delete it or trying to access the site through STSADM command with out any luck.

Finally I figure out the way to fix this problem through the Central Administration pages

Open the Central Administration site
Go to Application Manager
Select Delete Web Application link
Select the site mention in your error message
Choose to delete the Content database and the IIS Web site
Navigate to Site content upgrade status under Operation tab
Rerun the site upgrade

Method not found: Error

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:48:00 +0000

Method not found: System.String Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.
SPVirtualServerConfig.get_DefaultZoneOutgoingUrl().

I am currently working through a SharePoint 2003 upgrade to MOSS 2007 using In-Place Upgrade. I was running the Prescan tool as part of the migration and got the following error message.

The command ran

Prescan.exe /c presupgradescanconfig.xml /all

The Error Message

2/05/2007 11:12:51 Error: Exception while looping through virtual servers.
02/05/2007 11:12:51 System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: System.String Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPVirtualServerConfig.get_DefaultZoneOutgoingUrl().
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PreupgradeReport.Scan.ScanOneVirtualServer(SPVirtualServer curVS)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PreupgradeReport.Scan.Run(StringCollection argsList)
02/05/2007 11:12:51 Scan finished with failure.
02/05/2007 11:12:51 ===============================Logs==================
=============
02/05/2007 11:12:51 Log file: C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\PreupgradeReport_633062707654456096_Log.txt
02/05/2007 11:12:51 Summary file: C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\
LOCALS~1\Temp\PreupgradeReport_633062707654456096
_Summary.xml
02/05/2007 11:12:51 ==============================Totals==================
============

Solution

This is due to not having service packs installed in my existing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 environments.

Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 (SP2)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9C552114-DC9A-43EE-9281-B080B7C280B4&displaylang=en

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=171DC9A7-B4BA-4759-BD64-6B7D851A97EF&displaylang=en

Configuring Multiple Authentication Providers for SharePoint 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:17:00 +0000

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) V3 contains several new features around authentication and authorization that make it easier to develop and deploy solutions in Internet facing environments, especially extranets. In the previous version of WSS, all security principals needed to resolve at some point to a Windows identity – either a user account or group. WSS V3 is built upon the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework, which allows the use of forms-based authentication (FBA) to authenticate users into the system. By riding on top of ASP.NET 2.0’s pluggable authentication provider model, you can now support users stored in Active Directory as well as SQL Server, an LDAP directory, or any other directory that has an ASP.NET 2.0 Membership provider. Although WSS V3 will not ship with any Membership providers, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 will include an LDAP V3 Membership provider, and ASP.NET 2.0 includes a SQL Server provider. But if you want to use a directory and can’t find a Membership provider for it, you can write your own! This is a key technology enabler for heterogeneous environments.

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On-demand access to SharePoint tutorials from LearnVu

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:23:00 +0000

SharePointHosting.com provides on-demand access to SharePoint tutorials from LearnVu to all our SharePoint hosting customers. This is a significant value-add service to our SharePoint hosting offerings.

Did anyone ever hand you a SharePoint user manual or some other “documentation” when you had a question about a SharePoint feature, configuration issue or problem.
Did you ever want to have an SharePoint expert sit with you every time you had a question or needed to sharpen your skills with a particular piece of software or hardware?
Did you ever sit through a long support queue when you just wanted your “simple” SharePoint question answered in a way you could understand

Try it out

ASP.NET 2.0 Custom Session State Provider

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:13:00 +0000

Session stating although considered not directly related to security, does encapsulate some security related points. Although there aren’t many session related configuration changes that you can make in SharePoint, understanding the concept of session stating and why it exists will help understand the aggregate concept of how security works in SharePoint, as well as the ASP.NET 2.0 model.

The provider model as detailed in other articles is evident in many facets of SharePoint, and through the use of the Universal Provider model one can gain membership, role, and provider pluggable architectures.

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What about Public Folders vs. email enabled Lists in WSS v3?

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:18:00 +0000

This is a nice blog entry from Joel regarding Public Folders and WSS V3. He is talking about moving from Public Folder to WSS V3 to support your requirements.

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Deploying Windows Rights Management Services with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Step-By-Step Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:20:00 +0000

Deploying Windows Rights Management Services with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Step-By-Step Guide provides instructions for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) with Service Pack 2 environment.

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SharePoint Governance

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:02:00 +0000

Microsoft SharePoint technologies offer an immense amount of power for an organization, and harnessing this power is the goal of every business that installs SharePoint.

But adoption of the SharePoint technologies can get out of control without proper governance. In this two-part article you'll learn what governance is and learn about some of items that you should consider for a SharePoint technologies governance plan.

Part 1

Part 2

Planning whitepaper for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 -- Capacity Boundaries, Estimating Performance & Capacity Requirements, Additional Factors, and Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:16:00 +0000

Planning for Capacity Boundaries, Estimating Performance & Capacity Requirements, Additional Factors, and Tools

WSS: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/0e13e879-0156-4e9f-b6d5-abddcf326d211033.mspx?mfr=true

MOSS: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/eb2493e8-e498-462a-ab5d-1b779529dc471033.mspx?mfr=true

Within these docs you'll find data on servers, server topologies, system sizing, figuring out requests per second, understanding performance characteristics and guidance around features, such as folders vs. no folders.

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How to buy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:48:00 +0000

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.

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SharePoint Beta 2 TR to Release

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:13:00 +0000

It’s time to have a look at how to upgrade from SharePoint Beta 2 TR to release version. Following are few of the articles I came across that will be helpful for you.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:56:00 +0000

This is the x86 release version of SharePoint Server 2007 Trial for Standard and Enterprise editions.

Standard edition functionality includes:

Collaboration
Enterprise Content Management
Workflow
MySites
Profiles and Personalization
Enterprise Search

Enterprise edition functionality includes:

Business Data Catalog
Excel Services
Report Center
Infopath Forms Services
KPI and Filter Web Parts

The trial period for this product is 180 days. You can convert to a licensed installation at any time during the trial or after the trial has expired by entering the appropriate product key.

Microsoft’s top executives to share knowledge at TechEd 2006

noreply@blogger.com (Gayan Peiris) — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:50:00 +0000

Plans are underway to wow Sri Lankans at an IT event on a scale never-before-seen when Microsoft Tech-Ed 2006 gets underway at the Water’s Edge next week (25th to 27th October). Tech-Ed 2006 is billed to be an event where "Knowledge will grow. Doors will open. Destinies will change." and organisers at Microsoft Sri Lanka say participants will not be disappointed. Among the highlights of Tech-Ed is a series of high profile resource persons billed to speak on the four tracks that will make up the symposium.

The Microsoft Tech-Ed 2006 conference will consist of 50 sessions across 4 tracks, with Track 1 focusing on Windows Infrastructure and Systems Management, Track 2 on Messaging and Collaboration, Track 3 on Enterprise Data Management, Architecture and Team Development, and Track 4 on Developer Technology. Leading the way will be Steve Riley, Microsoft’s top rated senior security specialist – who will be joined by Technical Architect Gayan Pieris, Microsoft Developer Tools Specialist Matthew Hardman, and Developer Evangelist Janakiram MSV and IT Professional Evangelist Ravi Sankar.

Track 2 at Tech-Ed, dealing with messaging and collaboration, will be led by Gayan Peiris - a Technical Architect / senior Consultant for Unique World Pty Ltd Canberra, Australia who is considered an Expert in architecting and designing SharePoint Portals and Windows SharePoint Services solutions. Gayan is widely published and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft developer conferences on SharePoint technology. He has been a leading advocate since 2001 and the president of the Canberra SharePoint User Group. He has the distinction of being presented with the MVP award for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

Gayan’s sessions will enable participants to gain an in-depth look at the new server technologies in the 2007 Microsoft Office release, while developers will have the opportunity to discover new features that enable them to create application-level customizations, application-level task panes, and program the ribbon using Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System. IT Professionals will gain the training they need to successfully deploy and manage Office server systems and applications within IT infrastructure.

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