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VSeWSS Error: No SharePoint Site Exists at the Specified URL

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:00:00 +0000

If you are developing a SharePoint based solution that involves developing custom web parts, then you have probably found VSeWSS, which greatly simplifies the deployment of web parts. But there's not much documentation on how to manage it within a complex configuration - and there are many conditions which can cause an error on deployment - something akin to:

Error 1 VSeWSS Service Error: No SharePoint Site exists at the specified URL: http:///. The Web application at http:/// could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request URL mapping to the intended application.

Log file written to: C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VSeWSS 1.3\VSeWSS1.3 service.log 0 0

This error can show up with or without the URL displayed. In either case the errors in the log show the URL attempted.

Spoiler: On a single server installation, the Default Public URL must be the Server Name. If you server is named Dashboard, then your Default Public URL must be http://dashboard/
Changing the Default Public URL will break VSeWSS deployment

There are a lot of posts around the internet to try to address this issue, and in most cases, not all situations are resolved. There are a lot of configurations that can cause this error, and so it was a configuration issue in my case.

My installation consists of 64 bit versions of Windows 2008 R2 with SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 with VSeWSS 1.3 for 64bit installed on a single VM server. SharePoint is the only site on the machine and is using the default port and URL. i did modify the setup to use the SQL Server for the config database instead of the windows internal database. App Pools are setup properly using a domain account that has full permissions both in IIS and SQL Server. The account has also been added to every group and administrator list available in SharePoint Administration, and has been added to all WPG groups in windows, but the problem persists.
I then began experimenting with Alternate Access mappings, per suggestions returned by google searches on this subject. What I found was most interesting - When I added host header bindings in IIS Manager it broke the site, but when I added alternate access mappings through Central Administration those mappings worked. Several reboots and frustrating days later I returned to my site bindings, and there were the alternate access mappings I had made previously!

At this point I began to get suspicious - those bindings did not appear when I first added the mappings, so something under the hood must have found and generated them based on the mappings I added. So I did some research on Alternate Access Mappings and found this little note:

Host-named site collections cannot use alternate access mappings. Host-named site collections are automatically considered to be in the Default zone, and the URL of the request must not be modified between the end user and the server.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288609%28office.12%29.aspx

I then revisited my Alternate Access Mappings and found that the Default Public URL of my server was not the server name - my servername is dashboard, in the domain mysite.org, but my Default Public URL is dashboard.mysite.org

Once I removed all Alternate Access Mappings and changed the Default Public URL to http://dashboard, VSeWSS deploy was successful!

I then added http://dashboard.mysite.org as the Internet Public URL - leaving the Default Public URL http://Dashboard and my site was once again available via multiple URLs, without breaking VSeWSS deployment. When you add a Public URL, Central Admin automatically adds the appropriate Internal URL for the modified Zone Public URL.

The lack of IIS7 documentation in regards to SharePoint is disappointing - IIS 7 is significantly different under the hood (eg no metabase file) than IIS 6 so the references are not relevant - new documentation is needed!

Can't hear myself

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:35:00 +0000

Well working in an office is quite different from workibg at home isn't it?

It's surprising how big a difference there is in regards to listening to music. Just switching from speakers to headphones is tough.
Then there's the surrounding noise of people talking and doing whatever they consider work and it's amazing I get anything done. I'm really quite amazing, but aren't we all? Anyway , I can admit that I'm spoiled or a pansy but I'm at my most effective in a particular condition. So starts an attempt to improve my condition to improve productivity.
For obvious reasons let's start with music.
Noise cancelling technology seems promising so we'll test it out.
I am starting with a set of Phillips headphones and will post results soon.

-- Post From My iPhone

Initial reaction wow! Most noticeable is mo hvac rumble. People are clearer though, until you crank the tunes.
It's nice :)

That was march 5. Today is the tenth and I left the Phillips headphones at home. So today I will get to live without. 5 minutes and I miss them.

And so it goes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:27:00 +0000

I finally land a contract where my skills can be put to use only to find that even though they have the newest technology I have to produce vb.net code
Nevermind that my project includes a soa architecture the vb programmers here don't know how to make and I can... But my solution is in c#...
so now I get to add more to my resume...code conversion and vb.net!
There's always a silver lining right? Maybe they'll see my clean c code and change their minds. Oh wait their vb programmers...if they had the capacity to change they wouldn't still be coding in vb would they?

What are your thoughts on language preferences in the workplace?
Did I just start a war or are there other reasons people should be open to either?

-- Post From My iPhone

Why not run?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:05:00 +0000

If you commute between Columbia and jeff city then you know that the new discovery overpass on 63 is a speed trap

They named it because Boone county sheriff discovered a new revenue?

So if you see those cherries light up, they expect you to exit, and are waiting for you when you do. If you run there a cop on the other side of AC sometimes 2. But no cop is gonna risk a major crash on such a busy road. So why not run? You've got a good chance if you get get around a cluster of cars without leaving the fuzz a path. by stadium you are free Since they don't post anyone thee you just need to get ahead of a cluster at that exit and take an offramp farther north.
Maybe broadway or vandiver. If you did it right you can slow down and blend in with traffic. Once they lose sight of you it's over.

My point is that the sheriff is only gonna catch people that want a ticket since there's too much traffic for them to risk a high speed chase for very long.
Good luck fellow commuters, I'll be watchin

Valentines eve

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:43:00 +0000

Out with some friends and my wife we ate before going to see slum dog millionaire as we won't be hungry after...

-- Post From My iPhone

Blogpress works

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:21:00 +0000

Yep and there's witnesses

-- Post From My iPhone

Do you love the iPhone

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:45:00 +0000

Forget what those winMo folks say. You can live on the cloud with the iPhone and get real work done. So what I can't make office docs in my hand... But as a veteran treo 700wx user I can confidently claim that office integration was not really that useful.big memory hog though... Let's face it, us road warriors don't need or want to draft documents with our thumbs or work on spreadsheets 200 pixels at a time. What is important though? OTA synchronization, which has been dominated by exchange. So really it's not the phone you need, it's an exchange account. What smartphone doesn't support exchange? And thanks to nuevasync, and now google sync, that exchange sync function is available to non-exchange systems. Ymmv, but if your like me and in love with Gmail and the idea of having access to everything online - my own personal cloud- then syncing up your web enabled phone is the last piece to living a winmo-free mobile life.
Even this blog is updated from my iPhone

M XMas Wish List

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:23:00 +0000

Get the most from your media on the cheap

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:47:00 +0000

What you need:

Xbox 360 or PS3, PC, Broadband Internet, Home network

Hulu.com account

Netflix account (optional)

Internet enabled device (optional - iPhone/iPod, Treo, or other 3G cell phone)

By the time we're done, you will know how to get all your saved audio and video and pictures, and the most popular Internet Audio and Video sources on any device you can think of - your TV, your phone, your computer - without wasting Gigabytes of space or hours of processor time converting formats (unless your on the iPhone) AND no Piracy!

So lets get started...

First you will need to install Orb - download and instructions at orb.com. There's another free software out there that does almost the same thing, called TVersity - which is awesome in its own right thanks to it's ability to convert different video formats to match the playing device, but it doesn't include an externally hosted website to access your media server :(. But, if you don't have a Media Center PC and are running an older version of the XBox 360 (XBMC not tested here) - or have a lot of different or Xbox-unsupported video formats, then TVersity might be a good choice for you.

Orb makes it possible to share all your local media, and almost all streaming media your PC can access available via your network - and if you have broadband then you can can get to your network from any Internet enabled device (yes even the iPhone)

Orb is really very awesome...this amazing free software and frees you from the chains of broadcast radio and TV programming and unlocks your media from the restrictions of file size and supported formats (almost). The only limit is the hardware on your PC (and you only need special equipment to stream and record live Radio and TV)

Once Orb is installed and configured, anything on Orb is available from your Xbox! Audio, Video, Pictures, the works! And it does it better than Media Center ever did. And now with the Xbox NXE update from November 19, you don't even need MediaCenter running on your PC in order to access Orb. Even more, Orb lets you add Internet stream sources and record them. - This is important because....

If you have Sirius or XM Satellite radio, uSirius (and uXM) from millardsoftware.com let you setup Internet streams for every satellite radio channel your subscription includes. These streams can be added to Orb, and then recorded and/or broadcast to any device - Live stream and recordings!

Having trouble justifying that cell phone upgrade to unlimited data and media-enabled phone? With uSirius and Orb you can turn that cell phone into the equivalent of a $300 Sirius portable radio for free!

Sharing all your media to any network connected device is great, but what about all that content only available from streaming sites like youtube, or Hulu, or Movies from Netflix?

November 19 Microsoft is releasing an update for Xbox 360 that allows Live Gold subscribers to access their Netflix Instant Queue right from the Xbox- great! you say, but what if you don't want to shell out $50 per year just to watch Netflix? $99 for a Roku player just to watch Netflix Instant movies? Nope.

How about $30? Once. And it puts not just netflix on the Xbox AND Playstation 3. PlayOn from MediaMall (themediamall.com/playon) may cost $30, but it allows you unfettered access to not only your Netflix Instant Queue (free with the 1 DVD at a time subscription, or $5/month), it also lets you browse the full catalog at Hulu, YouTube, CBS, ESPN, and more! So for $30 you can enjoy all the latest programming when you want with all the benefits but none of the cost or hassle of traditional DVR (Nothing gets deleted or recorded-over AND the cable company doesn't get to charge you $$$ monthly to have DVR, and more $$$ to use it)

PlayOn and Orb require you to have a PC on the network to run the programs in order to provide Media to other devices (like a relay) but for the most part these apps can run silently in the background, rarely are they even noticeable. And when they are in use, your somewhere else watching or listening anyway! All the internet media is buffered on your PC - so on a busy night there could be pauses but in the end, you can watch as much as you want as often as you want and never lose a MB of Hard disk space no matter what system you are using.

In fact, thanks to Orb and Playon, you are getting more value from that PC that otherwise would be sitting idle for hours a day instead of spending more $$$ on media services and dedicated devices that only do one thing or provide you with 1 service - offered of course by the manufacturer!

You don't have to be rich to waste all your time watching movies on your phone or listen to satellite radio all day from anywhere.

In times like these, value solutions are what we need to live and laugh on a budget. So get that PC up and running and start getting the most entertainment on the go with Orb, uSirius, and Playon.

These programs also let you "share" your media and services with your friends. If your interested, or have your own system setup, and want to share, send me a note :)

Here comes the Judge

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:16:00 +0000

It's official - I am a Certified BBQ Judge - Badge number 25286!!

Thank you KCBS!!

http://www.kcbs.us

Get the pointer

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:26:00 +0000

Ever find yourself just staring at the screen? Others around may think your daydreaming, catatonic, or possibly suffering a flashback - but your just trying to find the mouse pointer? That little sucker is able to hide in plain sight - more a chameleon and a rodent it loves to find little blended areas near edges of windows and screens to virtually disappear

But No More! there are a few tweaks you can do to your mouse settings that will eliminate those wasted hours spent drooling on your keyboard as woodstock comes reeling back...

Get Inverted

Find your Mouse Control Panel and change the Scheme to Windows Inverted

This makes the Mouse Pointer always the opposite color of the it's immediate background

See the Ripple

Another option is to enable the Ctrl key to show the location of the mouse

After setting this and clicking apply, tap the Ctrl Key and little ripples will appear around your mouse pointer!

Happy Mousing!

Carls Jr. got nuthin on Jimba

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:28:00 +0000

You want a real tasty Pepperjeck Jalepeno Burger then forget Hardees or Carl Jr.'s and head on over to Jimba's house. He'll cook up some burgers that can't be beat!

Just don't say anything about the dorky Headlamp...it's his secret weapon!!

Goin Pro...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:57:00 +0000

The BBQ Team now has a custom smoker!
It's a 9 rack Vertical Smoker with separate Firebox located DIRECTLY under the body.
Here's some pics of Steve with the smoker open and closed

Note the tall Chimney and flu controls at top and bottom of Body
Not shown are the Firebox wood grate and adjustable side vents

Only thing missing is a thermostat!