MarC on January 11th, 2012

At a customer I was building a demo site to convince the management of the power of SharePoint 2010. The plan was to show some fancy stuff with Visio Graphics Services, Infopath Forms, workflows etc. For this we needed, obviously, the Enterprise license. So I opened CA, browsed to the Manage service applications part to [...]

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MarC on December 21st, 2011

At the moment I have to write a SharePoint backup and restore document and planning for my clients SharePoint farms. All together, production and non-production, there are 10 SharePoint farms.
At first I thought, this is a very straightforward document about what parts of SharePoint and/or file system to backup and restore. After some search queries [...]

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MarC on October 21st, 2011

At the customer I’m working a strange thing happened. In the intranet farm (4 WFE loadbalanced with NLB) on two of the WFE servers going to Site Actions > All Site Settings resulted in the following error:
File not found. at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModuleData.GetWebPartPageData(HttpContext context, String path, Boolean throwIfFileNotFound)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPVirtualFile.GetVirtualPathProviderCacheKey(String virtualPath)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPVirtualPathProvider.GetCacheKey(String virtualPath)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.CmsVirtualPathProvider.GetCacheKey(String virtualPath)
   [...]

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MarC on September 29th, 2011

Unlike what I’m telling about myself on my About page (this is a no-code blog), I shall write more and more development orientated posts :-). I have tried to deploy a solution with CAS policies directly from Visual Studio 2010 to SharePoint with the new SharePoint Developer Tools.
The Deploy failed with the error “error occurred in [...]

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Errors in the System log
Log Name:      System
Source:        Service Control Manager
Date:          8/31/2011 11:53:35 AM
Event ID:      7031
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      <servername>
Description:
The SharePoint 2010 Timer service terminated unexpectedly. 
It has done this 479 time(s). The following corrective action
will be taken in 30000 milliseconds: Restart the service.
Log Name:      System
Source:        Service Control Manager
Date:          8/31/2011 11:53:35 AM
Event ID:      7024
Task Category: None
Level:         [...]

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MarC on August 31st, 2011

In this previous post of mine I indicated that my client has to performance issues regarding the intranet site. The ”logged on as other user” problem is caused by a customized welcome control. A Microsoft engineer who was onsite figured this out and a colleague told me that this part is cached. So it is possible people will [...]

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MarC on August 29th, 2011

In my previous post I indicated that the VirtualDirectory Path of the SharePoint Central Administration Web Application in a configuration file was incorrect. I have found the source of this error.
Before I started the SP2010 installation I decided to move the inetpub directory to another drive. I searched for this on the internet and found a [...]

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First, let me begin with the error that started the idea for this blog post. After running the Configuration Wizard of SharePoint 2010 on a Windows 2008 SP2 server the following error appeared when the Central Admin participate dialog should have appeared:
Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The [...]

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At my clients SharePoint 2007 farm we have had a very hard to solve error. The error decription in the Application log was:
Failure trying to synch site 3e545b3e-4ddf-4fd2-8c46-00f73fad5864 for ContentDB ecabb92e-caa6-4a37-bebe-cacf64bc31d6 WebApp d2fc32fc-607b-4c5b-902e-b33f58705e74.  Het uitzonderingsbericht is: Cannot insert duplicate key row in object ‘dbo.UserMemberships’ with unique index CX_UserMemberships_RecordId_MemberGroupId_SID’. The statement has been terminated.
and the second [...]

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MarC on July 5th, 2011

At the moment I am troubleshooting a very slow (response times of 10+ seconds monitored with Fiddler) responding SharePoint 2007 intranet at a customer.  At first we thought that the problems where caused by network traffic from SharePoint to SQL because this was routed through the load balancer (Windows 2008 NLB). We configured the route [...]

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