A word about troubleshooting the Import spreedsheet problem
At one of my customers we have been strugling for a while with a problem that occurs when you try craete a new list by using the Import spreadsheet function. Once again it was one of those problems...
View ArticleProblem creating My Site
Have you ever received the error message: There has been an error creating the personal site. Contact your site administrator for more information. when you open up My Site for the first time? I have...
View ArticleAdd Custom HTTP Headers programmatically
When you work with farms with multiple WFE’s that sits behind a loadbalancer and Virtual IP it can sometimes be difficult troubleshooting since you don’t know what server your client is connected to. I...
View Article“Object already exists” when using ProvisionGlobally
In two earlier posts I have written about how to create and extend a web application using PowerShell. Today I ran in to a problem when I extended a Web Application twice directly after each other. The...
View ArticleColumn ordering not displayed
Today I got a question from a user that needed to change the Column ordering in his SharePoint list. To his surprise (and at first to mine as well) the link named Column Ordering in List Settings was...
View ArticleSynchronization for Shared Services Provider Failed
I ran in to: Synchronization for Shared Services Provider ‘[your shared service provider]‘ has failed. The operation will be retried. Reason: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not...
View ArticleBasic WSS Installation problem – Server is not responding
I was asked to take a look at a problem a customer had with a basic installation of WSS. Honestly it’s been a while since I did this and had to start by try remembering all the problems and pitfalls...
View ArticleAn error occured in the blob cache – Event ID 5538
I ran in to the following problem in a SharePoint Server SP2 environment: The exception message was ‘The process cannot access the file ‘D:BlobCachefolder’ because it is being used by another process.’...
View ArticleDatabase statistics timer job – for good and for bad?
When SP2 was released almost a year ago there was an update to the Database Statistics Job. What was updated was a rebuild of the database reindex. This was introduced as one of the main improvements...
View ArticleApplication Server Administration job failed event id 6482
I ran across an interesting problem today at a customer that I thought I’ll share with you. The background to the problem is that a SharePoint server 2007 farm needed to be moved to another AD (don’t...
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