Visio 2010/SharePoint 2010 Internal Error #3400 Action 1787 Check in file
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint, Software
Problem: Visio would display the following error when someone tried to check in a Visio file into a SharePoint 2010 Document Library: Internal Error: #3400 Action 1787: Check in file First try closing and reopening the file. Next try restarting Visio. Cause: One of the fields in the document library had been set to required [...]
SharePoint 2010 slow extranet performance
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint
A while back we extending our SharePoint 2010 server to provide an extranet enabling users to access SharePoint across the Internet. The main benefit being that users didn’t have to use VPN to access their content and data. The problem was that the extranet performance was too slow. Part of the SharePoint extranet solution used [...]
SharePoint 2010 Diagnostics Studio Errors Event ID 6398
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint
Having installed the SharePoint 2010 Diagnostics Studio on a server we were seeing hundreds of events with ID 6398:- Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation Event ID: 6398 Task Category: Timer Level: Critical Description: The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Diagnostics.SPSqlBlockingReportDiagnosticProvider (ID e0c0213b-63fc-4ede-acc9-7a569ba95812) threw an exception. More information is included below. You do not [...]
Tags: error, SharePoint 2010, SQL Server
SharePoint 2010 MsiInstaller PeopleILM Errors Event ID 1004, 1001, 1015
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint, Software
After installing the SharePoint 2010 Feb 2011 CU and restarting the server I started seeing MsiInstaller Errors with event id 1004, 1001 and 1015. The event details were:- Source: MsiInstaller Event ID: 1001 Level: Warning Keywords: Classic User: NETWORK SERVICE Detection of product ‘{90140000-104C-0000-1000-1000000FF1CE}’, feature ‘PeopleILM’ failed during request for component ‘{1681AE41-ADA8-4B70-BC11-98A5A4EDD046}’ Source: MsiInstaller Event [...]
Group By Totals, Page Navigation and Sort Only by Specified Criteria – bug?
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, How To, SharePoint
When someone comes and tells me that SharePoint is behaving weird I’m not normally surprised. The way SharePoint works and it’s interface are not exactly intuitive but I can normally work out an explanation for the “weird” behaviour but not this time. The Problem I have a document library with 16 documents in it. 3 [...]
Tags: SharePoint 2010
Problem workbook opening in Excel in SharePoint 2010 – Internet Explorer
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint
One person in the team wasn’t able to open an Excel spreadsheet on our SharePoint 2010 server. There were two errors depending on how you tried to open the file. The first error was shown when the excel spreadsheet was being displayed in the browser and you clicked on the Open In Excel button. “To [...]
Tags: internet explorer, Microsoft Office, SharePoint 2010
Outlook 2010 Social Connector – No Items to show in this view
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems
Upgraded to Outlook 2010 a while back and was interested in the Social Connector but for some reason whenever I opened the People Pane I always got a message displayed “No Items to show in this view” rather than the email threads etc that everyone else saw. Well, yesterday I took a 10 minute break [...]
Tags: error, office 2010
Debugging mode in SharePoint 2010 – set customerrors mode to off in web.config
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint, Software Development
Whilst trying to debug a Feature Receiver in Visual Studio 2010 I kept receiving the standard application error suggesting that if I wanted to view the details of the error that I set the customErrors to Off. That’s odd I thought I had already done that and a visit to the web.config in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80 showed [...]
Tags: error, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010
SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization Service unable to change account name
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, How To, SharePoint, Software
Even though I thought I followed the instructions in the fantastic Spencer Harbar Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization I went to start the User Profile Synchronization Service but the account name was dimmed/greyed out and I could not change it from the NETWORK SERVICE account! After lots of messing around I [...]
Tags: sharepoint 2007
The form has been closed / The specified form cannot be found – SharePoint 2007
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint, Software Development
Having created my InfoPath 2007 Form, created my workflow in Visual Studio 2008 and clicked Deploy I found that my workflow went to In Progress but the Instantiation Form never displayed in SharePoint and all I got was a message “The form has been closed” on the screen. Looking in the log files I could [...]
Tags: infopath 2007, sharepoint 2007, visual studio 2008, workflow
