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
The type or namespace name ‘LayoutsPageBase’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls’ (are you missing an assembly reference?)
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under SharePoint, Software Development
After creating an empty SharePoint 2010 solution in Visual Studio 2010 I added an Application Page to the project but compiling failed and gave me the following error: The type or namespace name ‘LayoutsPageBase’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls’ (are you missing an assembly reference?) Using the object browser in Visual Studio I [...]
Tags: error, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010
SharePoint 2010 change order of User Profile properties
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under SharePoint, Software
Creating a new user profile property is really easy in SharePoint and there are lots of articles out there that describe how to do it but once you have created the custom property you find that it appears at the bottom of the user profile page and changing the order of the properties is a [...]
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: Ignore Conversation – does it just filter on subject line?
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Software
I POSTED THIS @ SOCIAL TECHNET: Ignore Conversation – does it just filter on subject line? feel free to answer there or here. Hi, Does IGNORE in Outlook 2010 work based on conversation threads or just on the subject line? Why am I asking? Let me explain… There was an ongoing internal email conversation with the subject [...]
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SharePoint Designer 2010 loses my changes when using Customize XSLT
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under SharePoint, Software Development
Having created a view in SharePoint 2010 I now wanted to modify the way the groupings were displayed. Opening the view in SharePoint 2010 I could see a ribbon option labeled Customize XSLT which enabled me to edit the way that the view was displayed by editing the XSL and in SharePoint Designer 2010 everything [...]
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