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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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....
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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....
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
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