SharePoint Diary

SharePoint Designer in Contributor Mode

June 26, 2010 Known Issues, SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, Troubleshooting

SharePoint Designer Automatically switches to Contributor Mode? Another day, when I was trying to open a SharePoint site in SharePoint Designer, it automatically opened in the contributor mode! So I tried: Prompt for user name and password security settings in IE, then re-opened the SPD. Yes,…

SharePoint Search service is in Hung state, Starting or Stopping?

June 16, 2010 Search, SharePoint, Troubleshooting

Yes, it happened today morning. I'm unable to do a search in my MOSS website. When tried search, I got an error: "The search request was unable to connect to the search service." when I tried to do a full crawl, then it hangs there with "Starting" stage, Then I tried to s…

How to Remove All Responses from SharePoint Survey

June 15, 2010 SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, Survey, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting

How to delete all the survey responses in SharePoint 2007 all at once without having to go through deleting one at a time? Datasheet view? Oops, it doesn't support Datasheet view. How to Delete All Survey Responses and results in one click? Here is an easy option: go to Site Actions &g…

Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion - Error in SharePoint Site

June 08, 2010 Known Issues, SharePoint, Troubleshooting

SharePoint site gave an error message in browser "Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion" . Resolution: Not sure, What went wrong, But I did a Application pool recycling, which made the site up!!! When the same error occurred during a Search…

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