SharePoint Diary

SharePoint 2010 Search Error: "Internal server error exception"

March 26, 2011 Known Issues, Search, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Troubleshooting

Configured SharePoint 2010 Search in a new environment. When trying to search, received: Internal server error exception:" Error! Here are some workarounds: Restart the SharePoint timer services/ IIS/ SharePoint Search service / Restart Server Enable "Search Server WebParts" feature on the Site Collection level. Run the "Search and Process" Timer Job Make sure your search service application is associated with right proxy! (Go to Application Management >> Select Configure service application associations under the Service Application heading >>Select the default Application, select Your sevice app, Then click on set as default) ensure that the "SharePoint Server Search" and "Search Query and Site Settings Service" services are running Verify your AAM Settings ensuring that the application pool is assigned correctly Remove and reinstall the search application Install the Hot fix: http://support.micros

SharePoint 2010 Search Error: "Internal server error exception"

Reviewed by Unknown on March 26, 2011 Rating: 5

Configuring iFilter for PDF Search in SharePoint 2010 - Step by Step

March 25, 2011 Administration, Deployment Guides, PDF, Search, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010

What is iFilter by the way? IFilters are components that allow SharePoint to index content of specific file types, letting users to search for content in those files. Using the SharePoint Search we can find documents based on their filename, metadata or content within a document. By default the content of Office documents is indexed by the SharePoint crawler, but PDF files are not crawled. To add support for PDF files you have to add an I-Filter which the SharePoint crawler uses to read through PDF files and add the information to the search index. There are two steps in configuring PDF Search IFilters for SharePoint 1. Install the PDF iFilter 2. Configure the iFilter Installing IFilter The Installation of the iFilter 9.0 has to be done on the Index Server(s) How to install ifilter in SharePoint 2010? Download and install the iFilter installation file for 64-bit machine from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 Choose the loc

Configuring iFilter for PDF Search in SharePoint 2010 - Step by Step

Reviewed by Unknown on March 25, 2011 Rating: 5

Tools to Create Mockup for SharePoint Sites

March 18, 2011 SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, Utilities

Looking for Creating Mockups for your SharePoint Site? Here is the wonderful product: Balsamiq URL: http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups SharePoint 2010 balsamiq wire frames: http://tuney.blogspot.ae/2011/03/sharepoint2010-balsamiq-wireframes.html Visio 2010 comes with Powerful UI wire frame features, You can give a try to it. Don't forget to start with downloading SharePoint stencil for Visio from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35772 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21480 Other tools: http://www.designervista.com/ http://www.mockupscreens.com/

Tools to Create Mockup for SharePoint Sites

Reviewed by Unknown on March 18, 2011 Rating: 5

Migrating InfoPath Forms to SharePoint 2010

March 13, 2011 InfoPath, Migration/Upgrade, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

When migrating InfoPath forms to SharePoint 2010, The first show stopper is: Data connections. Data connections are hard coded in the InfoPath Farm. Lets say: we are migrating from MOSS 2007 environment (Say: http://MOSS.Company.com) to SharePoint 2010 (Say: Http://SharePoint.company.com). Doesn't matter whether you Upgrade/Migrate - After the migration all the existing InfoPath Forms will still be pointing to the old URL :http://MOSS.Company.com.. Ouch! Do we need to go to each and every Form, Change the connection to fix this? OMG! Luckily, SharePoint offers a PowerShell cmd-let to fix this issue: Update-SPInfoPathUserFileUrl Update-SPInfoPathAdminFileURL -find <OldUURLtoReplace> -replace <NewURL> In Case, This doesn't help or Form template is missing then you can upload/publish your new template and re-link them. (Under General Settings, click Relink forms to this form library) Technet article addressing this issue: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/

Migrating InfoPath Forms to SharePoint 2010

Reviewed by Unknown on March 13, 2011 Rating: 5

Disk space analyzing utility - Nice one

March 11, 2011 Administration, SharePoint, Utilities

I had to do the analysis on my server's disk space, because it was getting reduced time to time. The best utility I found is: Disk Space Fan! it provides nice interface, navigation options. URL: http://www.diskspacefan.com/index.html More utilities comparison: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-disk-space-analyzer.htm

Disk space analyzing utility - Nice one

Reviewed by Unknown on March 11, 2011 Rating: 5

Automating the SharePoint Site owner change process

March 05, 2011 Architecture / Planning, Object Model, SharePoint, SharePoint Development, Tips and Tricks

I'm the farm administrator of 5000+ site collection. People moving from role to role used to send a mail to me, for changing the site collection owners. hmm, for these requests I've to manually go and check, for which site collection owner needs to be changed, Is the requester is a previous site owner, is the URL provided is valid, etc. How about automating this process? Well, I've done that. Here is the over all idea. Create a list with the fields: URL of the site collection, Reason for change, New Primary owner, New secondary owner,etc. With content approval enabled - Let the end users come and fill this list. Create a .Net console application and place the application under task scheduler in one of the WFE, Let the application run every day, read the pending site ownership change requests, validate and change the site owners programmatically, approve/reject the request and then send a mail to the requester and consolidated mail to farm administrator. Sounds good?

Automating the SharePoint Site owner change process

Reviewed by Unknown on March 05, 2011 Rating: 5

Build SharePoint Feature to Deploy File System Changes

March 04, 2011 Deployment Guides, Object Model, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint Development, Solutions and Features, Visual Studio

With SharePoint solution packages, its possible to port the file system changes and providing Feature based solutions! Lets build a SharePoint 2007 feature to deploy file system changes (12 hive files) using WSP Builder. Here are the steps: 1 . Create a new WSP project ( you need to have WSP Builder installed. If not, get it from CodePlex) 2. Add a New Item 3. Add a New Feature with Receiver code. 2. Add the code in Feature Receiver, Say for e.g. I'm Replacing a image in 12 hive, I've written the following code. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using System.IO; namespace FileSystemChangesFeature { class FileSystemChangesFeature : SPFeatureReceiver { public override void FeatureActivated( SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties) { //Backup the Original Image NORESULT.gif and Replace with the New image from Features Dire

Build SharePoint Feature to Deploy File System Changes

Reviewed by Unknown on March 04, 2011 Rating: 5

Hide Quick Launch (Left Navigation) in SharePoint 2007 / 2010

March 04, 2011 Branding, Configuration, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

Place the below CSS in Content Editor Web Part (or in your CSS / Master Page/etc) In MOSS 2007: <style> .ms-quicklaunch { display:none } .ms-navframe { display: none } </style> In SharePoint 2010: <style type="text/css"> .v4master #s4-leftpanel { display: none } .v4master .s4-ca { margin-left: 0px } </style> For SharePoint 2013, Use this: Hide Quick Launch Bar in SharePoint 2013

Hide Quick Launch (Left Navigation) in SharePoint 2007 / 2010

Reviewed by Unknown on March 04, 2011 Rating: 5

No content databases are available for this operation - Error while tyring to restore using stsadm

March 03, 2011 Backup/Restore, Known Issues, SharePoint, Troubleshooting

My requirement is to rename a site URL, so I took a STSADM backup, then I went to restore using the new URL. When I ran the restore with the new URL, It resulted the below error: "No content databases are available for this operation. Create a content database, and then try the operation again. To create a content database, click Content databases on the Application Management page, select the Web application to use, and then click Add a content database" The problem is: The GUID of the new site I'm trying to create is the same as an existing site. Solution is: Delete the old site collection and then run the stsadm -o restore again! Microsoft KB article addresses this issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926321

No content databases are available for this operation - Error while tyring to restore using stsadm

Reviewed by Unknown on March 03, 2011 Rating: 5

Site Recycle Bin for SharePoint - Must have Utility

March 02, 2011 Backup/Restore, Recycle Bin, SharePoint, Utilities

Site Recycle Bin (formerly known as: Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture) Enables administrators to create a snapshot of site collections and Webs as they are deleted through the SharePoint user interface, the SharePoint Administration Tool, SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, or SharePoint Designer. By default this tool will only backup sites created from default Microsoft site templates. Refer here for more info: http://sharepointconnoisseur.blogspot.com/2011/04/tips-and-tricks-for-site-recycle-bin.html One important point to ponder here is: If you want to delete any site collection, you have to do it from WFE, and Not from CA server. otherwise this tool will not allow you to delete. Very handy! Download it from the URL: http://governance.codeplex.com /, By the way, Its a WSP file, you have to add, deploy and then activate the feature.

Site Recycle Bin for SharePoint - Must have Utility

Reviewed by Unknown on March 02, 2011 Rating: 5

Disable logging in SharePoint

March 02, 2011 Configuration, SharePoint, Tips and Tricks

In one of my development box, Logs grown rapidly and occupied disk space. By default logs are stored under: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS I wanted to STOP the logging altogether. Here is what I did to disable logging in SharePoint: Go Central Administration >> Operations >> Logging and Reporting Click on Diagnostic Logging Customer Experience Improvement Program: select No, I don't wish to participate Error Reports: select Ignore errors and don't collect information Trace log: clear the entire Path. Click on Usage Analysis Processing Uncheck Enable logging Click on Information Management Policy Usage Reports Uncheck Enable recurring policy usage reports Yeah, of course this should be done only for DEV environment. It's strongly recommended to enable the logging for any of your production servers. Else its impossible to troubleshoot any errors.

Disable logging in SharePoint

Reviewed by Unknown on March 02, 2011 Rating: 5