Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
We received the below Error in Site Manager page in Some sites. Here is the RCA and resolution: Root cause: We have installed some third party products, which internally created its Templates(List template, Document Library template, etc) ,we removed those third party products and the objects created with their template are broken…
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Service Unavailable: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable error normally occurs whenever the password for the application pool identity account is changed or application pools are in the stopped state. This error may appear temporarily when you deploy solutions. In my case, I realized that password got changed for the Identity…
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Apparently, to fix this issue, we need to increase the Session state value. I double-checked it by examining event logs and verified it. Event id: 7083 logged multiple times. So, the fix is to increase the session state value. Here is how to do that: Go to Central Administration >> Application Management…
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In a new SharePoint web application, it prompted for user name and password repeatedly And finally resulted in “Not Authorized – HTTP Error 401. The requested resource requires user authentication” – in the SharePoint site with Kerberos Authentication Enabled. Here is some more spec: MOSS 2007, Windows 2008, IIS 7.5. Solution: With IIS…
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Configured SharePoint 2010 Search in a new environment. When trying to search, received: Internal server error exception:” Error! Here are some workarounds: Troubleshooting Restart the SharePoint timer services/ IIS/ SharePoint Search service / Restart Server Enable the “Search Server WebParts” feature on the Site Collection level. Run the “Search and Process” Timer…
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SharePoint 2007 fails to highlight correct top navigation tab in some cases. Check for the following causes: Highlight will work ONLY for content pages (not for AllItems.aspx or for /documents) The highlight will work ONLY for relative URL’s (Not for https://sites/pages/abc.aspx, But will work for /pages/abc.aspx) It will work if NO duplicates…
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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 in the below error: “No content databases are available for this operation. Create a content database, and then…
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When you delete the Service applications, their Application Pools will not get deleted – They’ll become orphan/unused. So later when you create a new service application with same application pool, SharePoint will throw an error message: Application pool is already in use! “An object of the type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisWebServiceApplicationPool named “Excel Service Application…
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Found Upload multiple documents and Explorer views are disabled (in some cases, they are missing!) in a SharePoint 2010 site! Solution Here are the possible causes and solutions for upload multiple documents, explorer view disabled or missing in SharePoint 2010: As of now, This feature is available only in IE 32 bit….
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After migrating from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010, All the Sub-sites scolded me with: 404 Page Not Found error! But still able to get into the inner pages/document/site settings. Common causes for HTTP 404 Not Found issue: Verify the Host header in IIS and make sure its valid. Managed Path which were…
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