Archives | January 2009

Enhanced Instructions for Windows Server 2008 R2 Users Problem You're seeing dcom messages in your event log referencing the object 61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1. Probably with event ID 10016 or 27745. Or Explanation Simply put, your SharePoint app pool account does not have rights to trigger this service. You'll see errors every 4-8 hours and sometimes more often. Solution DISCLAIMER: DO THIS AGAINST YOUR DEVELOPMENT AND STAGING ENVIRONMENTS FIRST!!! Grant rights to your SharePoint Services user to launch IIS WAMREG Admin Service (61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1). Open...

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Problem An edge case, this error or phantom error will occur seemingly out of nowhere when a user attempts to create a page on a publishing site. Explanation Much like a report writer queries your print driver for margin and layout settings, SharePoint pulls up the master page template to layout a new publishing information. There's a good chance you've removed and re-created your own "Portal Contributor" or "Portal Viewers" group. Be careful not to delete out-of-the-box SharePoint groups without thorough testing, better yet, rename the group instead of deleting it. Solution Grant read...

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Ever wonder why you have to login to your Shared Service Provider? Me too! SharePoint distinguishes permissions between the farm administrators, which have rights to login to the Central Administration Console, and the Shared Service Provider administrators. Because Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) has a distributed management model and is built upon Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS), the Shared Service Provider is actually a functioning WSS site collection with its own security and content database. With that said, the only user that initially has access to your Shared Service Provider(s)...

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This article is based upon a fix I found on Msft’s website that didn’t have an screenshots, as they say, a picture tells a thousand words so hopefully this article helps you out. Problem You are attempting to import a spreadsheet into a SharePoint list probably with Office 2007 (12). Explanation Excel queries SharePoint to determine the version. What's most likely happening is that Sharepoint queries the root site such as http://sharepoint , which might not contain a SharePoint site or, more likely, your user does not have the rights to query this hidden SharePoint service.  There are many...

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Problem You're running Vista 32 or 64 bit and you don't have remote administration tools such as terminal services manager, DNS manager etc. Explanation Adminpak.msi no longer ships in the c:\windows\system32\ directory for Windows 2008. Solution Install remote server administration tools (RSAT) from Microsoft. Step 1 - Download and install the proper version of the remote server administration tools. Vista 64 bit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d647a60b-63fd-4ac5-9243-bd3c497d2bc5 Vista 32 Bit : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9FF6E897-23CE-4A36-B7FC-D52065DE9960...

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