Ulysses Ludwig's SharePoint blog

Creating a State Service Database for SharePoint 2010 Using Windows PowerShell

Problem SharePoint health analyzer states that the state service is missing its databse. Solution Create the state server database by following the steps below 1) Login to SharePoint farm member server under the credentials of a farm administrator 2) Open “SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (don’t just open PowerShell) NOTE: If you receive the “The Local Farm is Not Accessible” error see the following article: http://www.sharepointassist.com/2010/01/29/the-local-farm-is-not-a...

SharePoint 2010 workflows Not working

Problem You have a shiny new SharePoint 2010 environment and it’s running beautifully but you can’t create workflows. Actually, some workflows that don’t have an InfoPath association screen do work, however, others, such as the 3 State Workflow don’t work. Figure 1 below shows the 2nd screen of the 3 state workflow which is actually an InfoPath form, if you get an error on this screen then follow the steps in the solution below. Figure 1: InfoPath based 3 state approval workflow assoc...

Where’s InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint 2010?

IGNORE THIS ARTICLE - THIS IS RELATED TO PROBLEMS WITH PRE RTM LICENSE KEYS. IF YOU HAVE THIS PROBLEM EITHER YOU INSTALLED SHAREPOINT FOUNDATION OR YOU NEED A NEW LICENSE KEY. Problem I have noted that in both my lab and some client machines that InfoPath forms services is not available under general application settings in central admin. It's also not visible under "Manage Service Applications" Solution Manually activate the feature using stsadm: Login to host with adm...