http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/default.aspx<b>&quot;Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.&quot; </b>-- <i>Dr. Samuel Johnson [1709 - 1784]</i> <br /><br /> <b>&quot;Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?&quot;</b> -- <i>T. S. Eliot [1888 - 1965]</i>enCommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960)http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/11/19/how-to-create-cross-site-list-lookups-in-moss-wss-3-0.aspxWed, 19 Nov 2008 09:10:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:23158agoodwin0http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=23158http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/11/19/how-to-create-cross-site-list-lookups-in-moss-wss-3-0.aspx#comments<p>(<em>Resurrected by request from the pre-crash blog posts)</em></p> <p><strong>Setting up the lookup list</strong><br />1.&nbsp;At the top level site use the <em>/_layouts/create.aspx</em> page to create a list with a column that contains the items you want to lookup to.<br />2.&nbsp;From the <em>Site Settings &gt; Site Column Gallery</em> create a Custom Site Column that uses a lookup field to the new list and column from step 1.</p> <p><strong>Using the new lookup</strong><br />3.&nbsp;At your chosen location in the site hierarchy, go to the settings for the list/library where you want to add your lookup and in the Columns section, click <em>Add from existing site columns<br /></em>4.&nbsp;Select your new Custom Site Column from the list (use the groups menu to filter and locate your list depending where you added it, either to an existing column group, the default Custom group or a newly defined custom group), and add across.<br />5.&nbsp;The new lookup column will now appear in your list/library.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=23158" width="1" height="1">WSS 3.0MOSSCustom columnshttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/10/29/how-to-get-moss-wss3-calendar-events-into-my-outlook-calendar.aspxWed, 29 Oct 2008 11:46:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:22484agoodwin3http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=22484http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/10/29/how-to-get-moss-wss3-calendar-events-into-my-outlook-calendar.aspx#comments<p>...and no, I&#39;m not talking about using the default functions to view/sync a SharePoint calendar into Outlook and then use the overlay feature in Outlook 2007 to be able to view multiple calendars in a single view.</p> <p>What I want to achieve is a way to get an calendar event which is created in SharePoint into my single, personal Outlook calendar.</p> <p>So, at a base level I was thinking along the lines of possibly using a custom sharepoint workflow to send a copy of the sharepoint event as a meeting request.<br />Or perhaps as a feature for MOSS/WSS calendars to have a button on the event info toolbar to &#39;add event to my Outlook&#39;...&nbsp;</p> <p>Well, as it happens there is already a default function that&nbsp;works-ish. It&#39;s not very smart, but it&nbsp;works.&nbsp;</p> <p>At the very basic level, there is a default &#39;export event&#39; option on the MOSS/WSS calendar event toolbar. Default function opens a &#39;file download&#39; dialogue asking if you want to &#39;open&#39; or &#39;save&#39; the current event. Selecting &#39;open&#39; gives you a standard Outlook event window. <br />Then selecting &#39;Save &amp; close&#39; from the toolbar here saves it directly into your own Outlook calendar.<br />Job done.</p> <p>To simplify this process&nbsp;slightly you can deslect the &#39;always ask me about this type of file&#39; option in the &#39;file download&#39; dialogue. The default action will then be to open the event file, then you can just save and close. :)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Now... to find a way to automate this&nbsp;if you are the one creating a calendar event in SharePoint, plus adding attendees...</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=22484" width="1" height="1">WSS 3.0MOSSOutlook IntegrationCalendarhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/08/11/no-options-to-save-workflows-as-templates-in-sharepoint-designer.aspxMon, 11 Aug 2008 07:45:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:19702agoodwin1http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=19702http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/08/11/no-options-to-save-workflows-as-templates-in-sharepoint-designer.aspx#comments<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yes, here it is, another shortsighted omission from MS.... <br /></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It&#39;s not possible to create a workflow in SharePoint Designer and save it as a template to be re-used in multiple lists/libraries! <br />I mean, c&#39;mon guys, how hard can that have been to implement !!??</font></p> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">And&nbsp;what does this mean for the end user??&nbsp; Since a single SPD&nbsp;workflow can only be attached to a single list, you have to rebuild a workflow&nbsp;from scratch&nbsp;for every instance you wish to implement. <br />Even if there are only a few lists/libraries that require the same workflow, this means, for complicated workflows built&nbsp;in SPD, a LOT of manual effort &amp; time running through the rules based logic. Not to mention, if there&#39;s an email notification involved, you can&#39;t copy &amp; paste the mail content and keep any lookups.</font></p> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">And how often is it that you have multiple lists/libraries that require the same workflow?? I&#39;d say pretty often. And it&#39;s not always convenient, necessary or possible to have the workflow built in Visual Studio and implemented as a feature.</font></p> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Well, rant over (for now), there is a workaround (probably by accident rather than design).... it is possible to copy and paste workflows in SPD. And not only can this be done in the same site, it can be done across site collections &amp; farms.</font></p> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">So, once you have created your first instance, you can simply copy &amp; paste your &#39;template&#39; to the root Workflows folder in the current (or any other) site. Then it&#39;s simply a case of following a couple of steps to ensure it&#39;s all going to run smoothly.</font></p> <ol> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Rename the new copy to identify which library it will be associated with.</font></div></li> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Open the new copy and you will be given the initial startpage of the workflow. Here you will see that the workflow isn&#39;t assigned to a list/library, so you can select a new list/library to&nbsp;assign it to.</font></div></li> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Step through to the next page where you can check/modify any existing conditions &amp; actions if you require small changes per instance <em>(Note: references to specific columns/fields will need to be checked. Of course, if you&#39;re implementing this procedure over many lists/libraries then the chances are that the&nbsp;lists/libraries are identical or have similar key columns/fields that are part of the workflow)</em></font></div></li> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Review any emails that will be generated by the workflow and reset any lookups that have been added to the body. These references will have been detached by the copy &amp; paste.&nbsp;To fix this it&#39;s simply a case of selecting the lookup which will appear as a&nbsp;string like:&nbsp;<em>[%{0B1B3F2F-D3DB-4F4B-8640-CA442C7E5B10}:%],</em> then clicking on the &#39;Add Lookup to Body&#39; button and clicking OK in the Define Workflow Lookup dialogue. This resets it to the current list/library.</font></div></li> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Click finish when everything is checked.</font></div></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Of course, you can save a target list/library as a template, move it to your <span style="mso-spacerun:yes;">&nbsp;</span>local development environment and keep a copy of this workflow assigned to it by doing the exact same procedure.</font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">It&#39;s not the most elegant solution, but until the SPD design team get their act together it&#39;ll have to do.</font></font></span></p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=19702" width="1" height="1">WorkflowSharePoint DesignerTemplatehttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/04/01/how-to-delete-historical-document-versions-in-wss-3-moss-not-entirely-simple.aspxTue, 01 Apr 2008 15:58:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:14784agoodwin7http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=14784http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/04/01/how-to-delete-historical-document-versions-in-wss-3-moss-not-entirely-simple.aspx#comments<p>So here&#39;s another tricky issue (and another missing feature) in the MOSS/WSS 3 landscape.</p> <p>What happens when you encounter a document library (or many libraries) with hundreds of documents with multiple versions?&nbsp;- maybe even 50+ versions per document because someone forgot to consider version trimming during the planning or failed to educate the end users on the implications of&nbsp;versioning. <br />If a library is created with versioning enabled, the library&nbsp;settings show&nbsp;major versions enabled but with NO default setting for trimming, but the user doesn&#39;t get to see this unless they actively go into the library settings after creation. This relies on the user actually knowing how to manage versions in MOSS - this can never be guaranteed.</p> <p>Of course, each one of these versions&nbsp;will be&nbsp;taking up valuable space in the database and having an impact, not only on the current db size, but the time and size of the daily SQL backups.</p> <p>Is there a way to purge old versions in MOSS/WSS 3 without affecting the latest/current version?? </p> <p>Sadly (and almost predictably) there is <u><strong>NO</strong>&nbsp;default function for post-trimming / deleting document versions en masse</u>, either in a single library or accross a&nbsp;site collection. With 100&#39;s or 1000&#39;s of documents across a site collection it would be no mean task to manually trim them all.<br /><br />So far, in search for an answer to this,&nbsp;we came across the following third-party tool for SPS2003 (<a href="http://www.sharepoint247.com/FreeTools/DeleteVersions/tabid/56/Default.aspx">http://www.sharepoint247.com/FreeTools/DeleteVersions/tabid/56/Default.aspx</a>), unfortunately it appears&nbsp;not to have&nbsp;been updated for MOSS/WSS 3.</p> <p>However, there is a small light&nbsp;at the end of this tunnel - I suspect more by chance than design...</p> <p>If you change the settings for an existing document library to trim the number of versions to, for example, no more than 3 major versions <em>(Document Library Settings &gt; Versioning Settings &gt; Document Version History &gt; Optionally limit the number of versions to retain), </em>then when a user modifies or uploads a new version of a&nbsp;document, all but the latest&nbsp;specified number of&nbsp;versions will be deleted. </p> <p>In our particular client case, this workaround&nbsp;was perfect since all the documents (application &amp; network performance reports) are batch copied to a single library on a nightly basis. Simply reseting the library&nbsp;versioning &amp; running the batch again forced the database to trim all the versions to 1 per document. After that it was a simple SQL process to shrink the database.</p> <p>However, this still leaves a couple of&nbsp;mighty big holes in the document management feature set for in MOSS /&nbsp;WSS 3 :- </p> <ul> <li> <div>NO default version&nbsp;trimming set at creation time.</div></li> <li> <div>NO means of post trimming versions across site collections, sites or multiple libraries&nbsp;beyond manually deleting every&nbsp;unwanted version on every individual document.</div></li></ul> <p>What happens in an enterprise portal with 1000&#39;s of document libraries that can&#39;t be batch copied and replaced??? Scary eh... <br />With such a complex product as SharePoint you&#39;d think the development team would have seen some of these glaringly obvious shortcomings (and yes, I have a list...)</p> <p>So, mental note to self (and anyone else who&#39;s paying attention)...</p> <ul> <li> <div>Plan carefully&nbsp;for versioning management...</div></li> <li> <div>Educate clients on the implications of versioning...</div></li> <li> <div>Educate clients on the need to educate their end users...</div></li> <li> <div>Buy shares in storage hardware companies ;)</div></li></ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=14784" width="1" height="1">VersioningWSS 3.0MOSShttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/03/19/publishing-browser-enabled-infopath-forms.aspxWed, 19 Mar 2008 14:00:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:14280agoodwin3http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=14280http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/03/19/publishing-browser-enabled-infopath-forms.aspx#comments<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Recently, I had a lot of trouble configuring InfoPath Forms Services in MOSS to handle a browser enabled form.</font></p> <p>A couple of errors were cropping up and typically the Infopath interface for reporting these errors gave no real clue as to the exact nature of the problem.<br />Also, both these errors mentioned references in the server application log - neither appeared there, which really didn&#39;t help matters.<br /><br />Fortunately, with the right settings in central admin, MOSS has very detailed logging. However, these logs can be large and cumbersome to search through, giving you eye-strain and a headache at the very least.<br />So, before you even try troubleshooting via the MOSS logs remember to configure the logging to an appropriate level of throttling. Having said that, the config options in MOSS to filter sets of info in the logs is pretty poorly designed imo.</p> <p>In the Central Admin pages the diagnostic logging event throttling was set to: <br />Category: All<br />Least critical event to report to the event log: Warning<br />Least critical event to report to the trace log: Verbose<br />Number of log files: 30<br />Minutes to use log file: 5</p> <p>&nbsp;----</p> <p><strong>Configuration/Background:</strong><br />The InfoPath form uses two web services to retrieve data from an SQL 2005 db - there is no writing to the db.<br />The web services are hosted on the same web application as the MOSS portal web app but using a different port.<br />The form is set to use a Trust level of Domain<br />The form is set to be browser compatible.<br />MOSS is configured with Enterprise Features enabled &amp; configured for InfoPath Forms Services <a href="http://server:12345/_admin/ipfsConfig.aspx">http://server:12345/_admin/ipfsConfig.aspx</a>&nbsp; <br />• Allow users to browser-enable form templates<br />• Render form templates that are browser-enabled by users&nbsp; <br />• Allow embedded SQL authentication&nbsp; <br />• Allow user form templates to use authentication information contained in data connection files&nbsp; <br />• Allow cross-domain data access for user form templates that use connection settings in a data connection file&nbsp; </p> <p>The full form with web service data connections runs correctly when tested in InfoPath - ie the web service connections to SQL are good.</p> <p><br /><strong>Issues:</strong><br />• When the form is published to MOSS and accessed from a form library using the browser interface the form returns the following error:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>An error occurred accessing a data source.<br />An entry has been added to the Windows event log of the server. <br />Log ID:6932</em></p></blockquote> <p>• No such error is listed in the server application event log<br /></p> <p><strong>Check MOSS log:</strong></p> <p><em>Data adapter failed during OnLoad: Security settings on the server prevent the use of this data connection.&nbsp;<br />Warning &nbsp;The form could not retrieve data from </em><a href="http://server:10101/webservice.asmx"><em>http://server:10101/webservice.asmx</em></a><em> because it would violate cross-domain restrictions. To allow this connection for administrator-approved form templates, enable full trust for the form template, or add the connection to a Data Connection Library.&nbsp; <br />For user form templates, cross-domain connections must be enabled in SharePoint Central Administration, and all connections must be in a Data Connection Library.&nbsp; For more information, please see the security documentation for InfoPath Forms Services.</em></p> <div><strong>Troubleshooting steps:</strong><br />• Converted each webservice data connection in InfoPath (Tools &gt; Data Connection) to MOSS based location (data connection lib): <a href="http://server/Data%20Connections/">http://server/Data%20Connections/</a>&nbsp; <br />This location is manually created in MOSS and used as the target location to publish converted web services data connections&nbsp;(.udcx) from InfoPath.<br />From here, the converted data connections are saved and uploaded to the admin location &#39;<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Manage Data Connections&#39;: </font><a href="http://server:12345/_admin/ManageDataConnectionFiles.aspx"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://server:12345/_admin/ManageDataConnectionFiles.aspx</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <p>Tested the form again and all is good :)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">--- key locations to remember for publishing browser enabled InfoPath Forms&nbsp;---</font></p> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Central Administration &gt; Applications:</strong></font></p> <ol> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Forms Services Configuration: </font><a href="http://server:12345/_admin/ipfsConfig.aspx"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://server:12345/_admin/ipfsConfig.aspx</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div></li> <ul> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Key settings for connections &amp; authentication</font></div></li></ul> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Manage Form Templates: </font><a href="http://server:12345/_admin/ManageFormTemplates.aspx"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://server:12345/_admin/ManageFormTemplates.aspx</font></a></div></li> <ul> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Upload, and approve a browser enabled form.</font></div></li> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Activate to a site collection</font></div></li></ul> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Manage Data Connections: </font><a href="http://server:12345/_admin/ManageDataConnectionFiles.aspx"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://server:12345/_admin/ManageDataConnectionFiles.aspx</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div></li> <ul> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Upload and web enabled data connection files (.udcx)</font></div></li> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Save and upload udcx files from step 2 below</font></div></li></ul></ol> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Site Administration:</strong></font></p> <ol> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Form Templates: </font><a href="http://server/FormServerTemplates"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://server/FormServerTemplates</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div></li> <ul> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This is auto populated from step 2 above</font></div></li></ul> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Data Connection Library: </font><a href="http://server/Data%20Connections/"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://server/Data%20Connections/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div></li> <ul> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Target location to publish converted web services data connections from InfoPath</font></div></li> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Default Approval required.</font></div></li></ul> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Form Library: </font><a href="http://server/site/Library"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://server/site/Library</font></a></div></li> <ul> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Set library advanced settings - enable management of content types </font></div></li> <li> <div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Specify the published &amp; deployed form template from the ‘select from existing site content types’<br /></font></div></li></ul></ol> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=14280" width="1" height="1">MOSSInfoPath Forms Serviceshttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/03/19/sql-reporting-services-add-in-reporting-services-section-does-not-appear-moss-application-management-site-collection.aspxWed, 19 Mar 2008 13:18:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:14276agoodwin3http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=14276http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/03/19/sql-reporting-services-add-in-reporting-services-section-does-not-appear-moss-application-management-site-collection.aspx#comments<p>After installation of the Reporting Services Add-in you may find that the “Reporting Services” section is missing in the site administration Application Management page. </p> <p>Reporting services logs information to a log file in the “%temp% directory” for the user who is installed the Reporting Services Add-in, the file name is <em>RS_SP_&lt;number&gt;.log</em>.&nbsp; </p> <p>Check for an error activating the ReportServer Feature in the Central Administration: </p> <p>******* User does not have permission to add feature to site collection: <a href="http://machinename:8080/">http://machinename:8080</a> </p> <p>This is because you are accessing the site using an account which does not have high enough permission, even though it may already be in the Site Administrators &amp; Site Collection Administrators lists. Try logging in with an enterprise administration account. <br />Once you have logged in with a suitable account you will see Site Administration &amp; Site Collection Administration in the site settings page:&nbsp; </p> <ol> <li>Go to SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.</li> <li>Select Site Actions -&gt; Site Settings </li> <li>Under the Site Collection Administration section click Site Collection Features </li> <li>Activate the Report Server Integration Feature in the list </li></ol> <p>You will then see a Reporting Services section appear in the Site Settings page as well as the Application Management page. </p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=14276" width="1" height="1">MOSSSQL Reporting Serviceshttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/03/14/limitations-with-views-in-wss-3-0.aspxFri, 14 Mar 2008 14:20:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:14092agoodwin8http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=14092http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/03/14/limitations-with-views-in-wss-3-0.aspx#comments<p>Although you can have many views in a library (don&#39;t know the&nbsp;exact&nbsp;limit yet but I have 82 so far), it seems that the library/list &#39;edit shared webpart&#39;&nbsp;view selector dropdown only displays 47 custom views plus the 4 defaults.<br />I guess I&#39;m going to have to try to find a way to change that limit....</p> <p>Oh, and the list of views available in the dropdown aren&#39;t sorted alphabetically.</p> <p>There&#39;s also an annoying bug that when editing the current view and clicking ok, you are thrown back to the published page and the settings for the toolbar have defaulted to &#39;full toolbar&#39; even if you have previously specified summary or no toolbar.&nbsp; &lt;sigh&gt;</p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=14092" width="1" height="1">WSS 3.0http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/02/29/adventures-in-net-2-0-and-webservices.aspxFri, 29 Feb 2008 15:50:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:13344agoodwin1http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=13344http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/02/29/adventures-in-net-2-0-and-webservices.aspx#comments<p>I recently had problems when trying to access a webservice installed on a web site in IIS 6.0. When browsing to the web service at <a href="http://server/webservice.asmx">http://server/webservice.asmx</a> I recieved:</p> <p><em>&quot;Server Application Unavailable. The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable.&nbsp;Please hit the &quot;Refresh&quot; button in your web browser to retry your request.&quot;</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The application event log returned two errors:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Event Type:&nbsp;Error<br />Event Source:&nbsp;ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0<br />Event Category:&nbsp;None<br />Event ID:&nbsp;1088<br />Description:&nbsp;Failed to execute request because the App-Domain could not be created. Error: 0x80070005 Access is denied.&nbsp;</em></p> <p><br /><em>Event Type:&nbsp;Error<br />Event Source:&nbsp;ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0<br />Event Category:&nbsp;None<br />Event ID:&nbsp;1334<br />Description:&nbsp;Failed to initialize the AppDomain:/LM/W3SVC/2079486950/Root&nbsp;<br />Exception:&nbsp;System.IO.FileLoadException&nbsp;Message: Could not load file or assembly &#39;System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a&#39; or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.&nbsp;<br />StackTrace:&nbsp;at System.Reflection.Assembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark&amp; stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection)&nbsp;at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark&amp; stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)&nbsp;at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark&amp; stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)&nbsp;at System.Activator.CreateInstance(String assemblyName, String typeName, Boolean ignoreCase, BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes, Evidence securityInfo, StackCrawlMark&amp; stackMark)&nbsp;at System.Activator.CreateInstance(String assemblyName, String typeName)&nbsp;at System.AppDomain.CreateInstance(String assemblyName, String typeName)&nbsp;at System.Web.Hosting.ApplicationManager.CreateAppDomainWithHostingEnvironment(String appId, IApplicationHost appHost, HostingEnvironmentParameters hostingParameters)&nbsp;at System.Web.Hosting.ApplicationManager.CreateAppDomainWithHostingEnvironmentAndReportErrors(String appId, IApplicationHost appHost, HostingEnvironmentParameters hostingParameters)</em>&nbsp;</p></blockquote> <p><br />I found various references related to &quot;Failed to initialize the AppDomain:/LM/W3SVC/2079486950/Root&quot;</p> <p>One of which suggested that the error lay with .Net not having been registered with IIS. </p> <p>To solve this, navigate to your .NET directory (something like C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727) in a command prompt and run the command&nbsp;aspnet_regiis.exe -i&nbsp;which will register ASP.NET with IIS</p> <p>However - this returned an error: &quot;The error indicates that IIS is in 64 bit mode, while this application is a 32 bit application and thus not compatible.&quot;</p> <p>D.oH! wrong directory for the .Net Framework - we are on a 64bit server after all - try in cmd: </p> <p><strong><em>cd C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727aspnet_regiis.exe -i</em></strong>&nbsp;</p> <p>and you should then see...</p> <p>Start installing ASP.NET (2.0.50727).</p> <p>..............................</p> <p>Finished installing ASP.NET (2.0.50727).</p> <p>Then...still no joy. Tried an iisreset without success.</p> <p>So...More googling for:</p> <p><em>&quot;Failed to execute request because the App-Domain could not be created. Error: 0x80070005 Access is denied.&quot;</em></p> <p>... revealed (damn! you have to love google!) a <a class="" href="http://www.issociate.de/board/post/236012/how_do_i_fix_this_error_in_asp_2.0.html" target="_blank">post&nbsp;by dclaassen</a> which suggested permissions at the website root...</p> <p>So, as instructed I tried adding the Network Service account with read permissions to the website root folder and... voila! :)</p> <p>[additional: later reconfigured the webservices to use integrated authentication&nbsp;and set the web application hosting the webservices&nbsp;to use the main MOSS portal application pool. This meant the webservices would use the logged in user correctly]&nbsp;</p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=13344" width="1" height="1">Webservices.Nethttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/01/09/exception-from-hresult-0x80040d23.aspxWed, 09 Jan 2008 10:23:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:10698agoodwin0http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=10698http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2008/01/09/exception-from-hresult-0x80040d23.aspx#comments<p><font size="1"><font face="verdana,geneva">When trying to access the Shared Services Provider Search Settings on a newly restored farm&nbsp;(</font><a href="http://server:54321/ssp/admin/_layouts/searchsspsettings.aspx"><font face="verdana,geneva">http://server:54321/ssp/admin/_layouts/searchsspsettings.aspx</font></a><font face="verdana,geneva">) I&#39;m getting the following error:</font></font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">&#39;Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040D23&#39; </font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">This initial error corresponds to an application event log: </font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"><em>Event Type:&nbsp;Error<br />Event Source:&nbsp;Windows SharePoint Services 3<br />Event Category:&nbsp;Timer <br />Event ID:&nbsp;6398<br />Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;2008-01-09<br />Time:&nbsp;&nbsp;11:04:49<br />User:&nbsp;&nbsp;N/A<br />Computer:&nbsp;&lt;SERVERNAME&gt;<br />Description:<br />Ett undantagsfel uppstod för körningsmetoden för jobbdefinitionen Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.IndexingScheduleJobDefinition (ID 6acb7104-0309-459f-aebb-55003e90a509). Mer information finns nedan.</em></font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"><em>Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040D23</em></font></p> <p><em><font face="verdana,geneva"><font size="1">For more information, see Help and Support Center at </font><font size="1">http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp</font></font></em><font size="1"><font face="verdana,geneva"><em>.<br /></em>----</font></font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva"><font size="1">Uncommonly the Help &amp; Support Center actually has a related article: </font><font size="1">Event ID 6398 Timer JobsURL: </font></font><a href="http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/76736512-efb5-406c-9ae9-ef619393f3ad1033.mspx"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/76736512-efb5-406c-9ae9-ef619393f3ad1033.mspx</font></a><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">However, this didn&#39;t offer any resolution - using the repair function did nothing.</font></p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Checking the services Start &gt; Administrative Tools &gt; Services and looking at the “Office SharePoint Server Search” service showed the service as stopped. Manually starting it gave the following pop up dialogue error:</font><code><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"> </font></code><code> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"><em>Error 183: Cannot create a file when that file already <font face="verdana,geneva">exists.</font></em></font></code><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="1">The Application event log then showed an information event (ID: 1013) saying that the search service had terminated normally. Then shortly after the same <em>Event ID:&nbsp;6398 - </em><font size="1"><em>Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.IndexingScheduleJobDefinition (ID 6acb7104-0309-459f-aebb-55003e90a509).</em></font></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="1"><font size="1">Additionally another error, also related to the &#39;Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040D23&#39; :</font></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="1"><font size="1"><em>Event Type:&nbsp;Error<br />Event Source:&nbsp;Office SharePoint Server<br />Event Category:&nbsp;Delade tjänster för Office Server <br />Event ID:&nbsp;6482<br />Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;2008-01-09<br />Time:&nbsp;&nbsp;11:40:49<br />User:&nbsp;&nbsp;N/A<br />Computer:&nbsp;AVENLNDSRV010<br />Description:<br />Programserveradministrationsjobbet misslyckades för tjänstinstansen Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (4aa10976-553a-4176-a302-2c3337637d6d).</em></font></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="1"><font size="1"><em>Orsak: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040D23</em></font></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="1"><font size="1"><em>Information om teknisk support:<br />System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040D23): Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040D23<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.MSSITLB.IGatherManagerAdmin3.get_ConfigurationVersion()<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.Gatherer.ProvisionGlobalProperties()<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize()<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)</em></font></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="1"><font size="1"><em>For more information, see Help and Support Center at </em><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp"><em>http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp</em></a><em>.</em><br />---</font></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="1"><font size="1">I checked the permissions on the databases and the account used for the search services was a db owner. It wasn&#39;t until I set the permissions for the services to be the system account (as opposed to a separate account for the search) that the SSP Search Settings became available again.<br />Worryingly, somewhere in the restore process the permissions have been messed up. Time for further testing &amp; re-identifying the roles and permissions for the admin accounts.&nbsp;</font></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><font size="1"></p></font></font> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"></font>&nbsp;</p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"></font>&nbsp;</p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10698" width="1" height="1">http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/11/19/unable-to-add-unc-path-mapping-for-a-wss-document-library-system-error-67-has-occurred.aspxMon, 19 Nov 2007 09:50:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:8872agoodwin6http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=8872http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/11/19/unable-to-add-unc-path-mapping-for-a-wss-document-library-system-error-67-has-occurred.aspx#comments<p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">During&nbsp;a client installation I came accross a stumbling block when trying to map a UNC path to a WSS 3.0 document library.</font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">The issue&nbsp;was that I need to batch copy files from one server share directly into a WSS 3.0 document library via the windows explorer view (UNC path).<br /></font><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">However, while this works like a charm from Windows XP, doing this from a w2k3 server to another w2k3 server is&nbsp;problematic. <br />Having tried adding&nbsp;the UNC path mapping using command line: <font face="courier new,courier" size="2">Net use X: \\Server\Site\DocLib</font>, and via windows explorer mapping to: </font><a><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">\\Server\Site\DocLib</font></a><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"> , both returned the error: <br /><br /><em>System error 67 has occurred. The network name cannot be found.</em> </font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Since the other common way of accessing this, using the document library GUI and using the <em>Actions &gt; Open with Windows Explorer</em>, failed to activate (as I thought due to the default IE lockdown on a w2k3 server), the following have also been set: </font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">* The user account is a site owner in WWS 3.0 and is in the Power User group on the web server. <br />* Default IE security lockdown has been disabled on the w2k3 server <br />* All Active X controlls have been enabled <br />* The site is in a trusted zone </font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Still no joy.</font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">After some head scratching &amp; further investigation and eventually resorting&nbsp;to the&nbsp;&#39;phone a friend&#39; option&nbsp;I was relieved to find that the answer was a reltively simple one:</font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Start the Web Client Service under services and set it to startmode automatic.</font></p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8872" width="1" height="1">WSS 3.0w2k3 serverhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/10/24/pdf-documents-not-appearing-in-search-results.aspxWed, 24 Oct 2007 12:20:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:7714agoodwin3http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=7714http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/10/24/pdf-documents-not-appearing-in-search-results.aspx#comments<p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">You&#39;ve <a class="" title="Installing iFilter for PDF (32bit server)" href="http://yasirbutt.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A8677D5751E6B4DA!879.entry">installed the PDF iFilter</a> on the server and registered the dll.... you&#39;ve added the icon to the images folder and the reference to the xml file... you&#39;ve added the file type in the Shared Services provider Search Settings... you&#39;ve run the full search indexing for the portal... </font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">...the icon for pdf will display correctly in lists &amp; libraries....but you *still* don&#39;t get pdf documents appearing search results??</font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">You wouldn&#39;t happen to be running a 64bit server for&nbsp;SharePoint or SQL&nbsp;?? <br /><br />If you are then there&#39;s some bad news for you. Adobe have not yet released a 64bit version of the iFilter for PDF. And while the 32bit version installs without error you will not get any results appearing in the SharePoint search. <br />As yet Adobe have not announced when (or even if)&nbsp;they will release this.<br /></font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">In the meantime there is an alternative.... Use this </font><a class="" title="Foxit PDF iFilter" href="http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">64bit iFIlter from Foxit Software</font></a></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"><strong>Note:</strong>&nbsp;the installer does not register&nbsp;the application&nbsp;with MOSS 2007. After installing you will need to manually add a&nbsp;pdf extension in the&nbsp;registry&nbsp;settings:</font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">&nbsp; 1. Open regedit and&nbsp;locate the following:<br />[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Applications\&lt;SiteID&gt;\Gather\Search\Extensions\ExtensionList]<br />&nbsp; 2. Add a new String value with the latest number in the sequence and edit it to add pdf as the Value data.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="1">Then, check that the pdf file type shows i</font><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Calibri&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">n the portal Shared Services Administration:<br />&nbsp; 1.&nbsp; Under Search click </font><font face="verdana,geneva"><font size="1"><em>Search Settings<br /></em>&nbsp; 2.&nbsp; Under <em>Crawl Settings</em> click </font></font><font face="verdana,geneva"><font size="1"><em>File Types</em></font></font></span></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Calibri&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><font face="verdana,geneva"><font size="1">If not then add it:<br />&nbsp; 1.&nbsp; Click <em>New File Type</em> and add pdf<br /><br />Incidentally, this&nbsp;<span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Calibri&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">will add&nbsp;the following reference for the pdf file type in the registry:<br /></font></span><font face="verdana,geneva"><font size="1">&nbsp; 1. Open regedit, locate</font></font><font size="1"><font face="verdana,geneva"><em> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf]&nbsp;<br />&nbsp; </em></font></font><font size="1"><font face="verdana,geneva">2. Check the default value&nbsp;is <em>{987f8d1a-26e6-4554-b007-6b20e2680632}</em></font><font face="verdana,geneva"> </font></font></font></font></span></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Calibri&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Calibri&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Check also that you have&nbsp;the .gif file that you want to use for the pfd icon&nbsp;in the following folder on the server:&nbsp;<br />&nbsp; Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images <br /><br />(the icon can be found here (use&nbsp;the&nbsp;17 x 17 one): </font><a href="http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html</font></a>)<br /><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Then:&nbsp; <br />&nbsp; 1.</font></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Calibri&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Calibri&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"> Edit the Docicon.xml file to include the .pdf extension. To do so:&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Start Notepad, and then open the Docicon.xml file here:&nbsp;Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Template\Xml&nbsp;<br />&nbsp; 2.&nbsp; Add an entry for the .pdf extension. For example, where NameofIconFile is the name of the .gif file:&nbsp;&lt;Mapping Key=&quot;pdf&quot; Value=&quot;NameofIconFile.gif&quot;/&gt;&nbsp;<br />&nbsp; 3.&nbsp; On the File menu, click Save, and then quit Notepad.</font>&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Calibri&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Next - <u>REBOOT THE SERVER</u>! (Before doing this there were a few minutes frustration. Simply stopping &amp; starting the services, iisreset etc is not sufficient)<br /><br />When rebooted go back to the portal Shared Services Administration and&nbsp;start a full crawl:<br />&nbsp; 1. </font><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Calibri&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Under <em>Crawl Settings</em> click </font><font face="verdana,geneva"><font size="1"><em>Content sources and Crawl Schedules<br /></em>&nbsp; 2.&nbsp;Click the arrow icon next to your Shared Service (Default name is: Local Office SharePoint Server Sites) and select <em>Start Full Crawl</em></font></font></span></span></p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"><br />One more catch though... it&#39;s not free like the Adobe one would be. Though you can download and install it to &quot;test&quot; before coughing up the cash for the license.</font><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"> </font><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"> <p>&quot;Foxit PDF IFilter can be used for free on desktop environment. However, users need to purchase licenses when they use Foxit PDF IFilter on server environments.<br />License cost for each server with up to two CPU cores is $329.99. Each additional CPU core costs $129.99. Please be aware that each dual-core CPU counts as two CPU cores and each quad CPU as four CPU cores. Each license covers both 32-bit and 64-bit IFilter versions.&quot; </p></font> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7714" width="1" height="1">WSS 3.0MOSSpdf iFilterhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/10/11/error-connecting-two-crm-webparts-in-moss-wss-3-0.aspxThu, 11 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:7175agoodwin2http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=7175http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/10/11/error-connecting-two-crm-webparts-in-moss-wss-3-0.aspx#comments<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We&#39;ve recently been messing about with the CRM &amp; MOSS integration features, and while the initial&nbsp;setup of the MOSS farm on Kerberos authentication wasn&#39;t the most straightforward we are now getting issues when trying to conect two CRM webparts for filtering. This doesn&#39;t happen if we connect a regular web part with a CRM list web part. It happens only between two CRM list web parts.&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The target webpart returns the following error:</font></p> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>&quot;An error has occurred. This Web part could not be displayed.</em> <em>ERROR [42000] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Conversion failed when converting from a character string to uniqueidentifier&quot;</em><br /></font></p> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">&nbsp;As an additional part of this error, on refreshing the page or trying to redefine the filter,&nbsp;the target webpart for the filtering also&nbsp;returns the following:</font></p> <div class="UserGeneric"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em><span class="ms-bold">&quot;Web Part Error: </span>&nbsp;Web Part&nbsp;[webpart name] did not implement the GetInitEventArgs method&quot;</em></font></div> <div class="UserGeneric"><em></em>&nbsp;</div> <div class="UserGeneric">So far the various forum threads we&#39;ve looked at have vielded no fixes for this so we have now opened an MS Support Case. As soon as we get the results I&#39;ll update here.</div> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7175" width="1" height="1">WSS 3.0MOSSCRM 3.0http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/09/03/content-editor-webpart-error-quot-cannot-retrieve-properties-at-this-time-quot.aspxMon, 03 Sep 2007 12:15:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:5127agoodwin13http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=5127http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/09/03/content-editor-webpart-error-quot-cannot-retrieve-properties-at-this-time-quot.aspx#comments<p><font size="1">When using the content editor web part, in some cases you can receive the following message when editing the content, or saving the content: &quot;cannot retrieve properties at this time&quot;.</font></p> <p><font size="1">This exact error suddenly appeared on a client installation after https access was enabled via ISA server. Prior to that the content editor web parts worked normally over http. When browsing the site using the server name there is no problem. The issue therefore lies with the https translation.<br /></font><font size="1">The sites alternate access mappings are configured with the https url as an extranet. Changing this to any of the other options makes no difference.</font></p> <p><font size="1">Mart Muller refers to a MS KB article in <a class="" href="http://blogs.tamtam.nl/mart/ContentEditorWepartErrorQuotcannotRetrievePropertiesAtThisTimequotWorkaround.aspx">his post here</a> however I&#39;m not sure this is correct. Neither of the two supposed causes are applicable in this case:</font></p> <li><font size="1">You configure an Internet Information Services (IIS) virtual server that has an assigned IP address, and then extend that virtual server by using Windows SharePoint Services. </font> <li><font size="1">You configure an IIS virtual server that has a host header name, you extend that virtual server by using Windows SharePoint Services, and then you install Web Part assemblies in the Bin folder instead of in the global assembly cache.</font></li> <p><a href="http://blogs.tamtam.nl/mart/ContentEditorWepartErrorQuotcannotRetrievePropertiesAtThisTimequotWorkaround.aspx"></a>&nbsp;</p> <p><font size="1">Further investigation ongoing...</font></p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=5127" width="1" height="1">WSS 3.0MOSShttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/08/20/multipage-meeting-workspace-still-a-second-class-citizen.aspxMon, 20 Aug 2007 15:17:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:4556agoodwin2http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=4556http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/08/20/multipage-meeting-workspace-still-a-second-class-citizen.aspx#comments<p>I&#39;m not one to complain, but...</p> <p>[rant]</p> <p>Yet again I find that one of the most intuitive,&nbsp;flexible site templates is hobbled for no good reason. Why on earth is the Multipage&nbsp;Meeting Workspace so restricted compared to the&nbsp;Team Site???</p> <p>To begin with, lets take the function for&nbsp;&#39;save site as a template&#39;....<br />- Team Site - &#39;save site as template&#39; allows for inclusion of content. Great, nice one, useful feature that.<br />- Multipage Meeting Workspace - &#39;save site as template&#39; DOES NOT allow for inclusion of content. WTF?? why on earth should I be restricted in this site?? maybe some people use this template for other things than meetings because we find the page tab layout extremely useful. This was a problem in 2003, why the hell hasn&#39;t it been fixed in 2007??</p> <p>And then today I discovered another shortcoming that may not be quite so apparent. The new 2007 feature &#39;Send to location&#39;...<br />- Team Site - document: Send to &gt; Other location, add location (by typing instead of a browse function, hello? is this 2007??), send - file is copied. Ok.&nbsp;<br />- Multipage Meeting Workspace - document: Send to &gt; Other location, add location (grr), send - ERROR! &quot;There were errors copying to this location. The destination is in a meeting workspace, which does not support this action.&quot;&nbsp; DoH!!<br />I&#39;m speechless. No, really. <br />Hello!!?? is there any light on in the MOSS development office??? WHY is this not possible in the Multipage Meeting Workspace site??? For what possible reason would I not want this feature available in this site template???</p> <p>And do you know how I discovered this?? In testing the workflow features of SharePoint Designer in a Multipage Meeting Workspace site.</p> <p>cue..</p> <p>[subrant]</p> <p>Somehow the development team for SharePoint Designer forgot to include the workflow function&nbsp;to allow&nbsp;MOVE document from one location to another. Instead you have to COPY the document to the destination location and then DELETE the original!!<br /><br />Words begin to fail me at this point.&nbsp;Why on earth&nbsp;was this feature overlooked?? 9 times out of 10 a user will probably want to move a document rather than duplicate it. Surely this can&#39;t have been difficult for the development team to include?? </p> <p>Now I have to deal with a substandard method for getting a document from one location to another and finding that the DELETE step in the custom workflow causes the document in the target location as well as the origin location to be deleted!! Probably because this is a, you guessed it... Multipage Meeting Workspace site.</p> <p>[/subrant]</p> <p>And in case you&#39;re wondering, yes, the workflow function for copying a document from one location to another on a Multipage Meeting Workspace site works even though you can&#39;t do it via the drop menu &#39;Send to &gt; Other location&#39; options in the library!!!&nbsp; o_0</p> <p>[/rant]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4556" width="1" height="1">MOSSWorkflowMultipage Meeting WorkspaceSharePoint Designerhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/08/16/moss-2007-amp-outlook-integration-a-one-way-street.aspxThu, 16 Aug 2007 08:43:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:4348agoodwin3http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=4348http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/08/16/moss-2007-amp-outlook-integration-a-one-way-street.aspx#comments<font face="Calibri"> <p>I&#39;ve recently had a client ask me &quot;why, when you can connect a library (say Personal Documents from a users MySite) to Outlook, it is not possible to manage the folders in that library from within Outlook?&quot;</p> <p>When right-clicking on the Personal Documents folder in Outlook you get the option, amongst others, to create a new folder.<br />Despite all users being admins on their own MySite this returns an error dialogue: &quot;Cannot create the folder. You do not have permissions to create a subfolder under this folder. To check your permissions for the folder, right-click the top-level, then click Properties on the shortcut menu. See the folder owner or your administrator to change your permissions.&quot;</p> <p>While Outlook now offers synchronisation and offline use of SharePoint hosted content, the availbility of menu options here in Outlook, normally for Outlook folders, also implies to users that SharePoint content can be driven from Outlook. <br />Unfortunately not, the sync&#39;d SharePoint folders are read only, contrary to the menu options suggestions.</p> <p>* Is there any way of enabling SharePoint content creation via Outlook in the current version?? (unlikely)</p> <p>* If not, then is there a way of disabling this menu for Outlook sync&#39;d content to avoid users frustration and confusion?? (overlooked?)</p> <p>Answers on a postcard please...</p></font> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4348" width="1" height="1">MOSSOutlook Integrationhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/07/23/connecting-moss-version-number-in-word-documents.aspxMon, 23 Jul 2007 09:07:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:3314agoodwin7http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3314http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/07/23/connecting-moss-version-number-in-word-documents.aspx#comments<p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">This one has been resurrected from the collection of post-crash blogs:</font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1"><strong>How is it possible to connect metadata/column information to Word documents stored in a WSS 3.0 library so that it is synchronised both ways??</strong></font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Also referenced in the MS Office Word Team blog adding links between Word &amp; MOSS metadata/columns is simple enough to do, but one thing appears to be missing.... <br />Easily implemented for custom metadata and a few defaults, however &#39;Version&#39; (as in the version number created by doc libs, both minor &amp; major) doesn&#39;t seem to be available? Only Revision number which isn&#39;t the same. Or am I missing something? </font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Surely this is one of the more important columns that users may wish to include in a document header. How can this be added?? </font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Finally, after trawling through endless forums &amp; posts I find a blog by Joerg Sinemus describing exactly what I want to achieve. Though by no means a simple solution: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/joerg_sinemus/archive/2007/01/26/wss-version-number-in-the-word-2003-document.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/joerg_sinemus/archive/2007/01/26/wss-version-number-in-the-word-2003-document.aspx</a></font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">A great post, but surely there is an easier way to do this in MOSS / Word??</font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">The bigger questions is perhaps: why on earth wasn&#39;t this feature included in the WSS 3.0/Word integration options by default??!!! After all, once a document is in library you can connect any custom metadata using the Quick Parts as well as some defaults. So why not Version?? it&#39;s possibly one of the most often used items in word headers.</font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">So was this a serious lack of foresight on the part of the MOSS development team? or just too complicated to get into this release?</font></p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3314" width="1" height="1">VersioningWSS 3.0MetadataWordMOSShttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/06/28/transition-to-new-specializations-in-the-information-worker-solutions-competency.aspxThu, 28 Jun 2007 13:14:00 GMT1f6a1193-f4bb-4480-a5ae-b538d8b20f46:2507agoodwin1http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=2507http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/06/28/transition-to-new-specializations-in-the-information-worker-solutions-competency.aspx#comments<p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">The Microsoft Information Worker Solutions Competency is changing to reflect the enhanced capabilities of the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The program will now be made up of nine specializations that have been designed to help you better position yourself to build today&#39;s most in-demand business solutions-and capitalize on some of the fastest-growing market-segment opportunities. </font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">As a partner who is active in the &quot;Office System Desktop Deployment&quot; and/or &quot;Office Smart Client&quot; specialization in the Information Worker Solutions Competency, we want to inform you that the names of these specializations are being changed and the list of qualifying exams is being expanded to include the new Microsoft Office 2007 products. Please be assured that these changes require no action on your part and your benefits will continue without interruption. </font></p> <p><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Please refer to the table below for more information about the new specialization names. </font></p> <table class="" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td class="" colspan="4"> <p align="center"><font size="1"><font face="verdana,geneva"><strong>Understanding Upcoming Changes to Current Specializations</strong> </font></font></p></td></tr> <tr> <td class=""> <p align="center"><strong><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Current Specialization </font></strong></p></td> <td class=""> <p align="center"><strong><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">New Specialization </font></strong></p></td> <td class=""> <p align="center"><strong><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Upcoming<br />Changes </font></strong></p></td> <td class=""> <p align="center"><font size="1"><font face="verdana,geneva"><strong>Action Required of Partner Organization</strong> </font></font></p></td></tr> <tr> <td class=""> <p align="center"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Portals and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) </font></p></td> <td class=""> <p align="center"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Forms</font></p> <p align="center"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">or</font></p> <p align="center"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Portals and Collaboration</font></p></td> <td class="" rowspan="2"> <p align="center"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">&nbsp;Partner organizations<br />&nbsp;will be transitioned to<br />&nbsp; one of the new <br />&nbsp;specializations that best fits their MCP&#39;s exam certifications </font></p></td> <td class="" rowspan="2"> <p align="center"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">None.&nbsp; When the transition is complete, you may review your new specializations. If you would prefer to transition to another specialization, you may do so by reassigning your references in the Partner Membership Center. This process is simple and instructions will be sent after the transition process has been completed. <br />(Please Note: To be active in the new specialization, you must also meet the MCP requirement.)</font></p></td></tr> <tr> <td class=""> <p align="center"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">&nbsp;Messaging and Collaboration </font></p></td> <td class=""> <p align="center"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">Portals and Collaboration or Unified Communications </font></p></td></tr></table> <p><a href="http://response.microsoft.com/P/v3/r.asp?r=T1_Url0%26e=102464%253B173692%253B35459840%253B2%253B02%26a=1007" target="_blank"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">View transition details for the 2007 Information Worker Solutions Competency </font></a></p> <p><a href="http://response.microsoft.com/P/v3/r.asp?r=T1_Url1%26e=102464%253B173692%253B35459840%253B2%253B02%26a=1007" target="_blank"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="1">View exam requirements for the 2007 Information Worker Solutions Competency </font></a></p> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2507" width="1" height="1">CompetencyCertificationInformation Worker