Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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Ok, I’ve been bitten twice in the past week on this. If you have InfoPath 2010 Beta installed and you’ve also got SharePoint 2007 running, at least with the latest SP2 and October CU, you run into an issue that surfaces in the logs as follows
One or more types failed to load. Please refer to the upgrade log for more details
When you pull that log apart, you’ll see that it’s attempting to load a few types such as Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.DocumentLifetime.XmlFormHost' from assembly 'Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.
Which, they fail – removing InfoPath from the install works.
This KB article (KB926642) explains 2 methods for handling the scenarios that we as developers require for using a local machine for development. My option has been, going forward, of being explicitly in the host names that my development machine will use. From that article:
Method 1 (recommended): Create the Local Security Authority host names that can be referenced in an NTLM authentication request
To do this, follow these steps for all the nodes on the client computer:
- Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
- Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\MSV1_0
- Right-click MSV1_0, point to New, and then click Multi-String Value.
- In the Name column, type BackConnectionHostNames, and then press ENTER.
- Right-click BackConnectionHostNames, and then click Modify.
- In the Value data box, type the CNAME or the DNS alias, that is used for the local shares on the computer, and then click OK.
Note Type each host name on a separate line.
Note If the BackConnectionHostNames registry entry exists as a REG_DWORD type, you have to delete the BackConnectionHostNames registry entry. - Exit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer.
An old colleague (Biff Gaut) of mine has a great daily newsletter from the PDC. This is certainly targeted for those of us looking for a “light” look at all things new that come out of PDC, but at times very technical with a perspective from someone who has been in the industry for some time (20+ years), started off as a C or C++ developer (not sure how early as I started with C/ASM).
But, as always, with the technical content comes the sometimes dry, humor that only Biff can interweave into the Geek content.
http://www.biffspdcnewsletter.com/2009/PDC2009Day1.aspx
To subscribe, find the email on his page it’s “editor AT biffspdcnewsletter.com”
To go back a few years, take a look at some of his prescience`:
http://www.biffspdcnewsletter.com/default.aspx
Kind of reminds me of Mr. Bunny’s Guide to ActiveX – which is on my all time favorite reading list – if you know anything about ActiveX in the early days (COM to be specific), then this book is also a great, dry humor read.
Biff, I apologize for the overuse of the word “dry” in this post.