Troubleshooting
When I try to start the service, it fails and the following appears in the Application log within Event Viewer: Source: MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS Event ID: 17058 Task Category: Server Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Description: initerrlog: Could not open error log file ''. Operating system error = 3(The system cannot find the path specified.). To fix this I had to change the Log on as property of the service from Local Service to Local System Technorati Tags: sql server 2008,troubleshooting,servic...
The following issue was encountered on a developers machine when trying to create a SharePoint project using Visual Studio 2010. From the File menu the developer selected New->Project and then selected ‘Empty sharepoint project’ (SharePoint 2010) and then typed in the url into the dialog box that appeared and then hit the Validate button. Upon clicking the button, the following error message was shown: Cannot connect to the SharePoint site: http://serverX:6666/. Make sure that the Site URL is...
When I updated the ‘Filter Criteria’ of a fully functioning DVWP through SharePoint designer I was presented with the following error: The server returned a non-specific error when trying to get data from the data source. Check the format and content of your query and try again. If the problem persists, contact the server administrator. Took me a while to figure it out. This is what caused it and how to fix it: When you create a DWVP, SPDesigner adds a parameter called ListID and assigns it the GUID...
We have a document library which makes use of the 'Link to a Document' content type which lets users add links to a document library. We noticed that users were using this feature to add links to documents hosted on sites outside of the SharePoint farm. This is all good as far as they are concerned because the content type does its job and end-user can access the external documents by clicking the link. However, we noticed that none of these links were showing up in the search results. When we looked...
If you were to restart (i.e stop and then start) the search service, in a SharePoint farm, from the 'Services on server' page in Central Administration chances are that you might encounter both or either of the following errors when yo do a search on your web application: Your search cannot be completed because of a service error. Try your search again or contact your administrator for more information. The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service. This happens because after restarting...
We had configured a publishing site's Pages library to make use of the built-in approval workflow. However, we noticed that when users submits a page in the library for approval the workflow fails with the message 'Error Encountered'. There were no other messages provided by SharePoint explaining as to why an error occurred (and even the workflow history option yielded nothing). We then went into the workflow settings and started examining all the fields. We noticed that the 'Approvers' field was...
Incase you didn't know- when you set your index server to use a dedicated server for crawling, SharePoint updates the host file on the index server with the IP address of the WFE. However, there are times where SharePoint adds an invalid host entry when there are 2 or more WFE's. Example - Say there have 2 WFE's - MOSSWFE01 & MOSSWFE02. Setting MOSSWFE02 as the dedicated crawler will cause SharePoint to update the host file in the index server. It adds an entry for MOSSWFE01 with the IP address...
Had a situation the other day where, after playing with the different installing options, WSS would not uninstall. Even running the repair option was of no help. Searching the net for solutions I came across this. Here are the steps I did: Disable and Stop the following services (If any): Windows SharePoint Services Administration Windows SharePoint Services Search Windows SharePoint Services Timer Windows SharePoint Services Tracing Windows SharePoint Services VSS Writer Backup and then delete the...