An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action

Posted by on 26/03/2012 No comments

You receive the following when trying to modify/delete a web application
“An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SPWebApplication Name=SharePoint – WebApp80 Parent=SPWebService is being updated by DOMAIN\Account, in the OWSTIMER process, on machine SERVER. View the tracing log for more information about the conflict. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPConfigurationDatabase.StoreObject(SPPersistedObject obj, Boolean storeClassIfNecessary, Boolean ensure) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPConfigurationDatabase.PutObject(SPPersistedObject obj, Boolean ensure) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedObject.Update() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication.Update() at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.PolicyUserPage.BtnFinish_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)”

To resolve this issue, clear the file system cache on all servers in the server farm on which the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service is running. To do this, follow these steps: Read more »

Central Administration Service Unavailable

Posted by on 05/03/2012 1 comment

If you want to access your Central Administration and you get an Service Unavailable message, please try to start or restart your Central Administration application pool in the IIS Manager.

Hide View All Site Content

Posted by on 05/03/2012 No comments

Own of my customers had a request for removeing the View All Site Content menu at the left site. I can arrange that bij editing the masterpage, but this will affect all the sites using same layout.

With this simple solution you can arrange it on every single page of your choice. Read more »

HttpStatusCode Unauthorized The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized

Posted by on 02/03/2012 No comments

A couple of days ago I found this error in the crawl log:

Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has “Full Read” permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled. ( HttpStatusCode Unauthorized The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized. )

After some searching, I found the solution: Read more »

Sharepoint Error Details

Posted by on 02/03/2012 No comments

Ever got the helpful message “Unknown Error Occurred” and don’t know where to start solving your problem? Here is how you enable more detailed error messages for your portal:

  1. Open up your sites web.config, and make the standard custom errors edit.  You want it to be  < customerrors mode=”Off”/>
  2. Then, search for the CallStack=”False” and change it to CallStack=”True”, you should find this in the “<safemode>” node.

Voila, your error message will be more detailed.

Export WSP’s from the solution store

Posted by on 16/02/2012 No comments

Sometimes its is necessary to export WSP files from the farm solution store.
The Powershell script below will export all the solutions from the farm solution store (except sandboxed solutions) to a directory (which can be changed in the script): Read more »

SharePoint Downloads 2011

Posted by on 17/01/2012 No comments

Hereby the SharePoint Downloads for December 2011

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Add or Remove an Index Column
Microsoft System Center Configuration Pack for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 2
System Center Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2553132)
Active Directory Rights Management Services at Microsoft
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
Microsoft Search Server 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Technical Library in Compiled Help format
Update for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (KB2596977)

 

Quest FREE Holiday Gift: Server Administrator for SharePoint

Posted by on 21/12/2011 No comments

Just saw on Twitter: Just in time for the holidays – a FREE SharePoint server analysis tool from Quest!  

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Santa is using SharePoint!

Posted by on 21/12/2011 No comments

SPSTech.net wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy 2012!

Best Practices SharePoint 2010

Posted by on 18/12/2011 No comments

Searching for the best practices for setting up your SharePoint 2010 environment? On TechNet I found the best practices for SharePoint 2010. This page displays a list of best practices collected by Microsoft in the areas of infrastructure and design of SharePoint 2010. This is actually a linkcollection to many other TechNet links, resources and documents that can assist you in setting up a SharePoint environment.

Because there is still much use of SharePoint 2007, I added not only the best practices for SharePoint 2010, but also those of SharePoint 2007

SharePoint Server 2010:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh189420 

SharePoint Server 2007:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746