Showing posts with label SharePoint Administration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SharePoint Administration. Show all posts

30 April, 2010

This copy of Microsoft office is not genuine

Hey Guys, this is not related with sharepoint but testing sp-applications in reff. to office 2007 documents. Till yesterday, The office documents are working fine but after some patching on my windows 2003 OS, I am getting the prompt:This copy of Microsoft office is not genuine.

After installing Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Notifications (KB949810) from Windows Update, OGA Validation will perform genuine test on installed Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010 software.
KB949810 OGA Notifications update is designed so that end-user cannot uninstall or removed the update using “Add and Remove Programs” or “Program and Features” in the Control Panel.

Disable and Remove OGAAddin from within Office Applications:
Please follow these following steps:

1.Run one of the Office app such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint as administrator.
2.Open Windows Explorer, go to %SystemDrive%\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12
3.Right click on Office app executable, e.g. winword.exe, excel.exe, powerpnt.exe to run as administrator.
4.Go to Options--> Add-Ins.
5.3.Select COM Add-ins under Manage drop menu list, and click Go.
6.Disable or remoev the OGAAdmin.
7.Repeat above steps for each and every Office applications installed.

Please check the results and your issue will be resolved!!
Please let me know in case of any queries,Thanks !!

Reff: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949810

29 January, 2010

The converter failed to save the file

Computer running office 2007 try to open an excel file from SharePoint site for edit. Error: (Save as) The converter failed to save the file. However, if user start the Excel program before opening the file from SharePoint, no problem at all, no error message and file saving fine. 

The fix is to do the following:
- Open Word
- Click the Office button (Top-left in the window)
- Click Word Options
- Click Resources
- Click the Diagnose button
- Click through the wizard until it’s finished
- Close all browser windows

I hope the above information will helps u to resolve the issue!!

In case of any queries/questions then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues. Thank you.

26 January, 2010

The document information panel was unable to load. The document will continue to open. For more information, contact your sys admin.

I have a custom field type as a dropdownlist which displays the no. of users from the web site. Now I have a document library with this custom field type. When I tries to create a item it opens the MS Word instance and it gives a message as Document Information Panel is unable to load.

After lots of research and debugging the issue on my dev-env, i was able to resolve the issue.
The Steps taken for resolution:

1. Open this location- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\Office12\1033\IPEDINTL.DLL
2. copy IPEDINTL.DLL
3. paste it here- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\1033\IPEDINTL.DLL
4. Close all the applications that are presently open as well as all the browsers
5. Open the sharepoint site in a new browser and check the results !!

Please let me know in case of any issues.. Thanks !! I hope, the above steps will helps you to resolve your issue regarding the same !!

23 December, 2009

Authenticated Users get Access Denied when Browsing to Site- 403 Forbidden

When NT Authority\Authenticated users were added to a windows sharepoint services 3.0 site, users other than the users directly permissioned to site, or Site Collection Admins would receive a 403 Forbidden error when they woudl try to browse to the Default.aspx page.

ULS Logs would show:
============================================================
Access Denied for /default.aspx.
StackTrace: Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility:Void
HandleAccessDenied(System.Exception), Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGlobal:Void
HandleUnauthorizedAccessException(System.UnauthorizedAccessException),
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb:System.String GetWebPartPageContent(System.Uri,
Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.PageView, System.Web.HttpContext, Boolean,
Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean ByRef, Byte ByRef, System.String ByRef,
System.Guid ByRef, Int64 ByRef, System.Guid ByRef, UInt32 ByRef, System.String
ByRef, Byte ByRef, System.Object ByRef, UInt32 ByRef, System.Object ByRef,
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWebPartCollectionInitialState ByRef, System.Object ByRef,
System.String ByRef, Boolean ByRef, System.Guid ByRef),
Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModuleData:System.String
FetchWebPartPageInformationForInit(System.Web.HttpContext,
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb, Boolean, System.String, Boolean, Boolean ByRef, Byte
ByRef, System.Guid ByRef, UInt32 ByRef, System.String ByRef,
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileLevel ByRef, System.String ByRef, System.String ByRef,
System.String ByRef, System.String ByRef, System.Guid ByRef, System.Object ByRef,
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWebPartCollectionInitialState ByRef, System.String ByRef,
System.String ByRef, System.Object ByRef, Boolean ByRef, System.Guid ByRef, Int64
ByRef), Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModuleData:Void
GetFileForRequest(System.Web.HttpContext, Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb, Boolean,
System.String), Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModule:Void
InitContextWeb(System.Web.HttpContext, Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb),
Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SPControl:Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb
SPWebEnsureSPControl(System.Web.HttpContext),
Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SPControl:Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb
GetContextWeb(System.Web.HttpContext),
Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModule:Void
PostResolveRequestCacheHandler(System.Object, System.EventArgs),
System.Web.HttpApplication+SyncEventExecutionStep:Void
System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute(),
System.Web.HttpApplication:System.Exception ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep, Boolean
ByRef), System.Web.HttpApplication+ApplicationStepManager:Void
ResumeSteps(System.Exception), System.Web.HttpApplication:System.IAsyncResult
System.Web.IHttpAsyncHandler.BeginProcessRequest(System.Web.HttpContext,
System.AsyncCallback, System.Object), System.Web.HttpRuntime:Void
ProcessRequestInternal(System.Web.HttpWorkerRequest), System.Web.HttpRuntime:Void
ProcessRequestNoDemand(System.Web.HttpWorkerRequest),
System.Web.Hosting.ISAPIRuntime:Int32 ProcessRequest(IntPtr, Int32),
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after detailed analysis and debug of the w3wp process, we found two columns with non standard settings in the content database. In the AllList table the columns called tp_readsecurity and tp_writesecurity, for the “User Information List” have the values set to 2 & 4 respectively. The default value for both columns is 1.

Tp_readsecurity

Value="1">read all items
Value="2">read only my items
Value="4">read none


Tp_writesecurity

Value="1”>write all items
Value="2">write only my items
Value="4">write none

The value 2 for tp_readsecurity will only allow a user to read their own items. So reading the items does not occur because it is trying to read the items in the “user Information list” that are not their own. The value 4 for tp_writesecurity does not allow write to this list so you will not be able to add users. Since they have not or cannot be added into the list, there was an exception being thrown and this is the reason for the 403 Forbidden.

RESOLUTION/WORKAROUND:
===========================
1. Open the site you are having trouble with, but make sure you open the site
with site collection admin/owner rights.
2. Browse to the URL:
http://portal/sites/site/_layouts/advsetng.aspx?list={GUID}
3. This List ID will vary.
4. You can also get to this list by Browsing to the root of your site, Site
Actions> Site Settings> Advanced Permissions> Click on the All People link
in qiuck launch> Then select List Settings, then Advanced Settings
5. This method will also get you to the above URL and probably easier than
having to poke thru the DB to find the GUID of that list.
6. Change the Read Access Value to “All Items”
7. Change the Edit Access to “All Items”
7. This will modify those values in the database back to 1 and 1
8. Authenticated Users should now be able to access the site.

I hope the above information will helps you to resolve this issue !! Thanks !!!

22 December, 2009

Access Denied when attempting to create a new page

When attempting to create a page by clicking Site Actions Create Page, the user immediatly receives an Access Denied. This occurs even if the user is a member of the Site Owners group with Full Control.

ERROR MESSAGE: Access Denied

CAUSE:
===========
The access denied was a result of the user not being a part of the Style Resource Readers group. According to technet, this group allows a user to read the Master Page Gallery and Restricted Read the Style Library. By default, this group contains only the NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users group. This will allow all users who have authenticated to the site to read the Master Page gallery and Style Library.

RESOLUTION:
====================
1) Open the site you are having issues with
2) Click Site Actions Site Settings
3) In the Users and Permissions section, click People and Groups
4) Click Groups
5) Click Style Resource Readers
6) Click New Add User
7) In the Add Users section, click the Add all authenticated users link
8) Click OK

I hope the above information will helps you to resolve this issue !! Thanks !!

04 December, 2009

no Next in list of users and groups

Groups.aspx will not display more than 100 groups !!

We have a site collection with many users and groups. It consist of approximately 745 groups created with different depts. When I go to see a list of users and groups, I only see the first page i.e. 100 groups only !! this is actually very strange as i compared with other site collections that are running in our farm, those sites are not facing this wierd issue... The next arrows are gone, we can't advance through the list.

After digging a lot, we were able to resolve this issue and i would like share this resolution with all of u !!!!
--The page on which we can see all the created groups is called as "User Information List"
--or we can add that one as a User Information List web part.
--Every List has the option of "Modify this View" but for this list i.e. "User Information List", this view is hidden (by default).. Microsoft hide this view from the consideration, just to avoid messing !! i can guess :-)
--When we will go inside that view then we have enable these following options:-

1. User Information List.
2. Click Edit > Modify this view
3. Count section
4. Make sure the Item Limit is set to 100 and Display items in batches of the specified size is checked.


Now the question arises as How to go inside that list ?? Dont Worry, Please follow these steps:

-> That page is called as ViewEdit.aspx

->You need to pass the Guid for both the list and view to this page, like this:
->http://MOSS2007.com/_layouts/ViewEdit.aspx?List={00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}&View={00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}

-> You can get the Guid for the User Information List using the GetListCollection web method on /_vti_bin/Lists.asmx.

-> You can get the Guid for the View by passing the Guid for the list to the GetViewCollection web method on /_vti_bin/Views.asmx

I hope the above information will helps u to resolve this issue..Thanks !!

03 December, 2009

File Conversion in Process, Converter Failed To Save File

On some machines, when a user opens an Excel file from SharePoint and checks out for edit and -does not- use the local drafts folder, yousee a dialog with "File Conversion In Progress", then "ConverterFailed To Save File" message, but the file is checked out to the user and will not open in the Excel. It never opens the application and I'm returned to the document library. If I already have the application it doesn't generate the error.

The fix is to do the following:

- Open Word
- Click the Office button (Top-left in the window)
- Click Word Options
- Click Resources
- Click the Diagnose button
- Click through the wizard until it’s finished
- Close all browser windows

That’s fixed all of our issues…

I hope the above information will helps u to resolve the issue !! Thanks !!

02 December, 2009

Error: Library Not Registered

On our main Sharepoint page, we've got this drop-down-button in our main navigation that shows other sites and lets you click on them to access them. I believe it uses ActiveX controls. We've got one user (that we know of) who when she loads up the main page, that drop-down won't work for it...it just does nothing. At the bottom-left of the page, IE shows an "error on page." When I double click on it to get the error, it says the following:

Line: 1936
Char: 4
Error: Library not registered.
Code: 0
URL: (the url of the page)

The fix is to do the following:

- Open Word
- Click the Office button (Top-left in the window)
- Click Word Options
- Click Resources
- Click the Diagnose button
- Click through the wizard until it’s finished
- Close all browser windows

That’s fixed all of our issues…

If you are using Office-2003 then please follow the below mentioned steps:

-Word 2003
- Help
-detect and repair
- check discard my customized settings and restore default settings

I hope the above information will helps u to resolve the issue !! Thanks !!

26 November, 2009

How to find out the List GUID in sharepoint !!

As the document libraries and lists are the most commonly used entities in sharepoint, or we can say sharepoint starts with list and libraries !! So, there are so many problems or issues we face on day to day basis...Among all these problems, some required list id's.

Please follow these as how to find out the list guid:
1.Navigate to the SharePoint list using the browser.

2.Select the Settings + List Settings menu command.

3.Copy the Url from the browser address bar into Notepad.

It will look something like: http://moss2007/adminX/_layouts/listedit.aspx?List=%7B26534EF9%2DAB3A%2D46E0%2DAE56%2DEFF168BE562F%7D

4.Delete everying before and including “List=”.

5.Change “%7B” to “{”

6.Change all “%2D” to “-“

7.Chnage “%7D” to “}”

8.You are now left with the Id:{26534EF9-AB3A-46E0-AE56-EFF168BE562F}

That's it-issue resolved !!!!!!

I hope the above information will helps you to find the list guid..thanks !!

09 October, 2009

Risk-List Uniqueness !!

This is regarding with one of the unique Sharepoint issues that we successfully resolved today. By using out-of-settings, it is not possible to resolve this issue and anybody can consider that it a SharePoint By-Default behaviour.

ISSUE:

-In a Project Tracking Workspace Template, there is one list which comes by default named "Risk List".

-If we want to create one more same list then you will not find the option under View All Site Content->Create-> Custom List

-If we try to save the Risk List as Template then it will successfully saved in the List Gallery but you will not find that list under the Create List Section (Path mentioned above)

STEPS TAKEN FOR RESOLUTION:

-Taken backup of all the folders for the below mentioned steps in which i have made modification !!

-Checked C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES

-Inside the Features Folders->PWSRISKS Folder(Which is part of Project Tracking Workspace Template)

-Inside the PWSRISKS Folder->List Templates->pwsrisk.xml

-Opened the XML file in notepad->Made Modification as -> DontSaveInTemplate="FALSE" (It was True before)

-Opened Feature.XML for the Risk List-> made Modification as -> Hidden="FALSE" (It was true Before)

-That's it..Issue resolved !!

25 July, 2009

An error has occured in Approval

I think, Workflow is the easiest part of SharePoint for anybody to use and especially the out-of-box workflows. Yesterday, One of the user in my project reported an error regarding workflow. The scenario was he set an approval workflow for himself and when he tried to approve it then he got an error message as follows:




When we set up an workflow for the document library and list, We usually follow these process :

-Go to Settings->Workflow Settings->Add Workflow
-Choose the Approval workflow from the list, make it start on item creation go to the second workflow page.
-Select the approvers asper your requirement and check "Update the approval status (use this workflow to control content approval)"
-Finish and the workflow has been set !!

And now the mystery begins and you will get an error as mentioned above. and now You will ask,why? So the keyword is "Approval" !!

This is an approval workflow which should among getting the approvals update the approval status of the document so, if you missed one tiny little step like setting the approval for the document library this simple task will fail at the end.

Resolution:-
-Just go to the document Library Settings
-Versioning Settings Page
-Set "Require content approval for submitted items to?" to yes and everything should be fine.

I hope the above information will helps you to overcome the above mentioned error message!!
Thanks!!!


18 July, 2009

How to find the template name of sharepoint site?

It is really very difficult to find out the name of the template after the site has been created but not now.. After lots of searching & googling, I found out one great post belongs to Mr.SP Raj who written this code and it is very successfull as i have tried this and i am able to find the names of the templates used by the site.

Please Follow this link and your issue will be Resolved:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/thread/721bec39-2d32-4bbc-9094-a021a0d06dcb

List of MOSS 2007 Template ID Information
0 - GLOBAL (SetupPath=global) - "Global template"
1 - STS - "windows SharePoint Services Site", "Team Site", "Blank Site", "Document Workspace"
2 - MPS - "Basic Meeting Workspace", "Blank Meeting Workspace", "Decision Meeting Workspace", "Social Meeting Workspace", "Multipage Meeting Workspace"
3 - CENTRALADMIN - "Central Admin Site"
4 - WIKI - "Wiki Site"
7 - BDR - "Document Center"
9 - BLOG - "Blog"
20 - SPS (OBSOLETE) - "SharePoint Portal Server Site"
21 - SPSPERS - "SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space"
22 - SPSMSITE - "Personalization Site"
30 - SPSTOC (OBSOLETE) - "Contents area Template"
31 - SPSTOPIC (OBSOLETE) - "Topic area template"
32 - SPSNEWS (OBSOLETE) - "News area template"
33 - SPSNHOME (SubWebOnly) - "News Home template"
34 - SPSSITES - "Site Directory area template"
36 - SPSCOMMU (OBSOLETE) - "Community area template"
38 - SPSREPORTCENTER - "Report Center Site"
39 - CMSPUBLISHING (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\PUBLISHING) - "Publishing and Team Collaboration Site"
40 - OSRV (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\OSRV) - "Shared Services Administration Site"
47 - SPSPORTAL - "Corporate Intranet Site"
50 - SRCHCEN - "Search Center"
51 - PROFILES - "Profiles"
52 - BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER - "Internet Presence Web Site"
53 - BLANKINTERNET - "Publishing Site", "Press Releases Site", "Publishing Site"
54 - SPSMSITEHOST - "My Site Host"
90 - SRCHCENTERLITE (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\SRCHCENTERLITE) - "Search Center Lite"
6221 - PWA (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\PWA) - "Project Web Access Site"
6215 - PWS (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\PWS) - "Project Workspace"
14483 - OFFILE - "Records Repository", "Records Repository"

I Hope the above information will helps u to find the template name but if you face any problem then please let me know... Thanks!!!

13 July, 2009

Error message when you try to edit an Office document in a document library: "'Edit Document' requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible applic

When you try to edit a Microsoft Office document that is stored in a document library of a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web site, you may receive one of the following error messages, depending on the version of Office that you are running.

2007 Microsoft Office suites:
'Edit Document' requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible application and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater.

Microsoft Office 2003 and earlier versions of Office :
'Edit Document' requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible application and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater.

you experience these symptoms if you click a Microsoft Word document in the document library, and then click Edit in Microsoft Office Word. Additionally, when you click New Document in the document library, you may receive the following error message:

The document could not be created. The required application may not be installed properly, or the template for this Document Library cannot be opened. Please try the following:

1. Check the General Settings for this Document Library for the name of the template, and install the application necessary for opening the template. If the application was set to install on first use, run the application and then try creating a new document again.

2. If you have permission to modify this Document Library, go to General Settings for the library and configure a new template.

This issue may occur if one or more of the following conditions are true:
-Microsoft Office XP or later is not installed on the computer.

-Office XP or a later version of Office is installed on the computer. However, the SharePoint support component that is included in Office Tools is not installed on the computer. That is, either Microsoft SharePoint Support or Windows SharePoint Services Support (as appropriate to your version of Office) is not installed on the computer.

-The Owssupp.dll file is not registered correctly in Microsoft Windows.

To resolve this issue, use one of the following methods, as appropriate for your situation.

If Office 2003 is installed on the computer, follow these steps:
-Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
-Click Add or Remove Programs.
-In the list of currently installed programs, click Microsoft Office 2003, and then click Change.
-Click Add or Remove Features, and then click Next.
-Click to select the Choose advanced customization of application check box, and then click Next.
-In the Choose update options for applications and tools box, expand Office Tools, click the down arrow next to Windows SharePoint Services Support, and then click Run from My Computer.
-Click Update.

If a 2007 Office suite is installed on the computer, follow these steps:
-Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
-Click Add or Remove Programs.
-In the list of currently installed programs, click Microsoft Office suite 2007, and then click Change.
-Click Add or Remove Features, and then click Continue.
-Expand Office Tools.
-Click the down arrow next to Windows SharePoint Services Support, and then click Run from My Computer.
-Click Continue.

Method 3: Register the Owssupp.dll file
Note For Office 2003 and Office 2007 an error occurs in steps 4 and 6. This error is benign and the appropriate modifications have occurred. The error message reads similarly to: "DllRegisterServer in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11OWSSUPP.DLL failed. Return code was: 0x80070716.

-Repair or reinstall Office 2003 or the individual Office 2003 program that is experiencing this issue.

For more information about Windows SharePoint Services, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://technet.microsoft.com/windowsserver/sharepoint/default.aspx


Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer.

When you try to open a folder in a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library in Explorer View, the folder does not open.

Specifically, this problem occurs when you connect to a document library in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site by using Microsoft Internet Explorer. You browse a folder in the document library, and then you click Open with Windows Explorer on the Actions menu. However, nothing happens. Or, you receive the following message:
Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer.

This issue occurs if the following conditions are true:
-You are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.
-The path of the folder contains more than 100 characters.

Workaround:
To work around this issue, use one of the following methods:
-Apply hotfix 325355 for Internet Explorer 6. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
325355 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325355/ ) You cannot access Word documents by using Outlook Web Access on a server that is running SharePoint Portal Server

-Use Windows Internet Explorer 7. For more information about Windows Internet Explorer 7, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

I hope the above information will helps you to resolve your problem... Thanks!!!

11 July, 2009

The document could not be opened for editing. A Windows SharePoint Services compatible application could not be found to edit the document.

One of the user from my project reported that he was not able to edit as well as check out the office documents. When i tried to follow the same procedure (i.e. Edit, check-in, check-out) and strange thing was me also got the same error message. When i started my troubleshooting, I found out user created document library with multiple nested folders.

When we go to third or fourth level of the folder and try to edit any file with office application, we are getting an error – The document could not be opened for editing. A Windows SharePoint Services compatible application could not be found to edit the document. However if we try to edit the document uploaded on the root of the document library, we can edit it properly.

I tried reproduced the issue 2-3 times and found out one common thing and that is: You cannot edit the office document once the URL path reaches characters limit 340. You can edit the documents only till URL path length is up to 339 characters. You can open the documents, you can upload documents but you can't edit them by right click on document and click on "edit in Microsoft Word". Even this behavior is same with non-office documents also like text documents.

Workaround:
The only workaround possible is - open the file directly from the folder, modify and save it as a new file. Every time you need to save it as a new file. It won’t allow to save in the existing file. Or, Move the file one level up and you will be able to do all the operations like edit, check-in and check-out too.


I hope the above information helps you to resolve your problem and time also!! Thanks!!

22 April, 2009

Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive. If you downloaded this file, try downloading the file again.

After you download a .ZIP file from a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services document library, and then you try to open the .ZIP file, you may receive the following error message:
Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive. If you downloaded this file, try downloading the file again.

CAUSE
This problem may occur if HTTP compression is turned on in the Web Sites properties of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) on the SharePoint virtual server. When you download a .ZIP file, IIS encodes the file as GZIP. However, the browser client passes the file directly to the unZIP program, without GZIP decoding the file. To determine if HTTP compression is turned on, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. Expand the server (local computer) tree, where server (local computer) is the name of your IIS server.
3. Right-click Web Sites, and then click Properties.
4. Click the Service tab to view the HTTP compression properties.

Resolution:

change the MIME type for the .ZIP file from application/x-zip-compressed to application/octet-stream . To change the MIME type, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. Right-click the server (local computer) tree, where server (local computer) is the name of your IIS server, and then click Properties.
3. Click MIME Types.
4. Scroll down the registered MIME type list to find the .zip entry.
5. Click the .zip application/x-zip-compressed entry, and then click Edit.
6. Change the MIME type value to application/octet-stream .
7. Stop and then restart the IIS Admin Service to apply the change to the MIME type.

The file that you selected could not be found

Few Days before, in our project, one of the user faced wierd error message which was never seen by my team. First of all lets focused the whole error message:
"The file that you selected could not be found. Check the spelling of the file name and verify that the location is correct."

When trying to open the sample dashboard in MOSS 2007 Enterprise Report Center site as an user with Read Only rights, we got this error message.
While troubleshooting, we compared two document libraries and reproduced the scenario.
After the excat replication of error message on a new document library,we found out the resolution which is quite simple.

Resolution:-
1. Go to your reports library where the workbooks are stored.
2. On the Settings menu, click Document Library Settings.
3. Under General Settings, click versioning settings.
4. Disable versioning.

I hope the above steps helps you to resolve your issue.
Thanks...

14 April, 2009

Move, Lock, and Delete Site Collections

Microsoft has recently released an update to the Central Administration site that makes it easy to move a Site Collection between different Content Databases. The Batch Site Manager can be very handy if you need to break up your content across multiple Content Databases – possibly sitting on different SQL Servers.

Batch Site Manager is a feature that is designed to be used by SharePoint farm administrators to manage and administrate bulk operations that involve moving, locking or deleting one or more site collections within a single Web application. To access the Move, Lock, and Delete Multiple Site Collections page, click the Move, Lock, and Delete Site Collections link located on the Application Management page of Central Administration. The same tool also allows you to lock and delete site collections:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508852(TechNet.10).aspx

Download Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

Move site collections
Lock site collections
Delete site collections
Batch Site Manager files

28 March, 2009

Not able to open the site and central administration page without entering default.aspx page manually