Ambiguous name detected: tmp.dde

Guys,

Today I m very happy to write this article, not because I have resolved this issue, not because I have done research on this, not because I did any debugging on this... but the reason behind this is-One of my colleague named “Vinesh Kapoor” has resolved this issue and registers his name by making an entry in the knowledgebase. As I always share the articles to benefit the SharePoint communities so here are the details:

Problem Description: Whenever user tries to open a word document in SharePoint, she get the error "Ambiguous name detected: tmp.dde"

Error message: Ambiguous name detected: tmp.dde

Resolution:
1) Close the entire word document and rename NORMAL.DOTM
2) You will find that under : \Documents and Settings\<your account>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates
3) Open a blank word document and close it.
4) Check the location again, you will find that normal.dotm will be created.
5) Ask the user to open the word document from the SharePoint site and it worked fine

Reference to the same, a simple question comes to my mind as what is the function of this NORMAL.DOT file, if this file does not exist on the computer then will it make any difference, can we make changes inside this file, if we make any changes then does it impact the normal functioning of word files???

Questions will be many but let’s try to understand the basics so that we will understand the base functioning.

Here is my analysis:
What is NORMAL.DOT FILE?-The normal.dot file is the default Microsoft Word TEMPLATE. This file is used to store the default settings such as font, font size, content of a file, etc. that is used with each of the Microsoft Word file you open. This can be useful if you find yourself having to adjust the font type, font size, or other setting each time you open Microsoft Word.

How do I modify the normal.dot file?
-Open the normal.dot file and change the settings you wish to adjust. For example, if you want the default font size to be 14 each time you open Microsoft Word open the normal.dot file change the font size to 14 and save the document.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know.I would be more than HAPPY to help you as well as RESOLVES your issues, Thank you J

Code blocks are not allowed in this file

One of my user has opened a ticket with my team by mentioning “He is not able to browse his SharePoint Team Site and getting the below mentioned error message.

Problem Description: Not able to browse the SharePoint site

Error Message: An error occurred during the processing of /site/My Documents/Forms/Alldocuments.aspx. Code blocks are not allowed in this file.

Resolution: Ulysses Ludwig’s Blog: - http://www.sharepointassist.com/2011/10/20/sharepoint-error-code-blocks-are-not-allowed-in-this-file/comment-page-1/#comment-2449

Here is my analysis regarding the same:

    1) Check the site settings page is opening or not.

   How to check that? - Site URL/_layouts/settings.aspx

   2) If you are using any specialized master page in your environment then make sure it is properly selected under the master page galleries

How to check that? – Site actions-site settings-Under look and feel-master page galleries

   3) Check the default.aspx page is existing or not

How to check that?

-Open your site, it’s quite obvious that you will get error message

-Be on that same page

-Control + O (from your keyboard)

-This will open the shared view of your site

-if you see the default.aspx page their then go ahead and take the backup of that page in the same location

-It wills create-default1.aspx—this is fine and we are on right track

-In this same shared location, you can see the created subsites i.e. the child sites which are created underneath

-Go to any of the subsite by means of shared drive and copy the default.aspx and paste it at the root location

-Try t browse the site and check the results

-Your site is up and running without any issuesJ

If you have any queries/questions then please let me know.

I would be more than HAPPY to help you as well as RESOLVES your issues, Thank youJ

The filtering process could not be initialized. Verify that the file extension is a known type and is correct

Presently I am working on one search issue which is severity-1 and working towards the resolution. Here is my analysis and research that I did on this issue. If anybody has any suggestions then please append the same. I would be more than HAPPY to implement and discuss the same so that SharePoint community will benefit the same. Thank you

This is the site link: URL which is affected and reflecting in the crawl logs: /sites/ccas/applications/secore/shared%20documents/settlements/projects/2010/r1/20091005-%20ccas-so1%20owni%20gw%20correction/project%20plan/200919590_plan_owni_correction.xls

Error Message: The filtering process could not be initialized. Verify that the file extension is a known type and is correct

Problem Description: Search is not working and getting the above mentioned error message. Its happening only for one files i.e. .XLS

Action Taken:
1) Checked the file extension is added or not (How?-Please refer the following steps)
+Central administration
+Shared Service provided
+Search settings
+File Extensions
Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262700(office.12).aspx

2) Checked file name has any invalid characters but its proper one and no issues with it.

3) Checked IFilter which was released after the initial release of SP2007
reference: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en

4) This is not PPTX/any 2007 document so thats why i haven't checked this(Link to Microsoft 2010 Filter Packs): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=5cd4dcd7-d3e6-4970-875e-aba93459fbee&displaylang=en

5) The document does not consist of any embedded links as per this reference:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2010/11/11/sharepoint-2007-search-trying-to-crawl-office-documents-that-contain-embedded-links.aspx

6) Resetting the crawl index and run a full crawl is not a feasible solution as we cannot do this in production environment.

7) As per this link: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010general/thread/2906b07f-291d-4ac0-8b3f-d47166cb309d/
We cannot disable the search service and reset & configure everything

The only thing that we can try at this moment is: convert the document to .XLSX and do incremental crawl and check the results
reference: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointsearch/thread/9ee200bd-94c9-43c9-b329-e15b09c6f0f3/

This web site does not support workflows created by SharePoint Designer

Workflows help people to collaborate on documents and to manage project tasks by implementing business processes on documents and items in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site. Workflows help organizations to adhere to consistent business processes, and they also improve organizational efficiency and productivity by managing the tasks and steps involved in business processes. This enables the people who perform these tasks to concentrate on performing the work rather than managing the workflow.

Would like to share some resolution details for the workflow issue that I had resolved recently. here are the details:

Error Message: This web site does not support workflows created by SharePoint Designer

Cause: You do not have the permissions necessary to create workflows.

Resolution:

1) In Office SharePoint Designer 2007, in the Folder List, right-click the Workflows library, and then click Properties.

2) Click the Security tab.

3) Click Manage permissions using the browser.

4) In the browser, on the Permissions: Workflows page, click New, and then click Add Users.

5) Add the user to the list.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the mentioned information then please let me know.

I would be more than HAPPY to HELP you as well as RESOLVES your issues, Thank you

Referrence:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/create-a-workflow-HA010100591.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663328

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480215.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/dd980559

Unknown Error Trying To Lock File

Office integration with the SharePoint is the most important achievement as it I the most commonly used product in day to day business activities. Every OS has its own advantages and disadvantages while working with some applications or with some products but we need to understand that if any application is not working just because of machine change/OS change then the problem is not with that application but machine compatibility itself and we need to find what exactly it is lacking and what will be perfect resolution for that??

Problem Description:

Facing problems while editing office documents on windows vista OS

Configuration:

+OS-Windows Vista

+Office 2007

+IE 7.0

Error Message:

Unknown Error Trying To Lock File

Action that needs to be taken when user will be available:

Did research and founds out that although SP1 fixes the issue, registry settings are required to make it work. More info on the KB Article below

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943280/en-us

Registry changes in case if we don't suggest windows Vista SP-1:

1)   Locate and then click the following registry subkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters

2)   On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Multi-String Value.

3)   Type AuthForwardServerList, and then press ENTER.

4)   On the Edit menu, click Modify.

5)   In the Value date box, type the URL of the server that hosts the Web share, and then click OK.

Note:- You can also type a list of URLs in the Value date box. For more information, see the "Sample URL list" section in this article.

Exit Registry Editor.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know.

I would be more than HAPPY to HELP you as well as RESOLVES your issues, Thank you