How to start the Trace service

The Windows SharePoint Services Tracing (SPTrace) service is used by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to manage trace output of the call stack. When trace logging is enabled, administrators can specify the path used to store the trace logs. This log file is reused by many applications that are built on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

The Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Tracing (SPTrace) service is a required service on all Microsoft SharePoint Foundation servers. If this service is stopped, error messages are not logged on the server.

How to Start the Trace service:

1. Log on to the SharePoint Foundation server as an administrator.

2. In a Command Prompt window, type the following at the command prompt:

3. net start SPTrace

I hope the above mentioned information will be helpful to you to get some insight regarding SharePoint tracing service. In case of any issues/queries 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

SharePoint 2010 versions

This article contains a list of SharePoint 2010 version numbers and related updates.

KB Article	SP Version Number	Description
2536599	14.0.6106	SP2010 Server – June 2011 CU
2536601	14.0.6106	SP2010 Foundation – June 2011 CU
2460045	14.0.6029	SP2010 Server – Service Pack 1
2460058	14.0.6029	SP2010 Foundation – Service Pack 1
2512800	14.0.5138	SP2010 Server – April 2011 CU
2512804	14.0.5138	SP2010 Foundation – April 2011 CU
2475878	14.0.5136	SP2010 Server – February 2011 CU
2475880	14.0.5136	SP2010 Foundation – February 2011 CU
2459257	14.0.5130	SP2010 Server – December 2010 CU
2459125	14.0.5130	SP2010 Foundation – December 2010 CU
2394320	14.0.5128	SP2010 Server – October 2010 CU
2394323	14.0.5128	SP2010 Foundation – October 2010 CU
2352342	14.0.5123	SP2010 Server – August 2010 CU
2352346	14.0.5123	SP2010 Foundation – August 2010 CU
2259686	14.0.5114	SP2010 Server – June 2010 CU
2028568	14.0.5114	SP2010 Foundation – June 2010 CU

No text converter is installed for this file type’ PowerPoint error

A PowerPoint file may become corrupt owing to a variety of reasons including corrupt operating system, application malfunction, virus infections, and human errors and so on. A corruption scenario is a great cause of worry for anyone who has invested his precious time and indulged in intensive research to create a presentation. You can sail through the above unfortunate situation if you backup your data regularly. However, if you haven’t maintained any backup, there is no need to press the panic button. There are many things you can consider doing to recover PowerPoint file than mulling over going through the grind again.

As a practical case, you may come across the following error while trying to view a ppt file sent via an e-mail:

“No text converter is installed for this file type”

As a result of the above error, you will not be able to access the data stored in the PowerPoint file.

Cause:
you can receive the above error in the following circumstances:

If you are trying to open a PowerPoint 2007 file in an earlier version of PowerPoint
If you are trying to open a corrupt PowerPoint file (A PowerPoint file received via email has the tendency to get corrupt. It is a good practice to zip the file before sending it as an attachment.)

Resolution:
Below mentioned workarounds can be observed in order to fix the error and access the data from a ppt file:
You can install the compatibility pack which will let you open PowerPoint 2007 file 

To extract the data from a corrupt ppt file, you can observe the following PowerPoint recovery steps:
1.You can click Slides from Files on the Insert menu
2.You can try and recover text by opening a corrupt presentation in Word 
3.Try and access the file on a different hard drive or a computer
4.Open PowerPoint in safe mode and then try to open a corrupt file
5.To recover ppt file if all the above methods fail, you have to rely on a third-party utility

You can download such a tool from the Internet. Ensure you select a read-only application which doesn’t modify the original content.

An unexpected error has occurred

When a user tries to add a file to the My Content page, he might encounter this error message. This error can occur when the User Profile service is stopped.

To resolve this error, in Central Administration, do the following:

1. Click Application Management
2. In the Service Applications section
3. Click Manage services on server.
4. On the Services on Server page
5. In the User Profile Service row
6. Click Start.

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Outlook Integration Error

Outlook Integration Error

Recently i came across the integration issue, On Office communicator 2007 R2 you will see the Outlook Integration error. There are plenty of reasons of outlook integration error.

I already covered few reasons in my earlier articles.

Here is one of the reasons.
If you expand the error message, you will see the below message-

“There was a problem connecting to Microsoft Office Outlook. Your Outlook profile is not configured correctly. Contact your system administrator with this information"

Resolution:-

Note: Outlook Integration error is found on computer where Office 2007 and Exchange Systems Tools installed.
Communicator 2007 is required latest updated mapi version.

Steps:-

1. Start > Run> type c:\Windows or Winnt\System32 and click on OK.
2. On System32 page, locate the MAPI32.DLL file.
3. Right click and select properties, Click on Versions.
4. You will see MAPI32.DLL version like 6.5.76.... Etc
5. Restart computer and press F8 key to start machine in safe mode.
6. Start > Run> type c:\Windows or Winnt\System32 and click on OK.
7. Locate MAPI32.DLL and rename it.
8. Copying over the communicator 2007 version of mapi32.dll (ver 1.0.253..) from a working computer.

Thank you!