02 August, 2012

Manage Access Requests in SharePoint 2010

Guys- we are already aware that manage access request means when a person gets access denied while accessing any SharePoint site then there is one link on the access denied page called as “request access” by which we can request the administrator to grant the access for the mentioned site.
Here is the screenshot that I am talking about:

This is pretty much similar in SharePoint 2007 also and same feature is continued in SharePoint 2010 also.
What we do in SharePoint 2007 for such issues? Where exactly we need to change request access ownership?
Here are the detailed steps:
·         Open the SharePoint site
·         Site actions
·         Site settings
·         Advanced permissions
·         Settings
·         Access requests

Note: same is applicable in SharePoint 2010 also but I am giving you the detail screenshot to avoid the confusion.

Please let me know in case of any queries/questions so that we can discuss and proceed further towards the resolution. Thank you

01 August, 2012

SharePoint 2010: 'Send-to' option to Record center from a source site collection does not work on a Claims-based web application

After setting up a Send-To connections (via central administration) to route records from a site collection to a record center on a web application that only supports claims based authentication, the send-to functionality does not work and fails with an 'access denied' error.

Possible Cause:
do not know the root cause at this time but i am suspecting that this is desired behavior and we can straight way say that-> 'Send-To' connections do not support Forms-based Claims Authentication.

Resolution:
There are two possible ways to resolve this issue:

1. Configure a zone that does not use Claims Authentication for the 'Send-To' destination Web Application. This zone needs Windows authentication enabled because service accounts, which are Windows accounts, perform the sending.

2. Use multi-mode authentication for the destination Web Application.

If you have any different views then please let me know so that we can share with SharePoint Communities and come to a final point. Thank you.

31 July, 2012

This page has been modified since you opened it. You must open the page again.

After applying branding to a site workflows could not start.

Attempting to start an OOB Approval workflow got error in web browser:

Error Message:
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This Page has been modified since you opened it. You must open the page again.

Refresh page.

Correlation ID: [guid]
Date and Time: [time stamp]

ULS logs for the correlation ID:
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[Date and Time] w3wp.exe (0x12DC) 0x29D8 SharePoint Foundation General 8e1f High Failed to find the XML file at location '14\Template\Features\[feature folder]\feature.xml'  
[Date and Time] w3wp.exe (0x12DC) 0x29D8 SharePoint Foundation Feature Infrastructure fs74 Medium Feature definition missing for Feature 'feature name' (Id: 'GUID')  

[Date and Time] w3wp.exe (0x12DC) 0x29D8 SharePoint Foundation Runtime tkau Unexpected System.Web.UI.ViewStateException: Invalid viewstate. Client IP:198.160.1 Port: 2939 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.3; MS-RTC EA 2) ViewState: /wEWCQKTxNo5AryysZ0GAruysZ0GApaN/GMCgY20+QMC9b+X7gcCjMXT7gMClM2Y+QoCmf228gyP9P9GzAGZMS28bkyo8CD9kfR56A== Referer: https://siteUrl/_layouts/AddWrkfl.aspx?List=1d68c04b-30d2-4fbe-9455-e125c2727b1f Path: /_layouts/DstWrkflIP.aspx


Clicking the "Refresh page" link in the web browser's error box generates another error:  
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Error
List does not exist.

The page you selected contains a list that does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user.

Correlation ID: [guid]
Date and Time: [time stamp]
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ULS for the correlation:
[Date and Time] w3wp.exe (0x12DC) 0x29D8 SharePoint Foundation General 8kh7 High List does not exist. The page you selected contains a list that does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user.  

[Date and Time] w3wp.exe (0x12DC) 0x29D8 SharePoint Foundation General 8kh7 High Stack trace: onetutil.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=00000000000A2291)  
at 0x000007FEEFD02291 onetutil.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=00000000000A3451)
at 0x000007FEEFD03451 owssvr.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=000000000000925A)
at 0x000007FEEEE9925A owssvr.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=000000000003CFF4)
at 0x000007FEEEECCFF4 mscorwks.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=00000000002BE497)
at 0x000007FEF9B8E497 Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=00000000000DB2A0)
at 0x000007FEEFB9B2A0 Microsoft.SharePoint.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=0000000001AE0746)
at 0x000007FEF40A0746 Microsoft.SharePoint.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=0000000001AC568F)
at 0x000007FEF408568F Microsoft.SharePoint.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=0000000001AC4EFB)
at 0x000007FEF4084EFB Microsoft.SharePoint.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=0000000002200127)
at 0x000007FEF47C0127 Microsoft.SharePoint.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=0000000001FAB92C)
at 0x000007FEF456B92C System.Web.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=00000000002759B0)
at 0x000007FEF04C59B0 System.Web.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=000000000026671B)
at 0x000007FEF04B671B System.Web.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=0000000000953971)
at 0x000007FEF0BA3971 System.Web.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=00000000009443B2)
at 0x000007FEF0B943B2 System.Web.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=0000000000925DF9)
at 0x000007FEF0B75DF9 System.Web.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=0000000000A4DDE1)
at 0x000007FEF0C9DDE1 System.Web.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=0000000000A4D9AB)
at 0x000007FEF0C9D9AB System.Web.ni.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=0000000000A4CC14)
at 0x000007FEF0C9CC14 mscorwks.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=00000000002BDDFA)
at 0x000007FEF9B8DDFA webengine.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=00000000000851C7)
at 0x000007FEE88651C7 webengine.dll: (unresolved symbol, module offset=000000000008628

[Date and Time] w3wp.exe (0x12DC) 0x29D8 SharePoint Foundation General 8e1f High Failed to find the XML file at location '14\Template\Features\[feature folder]\feature.xml'  

[Date and Time] w3wp.exe (0x12DC) 0x29D8 SharePoint Foundation Feature Infrastructure fs74 Medium Feature definition missing for Feature 'feature name' (Id: '1bf89c1b-18e3-4b9b-ad0a-6e9fc917cedd')  

[Date and Time] w3wp.exe (0x12DC) 0x29D8 SharePoint Foundation General 8nca Verbose Application error when access /_layouts/CstWrkflIP.aspx, Error=List does not exist. The page you selected contains a list that does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user.  
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: List does not exist. The page you selected contains a list that does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user.
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetListsWithCallback(String bstrUrl, Guid foreignWebId, String bstrListInternalName, Int32 dwBaseType, Int32 dwBaseTypeAlt, Int32 dwServerTemplate, UInt32 dwGetListFlags, UInt32 dwListFilterFlags, Boolean bPrefetchMetaData, Boolean bSecurityTrimmed, Boolean bGetSecurityData, Boolean bPrefetchRelatedFields, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter p2DWriter, Int32& plRecycleBinCount)  
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetListsWithCallback(String bstrUrl, Guid foreignWebId, String bstrListInternalName, Int32 dwBaseType, Int32 dwBaseTypeAlt, Int32 dwServerTemplate, UInt32 dwGetListFlags, UInt32 dwListFilterFlags, Boolean bPrefetchMetaData, Boolean bSecurityTrimmed, Boolean bGetSecurityData, Boolean bPrefetchRelatedFields, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter p2DWriter, Int32& plRecycleBinCount)  

[Date and Time] w3wp.exe (0x12DC) 0x29D8 SharePoint Foundation Runtime tkau Unexpected System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: List does not exist. The page you selected contains a list that does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user.  
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetListsWithCallback(String bstrUrl, Guid foreignWebId, String bstrListInternalName, Int32 dwBaseType, Int32 dwBaseTypeAlt, Int32 dwServerTemplate, UInt32 dwGetListFlags, UInt32 dwListFilterFlags, Boolean bPrefetchMetaData, Boolean bSecurityTrimmed, Boolean bGetSecurityData, Boolean bPrefetchRelatedFields, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter p2DWriter, Int32& plRecycleBinCount)  
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetListsWithCallback(String bstrUrl, Guid foreignWebId, String bstrListInternalName, Int32 dwBaseType, Int32 dwBaseTypeAlt, Int32 dwServerTemplate, UInt32 dwGetListFlags, UInt32 dwListFilterFlags, Boolean bPrefetchMetaData, Boolean bSecurityTrimmed, Boolean bGetSecurityData, Boolean bPrefetchRelatedFields, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter p2DWriter, Int32& plRecycleBinCount)

We are also getting an error browsing to "Site Actions > Site Settings > Workflows which had same errors as the ULS log errors when starting a workflow:  

Error Message:
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Failed to find the XML file at location '14\Template\Features\[feature folder]\feature.xml'  

Correlation ID: [guid]
Date and Time: [time stamp]

This site also experienced issues with creating / adding columns to lists / libraries.

Cause:
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The custom master page included customizations and code in the area of the search box. 

Resolution:
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Adjust the custom master page so that it was no longer able to add branding to the search box.

Please let me know in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information, Thank you.

29 July, 2012

Office communicator top downloads

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, built on Active Directory and integrated with Exchange Server and Microsoft Office applications, delivers streamlined communications including software-powered VoIP, Presence, enterprise IM, and Web conferencing. You can implement these capabilities alongside your existing telephony infrastructure, while providing the operational control required.

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Trial Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?DisplayLang=en&id=4162

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Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Trial Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?DisplayLang=en&id=8468

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Clients Downloads:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/bb629431

Client Tools and Resources





Both the Office Communications family and the Lync family of server and clients are discussed in the following forums.
·         Planning and Deployment
·         Certificates
·         Security
·         Management
·         Presence and IM
·         Conferencing
·         Enterprise Voice and Telephony
·         Edge Servers
·         Mobility
·         Lync Clients and Devices
·         Interoperability
·         UC integration

Cannot sign in because the server is temporarily unavailable. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator

You cannot sign in to Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 or Microsoft Lync 2010 in a dedicated Business Productivity Online Suite environment. Additionally, you receive the following error message:
Cannot sign in because the server is temporarily unavailable. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator.
There are multiple causes behind this issue, such as:
§  You are not entitled for Office Communicator Online or Lync Online.

§  You lack connectivity to the OCS or Lync service.

§  You are running a 64-bit Windows operating system.

Note: This cause only applies to Communicator 2007 R2.

I am sharing both the resolutions that I tried by considering multiple scenarios so suggest you to test the both solutions:

Resolution:
1.   Microsoft Managed Services Service Provisioning Provider (MMSSPP) provisions managed account objects for OCS according to your organization's specific logic. Some organizations use an OCS or Lync entitlement flag (such as  extensionattribute5 ) in their Active Directory to signal MMSSPP to provision that object for OCS or Lync. The value of the OCS or Lync entitlement flag is specific to each organization. Other organizations provision all users with a certain Primary SMTP domain.

2.   There is a known issue with Office Communicator 2007 and 64-bit operating systems that prevents Communicator from being able to successfully authenticate. To resolve this issue, update the user’s registry as follows:

§  Start Notepad. 
§  Copy the following text exactly as it is into the notepad file:

§  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa]"LmCompatibilityLevel"=dword:00000002 
§  Save the notepad file as 64bitfix.reg . 
§  Shut down Office Communicator and verify communicator.exe process is not running from the Task Manager. 
§  Execute the file by double-clicking the 64bitfix.reg file. 
§  Restart the computer and then start Office Communicator again