21 November, 2012

Event ID 7888 Runtime Exception Thread was being aborted and Event ID 5538 an error occurred in the blob cache

Errors: You will see the below error messages in the event viewer.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category: Office Server General
Event ID: 7888
Date:  9/14/2010
Time:  2:31:08 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: SPSMOSS20071
Description:
A runtime exception was detected. Details follow.
Message: Thread was being aborted.
Techinal Details:
System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted.
   at System.Threading.ReaderWriterLock.AcquireWriterLockInternal(Int32 millisecondsTimeout)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.BlobCache.<>c__DisplayClass14.<>c__DisplayClass17.b__11()
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics.FirstChanceHandler.ExceptionFilter(Boolean fRethrowException, TryBlock tryBlock, FilterBlock filter, CatchBlock catchBlock, FinallyBlock finallyBlock)
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category: Publishing Cache
Event ID: 5538
Date:  9/14/2010
Time:  2:31:08 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: SPSMOSS20071
Description:
An error occured in the blob cache.  The exception message was 'Thread was being aborted.'.
Resolution 1:
Flush the blob cache to ensure that the fix can take place on a new, fresh cache
- set the NTFS permissions for "WSS_WPG" group with "full permissions" of the defined Blobcache folder
- change the values in web.config as recommended in this sample here:
BlobCache location="E:\blobcache" path="\.(gif|jpg|png|css|js|htc|)$ " maxSize="10" max-age="86400" enabled="true"/


Resolution 2:
This could also be a database permission issue.
Write down the name of the content database of the Sharepoint site, on which we are receiving this error from Sharepoint Central Admin -> Application Management
-> Sharepoint Web Application Management -> Content Databases ->  Select that URL or Web Application from the list
Go to SQL 2005 Management Studio -> select that  database - properties - write down the location
If you are using SSEE, we may need to download the SQL 2005 Management Studio Express (SSMSE) , to perform this operation
Go to that location, go a level up, i.e. if the location is something like
d:\SQLDATA, go to D:\ level and add ‘Authenticated Users’ with default permissions,
i.e. ‘Read & Execute’, ‘List Folder Contents’ and ‘Read’
If  you have any queries/questions do let me know.

19 November, 2012

sharepoint 2013 videos


Watch or download the following content for information about how to plan for, install, or manage SharePoint 2013.

Content Description

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Video: Social computing overview in SharePoint Server 2013 View a video of enterprise social computing and collaboration in SharePoint 2013, featuring Bill Baer, SharePoint Senior Product Marketing Manager.

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SharePoint 2013 training for IT pros Find IT pro-focused how-to training and walkthrough videos with this interactive course about SharePoint 2013 including changes and new features for search, social, plus deployment and performance/scalability.

SharePoint 2013 Video Tutorials – BY Asif Rehmani

sharepoint 2013 enhancements

Features removed in SharePoint 2013

The following features and functionality have been deprecated or changed in SharePoint 2013.
1.    Visual upgrade
2.    Document Workspace site template
3.    Personalization Site template
4.    Meeting Workspace site templates
5.    Group Work site template and Group Work solution
6.    Visio Process Repository site template
7.    Unghosting and customizing CSS files
8.    Imaging Web service
9.    Excel Services — Can't edit workbooks in the browser that have external data connections
10. Web Analytics in SharePoint Server 2010
11. Modifying the search topology using a web-based interface
12. Diacritic sensitivity element in the thesaurus
13. Replacement mode within the thesaurus
14. Search Query web service
15. Search RSS and search from Windows
16. Custom word breaker dictionaries
17. SharePoint Search SQL syntax
18. Shallow search refiners
19. FAST Search database connector
20. FAST Search Lotus Notes connector
21. FAST Search web crawler
22. FAST Query Language (FQL) deprecated features
23. URL Query syntax
24. Specific search scope filters
25. Anti-phrasing
26. Offensive content filtering
27. Substring search
28. Person names and location extractions
29. Number of custom entity extractors
30. Supported document formats
31. Content processing extensibility
32. Custom XML item processing
33. Adding a test item to the index

18 November, 2012

Sales Lead Pipeline Template Mystery

Before directly giving the problem description, let me brief some details regarding Sales Lead Pipeline template. This template belongs Microsoft Fab40 Package and comes under “Server Admin Application Templates”, detail reference: http://blogs.technet.com/b/praveenh/archive/2010/12/17/fantastic-40-application-templates-for-sharepoint-wss-amp-moss.aspx

Problem Description:
User created a Website with the Template "Sales Lead Pipeline". It works well, but there is a Workflow inside this Template to convert leads to accounts. This workflow only work with the side admin account (i.e. only for site collection administrators), all other accounts became an "access denied".

We can enter sales leads into the site but when we push the convert button, or use the convert workflow "Access Denied" is returned. User is a member of both the associated members and owners groups. So now the questions is-Do we really required to be a part of site collection admin group?

Which states that this is a bug in this template and there are some steps by which we can fix this.

Resolution Steps:
1)    Open your sales site with SharePoint Designer
2)    Go to the workflows
3)    Click on the "Convert" workflow with the right button
4)    Click on "Publish selected file"
5)    Choose any location
6)    Click publish

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