Unable to process create message + User Profile + Connection problems + Event ID:6306

Today my client has requested me to setup a new environment for SharePoint which will be used for deployment purpose.

Here is the farm entity:

§  2 WFE’s

§  2 APP servers

§  Windows server 2008 R2

§  SQL Server 2008 R2: active-passive clustering

While trying to create a synchronization connection in the user profile management then we were getting the following error:

Error#1:

Unable to process create message

Error#2:

No exact match was found

Event log contains the following event id:

6306

ULS logs throwing the following error:

Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Service: System.InvalidOperationException: Retrieve schema failed

   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.ActionProcessor.SyncConfigActionProcessor.Create(String typeName, IList`1 createParameters, Guid creator, Guid cause)

   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.ActionProcessor.SyncConfigActionProcessor.ProcessInputRequest(RequestType request)

   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.ActionProcessor.ActionDispatcher.ProcessInputRequest(RequestType request)

   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.ExecuteAction(RequestType request)

   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.ExecuteAction[ResponseBodyType](RequestType request)

   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.DispatchRequest[ResponseBodyType](RequestType request, Guid requestIdentifier, Object redispatchSingleInstanceKey)

   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.DispatchRequest[ResponseBodyType](RequestType request)

   at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManagementService.Create(Message request)

Resolution:

Thanks to this following articles (Author- Balasubramanian Murugesan) who helped me to resolve this issue:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/balasm/archive/2013/07/18/sharepoint-2010-user-profile-sync-connection-creation-failed-unable-to-process-create-message.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/balasm/archive/2012/05/18/user-profile-application-unable-to-process-create-message.aspx

Reference:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2490381

http://blogs.technet.com/b/steve_chen/archive/2011/03/04/february-2011-cu-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx?Redirected=true

http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx

Product applies to:

1)   SharePoint Server 2010

2)   SharePoint Foundation 2010

World Clock and Weather Web Part - SP2013

SharePoint is collaborative software intended to bridge the gap between remote locations within an organization or a network of people. This web part delivers a nice GUI display of time and weather and it helps keep all users connected to each others’ environments.

The Bamboo Solutions World Clock & Weather Web Part allows users to display local time and weather for selected major cities around the globe. It addresses a pretty basic need that SharePoint does not have out of the box.

In addition to supporting multiple presentation interfaces and look & feel options, the World Clock Web Part allows you to specify the size of each clock, direction (vertical or horizontal), and whether to display seconds for each clock. You can also re-order the clocks to match your requirements.

Happy to share some good news as Bamboo has released the world clock and weather webpart for SharePoint 2013.

Download: http://store.bamboosolutions.com/sharepoint-world-clock-and-weather-web-part.aspx

Enjoy and Happy SharePoint to all of you…

Million Thanks 2 Bamboo Solutions!!

Failed to start workflow. This server is not licensed + Nintex 2010 + SP2010

Problem description:

Some users reported that there are workflows with errors. This error occurs it looks like there is some issue with the license on a farm’s server.

Error message:

Failed to start workflow. This server is not licensed.

Probable Possibilities:

The server admins are incorrect; the Nintex licenses are not configured correctly.  If this were true, I would expect the error to occur more frequently, and not just when multiple workflows start.  For example, I would expect a workflow manual start to occasionally throw the error.

There is a problem with the way Nintex checks for licensing when workflows are distributed among front-end servers or queued up for execution.

Resolution:

If you are facing this error then request you to see the following thread and you will get the answers that you are looking for:

http://connect.nintex.com/forums/thread/4357.aspx

Thank you.

Product applies to:

1)   SharePoint Server 2010

2)   Nintex 2010

3)   SharePoint Foundation 2010

Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer + IE10 + Windows 7

The title of this article itself suggesting the exact problem description, still here are the details:

The machine on which windows 7 is running along with internet explorer 10 throws an exception when you select “Open with Explorer” in SharePoint Server 2010.

Error Message#1: Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer.

Error Message#2: We're having a problem opening this location in File Explorer. Add this web site to your Trusted Sites list and try again.

Another Symptom:

You try to map a network drive to the SharePoint Document Library and the operation fails with the following error:

The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred:

Access Denied. Before opening files in this location, you must first add the web site to your trusted sites list, browse to the web site, and select the option to login automatically.

Resolution:

Let me provide you some update on this / let me give you some good news as Microsoft has released a fix for this issue by means of KB: 2846960

Fix can be downloaded from: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2846960

Millions thanks to Microsoft Windows team to find out the root cause behind this and comes up with a concrete fix.

Happy SharePoint to all of you…

How to Open PDF files in a web browser -SharePoint 2010

One of my clients has reported an issue that they are facing some problems while opening PDF files. Further probing reflected the fact that PDF files are opening but they are getting the prompt of Open, Save and Cancel. In contradictory, the actual requirement is PDF files has to open in browser mode directly rather than saving it to the desktop.

Problem description: SharePoint 2010 prompts to save PDF documents when opening.

Now the question is: Is there a way to open a PDF in a web browser, just like Office Web Apps?

This problem is quite annoying as every time we need to save the documents to the desktop!

Started my troubleshooting to explore the options in central administration

Let me tell you the fact why this is happening? In SharePoint 2010, browser handling has been classified into 2 types:

1)   Strict

2)   Permissive

So the next obvious question will be- what are the differences between these above mentioned types? Here are the details:

Strict specifies the MIME types which are not listed in a Web Application’s AllowedInlineDownloadedMimeTypes property (more on this in a bit) are forced to be downloaded.

Permissive specifies that the HTML and other content types which might contain script are allowed to be displayed directly in the browser. In other words, no matter what the type of content, if it lives within SharePoint, the file will open in your browser.

By default, the option is strict in Central administration so that’s why getting prompt is quite obvious.

Resolution#1 / now the question is how to change this?

1)   Open the central administration

2)   Application management

3)   Under web applications- Manage web applications

4)   Select the web application for which you want to change the settings

5)   General Settings (Top-Ribbon section)

6)   This will be open web application general settings

7)   There is a section named as ‘Browser File Handling’

8)   You will see two radio buttons as Strict and Permissive

9)   Change it to Permissive and Click OK

 No needs to do any iisreset so please go ahead and check the results!

-You should be able to open the PDF files directly in browser-

Resolution#2 – Same functionality as Resolution1, only thing is by means of Power Shell:

$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://webapplication_URL

$webApp.BrowserFileHandling = "permissive"

$webApp.update()

If you have some security concerns and don’t want to change the option from strict to permissive then here is the resolution:

By means of Powershell:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.SharePoint”)

$webapp = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication]::Lookup(“http://web application_URL”)

If ($webApp.AllowedInlineDownloadedMimeTypes -notcontains “application/pdf”)

{

Write-Host -ForegroundColor White “Adding Pdf MIME Type…”

$webApp.AllowedInlineDownloadedMimeTypes.Add(“application/pdf”)

$webApp.Update()

Write-Host -ForegroundColor White “Added and saved.”

} Else {

Write-Host -ForegroundColor White “Pdf MIME type is already added.”

}

Now your PDF documents will be displayed in the browser even if Browser File Handling is set to Strict.

One last point, in fact important point is you may face the problem with the list or site templates. How? – We are all aware that site as well as list/libraries can be saved as templates to transfer from one location to another.

I would like to thanks to Nico Martens for publishing this article for all of us:

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Change-Browser-File-e60b46c9

Thank you.

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.

Happy SharePoint to all of you…

Product Applies to:

1)   SharePoint Server 2010

2)   SharePoint Foundation 2010

References:

Open PDF files in the browser from SharePoint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULfIEmoq-F0