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          Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services. 

      

What is the cause of this error? 

The short answer is that the page is trying to access something that doesn’t exist, or thinks does not exist.

Resolution:

1). To check which webpart is having the issue, open the site with SharePoint Designer  and double click on the page. The webpart which shows the ‘server error’ is the culprit one.

2). Right click on the webpart to visit its properties and to find its name.

3). Go to web part maintenance page by using http://xyz.com/sites/default.aspx?contents=1  and

4). Closed the offending web part.

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 issue. Thank you

The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available

A managed metadata service publishes a term store and, optionally, content types; a managed metadata connection consumes these. When you enable managed metadata in your SharePoint Server 2010 application, a managed metadata service and connection are created automatically. The service identifies the database to be used as the term store, and the connection provides access to the service.

I've been trying to create new Managed Metadata services but get this error when trying to manage them:

The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or Managed Metadata Web Service may not have been started. Please Contact your Administrator.

Here are the detailed steps that i followed to resolve this issue:

Resolution:

1)  Open Central Administration by going Start--All Programs--Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products--SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

2)   Click on Manage Service Application which is available in Application Management section.

3)   When you click on Managed Metadata Service application, sometimes you may get the following error:

The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available

4)   Go and check whether the Managed Metadata Service has been started.

5)   Click on Application Management in the quick launch.

6)   Click on Manage services on server under Service Applications section.

7)  Check whether the Managed Metadata Web Service is started; if not then click on Start

8)   Do an IISRESET

Now you could be able to see the Managed Metadata Service properties

If you still face the same issue, go to IIS and check whether the Application pool for the metadata service is started

Note: Check the account in which the application pool for the metadata service is running. Sometimes if the password for the account is changed, you will get the same issue

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 issue. Thank you :)

How to Create a New Document Library in SharePoint 2010

A library is a container for creating, organizing and managing different types of documents. It allows us to store files and Meta information about the files, so that it can be used among different team members. You can create, store and manage almost every type of file in different kinds of libraries (i.e. Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms etc.)

By default a Shared Library is created when you create a site and additionally you can create as many types of libraries as you want.

1.   Select 'Site Actions', then 'View All Site Content'.

2.   Click 'Create'.

3.   The Popup will ask for Name, Description, Versioning and Template settings. Fill the fields as desired.

SharePoint ULS Log Viewer

Functionalities:

·         Parse and open multiple SharePoint ULS logs (will concatenate them if you select multiple)

·         Reorder and resize columns, sort on any column

·         Filter by Severity, Category, and Process or a custom text filter/search

·         Group multi-line stack traces into single log entries for easy viewing and copy/paste

·         View message easily in separate pane (No more scrolling in notepad)

Complete credit goes to Keir Gordon who is the creator of this utility

·         Great features

·         The interface is very intuitive, simple, and powerful.

·         Very handy to view the complex log files

·         Great tool, much easier to read the logs than Notepad or Text pad

Site Delete Alert, SharePoint Survey and Updating Document Library using Powershell scripts

Guys,

While doing some troubleshooting on one issue, I came across some fine articles which I would like to share with all of you. Complete credit goes to Mark Jones as he is the author of those articles and I want to thanks him for sharing such valuable information.

Let me describe the details as follows:

·         How to create a SharePoint survey:

http://www.collaboris.com/blogs/collaboris-blog/mark-jones/2012/01/22/how-to-create-a-sharepoint-survey-in-under-5-minutes

·         How to update multiple documents in a SharePoint document library with PowerShell:

 http://www.collaboris.com/blogs/collaboris-blog/mark-jones/2012/02/14/update-multiple-documents-with-powershell

·         How to send an email when a SharePoint site or web is deleted:

http://www.collaboris.com/blogs/collaboris-blog/mark-jones/2012/06/01/how-to-send-an-email-when-a-sharepoint-site-or-web-is-deleted

All the above three links are magnificent which consist of development as well as administration work.

In case of any queries/questions then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you J