The LandPhil

Category: SharePoint

  • SharePoint: Search gotcha

    So below I detailed the steps I had to take to get SharePoint Foundation Search running on my farm.  It worked great.  It even indexed content I didn’t expect it to index! On the one of the sites that I am indexing now is a list.  That list contains seemingly innocuous information, but one of…

  • SharePoint: Configuring Foundation Search

    You’ve got SharePoint installed.  You’re generating content.  Now you’d like it if that little Search bar on the top right actually returned something other than: Your search cannot be completed because this site is not assigned to an indexer.  Contact your administrator for more information. The first step is to turn on the Foundation Search…

  • SharePoint: Using custom CSS

    For the love of all that is holy, don’t try and do this in SharePoint designer.  I’m still not entirely sure what was going on, but it’s not pretty. Let’s say you have a page that you want to put some custom CSS on.  You could open the page in designer and modify the corev4.css.…

  • SharePoint Designer: Getting the DateTime into a readable format

    There are 3 view forms in SharePoint Designer for lists: New Edit View The default versions of these forms are created by SharePoint when the list is created.  They use a ListFormWebPart to display their information.  This is done by querying SharePoint for the objects directly. When you create a custom form of any of…

  • SharePoint: PowerPivot gotcha

    PowerPivot is an interesting beast. If you don’t know what it is, I’ll give you a very brief (and probably incorrect overview): PowerPivot is an Excel plugin, provided free from Microsoft, that allows you to import data from external sources into your very own localized cube for analysis. It’s very, very fast AND very, very…

  • SharePoint: Error, Event ID 6482

    Affected software: Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 Type : Error Date : 3/23/2011 Time : 8:52:17 AM Event : 6482 Source : Office SharePoint Server Category : Office Server Shared Services User : N/A Computer : xxxxxxxx Description: Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (94fda143-13d5-4bd2-bab1-d23b38f4ad95). Reason: The current operation timed-out after 3600 seconds…

  • SharePoint: The State Service

    Normally, one wouldn’t be writing this blog post. Normally, one wouldn’t be looking for the information contained in this blog post either. See, usually when you do the installation of SharePoint, you run the Configuration Wizard and the end and tell it to set up all of the basic services. We didn’t do it that…

  • SharePoint: Error, EventID 5586 (and 2159)

    Log entry for EventID 5586: Unknown SQL Exception 297 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.   The user does not have permission to perform this action. Log entry for EventID 2159: Event 5586 (SharePoint Foundation) of severity ‘Error’ occurred xx more time(s) and was suppressed in the event log What’s going…

  • SharePoint: Error, EventID 6482

    Log entry: Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (2059dee5-7de2-4e07-ba60-3a5630abdbe1). Reason: Object 67211af6-bd76-4344-852c-3d331ab57d81-query-0 not found. Technical Support Details: System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: Object 67211af6-bd76-4344-852c-3d331ab57d81-query-0 not found. at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob) What’s going on? The service account specified for “Windows Service – SharePoint Server Search” does not have permissions in DCOM to launch and activate. The…

  • SharePoint: Error, Event ID 8213

    Log entry: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: The process that hosts the writer with name OSearch14 VSS Writer and ID {0ff1ce14-0201-0000-0000-000000000000} does not run under a user with sufficient access rights. Consider running this process under a local account which is either Local System, Administrator, Network Service, or Local Service. Operation: Initializing Writer Context: Writer…