September 23, 2012

Improved: Developer Dashboard in SP2013

The developer dashboard was a great new feature when SP2010 was released, and now with SP2013 it has been further improved, with the key changes being:

The Dashboard now appears in a separate window - it isn’t rendered out at the bottom of the page you are diagnosing any more.
Cumulative page requests are shown, instead of just the last request. This certainly helps in SP2013 given the use of Minimal Download Strategy (MDS).

August 1, 2012

SharePoint 2013: Using the search REST service from an app for SharePoint

A new code sample has been released on MSDN that demonstrates how to return search results in an app for SharePoint.

“The SearchApp sample accepts a query using the keyword query language (KQL) syntax as an input. It subsequently makes a call to the search engine using the search Representational State Transfer (REST) service. The results are then displayed in a table, which is built dynamically using JQuery and JavaScript.”

October 11, 2011

Can't Delete List Field?

Recently I had to help someone that wasn’t able to delete a field off a list!

Seemed a bit strange I thought.. just go and delete it :)

Well in this case there was a catch - it was sealed. One of their developers had deployed a custom feature containing list fields and had set this particular one to sealed.

This was reasonably easy to figure out by opening up SharePoint Manager 2010 (SPM2010).

June 21, 2011

Cannot create InfoPath.ExternalApplication object. Error code = 0×80080005

Issue: Error message when you install an InfoPath 2007 Client Form Template (i.e. a non browser-enabled form) on a Windows Vista or higher computer: “Cannot create InfoPath.ExternalApplication object. Error code = 0×80080005”

Resolution: To work around this issue simply:

Oen Windows Task Manager
Stop any InfoPath or Microsoft Outlook process
Restart the installation of the Form Template

May 13, 2011

How To: Detect if McAfee Virus Scanner Exclusions are being applied?

Question: How can I detect if McAfee Virus Scanner Exclusions are being applied?

Answer:

Download ProcMon
Extract the downloaded files to a clean directory using WinZip or other file extraction utility.
Launch ProcMon.exe.
Select **Options **then Enable Advanced Output.
Create the relevant filter for McShield. For example, to filter for all READ actions by McShield, set Process Name IS McShield.exe and Operation CONTAINS IRP_MJ_READ

May 9, 2011

Cannot find type [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite]

**Issue: **New-Object : Cannot find type [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite]: make sure the assembly containing this type is loaded. At D:\data\Permissions.ps1:253 char:23 + $rootSite = New-Object «« Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteUrl)

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

May 7, 2011

Access Denied! Only site admin can access Data Source object from user profile DB

**Issue: **“A runtime exception was detected. Details follow. Message: Access Denied! Only site admin can access Data Source object from user profile DB.”

**Resolution: **Grant the search account access to the SP2007 user profile store

March 29, 2011

What is the Default Location of the SSRS Log

Question: What is the default location of the SSRS log?

Answer: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10_50.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\LogFiles

February 6, 2011

SP2010 - Developer Dashboard - What a Life Saver!

The Developer Dashboard is one of my favourite troubleshooting tools for SP2010.

The great aspect about the Dev Dashboard is that it allows you to see how long each of your web parts are taking to load on a page, in addition to individual SQL queries and stored proc executions.

Now you can easily figure out which web parts are causing problems so that you can fix them, or hand them off to your developers to fix.

February 1, 2011

Where are the IMS Node Logs Stored in FSIS?

Question: Where are the IMS (Interaction Management Services) node logs stored in FSIS?

**Answer: **\AppData\Local\FSIS\Nodes\Fsis\InteractionEngineNode\Logs

E.g. C:\Users\FSIS Service\AppData\Local\FSIS\Nodes\Fsis\InteractionEngineNode\Logs