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Installing Sharepoint 2010

At this time of writing: Saturday, 16 Jan 2010 11:25pm I actually haven’t got my new laptop yet! Because I was away to overseas for holiday for about a month, the laptop was still held at custom. Anyway, it will be delivered on the coming Tuesday.   Therefore, at the moment I try to install Sharepoint 2010 […]

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Preparing the Environment for SharePoint 2010

Hi everyone,   I finally have the opportunity to prepare the environment to install SP2010.   Below is my environment configuration: 1. Host machine is running Windows 7 x64 (coz I love Windows 7, I still think that it’s the best operating system MS has ever released thus far). 2. I only install MS Office […]

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Error: Replication access was denied. error code: 8453

INTRODUCTION   When I tried to run SharePoint User Profile Synchronisation nothing happened. The status was sitting at “Synchronising (0)”.   When I opened Event Viewer it showed: == The management agent “MOSSAD-XXXXXX” failed on run profile “DS_FULLIMPORT” because of connectivity issues. ==   Then when I dig further and run the following application: C:\Program […]

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Clicking on User Profile Service Application and Get Error Message

INTRODUCTION   I’ve just created a User Profile Service Application but when I tried to go into it (i.e. clicking on it) I get a pop-up error message. In SharePoint log the following error message is logged:   == Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException: This User Profile Application’s connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or User Profile […]

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The file name or path does not exist when check-in/out publishing pages/master page/page layouts

INTRODUCTION   When I tried to check-in/out publishing pages, master pages and page layouts I get the “The file name or path does not exist” error.   CAUSE   The database server space is full.   RESOLUTION   Add more space or move the content database to a drive that has bigger space.

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User Profile Application Proxy failed to retrieve partitions from User Profile Application: Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException: No User Profile Application available to service the request.

INTRODUCTION   Following my other post about User Profile service instantiation, the service is now fully started but when I click on the User Profile Service Application link I get an error message straight away.   When I looked in the log I get the following: == User Profile Application Proxy failed to retrieve partitions […]

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Attaching SharePoint Portal Server (SPS 2003) Content Database to MOSS 2007 – error: pre-upgrade scan tool has not yet been run on this database SPContentDatabase

INTRODUCTION   I’ve got an ugprade project from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS 2003) to SharePoint 2010. Looking at the articles on the Internet it seems that you can’t upgrade from SPS 2003 straight to 2010. You have to upgrade to 2007 first then 2010.   I decided to use the content database backup/restore/detach/attach approach. […]

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Service Applications Not Provisioning – User Profile Service Status Going Back to Starting

INTRODUCTION   Everything was working fine only until recently where the User Profile Service status was going back to “Starting”. I then tried to delete the Service Application and start again but it failed. It popped-out with “Deleting” window but nothing happens.   I tried to provision a new Service Application and same. It opened […]

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Nintex Workflow 2010 – SOAP Builder Error Upon Using Web Service Task

INTRODUCTION   I personally like Nintex Workflow. I think it’s a great workflow and so much easier to use than the generic Visual Studio one. Anyway, one of the tasks that I can use is Web Service Call. Basically I can get result from a web service and save it to a workflow variable.   […]

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The Best SharePoint Issue Resolution Method

Hi guys,   I thought I would share with you the best SharePoint resolution method that I have found so far. SharePoint is a great application however it somehow crashes and falls over by itself after few months of real use.   Generally the problem is always with the data. Once SP is handed over to […]

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