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Editing a Document in SharePoint Opens as Read-Only

2009-01-28T20:33:00Z

I have worked with a few customers that have run across an issue when they want to edit documents from a SharePoint site, they will only open as read-only. Some machines will only open documents from a SharePoint document library as Read-Only while other machines, logged on as the same user, allow the user to open the documents for editing. The same procedure is used on both machines where you select the drop-down arrow and choose “Edit in Excel” (or Word or PowerPoint). All permissions have been verified as correct.

TROUBLESHOOTING

1) Download ProMon.exe from http://live.sysinternals.com. You have the choice to either run it from sysinternals or download it and run on your machine.

2) Make sure procmon.exe is running on a "good" and "bad" machine then reproduce the issue on the “good” machine and the “bad” machine

3) Once the issue is reproduced, save the files as CSV files using names such as good.csv and bad.csv.

4) Download Beyond Compare from http://www.download.com/Beyond-Compare/3000-2248_4-10577526.html to your local machine

5) Open the two CSV ProcMon files in Beyond Compare and look for any “ACCESS DENIED” messages similar to these that were on the “bad” machine

a) 1:03:00 PM EXCEL.EXE:7796 OPEN j:\apps_pub\msop2k40\msopkg\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\System\OLEDB~1\MSDAURL.DLL ACCESS DENIED DOMAIN\username

b) 1:03:00 PM EXCEL.EXE:7796 OPEN J:\apps_pub\msop2k40\msopkg\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\System\OLEDB~1\MSDAURL.DLL ACCESS DENIED DOMAIN\username

c) 1:03:00 PM EXCEL.EXE:7796 OPEN J:\apps_pub\msop2k40\msopkg\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\System\OLEDB~1\MSDAURL.DLL ACCESS DENIED DOMAIN\username

d) 1:03:00 PM EXCEL.EXE:7796 OPEN J:\apps_pub\msop2k40\msopkg\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\System\OLEDB~1\MSDAURL.DLL ACCESS DENIED DOMAIN\username

e) 1:03:00 PM procexp.exe:5564 QUERY INFORMATION I:\documents\Excel\ SUCCESS FileBasicInformation

f) 1:03:00 PM EXCEL.EXE:7796 OPEN J:\apps_pub\msop2k40\msopkg\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\System\OLEDB~1\MSDAURL.DLL ACCESS DENIED DOMAIN\username

6) Open the RegMon files to see what’s missing on the “bad” machine as compared to the “good” machine

a) You’ll want to concentrate mostly on the following Registry entries

i) FF151822-B0BF-11D1-A80D-000000000000

ii) MSDAURL.Binder.1

iii) MSDAURL.Binder

RESOLUTION
On the “bad” machine, if you have ACCESS DENIED on MSDAURL.DLL from ProcMon and the Registry entries are missing, then we need to add the Registry keys on the “bad” machine.

1) Copy and paste the text under CLSID_FIX to notepad and save the file as CLSID_FIX.reg

2) Double-click the CLSID_FIX.reg file to install the keys

3) From a command prompt, re-register these dll’s

a) Regsvr32.exe “c:\program files\common files\system\OLE DB\MSDAURL.DLL”

b) Regsvr32.exe “c:\program files\common files\system\OLE DB\MSDAIPP.DLL”

4) Reboot the machine

CLSID_FIX

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FF151822-B0BF-11D1-A80D-000000000000}]
@="Microsoft OLE DB Root Binder for Internet Publishing"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FF151822-B0BF-11D1-A80D-000000000000}\InprocServer32]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\system\\ole db\\oledb32.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Both"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FF151822-B0BF-11D1-A80D-000000000000}\OLE DB Binder]
@="Microsoft OLE DB Root Binder"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FF151822-B0BF-11D1-A80D-000000000000}\ProgID]
@="MSDAURL.Binder.1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FF151822-B0BF-11D1-A80D-000000000000}\VersionIndependentProgID]
@="MSDAURL.Binder"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSDAURL.Binder.1]
@="Microsoft OLE DB Root Binder for Internet Publishing"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSDAURL.Binder.1\CLSID]
@="{FF151822-B0BF-11D1-A80D-000000000000}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSDAURL.Binder]
@="Microsoft OLE DB Root Binder for Internet Publishing"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSDAURL.Binder\CLSID]
@="{FF151822-B0BF-11D1-A80D-000000000000}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSDAURL.Binder\CurVer]
@="MSDAURL.Binder.1"

Mystery Solved - Crawled Properties in SharePoint (Part 7)

2008-11-26T01:13:00Z

Up to this point, we have gone through the details of the following Crawled Property Categories:

Overview
Basic Category
Office Category
People Category
SharePoint Category
Mail Category

This post will cover the details of the Web Category of Crawled Properties.

Crawled Properties View – Web

The Web Crawled Property Category contains metadata of the page(s) such as the code page, anchor text, when a page expires, description, etc. The majority of crawled properties in this category are self-explanatory.

The following table provides details about each of the crawled properties in the Basic category based on a test environment. The table is sorted by Property Set ID, or GUID, then by Name and includes the following columns:

Name – The name of the crawled property

Represented in Crawled Properties View – The name of the crawled property in the Crawled Properties View

Property Name – A description of what the property is

PROPSET – The GUID or Property Set ID

Property Set Description – A description of the property set for which this is a member

Variant Type – The variant type of the property

Variant Type Description – A description of the variant type

Mapped To – A listing of which managed property(ies) this crawled property is mapped to

Indexed – Indicates whether this property is included in the index from an “out of the box” installation.

NOTE: Your environment may have more or less crawled properties based on the content being crawled.

Name	Represented in Crawled Properties View	Property Name	PROPSET	Property Set Description	Variant Type	Variant Type Description	Mapped To	Index
2	Web:2(Text)	href	70eb7a10-55d9-11cf-b75b-00aa0051fe20	HTML Information	31	Text	Path(Text)	Yes
3	Web:3(Text)	HTML Heading 1	70eb7a10-55d9-11cf-b75b-00aa0051fe20	HTML Information	31	Text
4	Web:4(Text)	HTML Heading 2	70eb7a10-55d9-11cf-b75b-00aa0051fe20	HTML Information	31	Text
5	Web:5(Text)	HTML Heading 3	70eb7a10-55d9-11cf-b75b-00aa0051fe20	HTML Information	31	Text
6	Web:6(Text)	HTML Heading 4	70eb7a10-55d9-11cf-b75b-00aa0051fe20	HTML Information	31	Text
7	Web:7(Text)	HTML Heading 5	70eb7a10-55d9-11cf-b75b-00aa0051fe20	HTML Information	31	Text
8	Web:8(Text)	HTML Heading 6	70eb7a10-55d9-11cf-b75b-00aa0051fe20	HTML Information	31	Text
IMG.ALT	IMG.ALT(Text)	Alternate Text for Image	70eb7a10-55d9-11cf-b75b-00aa0051fe20	HTML Information	31	Text
INPUT.ALT	INPUT.ALT(Text)	Alternate Text for Image	70eb7a10-55d9-11cf-b75b-00aa0051fe20	HTML Information	31	Text
SELECT	SELECT(Text)	Drop Down List	70eb7a10-55d9-11cf-b75b-00aa0051fe20	HTML Information	32799	Binary Data		Yes
2	Web:2(Integer)	Detected Language	c82bf596-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	19	Integer
3	Web:3(Text)	HTML Comment	c82bf596-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
4	Web:4(Integer)	Code Page	c82bf596-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	19	Integer	NLCodePage(Integer)
A.ENDANCHOR	A.ENDANCHOR(Text)	End Anchor Text	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
A.HREF	A.HREF(Text)	HTML Link	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
APPLET.CODE	APPLET.CODE(Text)	Applet Code	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
APPLET.CODEBASE	APPLET.CODEBASE(Text)	Directory path of applet class	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
AREA.HREF	AREA.HREF(Text)	HTML Area Reference	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
BASE.HREF	BASE.HREF(Text)	HTML Link to only web pages	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text		Yes
BGSOUND.SRC	BGSOUND.SRC(Text)	Background Sound	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
BODY.BACKGROUND	BODY.BACKGROUND(Text)	Backgound color/image of page	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
EMBED.SRC	EMBED.SRC(Text)	Embeded source in page	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
FRAME.SRC	FRAME.SRC(Text)	Source of frame in page	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
GENERATOR	GENERATOR(Text)		c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
IFRAME.SRC	IFRAME.SRC(Text)	URL of page in iFrame	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
IMG.DYNSRC	IMG.DYNSRC(Text)	Dymanic Source of media Image	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
IMG.SRC	IMG.SRC(Text)	Source of image	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
INPUT.SRC	INPUT.SRC(Text)	URL of image to display	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
LINK.HREF	LINK.HREF(Text)	URL of linked web resource	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
LINK.OFFICECHILD	LINK.OFFICECHILD(Text)	URL of child links	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
LINK.OFFICECHILDLIST	LINK.OFFICECHILDLIST(Text)	URLs of child lists	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
LINK.STYLESHEET	LINK.STYLESHEET(Text)	URL of linked style sheet	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
META.URL	META.URL(Text)	URL metadata	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
OBJECT.CODE	OBJECT.CODE(Text)	URL of file containing compiled Java Class	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
OBJECT.CODEBASE	OBJECT.CODEBASE(Text)	URL of the component	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
SCRIPT	SCRIPT(Text)	Script for the page	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
STYLE	STYLE(Text)	Settings of inline styles for an element	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
TABLE.BACKGROUND	TABLE.BACKGROUND(Text)	Color/image of table background	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
TD.BACKGROUND	TD.BACKGROUND(Text)	Background color/image of drop down list	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
TH.BACKGROUND	TH.BACKGROUND(Text)	Background of table header	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
TR.BACKGROUND	TR.BACKGROUND(Text)	Background of table row	c82bf597-b831-11d0-b733-00aa00a1ebd2	NetLib Info	31	Text
COLLABORATIONSERVER	COLLABORATIONSERVER(Text)	Meta name of SharePoint Team Web Site	d1b5d3f0-c0b3-11cf-9a92-00a0c908dbf1	HTML Meta Info	31	Text
CONTENT-TYPE	CONTENT-TYPE(Text)	Content Type	d1b5d3f0-c0b3-11cf-9a92-00a0c908dbf1	HTML Meta Info	31	Text
DESCRIPTION	DESCRIPTION(Text)	Description	d1b5d3f0-c0b3-11cf-9a92-00a0c908dbf1	HTML Meta Info	31	Text	Description(Text)	Yes
EXPIRES	EXPIRES(Text)	Expire	d1b5d3f0-c0b3-11cf-9a92-00a0c908dbf1	HTML Meta Info	31	Text
GENERATOR	GENERATOR(Text)		d1b5d3f0-c0b3-11cf-9a92-00a0c908dbf1	HTML Meta Info	31	Text
HELPAWSKEYWORD	HELPAWSKEYWORD(Text)		d1b5d3f0-c0b3-11cf-9a92-00a0c908dbf1	HTML Meta Info	31	Text		Yes
PROGID	PROGID(Text)	Program ID	d1b5d3f0-c0b3-11cf-9a92-00a0c908dbf1	HTML Meta Info	31	Text
ROBOTS	ROBOTS(Text)	Robots	d1b5d3f0-c0b3-11cf-9a92-00a0c908dbf1	HTML Meta Info	31	Text
TOPIC	TOPIC(Text)	Topic	d1b5d3f0-c0b3-11cf-9a92-00a0c908dbf1	HTML Meta Info	31	Text		Yes

There are five categories left of which we have not covered:

Business Data

Internal

Notes

Tiff

XML

When I gather more information on the above Crawled Property Categories, I'll update this blog. I sure hope you've enjoyed this series of technical drill down into the crawled properties in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Crawled Properties in SharePoint-Part (Part 5) - Mystery Solved

2008-11-26T00:57:00Z

For some reason, I couldn't continue with my same title format so I changed it around a bit. In this post, we'll discover the details of the crawled properties in the "People" category.

Crawled Properties View – People

People search in SharePoint provides a robust set of crawled properties that can you to find just about anyone anywhere. Not only can you search on their name, department, manager, etc, but customization of the People Search enables you to search on their interests, which SharePoint groups a person belongs to, skills, and more. When profiles are imported from Active Directory, LDAP, or other sources, this information is automatically populated in their MySite information and available for searching.