Is your SharePoint server reporting Event IDs 7076, 6398, 6482

apurdon — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:45:50 GMT

A lot of the SharePoint servers I look at have Error level events (7076, 6398 and 6482) showing up in their Event Logs and I think most people are either starting to ignore these or never look at their Event Logs.

I'm guilty of the latter. I have looked after our team MOSS server for at least a year and I haven't looked at the Event Logs once. It's the first place I go when there are problems but when everything is running smoothly then I don't do a proactive check to see what is happening.

If you have seen the following Events in your Event Log then relief is at hand.

Event Id: 7076
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
The Message text contains:
"Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." and a reference to the Metabase in the callstack.

Event Id: 6398
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3
The Message text contains: "Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerAdministrationServiceJob" and "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."

Event Id: 6482
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
The Message text contains:
"Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchAdminSharedWebServiceInstance", "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." and a reference to the Metabase in the callstack.

A hotfix, KB946517, is now available for this issue.

946517 FIX: You may be unable to manage IIS 6.0 by using Server Manager if two threads access IIS 6.0 at the same time
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;946517

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Can you customise the Request Access Email?

apurdon — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:37:00 GMT

The simple answer to this question is No, or more accurately you probably shouldn't.

I've seen many requests sent from customers and internal engineers on "How do you customise the Request Access Email that SharePoint sends out?". I decided to have a look at this and found the request access email that is sent out is built inside the SharePoint code which means there is no way for the you (a customer) or us (Microsoft Services) to change it for you.

In particular the option that caused me to look at this was how to send the Email out using a Preferred Display Name rather than the users Domain\UserName.

The property we use for the user is the WindowsIdentity.Name Property, which is the logon name in the form DOMAIN\USERNAME.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.principal.windowsidentity.name(VS.80).aspx

The WindowsIdentity.Name is also what is shown on the reqacc.aspx page when the user is redirected to this page. “You are currently signed in as: (WindowsIdentity.Name)”

There is one way to workaround this and that is to build a custom reqacc.aspx page and not use our Out of the Box page. Since the page is stored in _layouts you should review KB944105 before deciding on this option.

944105 How to customize application pages in the Layouts folder in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;944105

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Is your SharePoint server reporting Event IDs 7076, 6398, 6482

Can you customise the Request Access Email?