Microsoft Office Sharepoint - All Comments

re: Modified By Column does not get updated

Dougal — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:22:23 GMT

Many thanks for the post, massively appreciated, sorted my issue.

Small issue, if there is no space between the last attribute and cliosing tag, en exception is thrown.

Changing the replace line to (added space before From...):

f.SchemaXML = $f.SchemaXML -replace '/>',' FromBaseType="TRUE" />'

Solves this.

re: How to enable workflow tracing (debug)

Nishant — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:14:39 GMT

Awesome blog, very helpful

Thanks

re: Warm-up script

hwha — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:27:43 GMT

Hi Victor,

Great script! I've extended this script to work on our environment at work.

I have a quick question for you, why are you instantiating both the web client and the httpwebrequest classes?

To my understanding the web client and httpwebrequest are very similar and a lot of the scripts that are used for "warm-ups" use one or the other. However, in my environment I require both like you have in your script and was wondering what the process behind that was.

Thank you!

re: Sharepoint Designer 2007 workflow error occurred on Update List Item when field is Person/Group

Victor Butuza [MSFT] — Mon, 06 May 2013 12:23:55 GMT

The response is in workaround 1 above

1. Instead of updating the username with the AccountName of the User, as usual in Sharepoint Designer (DOMAIN\AccountName) use the following pattern Id;# Name of the User, or just ID , where Id is the Id of the user as in the site collection.

re: Sharepoint Designer 2007 workflow error occurred on Update List Item when field is Person/Group

Ori — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:18:39 GMT

The workaround suggested by Daniel in the comments did the trick !!!

But .......... I would be happy to understand what is the expression -1;# and why did adding it helped..

Thanks again

re: Manual SharePoint uninstall procedure

Cornelius J. van Dyk — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:13:24 GMT

Do you have updated guidance for this related to 2010 and 2013 versions?

re: Warm-up script

Cornelius J. van Dyk — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:07:45 GMT

There are also some cool Codeplex options for this.

sharepointwarmup.codeplex.com is an active and stable utility that integrates with Central Admin for warmups.

Personally I've been using http://spwakeup.codeplex.com/ for years even though it's noted as Beta.

re: SQL-Network Performance problems when orphan solutions are still present in the database

Cornelius J. van Dyk — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:23:50 GMT

I'm a little confused here so if you could please clarify for me on the following:

1. When a PAGE is rendered that doesn't exist in the Object Cache, all the Solutions in the Site collection is downloaded. This seems overkill for a simple page. Granted solution objects can be used on a page, but does this mean that the page doesn't actually track which solutions are leveraged on the page itself?

2. You note that saving a site as a template with content somehow throws it into the mix of Solutions. As far as I am aware, saving a site as a template with content, adds a new item to the Site Template Gallery. I don't see how that translates to a Solution. Thoughts?

Thanks

re: 404 error on a Sharepoint Site : COMException (0x80004005) : The operation cannot be completed successfully

Cornelius J. van Dyk — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:15:04 GMT

This is really good to know. I have actually seen this problem before. :-)

re: Page not found 404 on Default.aspx

Cornelius J. van Dyk — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:09:00 GMT

Another reason this occurs is if you have a SharePoint 2010 site that was based on one of the Fab40 templates in SharePoint 2007 and was subsequently upgraded. A database attach upgrade will result in the site being there, so to speak, but being inaccessible due to the invalid site template. SharePoint doesn't actually throw any useful UI errors to let you know that, but digging deep enough into the logs, you can identify the issue.