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SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization Service not starting after update

Dennis Bottjer — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:09:51 GMT

Issue:

After installing a SharePoint Update and running the Configuration Wizard you may notice that the User Profile Synchronization Service Application has stopped. Attempts to restart the User Profile Synchronization Service Application may prove unsuccessful.

Symptoms:

1) The User Profile Synchronization Service Application Fails is stopped and fails to restart

2) The following errors appear in the Event Viewer:

a. Detection of product '{90140000-104C-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE}', feature 'PeopleILM' failed during request for component '{1681AE41-ADA8-4B70-BC11-98A5A4EDD046}'

b. Detection of product '{90140000-104C-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE}', feature 'PeopleILM', component '{1C12B6E6-898C-4D58-9774-AAAFBDFE273C}' failed.

The resource 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Service\Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Service.exe' does not exist.

Solution:

Give the Network Service account read/Execute permissions to the following folders:

\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\

\Service

\SQL

\Tools

Open Central Admin—>Application Management—>Manage Services on Farm—> Start the Profile Synchronization Service

Special Thanks to Greg Carter (HoganTaylor)

NWA TechFest 2011 Presentation - SharePoint 2010 Where Are My Documents?

Dennis Bottjer — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:14:00 GMT

NWA TechFest 2011: Real World SharePoint 2010 Installation Lessons

Dennis Bottjer — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:36:00 GMT

Slides from Tulsa TechFest 2010

Dennis Bottjer — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:01:21 GMT

Thanks to all those who attended.

SharePoint 2010 Custom Master Page: Required Field Pop-Up

Dennis Bottjer — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:34:00 GMT

Overview:

Creating a custom master page provides the greatest flexibility for branding a SharePoint Implementation. However, there are many hidden traps to be aware of when creating a custom master page. For example, it is usually best not to start from scratch but to use a copy of the v4.master or starter master page http://startermasterpages.codeplex.com/ created by Randy Drisgill.

Lessons Learned:

The v4.master is the new default master used for SharePoint 2010 and creating a new custom master from a copy of the original v4.master will ensure the inclusion of expected SharePoint 2010 User Experience Functionality.

After deploying a custom master page based on the v4.master we began seeing a “You must specify a value for this required field” message box whenever trying to edit or add new list items and perform other routine tasks.

After much research the solution was found on this blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tmathis/archive/2010/03/18/you-must-specify-a-value-for-this-required-field-error-when-hidding-placeholderpagetitleintitlearea.aspx

It has always been a good practice to place unused content place holders within a hidden ASP.NET Panel Control. However, the message box error was caused by the PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea content place holder being contained within an ASP.NET Panel Control with the hidden attribute set to false. The resolution was to remove the hidden=false attribute and hide the ASP.NET Panel using a CSS Style. The style can be simply added to the master page for easy deployment.

SharePoint 2010 Missing New Tag Cloud Web Part

Dennis Bottjer — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:32:42 GMT

After completing a MOSS 2007 SP2 to SharePoint 2010 (Enterprise) upgrade all seemed to go well. However, I soon began to notice some subtle differences between site collections. For example, the home site collection was missing the new Tag Cloud Web Part. So I seemed like perhaps a Feature wasn’t Activated. After a little digging I learned that there is a Feature called Portal Layouts which is responsible for provisioning artifacts like the new Tag Cloud Web Part.

Solution:

To Activate the Feature you can use either stsadm or PowerShell. The syntax for both is listed below:

STSADM:

stsadm -o activateFeature -name "PortalLayouts" -url "http://<SharepointServer>/sites/<SiteCollection>" –force

PowerShell

Enable-SPFeature FeatureFolderName -Url http://server/site/subsite

SharePoint 2010 Unable to Open Excel and PDF Documents

Dennis Bottjer — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:54:39 GMT

Issue:

A client was experiencing very strange behavior following an upgrade from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 Server. In a nutshell some documents such as Word (.doc and .docx) would open while others such as Excel (.xls and xlsx) and PDF documents would not open.

Note: By open I mean when clicking on an Excel document, stored within a document library, it would not open in Excel installed on Windows 7, Vista, XP, etc.

Furthermore, the file type icons that normally display next to familiar documents such as Excel were missing and a missing image red x was displayed.

Thoughts:

The behavior of unrecognized File Types and missing document icons seemed to indicate an issue with the docIcon.xml configuration which is commonly located here: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML.

However, after inspecting this file on each server I could find nothing apparently wrong. Finally, one last tedious inspection revealed the issue. Following the upgrade we had to reconfigure the Adobe PDF IFilter which meant adding the following key to the docIcon.xml file:

<Mapping Key="pdf" Value="pdficon_small.gif" />

After looking at this entry more closely I noticed that the double quotations marks looked italicized “. This meant the configuration contain extra characters and was most likely edit with an editor like word pad instead of note pad.

Tip: Never use Word Pad to edit configuration files because it will add additional characters and likely corrupt the configuration file.

Solution:

I removed the unsupported double quotes and replaced them with unformatted double quotes. Viola, we could now open Excel and PDF Files again! Even better the cute little document type icons came back! :)

Further Explanation:

The reason the Excel Documents types became unavailable is because these document type mappings were located after the pdf file mapping within the docIcon.xml. Essential the invalid PDF entry broke all entries below it.

Hope this helps someone else!!!

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group April 12 Reminder

Dennis Bottjer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:12:48 GMT

The Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group is having it’s monthly meeting tonight Monday April 12th @6:00 PM.

Come see Corey Roth’s presentation on SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services.

GREAT Prizes:

XBox 360 – Halo 3 ODST

Telerik Premium Collection ($1,300.00 value)

ReSharper ($199.00 value)

SQL Sets ($149.00 value)

64 Bit Windows 7

Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET Platform ($1,195.00 value)

You can click here for more information.

You can click here to RSVP for the meeting.

TCC Configuring MOSS 2007 Certification Prep Class

Dennis Bottjer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:06:37 GMT

Tomorrow I begin teaching an 8 week Configuring MOSS 2007 Certification Preparation Class at Tulsa Community College. The class will be every Thursday night at the northeast campus.

Details:

Course:	CSCI 2993-24212
Title:	SharePoint Administration in MOSS 2007
Delivery:	Blended (Class / Online)
Meeting:	Thursday
Times:	6:00p – 8:50p
Dates:	03/11/2010 – 05/06/2010
Campus:	Northeast
Room:	Academic Building, RM 2421
Book:	Click To Buy (Amazon)
Fee:	Free
Certification Exam:	Free (First Attempt)
TCC Sponsor (Please contact for enrollment assistance)	Brian Hall (918) 595-7444 Tulsa Community College bhall@tulsacc.edu

Cumulative Update Package 2 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

Dennis Bottjer — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:57:06 GMT

Issues:

SharePoint 2010 Foundation and Server require the Cumulative Update Package 2 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 to use SQL Server 2008 as the backend Database.

Solution:

SQL Server 2008 will not install properly on Windows 2008 Server without SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1. Download Download SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1.

To use SQL Server 2008 for the backend database for SharePoint Foundation or Server download Download and Install Cumulative Update Package 2 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1.

Note: Installing the Cumulative Update Package 2 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 will update SQL Server’s build number to 10.00.2714.

Additional Information:

Fixes Contained in the Cumulative Update

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