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Blank browser pages for Audit Log Reports in SP2007
Symptoms Perhaps your audit log reporting functionality was working great last month but this month...
Date: 11/11/2014
NullReferenceException when Attempting to Configure Managed Accounts
While attempting to visit Configure managed accounts (ManagedAccounts.aspx) in a SP2013 farm today,...
Date: 10/15/2014
ERROR 500.0 | Internal Server Error | AuthenticateRequest | StaticFile | 0x80070542
Symptoms: When browsing to the site without specifying the default page name in the browser, we...
Date: 09/02/2014
Recommendations for Page Files on SharePoint Servers
Summary Here are my notes on paging file recommendations for SharePoint (2007, 2010, and 2013)....
Date: 07/09/2014
Basic Steps for Making a Process Monitor (ProcMon) Capture
ProcMon is an indispensable tool that zillions of people have used. Here are some easy steps for...
Date: 06/06/2014
Why am I not seeing what I expect in the Security Event log?
Often the Windows Security Event log disappoints people when they're trying to find clues to some...
Date: 06/06/2014
Notes on Debug mode versus Release Mode
Dlls compiled in debug mode should stay in the developmental environment while they're being...
Date: 06/04/2014
Why is CLR Requesting to resolve an assembly via BDC over and over?
Symptoms Under a heavy client load a performance problem develops in your SharePoint 2010 or...
Date: 05/19/2014
OWA 2010 – “cannot open this document for viewing because of an unexpected error”
PROBLEM DETAILS & SYMPTOMS Unpredictably, intermittently, and frequently clients trying to open...
Date: 04/21/2014
Don’t Even Bother Trying to Enforce FIPSAlgorithmPolicy on SharePoint 2010 Servers
Summary Trying to force SharePoint servers to use only FIPS 140-2 compliant algorithms is not an...
Date: 04/09/2014
Office Web Apps Exception: “An item with the same key has already been added”
Scenario and Symptom: An Office Web Apps 2013 server is talking to a SharePoint 2013 server and the...
Date: 04/07/2014
WebPIcmd /offline /Products:WorkflowManager versus /Products:WorkflowManagerRefresh
Today I had my first opportunity/need to use the webpicmd.exe tool (part of the Web Platform...
Date: 03/26/2014
Footnote Numbering Trick for Word 2013
Here are some steps to set footnotes to start their numbering over at 1 for each chapter of a book...
Date: 02/26/2014
In case you are unable to fully delegate Search Administration in SP2013
Problem: When attempting to delegate SharePoint 2013 Search Administration to a small team/group,...
Date: 02/17/2014
An Arcane Error with MOSS 2007’s Recycle Bin
Normally I wouldn't bother making a blog that probably only applies to MOSS 2007. But while solving...
Date: 01/10/2014
IIS Health Checking can Prevent the Creation of a W3WP.exe Userdump
Problem Sometimes when we're trying create a usermode dump of a w3wp.exe process something...
Date: 12/18/2013
How to set up failed request tracing for Slow Pages in IIS 7
These steps can be helpful for troubleshooting web pages that serve slowly. Open the IIS manager,...
Date: 11/27/2013
Troubleshooting the vague “Cannot complete this action” owssvr.dll error
So what can you possibly do when you try to do something simple in SharePoint, like editing a view,...
Date: 11/27/2013
Steps to Log all .net Exceptions to a Log file with Debug Diag 2.0
Sometimes it's good to know what exceptions a process like w3wp.exe is throwing. ASP.net is pretty...
Date: 11/19/2013
Steps to Catch a Simple “Crash Dump” of a Crashing Process
Summary When a user-mode process (such as w3wp.exe, owstimer.exe, iexplore.exe, or any .exe) is...
Date: 11/12/2013
Can't open a .xsn file | "X-Download-Options: noopen" | MIME "application/octet-stream"
After upgrading MOSS 2007 content databases to SP2010, an InfoPath form template (template.xsn) that...
Date: 10/05/2013
Steps to Trigger a User Dump of a Process with DebugDiag when a Specific .net Exception is Thrown
[Update: These steps were written for DebugDiag 1.2 but can be readily adapted to DebugDiag 2.0....
Date: 09/15/2013
Steps to Create Dump files of a Process with DebugDiag when Any .net Exceptions are thrown
[Update: These steps were written for DebugDiag 1.2 but can be readily adapted to DebugDiag 2.0....
Date: 09/15/2013
Steps to Log all .net Exceptions to a Log file with DebugDiag 1.2
These steps were written for DebugDiag 1.2. Steps to do this with DebugDiag 2.0 can be found here:...
Date: 09/15/2013
Some tips on setting up the DelegConfig Tool
Introduction Brian Murphy-Booth wrote a great tool that has helped thousands of people troubleshoot...
Date: 09/15/2013
Intrusion Detection as one cause for latency when browsing to a SharePoint site
Problem Details / Symptoms I have been troubleshooting a SharePoint performance problem in which...
Date: 08/01/2013
Do we really need to set antivirus exclusions up for our SharePoint servers?
Do we really need to set antivirus exclusions up for our SharePoint servers? Yes. You should set...
Date: 08/01/2013
SP2013-SQL2012 - Database Performance Metric Provider Timer job - Using 'dbghelp.dll' version '4.0.5'
Some who install SharePoint 2013 and use SQL 2012 on the backend are seeing this error logged every...
Date: 08/01/2013
If your SP2010 Workflows are stuck in the Starting state
[This post is not meant to be an exhaustive treatise on this multi-faceted topic.] If your...
Date: 05/16/2013
One reason for slow performance in SharePoint (authPersistNonNTLM)
When discussing possible causes for sluggish performance in SharePoint farms, there is one...
Date: 08/15/2012
System.InvalidOperationException - Cannot start the service SPAdmin on computer
While creating a new SharePoint 2007 SP3 farm with one of my customers, both WFE servers and the App...
Date: 03/19/2012
Two IIS_IUSRs Related Problems caused by Group Policy Overrides
Today I troubleshot an error that bubbled up in PerformancePoint Service's Dashboard Designer while...
Date: 01/20/2012
SP2010 - Central Admin - "An Unexpected Error Has Occurred" (handle is invalid)
Problem Summary: SharePoint Administrators lost the ability to browse successfully to Central Admin...
Date: 01/11/2012
IIS7.x: Webdav Troubleshooting
When you're troubleshooting webdav problems in IIS 7.0 and think that everything should be working...
Date: 06/11/2010
IIS7 Error: cannot add duplicate collection entry of type ‘mimeMap’ with unique key attribute ‘fileExtension’ . . .
Problem: For the sake of comparison, in IIS6 (Windows 2003) if you add a mime type (example: .xyz -...
Date: 12/04/2009
IIS compression overwrites the VARY: header
Symptoms IIS compression overwrites the VARY header. If for example an ASP.NET Web Service adds the...
Date: 10/01/2009
IE 8 seems unable to display some Wikipedia Pages - application/x-gzip-compressed MIME type
Problem: IE8 is unable to display some pages from https://en.wikipedia.org when IE 7 and other...
Date: 06/06/2009
A Slippery System.IO.FileLoadException
After installing the framework 3.5 SP1 (kb 951847) (which also updates framework 2.0) an asp.net web...
Date: 04/02/2009
When VS2005 won’t Break on Breakpoints
On a fully updated Vista workstation running Visual Studio 2005 SP1 a breakpoint would be set...
Date: 03/25/2009
ISS can lock the ASP.net Temp folder files
Problem: If you're browsing to an asp.net page and your browser reports "Sever Error in '/'...
Date: 04/02/2008
"Page cannot be displayed" due to Non-Paged Pooled Memory Depletion
Overview It’s not unnatural to assume an IIS process hang when web client browsers begin reporting...
Date: 02/20/2008