Navdeep Madan

Error Message "Server not found" while uploading a file more than 10 MB

Navdeep Ma - MSFT — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:13:28 GMT

If you trying to upload the file which is more than 10 Mb thought Silverlight client object Model and you will see an error message “Server not found”.

I faced the same issue and taken the fiddler trace while uploading the file. I saw it calling “Client.svc” windows communication foundation service. To narrow down the issue, I created a console application. Call the client.svc and reproduced the issue.

I created one more application application where I have used the SharePoint Server Object Model and able to upload the files which are more than 10 MB. So issue was because of Client.svc uploading limit. This service is available in SharePoint Root folder\ISAPI. I changed the file but didn’t get any success.

After doing some research, I have run the following code on SharePoint 2010 server :-

        1: using System;

       2: using System.Collections.Generic;

       3: using System.Linq;

       4: using System.Text;

       5: using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;

       6:  

       7: namespace ConsoleApplication2

       8: {

       9:     class Program

      10:     {

      11:         static void Main(string[] args)

      12:         {

      13:  

      14:             SPWebService ws = SPWebService.ContentService;

      15:  

      16:             ws.ClientRequestServiceSettings.MaxReceivedMessageSize = -1;

      17:  

      18:             // SPWcfServiceSettings has other Properties that you can set.

      19:             SPWcfServiceSettings csomWcfSettings = new SPWcfServiceSettings();

      20:             csomWcfSettings.MaxReceivedMessageSize = 50000000; 

      21:             ws.WcfServiceSettings["client.svc"] = csomWcfSettings;

      22:  

      23:             ws.Update();

      24:  

      25:             Console.Write(ws.WcfServiceSettings["client.svc"].MaxReceivedMessageSize.ToString());

      26:         }

      27:     }

      28: }

Done the IISRESET and able to upload the file.

SharePoint 2010 : Adding Nested web.config entries using the SPWebConfigModification

Navdeep Ma - MSFT — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:33:04 GMT

In SharePoint 2010, you can’t change the correctly the web.config modification entries because we got a new security feature called “RemoteAdministraorAccessDenied” which is by default set to true.

While creating the nested the entries in the web.config I faced two issues :-

Firstly, I resolved it using the setting the RemoteAdministratorAccessDenied to false.

        1: SPWebService webservice = SPWebService.ContentService;

       2: webservice.RemoteAdministratorAccessDenied = false;

       3:  

       4: webservice.Update();

       5: Console.WriteLine("Navdeep Done");

Secondly, I have written the following code in which I selected “EnsureChildNode” rather using the “EnsureSection” in the modification type.

For e.g. if you would like to add a new section group in the ConfigSection, you have to add the Section group first then you have to provide the XPath to the ParentNode which “configuration/configSections/sectionGroup[@name='CustomURLRewrite']” in my case to add a nested node in the web.config.

       1: SPWebApplication webApp = new SPSite("https://blre3r08-12b:7000/Pages/default.aspx").WebApplication;

       2:  

       3: SPWebConfigModification modification = new SPWebConfigModification("CustomURLRewrite", "configuration/configSections");

       4:  modification.Owner = "SimpleSampleUniqueOwnerValue";

       5:  modification.Sequence = 0;

       6:  modification.Type = SPWebConfigModification.SPWebConfigModificationType.EnsureChildNode;

       7:  modification.Value = "<sectionGroup name='CustomURLRewrite'>sectionGroup>";

       8:  

       9:  // Add my new web.config modification. 

      10:  webApp.WebConfigModifications.Add(modification);

      11:  

      12:  SPWebConfigModification modification1 = new SPWebConfigModification("CustomURLRewrite", "configuration/configSections/sectionGroup[@name='CustomURLRewrite']");

      13:  modification1.Owner = "SimpleSampleUniqueOwnerValue";

      14:  modification1.Sequence = 1;

      15:  modification1.Type = SPWebConfigModification.SPWebConfigModificationType.EnsureChildNode;

      16:  modification1.Value = "<section name='navdeep' type='Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SafeControlsConfigurationHandler, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' />";

Member name
Description

EnsureChildNode
Specifies that the web.config modification must ensure a child node of the node to which the XPath expression points. Value = 0.

EnsureAttribute
Specifies that the web.config modification must ensure the value of a particular attribute. Value = 1.

EnsureSection
Ensures a singleton node. This node is only written once, even if multiple entities register multiple instances of EnsureSection to ensure a single section. Value = 2.

MOSS 2007 : Search returned improper results

Navdeep Ma - MSFT — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:05:40 GMT

If you have created a publishing site and sub-sites with the all the default options selected which is Navigation inheritance as “Yes” , Global Navigation as “Display the same Navigation items as the parent site” and Current Navigation as “Display the same navigation items as the parent site”, you will get the all sub-site in the search results.

For e.g. You have a site collection A and sub-sites B and C. if you search for the keyword B you will A and B both in the search results.

To resolve this problem, use the following settings and you will be able to see only site B in the search results.

o Select “No” option in the "Use the top link bar from the parent site? " in the Navigation inheritance while creating the sub site.

o Go to the Navigation settings of the sub-site and select the "Display the navigation items below the current site " in the Global Navigation

o In the same page, select the "Display only the navigation items below the current site" in the current Navigation.

ListviewByQuery web Part in SharePoint 2010

Navdeep Ma - MSFT — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:43:24 GMT

If you have create a custom web part ListviewByQuery API, you will not be able to get the ECB menu.

   listView = new ListViewByQuery();
   listView.ID = "ListViewByQuery1";
   listView.List = List;
   this.Controls.Add(listView);

If you try to open the ECB menu you will receive a error message :-

"The item is no longer available. It may have been deleted by another user. Click "OK' to refresh the page."

Problem here seems to be with *AJAX Type* menu rendering. The problem happens in CORE.js file where we call into the *FetchEcbInfo* function. Here, we read the *itemTable* object that’s in the page and pick up the *tagName* of context we are working on. In AJAX rendering, we look for this tagName to be *DIV*. However, for the web part using *ListViewByQuery* control, this tagName seems to be *TABLE* and thus this problem.

To work-around, we have to create a customcore.js and reference it using ScriptLink control to defer CORE.js and inject a customCore.js file with all the original CORE.js file content Details here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768565.aspx. Change the value of *tagName* to *DIV* and set it back to *TABLE*. Here’s that particular code snippet from a debug JS file:

div.innerHTML = strInner;

// change introduced by Navdeep Madan

tagName = "DIV";

var tabs = div.getElementsByTagName(tagName);

tagName = "TABLE";

var tab;

The highlighted statements above are the modifications required. This seems to ensure that the *tabs* variable has the correct table nodes that it’s looking for.

Note: The above code snippet is from a CORE.debug.js file. The same modifications in CORE.js file would be like this:

h = "DIV"; for (var i = j.getElementsByTagName(h), d, e = 0; e < i.length; e++) { d = i[e]; if (d.id == f) break } h = "TABLE"; if (e == i.length)

Per location view settings using SharePoint Object Model

Navdeep Ma - MSFT — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:45:24 GMT

You have to set the library.RootFolder.Properties["client_MOSS_MetadataNavigationSettings"] property to get change the per location view settings using the SharePoint Object Model.

        1: using (SPSite site = new SPSite("https://blre3r15-4"))

       2:             {

       3:                 //TaxonomySession session = new TaxonomySession(site);

       4:                 using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())

       5:                 {

       6:                     SPList library = web.Lists["shared documents"];

       7:                     SPContentTypeCollection lsl = library.ContentTypes;

       8:                     foreach (SPContentType contenttype in lsl)

       9:                     {

                        Console.WriteLine(contenttype.Id.ToString());

                    }

  

                    foreach (SPView view in library.Views)

                    {

                        Console.WriteLine(view.ID.ToString());

                    }

                    System.Xml.XmlDocument document = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();

                    //document.Load("c:\\cases\\Settings.xml");

                    document.LoadXml(library.RootFolder.Properties["client_MOSS_MetadataNavigationSettings"].ToString());

                    System.IO.StreamWriter writer = new System.IO.StreamWriter("c:\\cases\\Settings.xml");

                    writer.Write(library.RootFolder.Properties["client_MOSS_MetadataNavigationSettings"].ToString());

                    writer.Close();

                    //library.RootFolder.Properties["client_MOSS_MetadataNavigationSettings"] = document.OuterXml.ToString();

                    //library.RootFolder.Update();

                    //library.Update();

                    //web.Update();

                    Console.WriteLine(library.RootFolder.Properties["client_MOSS_MetadataNavigationSettings"].ToString());

                    SPViewCollection collection = library.Views;

                    

                    //MetadataNavigationSettings mdnSettings = MetadataNavigationSettings.GetMetadataNavigationSettings(library);

                    //mdnSettings.SettingsXml = document.OuterXml.ToString();

                    //MetadataNavigationSettings.SetMetadataNavigationSettings(library, mdnSettings);

                    //Console.WriteLine(mdnSettings.SettingsXml.ToString());

                    Console.ReadKey();

                                        

                }

            }

       1: <MetadataNavigationSettings SchemaVersion="1" IsEnabled="True" AutoIndex="True"><NavigationHierarchies><FolderHierarchy HideFoldersNode="False" />

       2: <MetadataField FieldID="03e45e84-1992-4d42-9116-26f756012634" FieldType="ContentTypeId" CachedName="ContentTypeId" CachedDisplayName="Content Type">

       3:   <ViewSettings UniqueNodeId="0x01010070FC6B859DF4CD4FAEDD269B75BE2C8E003443C1064EC2D9489B7D978018AFFEF3">

       4:     <View ViewId="b0e7c6b8-7a05-4943-8323-bc7d1ab90c4a" CachedName="Test2" Index="2" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/Test2.aspx" />

       5:     <View ViewId="2017c43f-7b0d-4580-9d9d-d3c699b51b6a" CachedName="All Documents" Index="1" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx" />

       6:     <View ViewId="82185a44-dd31-4a12-91bf-da6798ff2c26" CachedName="Test1" Index="0" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/Test1.aspx" />

       7:     <View ViewId="c1bd6b7b-ba53-4b0f-984d-3c24886dd4f5" CachedName="Merge Documents" Index="-1" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/Combine.aspx" />

       8:     <View ViewId="403a91bb-2f07-4eef-bcaa-f14778148edd" CachedName="Relink Documents" Index="-2" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/repair.aspx" />

       9:     <View ViewId="79b33591-e594-4d4d-afd0-fd700a08f480" CachedName="assetLibTemp" Index="-3" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/Thumbnails.aspx" />

      10:     <View ViewId="d38fef41-7cf5-4a73-adc9-7edb956addfc" CachedName="" Index="-4" CachedUrl="SitePages/Home.aspx" />

      11:   ViewSettings><ViewSettings UniqueNodeId="0x01010090C01EC2217EB24E9C25C0B20DA04FE0"><View ViewId="82185a44-dd31-4a12-91bf-da6798ff2c26" CachedName="Test1" Index="0" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/Test1.aspx" /><View ViewId="2017c43f-7b0d-4580-9d9d-d3c699b51b6a" CachedName="All Documents" Index="1" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx" /><View ViewId="b0e7c6b8-7a05-4943-8323-bc7d1ab90c4a" CachedName="Test2" Index="2" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/Test2.aspx" /><View ViewId="c1bd6b7b-ba53-4b0f-984d-3c24886dd4f5" CachedName="Merge Documents" Index="-1" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/Combine.aspx" /><View ViewId="403a91bb-2f07-4eef-bcaa-f14778148edd" CachedName="Relink Documents" Index="-2" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/repair.aspx" /><View ViewId="79b33591-e594-4d4d-afd0-fd700a08f480" CachedName="assetLibTemp" Index="-3" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/Thumbnails.aspx" /><View ViewId="d38fef41-7cf5-4a73-adc9-7edb956addfc" CachedName="" Index="-4" CachedUrl="SitePages/Home.aspx" />ViewSettings>MetadataField>NavigationHierarchies><KeyFilters /><ManagedIndices><ManagedIndex IndexID="03e45e84-1992-4d42-9116-26f756012634" IndexFieldName="ContentTypeId" IndexFieldID="03e45e84-1992-4d42-9116-26f756012634" />ManagedIndices><ViewSettings UniqueNodeId=""><View ViewId="2017c43f-7b0d-4580-9d9d-d3c699b51b6a" CachedName="All Documents" Index="0" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx" /><View ViewId="82185a44-dd31-4a12-91bf-da6798ff2c26" CachedName="Test1" Index="4" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/Test1.aspx" /><View ViewId="b0e7c6b8-7a05-4943-8323-bc7d1ab90c4a" CachedName="Test2" Index="5" CachedUrl="Shared Documents/Forms/Test2.aspx" />ViewSettings>MetadataNavigationSettings>

       1: using System;

       2: using System.Collections.Generic;

       3: using System.ComponentModel;

       4: using System.Data;

       5: using System.Drawing;

       6: using System.Linq;

       7: using System.Text;

       8: using System.Windows.Forms;

       9: using Microsoft.SharePoint;

using Microsoft.Office.Server;

using Microsoft.Office.DocumentManagement.MetadataNavigation;

using System.Xml;

  

namespace MetaDataViewAssosiaction

{

    public partial class Form1 : Form

    {

  

       private const string DefaultListSettingsXmlString =  @""1"" IsEnabled=""true"" AutoIndex=""True"">";

  

        

        public Form1()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }

        SPSite site;

        private void btnFillData_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            string siteURL = textBox1.Text.ToString().Trim();

            site = new SPSite(siteURL);

            FillWebs(site);

           

        }

  

        private void FillWebs(SPSite site)

        {

            foreach (SPWeb web in site.AllWebs)

            {

                lstWeb.Items.Add(web.Name);

            }

        }

  

        private void FillList()

        {

            using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(this.lstWeb.SelectedItem.ToString()))

            { 

                foreach(SPList List in web.Lists)

                {

                    lstList.Items.Add(List.Title);

                }

                

            }

  

        }

  

        DataTable table = null;

        private void FillContentTypes()

        {

            table = new DataTable();

            DataColumn IDColumn = new DataColumn("ID");

            IDColumn.DataType = typeof(string);

            table.Columns.Add(IDColumn);

            

            DataColumn NameColumn = new DataColumn("ContentTypeName");

            NameColumn.DataType = typeof(string);

            table.Columns.Add(NameColumn);

            using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(this.lstWeb.SelectedItem.ToString()))

            {

  

                SPList list = web.Lists[this.lstList.SelectedItem.ToString()];

                foreach (SPContentType ContentType in list.ContentTypes )

                {

                    DataRow row = table.NewRow();

                    row["ID"] = ContentType.Id;

                    row["ContentTypeName"] = ContentType.Name;

                    table.Rows.Add(row);

                    

                }

  

            }

  

            lstContentTypes.DataSource = table;

            lstContentTypes.DisplayMember = table.Columns["ContentTypeName"].ColumnName;

            lstContentTypes.ValueMember = table.Columns["ID"].ColumnName;

            

        }

  

        DataTable ViewTable = null;

        private void FillViews()

        {

            ViewTable = new DataTable();

            DataColumn IDColumn = new DataColumn("ID");

            IDColumn.DataType = typeof(string);

            ViewTable.Columns.Add(IDColumn);

  

            DataColumn NameColumn = new DataColumn("ViewName");

            NameColumn.DataType = typeof(string);

            ViewTable.Columns.Add(NameColumn);

            using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(this.lstWeb.SelectedItem.ToString()))

            {

                SPList list = web.Lists[this.lstList.SelectedItem.ToString()];

                foreach (SPView  View in list.Views)

                {

                    DataRow row = ViewTable.NewRow();

                    row["ID"] = View.ID;

                    row["ViewName"] = View.Title;

                    ViewTable.Rows.Add(row);

                }

  

            }

  

            lstViews.DataSource = ViewTable;

            lstViews.DisplayMember = ViewTable.Columns["ViewName"].ColumnName;

            lstViews.ValueMember = ViewTable.Columns["ID"].ColumnName;

        }

  

        private void lstWeb_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            FillList();

        }

  

        private void lstList_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            FillContentTypes();

            FillViews();

            MessageBox.Show("Done");

  

        }

  

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            string XML = GenerateXML();

            MessageBox.Show(XML);

        }

  

        string XmlElementNameRootElement = "MetadataNavigationSettings";

        string XmlAttributeNameSchemaVersion = "SchemaVersion";

        string XmlAttributeNameIsEnabled = "IsEnabled";

        string XmlAttributeNameAutomaticIndexManagement = "AutoIndex";

        string XmlElementNameNavigationHierarchies = "NavigationHierarchies";

        string XmlElementNameKeyFilters = "KeyFilters";

        string XmlElementNameFolderHierarchy = "FolderHierarchy";

        private string  GenerateXML()

        {

            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

  

            XmlWriterSettings writerSettings = new XmlWriterSettings();

            writerSettings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;

            writerSettings.Indent = false;

            writerSettings.NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.None;

  

            XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(sb, writerSettings);

  

            writer.WriteStartElement(XmlElementNameRootElement);

            writer.WriteAttributeString(XmlAttributeNameSchemaVersion, "1");

            writer.WriteAttributeString(XmlAttributeNameIsEnabled, "True");

            writer.WriteAttributeString(XmlAttributeNameAutomaticIndexManagement, "True");

            // Should we add the cached list Url and ID

  

            //// Serialize Navigation hierarchies collection

            writer.WriteStartElement(XmlElementNameNavigationHierarchies);

            writer.WriteStartElement(XmlElementNameFolderHierarchy);

            WriteStorageXml(writer);

            writer.WriteEndElement();

            writer.WriteEndElement(); // XmlElementNameNavHierarchies

  

            writer.WriteStartElement(XmlElementNameKeyFilters);

            //MetadataNavigationSettings.WriteStorageXml(this.ConfiguredKeyFilters, writer);

            writer.WriteEndElement(); // XmlElementNameKeyFilters

  

  

            writer.WriteEndElement(); // XmlElementNameRootElement

  

            writer.Flush();

            writer.Close();

  

            return sb.ToString();

          

        }

  

        string xmlElementNameViewSettings = "ViewSettings";

        string XmlAttributeNameUniqueNodeId = "UniqueNodeId";

        private void WriteStorageXml(XmlWriter writer)

        {

           

            writer.WriteStartElement(xmlElementNameViewSettings);

            writer.WriteAttributeString(XmlAttributeNameUniqueNodeId, "");

            writer.WriteEndElement();

        }

  

        private void btnMap_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            DataRowView row = (DataRowView)this.lstContentTypes.SelectedItem;

            DataRowView viewRow = (DataRowView)this.lstViews.SelectedItem;

            string strMapping = row.Row["ContentTypeName"].ToString() + ";" +

                                this.lstContentTypes.SelectedValue.ToString() + ";" +

                                viewRow.Row["ViewName"].ToString() + ";" +

                                this.lstViews.SelectedValue.ToString();

            

            this.lstMapping.Items.Add(strMapping);

        }

    }

}

In OOB Picture Library, we were not able to see the default library thumbnail view and it’s check boxes.

Navdeep Ma - MSFT — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:05:00 GMT

Some time you have highly customizable sites( including custom master page), you create a picture library using the OOB template but you didn’t find the thumbnail view and check boxes with the images.

To get this view, We need to add the “PlaceHolderLeftActions” in the visible area of the master page because picture library AllItems.aspx(it’s available at \12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\PictureLibrary\PicLib folder) is overriding this content place holder to render the results. We removed “PlaceHolderLeftActions” the content place holder from asp panel where panel’s visible property set to false and added it in the visible content place holder. Here is the code snippet of“PlaceHolderLeftActions” :-

   1: "PlaceHolderLeftActions" runat ="server" />

This is the implementation of the “PlaceHolderLeftActions” content place holder in the AllItems.aspx of the Picture Library :-

   1: "PlaceHolderLeftActions" runat="server">   2:               "padding-top: 8px" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0 width=100%>   3:                      4:               "server"/> 
   5:               "display:none">   6:                      7:                      8:                      9:                       13:                     14:               "server" text="<%$Resources:wss,piclib_picturePreview%>" EncodeMethod='HtmlEncode'/>
class="ms-navline" width=128>"/_layouts/images/blank.gif" width=1 height=1 alt="">
"padding-top:3px" onClick="ClickPreview(); return false;">  10:                           "lnkPreviewImg" id="lnkPreviewImg" href="Javascript:">"/_layouts/images/preview.jpg" NAME=ImgPreviewThumbnail ID=ImgPreviewThumbnail class=thumbnail height=90 width=120 alt="">
  11:                           "lnkPreviewTitle" id="lnkPreviewTitle" href="Javascript:" class="ms-imglibPreviewTitle">""  12:                     
  15: 

Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The security validation for this page is invalid. in SharePoint 2010

Navdeep Ma - MSFT — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:36:29 GMT

If you write the following code in a asmx web service to create site in SharePoint 2010

        1: SPSite site = null;

       2: SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(() =>

       3: {

       4:     SPSiteSubscription subscription = SPSiteSubscription.Create();

       5:     site = webApp.Sites.Add(subscription, siteUrl, title, description, lcid, webTemplate, ownerLogin, ownerName, ownerEmail, null, null, null, useHostHeaderAsSiteName); // exception

       6:     site.AdministrationSiteType = SPAdministrationSiteType.TenantAdministration;

       7: });

You will see the following exception :-

Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again.

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.SetSiteQuota(String bstrUrl, UInt16 quotaId, Int64 diskQuota, Int64 diskWarning, Int32 userQuota, Double resourceUsageMaximum, Double resourceUsageWarning, Boolean bForSSC)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.SetSiteQuota(String bstrUrl, UInt16 quotaId, Int64 diskQuota, Int64 diskWarning, Int32 userQuota, Double resourceUsageMaximum, Double resourceUsageWarning, Boolean bForSSC)

--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGlobal.HandleComException(COMException comEx)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.SetSiteQuota(String bstrUrl, UInt16 quotaId, Int64 diskQuota, Int64 diskWarning, Int32 userQuota, Double resourceUsageMaximum, Double resourceUsageWarning, Boolean bForSSC)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPQuota.Update()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.set_Quota(SPQuota value)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSiteCollection.Add(SPContentDatabase database, SPSiteSubscription siteSubscription, String siteUrl, String title, String description, UInt32 nLCID, String webTemplate, String ownerLogin, String ownerName, String ownerEmail, String secondaryContactLogin, String secondaryContactName, String secondaryContactEmail, String quotaTemplate, String sscRootWebUrl, Boolean useHostHeaderAsSiteName)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSiteCollection.Add(SPSiteSubscription siteSubscription, String siteUrl, String title, String description, UInt32 nLCID, String webTemplate, String ownerLogin, String ownerName, String ownerEmail, String secondaryContactLogin, String secondaryContactName, String secondaryContactEmail, Boolean useHostHeaderAsSiteName)
   at WSS4WS.ProvisioningService.<>c__DisplayClass5.b__0() in C:\Projects\Web Services\WSS4WS\WSS4WS\ProvisioningService.asmx.cs:line 77
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.<>c__DisplayClass4.b__2()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SecurityContext.RunAsProcess(CodeToRunElevated secureCode)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(WaitCallback secureCode, Object param)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(CodeToRunElevated secureCode)
   at WSS4WS.ProvisioningService.CreateSite(String webApplicationName, String siteUrl, String title, String description, UInt32 lcid, String webTemplate, String ownerLogin, String ownerName, String ownerEmail, Boolean useHostHeaderAsSiteName)

Operating System: Windows Server 2008
Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Though the above code snippet works perfectly fine in console application but asmx is webrequest and SharePoint handles web request differently. All the webrequest validated with the FromDigest control. To get rid-off from this error message, we can change the web application validation settings in Central Administration > Web Application General Settings Page.

Got to page “Web Page Security Validation” and select Security Validation is “Off” radio button.

But this will off the page validation for the complete web application and you can’t take this risk.

To resolve this we have web application’s from digest settings property which we can turf before executing the code and turn on once the site has been created using the SharePoint object Model.

Disabling the from digest :-
SPWebapplication.FormDigestSettings.Enabled = false;

Enabling the from digest :-
SPWebapplication.FormDigestSettings.Enabled = true;

SPWebapplication’s FromDigestSettings property is type of SPFormDigestSettings which related to Web page security validation. The security validation is specific to a user, site, and time period and expires after a configurable amount of time. When the user requests a page, the server returns the page with security validation inserted. When the user then submits the form, the server verifies the security validation and if it has changed, program execution is halted and a security exception is raised.

Make your custom theme a default theme for present site and it’s sub-sites.

Navdeep Ma - MSFT — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:13:06 GMT

Following images show the OOB site themes :-

Suppose if would like to apply a new site theme when a site or sub-site is created then you need to follow the following steps:-

1. Create a new feature and set the scope as “ApplyMyTheme” scope and set the scope as Web. Attach the Event Receiver

        1: "1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

       2: "072b6290-252a-466d-9150-397d98c8f1c7"

       3:           Title="ApplyMyThemes"

       4:           Description="This feature will apply the custom them to the present site and site created in the future."

       5:           Version="12.0.0.0"

       6:           Hidden="FALSE"

       7:           Scope="Web"

       8:           DefaultResourceFile="core"

       9:           ReceiverAssembly="WSPBuilderProject1, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cde4cc014c71f228"

      10:           ReceiverClass="WSPBuilderProject1.ApplyMyThemes"

      11:           xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

      12:

2. In the event receiver apply the new site theme. Following is the sample code :-

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using Microsoft.SharePoint;

namespace WSPBuilderProject1

{

class ApplyMyThemes : SPFeatureReceiver

{

public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)

{

SPWeb web = (SPWeb)properties.Feature.Parent;

if(web.Url.Contains("7000"))

{

web.ApplyTheme("Belltown");

web.Update();

}

public override void FeatureDeactivating(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)

{

}

public override void FeatureInstalled(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)

{

}

public override void FeatureUninstalling(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)

{

}

3. Create a stapler feature to attach the web feature with the Site definitions feature at “Farm”

       1: xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

       2: <Feature Id="84379d76-8f8b-4259-a02e-f6047b88f6d4" 

       3: Title="Stappler"

       4: Description="Description for Stappler"

       5: Version="12.0.0.0"

       6: Hidden="FALSE"

       7: Scope="Farm"

       8: DefaultResourceFile="core"

       9: xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

      10:   <ElementManifests>

      11:     <ElementManifest Location="elements.xml"/>    

      12:   ElementManifests>

      13: Feature>

      14:

4. Staple the feature with the site definitions : -

       1: xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

       2: <Elements xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

       3:   <FeatureSiteTemplateAssociation Id="072b6290-252a-466d-9150-397d98c8f1c7" TemplateName="STS#0" />

       4:   <FeatureSiteTemplateAssociation Id="072b6290-252a-466d-9150-397d98c8f1c7" TemplateName="STS#1" />

       5:   <FeatureSiteTemplateAssociation Id="072b6290-252a-466d-9150-397d98c8f1c7" TemplateName="STS#2" />

       6: Elements>

"Could not instantiate script engine." while opening Site Manager in MCMS

Navdeep Ma - MSFT — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:12:20 GMT

Site Manager call the https:///NR/ClientUI/login.asp page.(if you right click on the site Manager -> properties, you will see the login url and NRClient.exe path) and got the the error message "Could not instantiate the script engine"
Checked the IIS logs and saw the error message 403.6 error message "IP Address of the client has been rejected"
In IIS when we right click ClientUI folder and go to "Directory Security" Tab
Then "IP Address and Domain Name restriction"'s Edit button and added 127.0.0.1.
Error message 403.6 error message "IP Address of the client has been rejected" has been resolved.
Browsed the HTML & ASPX pages and they rendered.
login.asp page will fail with the same error.
Run the command :- c:\Inetpub\Adminscripts> cscript synciwam.vbs /v

CScript Error: Can't find script engine "VBScript" for script "synciwam.vbs".

Register the VBscript.dll with the following command :-
c:\windows\sytem32> regsvr32 vbscript.dll

How to call multiple times “onworkflowItemChanged” event in state machine workflow?

Navdeep Ma - MSFT — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:59:13 GMT

One of my customer would like to call “onWorkflowItemChanged” multiple times until the he got a specific value in a list item column. I have prepared the following solution to resolve the problem :-

Created a State Machine workflow
Added two new states named “DocumentProcessed” and “StopWorkflow”.
Set the “StopWorkflow” activity’s state as “Completed State”.
Add an eventDrivenActivity in the “DocumentProcessed” state. Inside the eventDrivenActivity add the following activities :-
In the IfElseBranchActivity1, set the condition property to code condition and call the check status method (which reads the column from list item and set the result.)

Code Sample

===========

        1: private void checkStatus(object sender, ConditionalEventArgs e)

       2: {

       3:             SPListItem item = workflowProperties.Item;

       4:             if (item["Status"].ToString().ToUpper() == "PENDING APPROVAL")

       5:             {

       6:                 e.Result = true;

       7:             }

       8:             else

       9:             {

      10:                 e.Result = false;

      11:             }

      12: }

Set the setstateActivity2 ”DocumentProcessed” and setstateActivity4 ”StopWorkflow”.
Compile the code and deploy the solution. Add a column name “Status” in Custom List.
To test the solution, add the item and set the status column value “Start”. Workflow will start with “InProgress” state.
Edit the item and change the status to “Pending approval”. Till then the status is pending approval you can modify the List Item and it will fire the “OnWorkflowItemChanged”.
Once you changed the status column value to ‘Complete”, it will complete the workflow and set the workflow status to “Completed”.