July 21, 2008

Good morning, this weeks starts brilliantly thanks to the help of Chris Winebarger. He gave me a solution to put an end to the most infamous sharepoint 0x80020009 exception when trying to activate Sharepoint Publishing Infrastructure on a site collection. Here is the solution with stsadm : stsadm -o activatefeature

July 18, 2008

I’m trying, but it’s a bit difficult with only two hands! My current menu is Configuration Manager 2007, Sharepoint, and various infrastructure-related tasks. Sharepoint is still driving me mad with the exception error 0x80020009, and I’m still trying to deploy my first package with SCCM 2007, unbelievable. I hope to

July 4, 2008

Hi all, just one little note today: I’ve finally successfully configured and installed Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. The thing is very tricky to install, mainly because most of the tasks pertaining to PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) that is, setting up the certificate infrastructure on your domain, are barely

June 26, 2008

It’s been now several days that I’m fighting against this error when trying to activate Sharepoint Publishing Infrastructure at the site collection level. I’ve posted something about it in Technet Forums @ Microsoft, see the following link: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3528645&SiteID=1 Any help is welcome 🙂 Cheers, Max

June 25, 2008

Morning folks, this morning a weird issue (no, really?) some permissions simply disappeared during the night on some of our Sharepoint lists. No reasons for that, nothing in event logs. Classical. Had to set them back again, now it works fine.

June 3, 2008

This morning one of our users reported that his adwords editor suddenly keeps freezing. After trying to uninstall and reinstall without success, I tried to do it a bit harsher… and it worked! I uninstalled adwords editor, went to the user’s “Application Data” and “Local Settings\Application Data” folders and deleted

May 15, 2008

If you ever encounter an event ID 10536 error saying that “the external credentials in the SSO database are more recent”, check your system time and set it correctly. On this developer workstation, the time was set incorrectly as being on the 11th may while the correct date was the

May 14, 2008

Whenever you run into repeating error 18456 / Anonymous Logon failure on your SQL server, be sure to check that Single Sign-On has been set up properly on your Sharepoint farm. To set up SSO, you will need to log into the server (and also into central administration) not with

April 14, 2008

I hate Acer and I want them to die, that should have been the right title of Nirvana’s hit. My unfaithful, twisted Acer Aspire 3104 WLMi, already famous for it’s overheating issues and semi-USB failures (one port out of three not working, only one port running at full USB 2.0,

April 9, 2008

On a Windows x64 Enterprise Edition machine you may happen to have problems with the Active Directory users & computers MMC snap-in. Try the following to fix the issue : %windir%\syswow64\mmc.exe %systemroot%\system32\dsa.msc -32 this will launch the 32bit version of the snap-in, without errors (hopefully).

April 8, 2008

If you’re trying to run newsid.exe on windows vista you will most probably get an error saying that newsid.exe can’t find the computer SID. The problem can be fixed easily : right-click on newsid.exe and select “run as administrator” 😉 If you can’t run it as an admin, launch a

April 6, 2008

This issue occurs on Windows 2003 systems because the update file is too large. To fix this issue, install the microsoft hotfix KB925336 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925336) You can expect to encounter this issue when applying Visual Studio 2005 service pack.