Feb14

Uploading Large files to SharePoint on Windows Server 2008 and IIS7

Categories: Windows Server 2008, SharePoint Errors
If you are trying to upload files to SharePoint and are using Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7, there's one additional step you need to make to your environment other than the typical Large File changes needed. Basically, any file over 28mb will erro...
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Sep17

Removing SharePoint from a Domain Controller

Categories: Errors
Never, never, never, ever, never ever… install SharePoint on a Domain Controller in a production environment.  On a development environment (like a virtual single server), sure I can live with that (and do it myself).  But installing SharePoint on a...
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Aug24

SharePoint Farm Credentials – Error encrypting or decrypting credentials

Categories: Errors
I would give you the background on how this SharePoint environment ended up in such disarray, but considering that it took me 9 hours to get it back up and running, there were way too many things for me to take note of.  This little baby stuck out t...
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Mar15

SharePoint get_IISAllowsAnonymous get_VirtualRootPath

Categories: Errors
I found a serious issue with a SharePoint implementation recently.  It turned out, there were actually 2 separate places in SharePoint where an error was occurring.  After searching extensively for a resolution, I never found an actual answer / solu...
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Mar15

SharePoint Error Messages

Categories: Errors
Not a new concept here, but I thought I would add this to my blog so I’m not always referencing other blogs for it. Plus I will be referring to this post very soon.  :) When you get an error in SharePoint, by default it’s not going to be very descri...
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Feb25

Event ID: 2436 SharePoint Search Error

Categories: Errors
You may have this error in your environment resulting in your Search Service not being able to crawl your content.  If you’ve verified that your default content access account has the appropriate permissions and you are still getting this error, t...
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Feb12

SharePoint Event ID: 4965 System.NullReferenceException

Categories: Errors
Typically the 4965 error occurs doing Publishing Provisioning because of an access denied issue.  I had blogged about that previously here: Event ID: 4965 - Publishing Provisioning Error.   Today while enabling the Publishing Infrastructure for a ...
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Jan22

SMTP Configuration Unspecified error

Categories: Errors
Hotfix for the hotfix eh?  Previously I had a post about common errors in SharePoint after a new installation: SharePoint Exception Errors: Event ID 6398, Event ID 6482, Event ID 7076 The resolution for that is to install a hotfix (kb 946517).  W...
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Nov18

Failure decompressing data from a cabinet file

Categories: Errors
In a previous post, Increase maximum size of List Template, I explained how to increase the maximum file size of a list / site template in SharePoint.  However, even after doing that you may encounter another error when trying to save the template...
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Nov12

SharePoint Event ID 6482: Could not find file 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS'.

Categories: Errors
Typically I won't blog about an error until I've encountered it a few times.  Here's an exception to the rule.    I had never come across this error and it caught me off guard during a recent installation of MOSS.  Usually when I've seen Event ID ...
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