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SP2010: 503s, HTTP Throttling, Threads Waiting
SymptomsA web application in a SharePoint 2010 farm becomes unresponsive (hangs) to the client's perspective under high, medium, or even low client load at random times. Clients of the SharePoint...
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Can't open a .xsn file | "X-Download-Options: noopen" | MIME...
After upgrading MOSS 2007 content databases to SP2010, an InfoPath form template (template.xsn) that in the past could be either opened or saved was now only able to be saved, not opened.Comparing...
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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 crashing (such that the process disappears unexpectedly from task manager and reappears soon after...
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Several Good Ways to Trigger a “Hang Dump” of an Unresponsive Process
Introduction and Summary Imagine a traffic jam where you can see cars and trucks backed up for miles. You can see the symptoms and know there is a problem. You know things have slowed to a crawl or...
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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 good about making its complaints known in the form of exceptions. Many or perhaps most exceptions...
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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, and you see the following error in your browser? ErrorCannot complete this action.Please try...
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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, select the site that is having problems, select Failed Request Tracing from the far right column....
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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 sabotages the attempt. The dmp file isn't successfully created and the dump-triggering tool balks. When...
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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 for this error message . . . ErrorYou must first restore the original list in order to restore the...
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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, we were able to delegate everything except for the "Result Sources" and "Query Rules" pages/links,...
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Three Ways to Automate a “Hang Dump” in DebugDiag 2.0
Normally I prefer for the server admin to manually trigger a hang dump (see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chaun/archive/2013/11/15/several-good-ways-to-trigger-a-hang-dump-of-an-unresponsive-process.aspx)...
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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 in Microsoft Word. First, insert "section breaks." The first thing that needs to happen is...
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WebPIcmd /offline /Products:WorkflowManager versus...
Today I had my first opportunity/need to use the webpicmd.exe tool (part of the Web Platform Installer) to attempt to download the installation bits for workflow manager, workflow client, and service...
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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 following shows up in the ULS log (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OfficeWebApps\Data\Logs\ULS) of the...
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Don’t Even Bother Trying to Enforce FIPSAlgorithmPolicy on SharePoint 2010...
Summary Trying to force SharePoint servers to use only FIPS 140-2 compliant algorithms is not an uncommon event. It's admittedly tempting. But invariably it breaks something in SharePoint 2010. It...
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OWA 2010 – “cannot open this document for viewing because of an unexpected...
PROBLEM DETAILS & SYMPTOMS Unpredictably, intermittently, and frequently clients trying to open office documents (word, excel, powerpoint, etc) in the browser from the SharePoint 2010 farm...
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Best Practices for CRL Checking on SharePoint Servers
Problem The fact is that SharePoint 2010 servers think they need to be able to reach out to http://crl.microsoft.com. They need get a current list of certificates for revoked (expired, key...
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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 SharePoint 2013 farm's WFEs. It's hard to figure out what is and what isn't affected by the perf...
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Free Tools for the SharePoint Mechanic Toolbox
This list is an expansion of an earlier blog of mine. I plan to continue to improve and enlarge this. PowerShell andSTSAdm – of course. ULS Viewer– Makes scouring through ULS logs a bit easier on...
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Notes on Debug mode versus Release Mode
Dlls compiled in debug mode should stay in the developmental environment while they're being debugged, improved, stepped-through, and tweaked. When the dll is ready to be deployed (released) to a...
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