Missing SQL Server Profiler from SSMS [SQL Server 2008 R2]

by rahul 8/31/2012 6:11:03 PM
This one was tricky [at least from my perspective, since I am not a SQL expert ]. I wasted a lot of my time today, and hence documenting this effort so that it might help a poor soul some day. Your mileage may vary. Please take all cautions that you normally would while dealing with SQL. Problem Sc... [More]


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Troubleshooting | SQL | Tips and Tricks

How to delete a Site Collection that acts tough in SharePoint? [0x80070003]

by rahul 5/24/2012 12:58:39 PM
Well, you won’t get this issue often… but if you are reading this, the chances are high that you are working with SharePoint and a Site Collection that you want to delete is not getting deleted. Symptoms 1. When you try to delete the site collection using Central Admin, you will not be able to sel... [More]


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Sharepoint | Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot Error 6482 on Office SharePoint Server

by rahul 5/23/2012 7:01:49 PM
On my virtual farm, I noticed the following error popping up every minute in my Event Viewer. Mine is not a production setup, but it was filling up my Event logs, and it doesn’t feel good, you know Event Type:    Error Event Source:    Office SharePoint Server Ev... [More]


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Troubleshooting | Sharepoint

System.InvalidOperationException: A failure occurred SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance::Provision()

by vivek 5/16/2012 10:22:00 PM
This just gave me an opportunity to write after a long time and I did not think twice. It’s a bit of patching but it worked for me. I was installing SharePoint on one of my VM machine when I came across the below mentioned error. I tried bing / google, for the error but found nothing. Task config... [More]


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SharePoint 2010 | Troubleshooting

Failed to restore virtual machine state on Windows 8 Hyper-V

by rahul 5/15/2012 12:29:49 PM
I don’t know what changed on my laptop, but I started getting this error on my Win 8 consumer preview machine and my Virtual Machines couldn’t be restored. [Window Title] Virtual Machine Connection [Main Instruction] The application encountered an error while attempting to change the state o... [More]


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Troubleshooting | Windows 8

Weirdest System.Reflection.TargetInvocation exception of my life!

by rahul 3/23/2012 10:24:06 PM
This morning I was packing my stuff for my relocation to Kolkata, and to make my last day in Bangalore a bit exciting… my machine vomited an issue. Probably, it thought my last day should be memorable. And boy, memorable it was! The good thing is that, my laptop is finally in a good shape. Bad thin... [More]


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Troubleshooting | Miscellany

Troubleshooting SharePoint 2007 Cache

by rahul 3/13/2012 2:18:58 PM
What is SharePoint configuration cache? What is its importance? The configuration cache is a location, where configuration information stored in the configuration database is cached on each server in the farm. Caching the data on each server prevents from having to make SQL calls to pull this infor... [More]


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Troubleshooting | Sharepoint | MOSS

What to do if you get 'WebForm_PostBackOptions' is undefined with MOSS 2007

by rahul 11/23/2011 4:24:29 PM
Recently, while working with MOSS 2007 on my VM I noticed that most of my pages, including Central Administration pages was throwing Javascript error. I did a lot of random things to fix, but realized very soon that fixing an issue should always be a focused and thoughtful process. Troubleshooting i... [More]


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Troubleshooting | Sharepoint

MOSS 2007: Failed to create sample data. An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException was thrown. Provisioning did not succeed. The site template was not provisioned successfully.

by vivek 8/24/2010 11:49:15 AM
I have been studying SharePoint for sometime and thought of installing SharePoint 2007 on my Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine. Finally, it gave me something to write about . During the installation process, SharePoint 2007 SP2 setup failed with an error Careful look at the configuration t... [More]


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MOSS | IIS 7 | Sharepoint | Troubleshooting

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage–after installing KB977377

by Vivek 7/21/2010 3:19:00 PM
Few days back, one of my colleague faced the above error when he accessed the web site that was hosted on a Windows Server 2008 SP2 machine which had IIS 7 installed and configured. Not sure what changed, but the error was very crude and didn’t give any information on what was causing it. ... [More]


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IIS 7 | Troubleshooting

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