Posts

Thanks to TechSmith

English Just few minutes ago I received complimentary authoring tools from TechSmith. Both SnagIt and Camtasia Studio have become my favorite tools to create screenshoot, screen cast that enrich my articles. With this new software, I believe that I will be able to produce more and more screen cast on my articles. Thanks, to you TechSmith.

SharePoint 2010: Troubleshoot Language Pack 14.0.6028.1000

_English_I have same experience with Arudell, who wrote SharePoint Installer Troubleshooting here, however with different path of achieving the success. Problem summary Among some servers in our farm, we had almost un-fixed issue. The problem is all server have been updated with SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 but the newer servers show version 14.0.6028.1000 and on the older servers show version 14.0.6029.1000. This is really stressing, since I can not re-deploy SP1 to fix the issue.

SharePoint 2010: Fixing - An exception was thrown in a call to a policy export extension

SharePoint 2010: Security token exception | Ideas For Free - Jan 6, 2013 […] 19-Jan-2013] Follow my post, Fixing – an exception was thrown in a call to a policy extension. Changing authenticationMode is not recommended since it won’t solve all other issues. Modify […] [SAM]( “to.sam.ansari@gmail.com”) - Apr 0, 2013 Sorry none of the given solution is working, I already have Win 2008 R2 SP1 Installer.. Do you have any other ideas -Regards, SAM [DEV 001]( “DEV001@yahoo.

SharePoint 2010: Fixing - An exception was thrown in a call to a policy export extension

English In the pas 48 hours, I was struggling with the problem in our SharePoint Farm. The problem, all SharePoint Web Services were not working. If one tries to visit standard web service such as SecurityTokenServiceApplication (http://localhost:32843/SecurityTokenServiceApplication/SecurityToken.svc , or https://localhost:32844/SecurityTokenServiceApplication/SecurityToken.svc ), the service will respond with System.InvalidOperationException (see picture): An ExceptionDetail, likely created by IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults=true, whose value is: System.InvalidOperationException: An exception was thrown in a call to a policy export extension.

SharePoint 2010: How to ByPass Version Checking

SharePoint 2010: Troubleshoot Language Pack 14.0.6028.1000 | Ideas For Free - Jan 4, 2013 […] Subsequently apply other patches such as (install in correct order as following): - sharepointfoundation2010sp1-kb2460058-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe - officeserver2010sp1-kb2460045-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe - serverlanguagepack2010sp1-kb2460056-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe - serverlanguagepack2010sp1-kb2460056-x64-fullfile-??-??.exe (if you have other language pack) - wacserver2010sp1-kb2460073-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe (if you have Office Web Apps) - wacserver2010sp1-kb2460073-x64-fullfile-??-??.exe (if you have other language pack for Office Web Apps)When you install those patches, make sure to use PACKAGE.BYPASS.DETECTION.CHECK=1 option, to bypass version checking.

SharePoint 2010: How to ByPass Version Checking

English Its been a history, that some early release of CU contains regression bug or a slip-streamed bits contains incomplete update. Early-adopter sometimes face a dead-end situation, where the early-release patch has been deployed and unable to install the new update. The reason is because every patch/CU also contains version checking mechanism that will prevent installation/patching to wrong system. Basically, it does your homework to read the pre-requisites in the system.

SharePoint 2010: Security token exception

SharePoint 2010: Security token exception | Ideas For Free | ARB Security Solutions - SharePoint Security Integrators - Jan 2, 2013 […] This SharePoint Blog Post From SharePoint Security – Google Blog Search: […] [SAM]( “to.sam.ansari@gmail.com”) - Apr 0, 2013 Sorry none of the given solution is working, I already have Win 2008 R2 SP1 Installer.. Do you have any other ideas -Regards, SAM

SharePoint 2010: Security token exception

English Recent Windows Security Update MS13-004 (KB2756920) is causing problem SharePoint 2010 and Exchange server. The symptom shows breaking WCF services such as SecurityTokenService error with one of following error messages: Error Messages: System.ServiceModel.Activation.Iis7Helper.ExtendedProtectionDotlessSpnNotEnabledThrowHelper (System.Object) System.InvalidOperationException: An exception was thrown in a call to a policy export extension. Extension: System.ServiceModel.Channels.TransportSecurityBindingElement… The requested service, ‘http://localhost:32843/SecurityTokenServiceApplication/securitytoken.svc' could not be activated. See the server’s diagnostic trace logs for more information. See http://support.

SSAS 2008: Class not registered REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG

English This morning I was having problem with one of my VM. When I tried to access SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) and browse the cube - it throws error :  Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)) SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) also open error message dialog box:  Exception of type ‘System.Windows.Forms.AxHost+InavlidActiveXStateException’ was thrown. Looking deep into detail error message, its clear that this function was called by Microsoft.

Reporting Service: DataSourceDisabledException

English: During the operation of our Reporting Service Server, one of our clients reported accidental reports unavailability. Following is the screen capture on his browser : Accoding to server maintenance history, there was no action performed on that server. So, what can caused this sudden unavailability?  To investigate the issue, we activate ASP.NET debuging in web.config, and browse to the report page. And now we have more precise information that Microsoft.