Jul 12 2010

Microsfot WPC 2010 Keynote Speech

See the WPC 2010 Keynote speech here: http://digitalwpc.com/

One word to sum up Microsoft’s strategic ‘CLOUD’

Microsoft Launch Windows Azure Appliances (large containers with 100’s of servers running the Windows Azure platform.). Partners Ebay, HP, Dell and Fujitsu partner with using Windows Azure Appliance. read the Microsoft Pres release here:

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/jul10/07-12MSDellAzurePR.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/jul10/07-12MSeBayAzurePR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/jul10/07-12MSFujitsuAzurePR.mspx

Ebay using Azure Platform for the Apple iPads Product area here http://products.ebay.com/ipad

Picture of a Windows Azure Container:


Feb 10 2010

Event ID: 5586 Proc_DefragmentIndices

 

Event Error:

EventID: 5586 – Cannot find stored procedure dbo.proc_DefrageIndices

Resolution

Make sure that the SP mentioned in the error message exsists in the SharePoint Databases
(config DB, AdminContent_ db, Content db’s SSP_AdminContent). If the SP is missing in some of the DB’s either export and re-import if you have a copy into the DB’s where the SP is missing or download from the attached:

proc_DefragmentIndices


Jan 8 2010

Web App cannot open this document

After installing Office 2010 Web Application you notice that you can create and edit word documents however viewing a word document or creating an Excel document you receive the following error in the web UI.

Word Web App cannot open this document for viewing because of an unexpected error. To view this document, open it in Microsoft Word.

Error Id: 68d8674b-53ac-407c-bfd7-9ef2a2c16611, 20091210124532

In the event log you may receive the following error


Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation
Date: 08/01/2010 15:19:15
Event ID: 3760
Task Category: Database
Level: Critical
Keywords:
User: xx\svcsp_serviceapps
Computer: SP-001.xx.local
Description:
SQL Database 'xxx_Content' on SQL Server instance 'servername' not found. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.


Cannot open database "xxx_Content" requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user 'xxx\svcsp_serviceapps'.

Make sure the Login described in Event Id: 3760 has permissions to the SQL Database mentioned in the event id.

You may also want to make sure that the SSA application pool account has access to the windows temp folder.

If the above does not help then review the ULS logs and search the latest log for the Error Id: mentioned above (not yours is likely to be different), and see that the error message was