Dec 202008

SharePoint December Cumulative Update Error and Resolution

Error

I ran the CU on my Development Environment and had some errors in my Logs! Central Admin was working fine, but my Web Application wasn't.

Action 12.1.5.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPSearchDatabaseSequence failed.

And my web application in IE showed this error:

Server error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=96177

I found this on TeEchNet with "This is a bug in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007". But no explanation whether SP1, Infrastructure Updates or Cumulative Updates fix it! Anyway, I realised I had SP1 on my machine and am now installing the new December Cumulative Update to see whether that fixes it ;-)

Rat holes

I went down lots of rat holes:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/thread/3fec7688-c657-42bf-b68d-bca3df9e508e/

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/e3a38087-944b-46aa-b6fa-37482144545b/

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288269.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sharepoint.general&tid=a13d562e-0c30-4120-aeee-9d88c6f81a3d&p=1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944267

Resolution

Basically, I went into Central Administration and stopped the Windows SharePoint Services Help Search and then started it again and created a new database. Then when I ran:

stsadm -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force

and then

ststadm -o upgrade -inplace -url http://localhost:81

for my web application.

I then had to do an iisreset and hit the web application url and got a 404 error. In the logs I got:

Could not get Upgrade Area Url Mapping list. Aborting attempt to redirect 404 url.System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The system cannot find the file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070002) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId, Int32& plType, Object& pvarFileOrFolder) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId, Int32& plType, Object& pvarFileOrFolder) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.GetMetadataForUrl(String relUrl, Int32 mondoProcHint, Guid& listId, Int32& itemId, Int32& typeOfObject, Object& fileOrFolder) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.GetList(String strUrl) at Microsoft.SharePo...

Although if I went to a sub site collection it worked fine!!?!?!

Published: 12/20/2008 5:16 PM | 2 Comments | 2 Links to this post

Dec 152008

My SharePoint Development Best Practices SharePointPodShow Interview is live!

Last month I was interviewed by Rob Foster from the SharePointPodShow and we discussed SharePoint Development Best Practices. It was great fun discussing my experiences and back then SharePointDevWiki.com was just a twinkle in my eye!

I recommend that you hook these guys up to your iTunes if only to hear my cheery english accent mixed with some aussie slurs! LOL

I discuss my 8 part series

Solution Development in SharePoint 2007

This series was inspired by the chatter amongst SharePoint blogs on the best ways to approach customisations in SharePoint using Solutions.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8

and also

SharePoint Development Best Practices Presentation

Published: 12/15/2008 8:58 PM | 0 Comments | 1 Links to this post

Dec 132008

SharePointDevWiki making great progress!

Thanks to everyone that has contributed to the SharePointDevWiki already. It's made great progress since being launched with over 4000 page views and just under 200 page edits already! Check out the activity for yourself here!

I've set up a new page on how to support the SharePointDevWiki and would really appreciate it if like minded Developers would add the badge to the site using the code allocated. This will probably change over time as I get a designer to have a look at so reference the one on the site in the img src ;-)

If you haven't made any contributions yet, please I encourage you to get involved. A lot of people are digging through their old blog entries and putting them up there to allow others to contribute to the same topic area.

There's some great content up there already and some kick started areas for others to populate such as the comparison of the Solution Package Development tools.

Remember, this is an open community wiki and it's there to help all streams of Developers.

So make sure you're follow the wiki on twitter http://www.twitter.com/spdevwiki and subscribe to the Feedburner feed for updates on page content and comments!

Published: 12/13/2008 6:30 PM | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Dec 032008

SharePointDevWiki.com comes alive

Don't take my word for it....check out the new site! As promised I have managed to pull some strings and get a Atlassian Confluence license and also some hosting space on Tatham Oddie's boxes. Please feel free to submit your comments on the proposed approaches to the content on this wiki...its a community affair after all!

Please spread the word on this site by every means possible! Rather than build the structure and populate the content I really wanted to get people involved at the early steps to get this going.

To read more please check out the web site:

Published: 12/3/2008 12:24 AM | 0 Comments | 4 Links to this post

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