Marc Valk dot Net

In SharePoint we have a document library for OneNote documents. This morning we had a problem that our OneNotes did not synchronize anymore with the SharePoint OneNote library.

As we browsed to the library, we received the following error:
”The Server block is not well formed”

It had something to do with the default view, which was corrupt. To resolve the problem, follow the steps below:

• Go to your document library and change the AllItems.aspx part @ the end of your url to webfldr.aspx
• Click on [Settings] and choose [Document Libary Settings]
• Create a new view, name it temp or so (you can use allitems as a start of your view)
• Again go back to your document library and change AllItems.aspx again to temp.asxp (or the name you choose).
• Click Actions and choose [Open with Windows Explorer]
• Change AllItems.asxp to AllItems_old.asxp
• Rename temp.asxp to AllItems.asxp
• If you browse to your document library, you will now see that the view is still named “temp’, open [Settings] again and choose [Document Libary Settings]Settings]
• Change the Temp view, make it default and rename the view name to AllItems

I’ve been struggling with getting FAST search server to work. On a single box installation.
When I installed and configured FAST and created a search site, I did not get any results back.

The only error I got was “The Search request was unable to connect to the Search Service”.

This apparently had to do with certificates. If you open your Certificate store on your local server, you will see a store named SharePoint. In this store (under certificates) there will be a certificate named Sharepoint Security Token Service. I copied this certificate to the “Trusted People\Certificates” store, and voila the error above disappeared.

However I still did not get any results back.

After again some research time, I found that my  Fast Content SSA wasn’t configured correctly. I followed the Technet Guide,  and as it states here you have to open Install_info.txt from your FASTSearch installation directory and use the Content Distributer that is specified there (port 13391). However if you look at the file %FASTSearch Install Dir%\etc\contentdistributor.cfg it will display a different port: 13390.

Reconfiguring my FAST Content SSA with this new port, made my search site return result.

Note to self :

Whenever you want to create a SharePoint Site bases on a Web Database template, you have to make sure you did the following:

• Created a Access Service Application
  (Central Administration – Manage Service Applications – New – Access Services)
• Started the Access Database Service
  (Central Administration – Manage Services on Server)

If you don’t you will receive an error like this:

Preparing Site …
Someone has recently made changes to this site and the site is being updated. If the site remains offline for an extended period of time, contact a site owner.

Wait a moment and refresh your browser

Don’t bother waiting…

After you did all of this, open up the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, and give the following command:

enable-spSessionStateService –DataBaseName <SomeNewDatabaseName>

This will create a session state database and turns on the session state service.

When I tried to edit a SharePoint List in a datasheet view a received the following error:

The list cannot be displaued in DataSheet view for one or more of the following reasons:

- A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed.
- Your Web browser does not support ActiveX controles
- Support for ActiveX controles is disabled

I tried it with a SharePoint 2010 and a SharePoint 2007 List, both returned the same error.
As I had office 2010 on my machine. It seems that you have to install the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components for this to work.