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Wiki Page: Solutions to Common Volume Activation Errors

Balaji M Kundalam

Volume activation is designed to be a relatively quick and simple process. However, organizations still encounter a number of common errors when using volume activation. The following are solutions to some of the more common volume activation errors encountered by Microsoft customers. Note: In...

on21 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: AD RMS Troubleshooting: Client-Side Tracing (MSDRM)

Steve Light - MSFT

One useful tool in troubleshooting an AD RMS issue on the client is tracing. All that is needed is a tool from Sysinternals, a registry change, and reproduce the issue. The following logging is for the MSDRM client. For information on logging for the MSIPC client please see AD RMS Troubleshooting...

on21 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: Hyper-V: Scripts

James_Stephan

There is an entire library of free PowerShell scripts for Hyper-V 2008r2 management at: www.codeplex.com/psHyperV . There is an entire library of Hyper-V Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell 3.0 for Hyper-v Server 20012 There are helpful, free, Hyper-V scripts available on the Script Center Gallery...

on20 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010: You Cannot See Reporting Services Icons After You Upgrade

Gokan Ozcifci

Table of Contents Background Workaround Applies to See Also Background Following the upgrade of a SharePoint environment to SharePoint 2010 Products, you may not be able to see the Reporting Services icons on several of the Web pages. For example, the document library context menu you see for...

on16 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013: Latest Windows Security Update in July 2013 Breaks the SharePoint XSLT System Web Part Pages

Gokan Ozcifci

Last week a Microsoft Windows Security Update was applied to a production server running Windows Server 2008 and SharePoint 2010. Following this patch, content owners using the Insert Link > from SharePoint to insert a link to a page, list item, or documents started receiving an error on the system...

on16 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: SharePoint: Your current Contributor Settings prevent you from creating, editing and deleting workflows

Gokan Ozcifci

Error Message Your current Contributor Settings prevent you from creating, editing and deleting workflows Probable Cause By Default the Contributor Settings will be enabled on your site. You will notice this in the SharePoint Designer task pane. ...

on16 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010: SSRS Troubleshooting - You See an Error Message Regarding ContainerTypeNotSupported When You View a Report from a SharePoint Document Library

Gokan Ozcifci

Table of Contents Background Workaround Applies to See Also Background When you attempt to view a Reporting Services report in a SharePoint document library you see an error message that resembles the following: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The target location you specified is...

on16 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: Troubleshooting "The RPC server is unavailable"

Michael Board [MSFT CSG]

Table of Contents Introduction The RPC Server The RPC Client RPC Quick Fixes Unable to resolve DNS or NetBIOS names in an Active Directory environment. The RPC service or related services may not be started Network Connectivity Verify ports needed by RPC are open File and Printer Sharing is not enabled...

on15 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010: Data Refresh Failed: "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime" (PowerPivot)

Gokan Ozcifci

Table of Contents Issue If "Enable" has not been checked, you are able to enter the "Schedule Refresh…" screen. Cause Workaround Issue When clicking on “Manage Refresh”, you can see the scheduled refreshes are succeeding. However, when you click on "Schedule...

on15 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: AD FS 2.x: Troubleshooting Proxy Server Event ID 230 (Congestion Avoidance Algorithm)

Naomi N

Symptoms Client requests that traverse an AD FS 2.x Proxy server intermittently fail The AD FS/Admin Event Log contains event ID 230 showing that the proxy is experiencing congestion Possible Cause 1 The internal AD FS 2.x Federation Server is overloaded with requests Possible...

on12 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: SharePoint 2013: Tips for Troubleshooting Search Suggestions

Gokan Ozcifci

Table of Contents Tip Credits See Also Tip What to do when search suggestions don’t show up? Run the “prepare query suggestions” timer job! If you set up search suggestions (as described in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj721441.aspx ) you may notice that no suggestions drop...

on12 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: Reporting Services-specific Help Is Not Available from SharePoint Central Administration Pages

Gokan Ozcifci

Table of Contents Background Workaround Applies to See Also Background The Reporting Services Help page is not available from the SharePoint Help window on SharePoint Central Administration pages. Workaround Choose Site Settings . In Site Collection Administration , select Help Settings...

on11 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: SSRS Troubleshooting: Model Item Permissions Need to Be Updated

Gokan Ozcifci

Background: Reports based on report models will fail with errors indicating there are insufficient permissions to view the data source. Workaround: Open the right-click menu of the model and select the Manage Model Item Security properties page. Update the assigned permissions to an...

on11 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010: Cannot Open Excel Files

Gokan Ozcifci

Issue: Users cannot open excel files in SharePoint 2010 from the Library and get an error "This workbook cannot be opened because it is not stored in an Excel Services Application trusted location. To create an Excel Services Application trusted location, contact your system administrator...

on11 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: SharePoint 2010: EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'proc_putObject', database 'SharePoint_Config', schema 'dbo'

Gokan Ozcifci

Problem Description While deploying a solution the following exception was thrown: Error Message EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'proc_putObject', database 'SharePoint_Config', schema 'dbo' Logs analysis The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object...

on11 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: Analytics for Twitter: Known Issues

John Broomfield

This Wiki article documents some known issues with version 1.3 of Analytics for Twitter. Click here to download the latest version of Analytics for Twitter. Analytics for Twitter is being refreshed for Office 2013. For updates & status please visit the Analytics for Twitter 2013...

on8 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: “Retrieving media info for an unknown album” message in Windows Media Player12

Naomi N

To fix constant message “Retrieving media info for an unknown album” in Windows Media Player 12 go through the steps as described below: 1. In the Start Search box type in: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Player and press the Enter Key. 2. Open Media Player Folder. 3. Select all the files in...

on8 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: Windows Azure: Telemetry Basics and Troubleshooting

Cotega Monitoring

Table of Contents 1. Introducing the telemetry blog series 2. Introducing the basics of telemetry and troubleshooting 3. Defining Basic Metrics and KPIs 3.1. Compute nodes resource usage 3.2. Windows Event logs 3.3 Database queries response times 3.4. Application specific exceptions 3.5. Database connection...

on7 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: Windows Azure SQL Database Connectivity Troubleshooting Guide

Steef-Jan Wiggers

The information provided in this article are intended to help troubleshoot some of the common connectivity error messages that you would see while connecting to Windows Azure SQL Database. Note: For more information on handling connection-losses while your application runs, see Connection Management...

on7 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: Windows Phone 8 Emulator Compatibility Issues on Windows 8.1 Preview?

Ed Price - MSFT

Are you a Windows Phone 8 developer using Visual Studio 2012 and have you downloaded and upgraded your Windows 8 machine to Windows 8.1 Preview?. When trying to run the Windows Phone 8 emulator from Visual Studio 2012 , you might notice an issue which restricts you to run the Emulator because of...

on6 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: SCVMM 2012 SP1 VM Stuck with status Deleting - FailedToAcquireLock (2606)

Naomi N

Problem In SCVMM 2012 SP1 (Version 3.1.6027.0) upon deleting a Virtual Machine the job can become stuck. The VM status is shown as J ob Failed - I was also unable to delete the VM or restart the job. Under Jobs the failed job appears as such: Attempting to remove the...

on6 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: Telemetry – Data Acquisition Pipeline

AzureCAT

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Pipeline Characteristics 2.1 Multiple Data Sources Across Nodes and Services 2.2 Data Granularity and Latency 3. Scheduler Implementation 4. Import Tasks Implementation 5. OpsStatsDB Walkthrough 6. Conclusions 1. Introduction Welcome to the third wiki entry...

on5 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: Query Taking non-Consistent Time to Execute

Ed Price - MSFT

There might be following reasons for different timings: 1. Different hardware configurations CPU, RAM, etc. on different servers Note: If we're running the same query on different servers, we can not expect the same time, but we may expect similar times, so the huge difference is a case...

on4 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: The Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146234334.

Peter Geelen - MSFT

Symptoms: Error message: Log Name: System Source: Service Control Manager Date: 7/29/2013 10:58:10 AM Event ID: 7024 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: FIMServer.domain.test Description: The Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization...

on4 Aug 2013
Wiki Page: Importing ECDH key blobs with the IX509PrivateKey::Import method

Carsten Siemens

Other Resources Security Developer Center Cryptography Topics on MSDN Follow us on Twitter Table of Contents Resolution Example See Also The IX509PrivateKey::Import method cannot import ECDH key blobs without first setting the private key algorithm property, and cannot import...

on3 Aug 2013