SPUpdatedConcurrencyException Fix when trying to install June 2011 CU for SharePoint Server
Fun and laughter installing the June CU 2011 for SharePoint Server. After installing the CU, and then running an update as per the instructions at: You may get this error just after step 2 of the Config Wizard: === An exception of type...
How to synchronize a SharePoint Contact List with Microsoft Outlook 2010
A SharePoint Contact list can be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook; so that features available in Microsoft Outlook contacts would be available to a SharePoint Contact list displayed in Outlook. Another benefit of this approach is that users would be able to see all...
Thoughts on a SharePoint Study guide
Well, its been sooo busy with me writing the MOS Study Sharepoint section for the MOS exam 77-886, and being inundated with queries concerning what is the best study guide to use for SharePoint, that I thought lets drop my thoughts in this short blog for you to mull...
Do you UAT SharePoint Standard Features?
Got a query today concerning User Acceptancy Testing (UAT) on SharePoint. As a SharePoint implementator, we know that the client needs to test the provision (your deliverables) of the SharePoint environment, based on exactly what they requested (the scope). However,...
My pennyworths on Third Party Product Deploy in SharePoint – Where is the Documentation then?
I have a customer who has third party developers enhancing their SharePoint platform; their questions surrounded the control of these developers from the perspective of how their products end up running in SharePoint. We all know that SharePoint is pretty...
Import Failure – Parent Web Site does not Exist – A Possible Fix
If you carry out Exports and Imports using the good ole stsadm –o commands this will may be of interest if you run into the following error: Content deployment job 'Remote import job for job with sourceID = <id>' failed.The exception thrown was...
Usage Data Import Job Fail 8075 and Execute Method SPUsageImportJobDefinition Fail 6398 – How to Fix
Scenario is a two front end, index and crawl server which had just been migrated into a new server group in a different datacentre. Following the migration and startup, Front End servers both show this message every 15 minutes: The Usage Data Import timer job failed....
How do you manage the size of your SharePoint sites?
Let's start this article by putting into context the reasoning behind site quotas, and of course, this means a description of exactly why the feature is required. Site Quotas, in a nutshell, allows you to define a limit on the storage capacity of a SharePoint site...
Can’t Start SharePoint 2010 Sync Service, Error 1001, 8312, 6398 – a Fix?
Best way to start is to show you those errors in the good ole event log: Error 1001: Fault bucket , type 0 Event Name: CLR20r3 Response: Not available Cab Id: 0 Problem signature: P1: owstimer.exe P2: 14.0.5128.5000 P3: 4cace1f1 P4: mscorlib P5: 2.0.0.0 P6: 4bebe8e2...