I got this error whilst trying to get User Profiles to work. Things to check: Domain name is correct If using custom sources, try creating a new custom source and deleting the old one
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An error occured while validating or updating the directory service connection. No update was performed.
Posted in bugs, sharepoint, tagged bug, sharepoint, userprofiles on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
SharePoint custom workflow activity. “Failed to load toolbox item. It will be removed from toolbox.”
Posted in sharepoint, workflow, tagged activity, bug, custom activity, custom workflow, sharepoint, workflow on December 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I was getting this error message in Visual Studio 2008 when adding a custom activity to an existing workflow. Solution This worked for me, your mileage, may and probably will vary. It was necessary for me to un-gac the workflow project, then the custom activities could be added to the design surface as expected.
Server Out Of Memory – There is no memory on the server to run your program. Please contact your administrator with this problem. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.ApplyWebTemplate(String bstrUrl, String& bstrWebTemplate, Int32& plWebTemplateId)
Posted in bugs, sharepoint, tagged bug, onet.xml, sharepoint on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are lots of reasons this error message can occur, see: http://www.google.com/search?q=sharepoint+Server+Out+Of+Memory. In my case it happened when a new site was being provisioned using a custom site definition during the ApplyWebTemplate call. Turned out the there were subtle errors in my onet.xml. In particular I was referencing some document templates using an incorrect path:
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Crashes when exiting the application, in module ModName:msenv.dll
Posted in bugs, development, visual studio, tagged bug, visualstudio, windowlayout on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After recently increasing my monitor setup to 3 flat screens! I decided to embark on the ultimate 2-window Visual Studio layout, docking most of my non-text editor windows on monitor 2. After lots of precision placements of windows, I thought I had better close Visual Studio so that it saves my new layout. Well fat [...]
Target Audience property not displaying / missing for web parts
Posted in bugs, sharepoint, tagged audiencefilters, bug, sharepoint, targetaudience, webpart on December 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I came across this problem on a web application that had been working fine, then all of a sudden the “Target Audiences” property disappeared from the web part tool pane. To solve this problem I re-associated the web application with the Shared Service Provider (SSP) and bounced IIS. 1. Web applications are associated with [...]
SPUtility.DateParse !♥ seconds: SPUtility.DateParse removes the time component if you parse a date that incudes seconds!??!
Posted in sharepoint, tagged bug, sharepoint, SPUtility, SPUtility.DateParse on November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Okay here’s another baffling API bug: If you parse a date using SPUtility.ParseDate(web, “11/29/2009 13:37:12″, SPDateFormat.DateTime, false) it will return you a date object without parsing the time! Remove the seconds SPUtility.ParseDate(web, “11/29/2009 13:37″, SPDateFormat.DateTime, false) and we are good to go. Full program listing of bug follows: The above code assumes you have US [...]
