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Ontolica Review

2011-07-15T14:03:00.000-07:00

Had a wonderful demo of Ontolica tool for SharePoint 2010 today (Search Preview, Library Preview, Aggregator and Search). Will blog on my insights into this cool product.

Error: The identity of application pool SharePoint xxxx is invalid ...

2011-07-15T14:01:00.000-07:00

Full error:

The identity of application pool SharePoint - xxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx443 is invalid. The user name or password that is specified for the identity may be incorrect, or the user may not have batch logon rights. If the identity is not corrected, the application pool will be disabled when the application pool receives its first request. If batch logon rights are causing the problem, the identity in the IIS configuration store must be changed after rights have been granted before Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) can retry the logon. If the identity remains invalid after the first request for the application pool is processed, the application pool will be disabled. The data field contains the error number.

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Application pool SharePoint - xxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx443 has been disabled. Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) did not create a worker process to serve the application pool because the application pool identity is invalid.

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Application pool SharePoint - xxx.xxx.xxxxx.xxx443 has been disabled. Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) encountered a failure when it started a worker process to serve the application pool.

One needs to re-enter the service account information and start the Application Pool one more time. After IISRESET (just for making sure everything goes good) this issue should be resolved ...

Not able to see KL Search web parts even after adding them to web page?

2011-07-15T13:57:00.000-07:00

Usually the KL Imaging Service Application is associated by default for all Web Applications. However, if one has created a new web application using central admin using custom settings, then one need to explicitly associate the KL Imaging Service Application to the web application.

The difference between .dwp and .webpart

2010-03-26T14:25:00.000-07:00

REFERENCE: http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2008/08/21/the-difference-between-dwp-and-webpart.aspx

The difference is .dwp was the file extension used in version 2 of SharePoint and .webpart is a new extension used in version 3. Inside the files, the schemas are different and it is indicated as such by the version number on the xmlns attribute.

Here is an example of a version 2 schema.

<WebPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2">
  <Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=12.0.0.0,  Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429cAssembly>
  <TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.SearchBoxExTypeName>
  <Title>Search  BoxTitle>
  <Description>Used to search document and items.Description>
  <FrameType>NoneFrameType>  
  <AllowMinimize>trueAllowMinimize>  
  <AllowRemove>trueAllowRemove>  
  <IsVisible>trueIsVisible>
  <Width>335pxWidth>
  <GoImageUrl xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:SearchBoxEx">/_layouts/images/gosearch.gifGoImageUrl>
  <GoImageUrlRTL   xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:SearchBoxEx">/_layouts/images/goRTL.gifGoImageUrlRTL>
  <GoImageActiveUrl  xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:SearchBoxEx">/_layouts/images/gosearch.gifGoImageActiveUrl>
  <GoImageActiveUrlRTL   xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:SearchBoxEx">/_layouts/images/goRTL.gifGoImageActiveUrlRTL>  
WebPart>

Version 3 is a little different.

<webParts>
  <webPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v3">
    <metaData>
      <type name="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.BusinessDataListWebPart,  Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal,Version=12.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
      <importErrorMessage>Cannot import this web part.importErrorMessage>
    metaData>
    <data>
      <properties>
        <property name="Title" type="string">Business  Data Listproperty>
        <property name="Description" type="string">Display a  list of items from a data source in the Business Data Catalog.property>
        <property name="CatalogIconImageUrl"  type="string">/_layouts/images/bizdatawebpart.gifproperty>
        <property name="CacheXslStorage"  type="bool">trueproperty>
        <property name="CacheXslTimeOut"  type="int">600property>
      properties>
    data>
  webPart>
webParts>

The main difference is that all properties passed to the web part are specified with a property element and a name attribute in version 3. Version 2 uses different element names for everything.

Unable to find dependency 'MICROSOFT.SHAREPOINT.APPLICATIONPAGES.ADMINISTRATION'

2010-01-08T15:25:00.000-08:00

ERROR:

Error: Unable to find file 'pkmutildm.dll' of multi-file assembly
'Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.dll'
Error: Unable to find file 'SPSUtil.dll' of multi-file assembly
'Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.dll'
Warning: Unable to find dependency
'MICROSOFT.SHAREPOINT.APPLICATIONPAGES.ADMINISTRATION'
(Signature='71E9BCE111E9429C' Version='11.0.0.0') of assembly
'Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.dll'

RESOLUTION:

You just need to exclude 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.dll' file
from setup. Since you are installing it on the SPS server the file is
allready there in GAC.

Date encountered: Jan 8th 2010: REFERENCED FROM

Working with Log4Net and .NET Framework 1.1

2009-05-06T17:54:00.001-07:00

Here is a small example on how to use Log4Net with .NET Framework 1.1 [Log4net version 1.2.0.0 Note: Latest is 1.2.10)

Great tool to export data out of SQL Database

2009-02-03T17:50:00.000-08:00

Today I worked with BCP (Bulk Copy Program). This is a exe package included in SQL Server package. This tool greatly help in exporting data out of large SQL Server tables to either .txt or .xls files.

Here is a great tutorial link for it:

http://sqlfool.com/2008/12/bcp-basics/

Great Tooltip site

2009-01-26T14:47:00.000-08:00

Dear Bloggers,

Found a really cool tooltip library today which allows one to effectively add a tooltip feature to ones application.

Here is the link:

http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm

Enjoy!

Nitin

SharePoint 2003 : Permissions - Role of Auto Approval as an Admin

2009-01-26T14:27:00.001-08:00

This morning struggled to figure out why a document inserted into a document library is auto approved immediately upon submission. My hypothesis at this moment is that this is a default feature in SharePoint 2003 - when any one else role of Contributor inserts a document into SharePoint its not auto approved but when a user with Admin rights inserts a document in SharePoint Document Library it does automatically approve.

This also means, I need to fix the logic of the custom web service I have designed to push in updated meta data for a specific set of documents in a Document Library.

Update: 1/27/2009

Indeed the permissions was the issue. Kind of strange. Need to explore the SharePoint permissions in more detail.