Andrew Kennel
Web Developer
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PHL ParkingSharepoint Error Messages
May 14, 2008Why are Sharepoint error messages so useless? I had a user who was trying to approve a workflow task. Every time she tried to open the task to approve it, the web site shot back an error message starting with “Value does not fall within the expected range. at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPList.GetItemById(Int32 id, String strRootFolder, Boolean cacheRowsetAndId)”….
Continue Reading →Unexpected Search Problem
May 13, 2008So, I’ve finally gotten my Test server indexing a network share. For testing, the network team gave me an account with full access to everything on the Department shares. The initial index ran overnight for about 10 hours, which was not unexpected. Now we’ve got it running and my tests show that all is working,…
Continue Reading →File Search Revisited
May 12, 2008Now that our test box is back in business, I was able to go through an configure Search again. Sharepoint helpfully automatically configures all your Web Apps as sources for you, so to get basic Searching up and running all you need to do is define a schedule for Full and Incremental crawls. I like to…
Continue Reading →Patched the Dev Server today
May 8, 2008D was testing a workflow and ran into the email bug that we first noticed back in February. This is a bug that causes the first workflow notification to appear as raw HTML code. Luckily, I wrote down the KB # at the time, #937906, so was able to quickly find it again. The patch…
Continue Reading →Server Crash Cause Found!
May 7, 2008At long last we've found the cause of April's crash. If you remember, early in April, D added an updated DLL to the web front end boxes and ran an IISReset. When IIS came back up, the portal was inaccessible. I called Microsoft, and after struggling for about three hours, we were able to get…
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