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A friend was building a server and ran into an issue where he was installing a fresh server, put in his trial key and assumed he did everything right, but was getting an error message: "The evaluation version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for this server has expired."
ACTION: Current user updated MOSS2007 and registered his Volume License Key to the MOSS2007 Installation. Current user tries to Access his "My Site" RESULT: Current user receives following error: "The evaluation version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for this server has expired." CAUSE: Insufficient permissions for the groups WSS_WPG, WSS_ADMIN_WPG to the Registry The application pool identity for your WSS/MOSS sites *MUST* be in the "Distributed COM Users" group in order to successfully activate. RESOLUTION: We gave group WSS_WPG Read permissions to following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Office Server\12.0 We gave group WSS_ADMIN_WPG Full permissions to the same registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Office Server\12.0 We added application pool Account ("dcomcnfg.exe") to the Distributed users We rebooted the server
By the way, these are the kind of blog posts that I like to run into when searching for answers on the Internet. They kind of feel like a KB article. Let's say you're an IT guy, but don't know what to blog about. You run into an issue, you solve it. Ideal and perfect for a post. Short and sweet. Great reference for you and the rest of the world. If they don't need the info, the don't need to read it.
Fantastic! I have read a lot of blog posts and have found nothing that worked! Then I followed your tips and voila! BTW, a IISRESET was enough.
Excellent post! I followed the tip adding the app pool to "Distributed COM Users", then did an IISRESET and all working OK.
I had users not being able to access "My site" and the Search service would not return any results either (came up with the error "Your search cannot be completed because of a service error ")
Just what I needed :-)
Thanks, it works...
Absolutely Brilliant !! I have been saved many sleepless nights
Hi
How do I:
We added application pool Account ("dcomcnfg.exe") to the Distributed users
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Regards
Hi,
I got this problem too. I went to Central Administration > Operations > Service Accounts, and changed the Credental Management settnings "Select an account for this component" from Preferred (Network Service) to the same I used for when creating web applications. In my case I used DOMAIN\administrator.
Fantastic blog entry. the "We added application pool Account ("dcomcnfg.exe") to the Distributed users
We rebooted the server" simply refers to adding the App Pool account for MySite to the Distrubuted COM users group. I did this and the requiste IISRESET and hey presto MySites were back
Perfect solution.
I too had exactly the same problem.
I upgraded my license key from trial to enterprise, but I was still getting trial license expired on My Sites.
Thanks Joel.. It solved my problem.. I was not able to see User Profile Properties Under Shared Services..
Joel
What do you mean by?
"What do you mean by?
We added application pool Account ("dcomcnfg.exe") to the Distributed users"
He means (I think) to add the Application Pool account to the built-in Active Directory group "Distributed COM Users." However, the solution did not work for me. I already have the proper persmissions showing up in the registry. I found a KB article on another issue relating to SP2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971620/en-us
I installed the patch in the article and after a reboot, the problem was solved.
Good Luck
Yep, just had this same bugging issue and the solution in my case were an IISRESET + restarted the Sharepoint services.
Cool! Exactly the problem and solution. You may also see it on Microsoft Search Server 2008 with "Your license for Microsoft Search Server has expired." message
the patch fixed my issue. I installed sp2 on december 13, 2009 and this past sunday i started receiving this error. I just applied the patch from the above post and it worked like a charm. Thank you!!