I have come across this scenario several times while troubleshooting the cases where Upgrade process fails with the below error logged in the upgrade.log file: [AddSearchToLinks] [3.0.77.0] [DEBUG] [6/12/2009 10:11:48 PM]: Executing SQL DDL Script...

In this blog post, we will discuss some tips and techniques around the B2B upgrade process. Detaching and attaching the Content Database: Many times during the upgrade process, we may see errors that are specific to one or two content databases...

In this post, we will discuss few troubleshooting techniques when the upgrade fails to complete. The first tool you have in hand is the upgrade.log file. When we run the Configuration Wizard, a file called upgrade.log file will be created, by default...

Applying Hot fixes, Cumulative updates (CU) or Service Packs (SP) for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 and then upgrading the databases is a very common scenario. W e troubleshoot issues around these areas quite frequently at Microsoft GTSC. I have heard these questions...

Thank you for visiting my Blog! Although my blog was opened a couple of years ago, wasn't very active. I have now decided to actively blog and share my experiences and ideas. I am working at Microsoft as a Support Escalation Engineer in SharePoint...

ENVIRONMENT: ============== Windows 2000 Server SP4, IIS 5.0 We are unable to browse the site if we enable SSL. When we browse using https, it fails with generic "Page cannot be displayed" error. SSLDiag tool shows "#WARNING:Failed to read schannel...

CAUSE: - The DIV contained an UpdatePanel with the id “MultiView”. Inside the ContentTemplate of the UpdatePanel there was a asp:menu Control. - The Menu Control has these items: <Items> <asp:MenuItem Text="Notes" Value="0" ></asp:MenuItem>...

We get the following error when a .NET based Windows Service makes a call to ASP.NET Webservice to upload the file. The operation has timed out System.Net.WebResponse GetWebResponse(System.Net.WebRequest) at System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebClientProtocol...

When we try to create ASP.NET web application using Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista running IIS 7.0, we may get the following error: "Unable to create the Web 'http://localhost/<website>'. The Web server does not appear to have the FrontPage...

Here is a simple way to do it. We can implement this by overriding the Render method of the Page class. protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer) { System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder(); System.IO.StringWriter...

Many developers come up with this question: How to retrieve the HTML response generated by ASP.NET pages? We can implement this by writing a HTTP module. We need to create a custom Stream object and set the Filter property of the Response object to this...

After installing .NET Framework 2.0 on Windows XP Pro x64 Edition, you don't see the ASP.NET Tab in IIS MMC. This happens if IIS is running in WOW64 mode. In other words, if IIS is running in 32 bit mode on a 64 bit Windows operating system, the ASP.NET...