Sridhar's Blog : Troubleshooting Tips

What happened to my My Links Web Part?

sridhara — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:55:00 GMT

Well, did you add a link like "file://C:/folder1/folder2"? In one customer's environment this was the exact issue. A user added some file system link like the above and ended up with the following symptoms: 1. The user couldn't add the "My Links" web...(read more)

Indexing MSCMS 2001 using MOSS 2007 indexer?

sridhara — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:23:00 GMT

This might be a cake-walk for most of you, but I got delayed a bit to get MSCMS 2001 contents indexed using MOSS 2007. Basically what I saw after I setup a content source and started a full crawl was the below warning: The specified address was excluded...(read more)

"The site is not assigned to an indexer" error in SharePoint custom search

sridhara — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:39:00 GMT

Strangely enough! We'll not see this issue with an OOTB search. It is seen only when we use search APIs or web service and perform a custom search. Apparently, when we use Microsoft.Office.Server.Search, the content database also gets indexed and this...(read more)

"The security validation for this page is invalid" error when updating objects through SharePoint object model

sridhara — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:51:00 GMT

This error is often encountered when SharePoint OM is used to update site/web/list objects from within a web context. Some thing so basic as the code below could fail: using ( SPSite site = new SPSite ( "http://moss" )) { using ( SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())...(read more)

Database Schema compatibility error in FBA

sridhara — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:39:00 GMT

This is an interesting issue I came across recently and it was nice to know things that I thought would be hardly a matter to be considered. Well, the gist of the issue is very simple. When using default providers (AspNetSqlMembershipProvider & AspNetSqlRoleProvider)...(read more)