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CONTENT DEPLOYMENT – the remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found

This is one of a series of blogs that I plan to write on troubleshooting content deployment issues. Here’s a scenario The destination farm is running on a Windows Server 2008 computer. When deploying to the destination, the content deployment fails with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:51 PM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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Provisioning shared services fails with user cannot be found error

I was recently rebuilding one of my farms when I ran into the problem I describe below. I logged onto the machine using my domain account. Then created local user accounts for use with my standalone farm on this machine and then ran SharePoint Post Installation Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:58 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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access denied while trying to save to favorites

I use the “Add to Favorites” feature in Internet Explorer a lot. After moving to Windows Vista, I ran into a problem where I’d get an Access Denied error, anytime I attempted to create a folder within the Favourites. I was curious to find out why I can Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:15 PM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 1 Comments
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people picker & user accounts resolution in domainS FROM different forestS

Ever run into a situation where the people picker in SharePoint will fail to resolve usernames that are within a domain in a totally different forest? Assuming the trust relationships are setup properly? Well think again. Here is a quick check list: Ensure Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 06, 2009 4:58 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 4 Comments
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Send to… Other Location feature, MOSS & Office clients

Have you used this feature before? I see a lot of people on the internet using this feature and there are a couple of scenarios in which this feature won’t work “as expected”. I recently had a chance to spend some time on this and here are my observations Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:09 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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Sharepoint – custom solution deployment failure

I recently ran into a problem where custom SharePoint solutions will randomly fail to deploy on any of the web servers in the farm. The nature of the problem was hard to debug. The failure can occur on any web server and on any resource file being deployed Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:04 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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Published links to office client applications do not show up in file open or save dialogs

Ever run into a problem where your published links for office client applications do not show up in My SharePoint sites Link in Office applications? If so, read through… First, the basics. Ensure it is configured right. This feature works only with Office Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:31 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 2 Comments
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manually Debugging native memory leaks

So in my previous posts, I explained how you can use DebugDiag tool to capture high memory dumps with leak tracking enabled and also how to use the inbuilt memory analysis scripts to get a report of memory usage. In this post, I discuss how you can do Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 1:01 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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Using debugdiag for memory pressure analysis

In my last post , I discussed a generic approach to collecting memory dumps using Debug Diagnostics tool. In this post, I discuss how to use DebugDiag’s memory pressure scripts. Please note that the current version of DebugDiag does not have the ability Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:00 PM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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debugging native memory leaks

Debugging native memory leaks is one of the most difficult things to do - (at least for me). There are a few Escalation Engineers at Microsoft Product Support Services who are extremely good at debugging all kinds of issues. I learn a lot from these guys Read More...
Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 2:05 PM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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How to get the http headers for asp.net requests from a dump file

So, you have a managed dump and you want to find out the request headers. Here’s one of the methods I use to find this information. I use it especially when I want to view the session ID or cookies. Load SOS Run !aspxpages and note down the HttpContext Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:06 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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HTTP Compression – reason codes in etw traces

In one of my earlier posts , I discussed one of the reasons for compression failure and how we identified it using ETW traces and resolved it. Below are the list of other reason codes for your reference. NO_ACCEPT_ENCODING The HTTP request did not contain Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 01, 2009 2:54 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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ETW Trace providers – when to use what

You may perhaps have used Event Tracing Feature of Windows aka ETW for debugging many server side problems related to IIS. When I first learnt about ETW and started using it, I found it to be really cool! Unfortunately there’s not a lot of documentation Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 01, 2009 1:11 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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setting managed breakpoints in windbg

Windbg is a native debugger and you can use it to set a breakpoint on a virtual address. Any managed code running within the process wouldn’t have a virtual address associated with it until it is JIT compiled. Thus setting a breakpoint on a managed function Read More...
Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 12:28 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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catching a memory dump on system.outofmemoryexception

Issues related to high memory utilization on an IIS application server are common. With .NET there is a little misconception that the Garbage Collector (GC) will clean up objects and therefore the process can never run out of memory. This isn’t true. Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:28 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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