User profile import started throwing error all of a sudden. Be it either full or incremental, it always ends up with the following error in the crawl log. This item could not be crawled because the repository did not respond within the specified timeout period. Try to crawl the repository at a later time, or increase the timeout value on the Proxy and Timeout page in search administration. You might also want to crawl this repository during off-peak usage times. OR The server is unavailable... [More]

You receive an Event ID 6875 error message when you publish a page in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 When you publish a page in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you receive an error message that resembles the following in the Application log in Event Viewer: Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Event Category: General Event ID: 6875 Description: Error loading and running ev... [More]

A runtime exception was detected. Details follow.Message: Access Denied! Only site admin can access Data Source object from user profile DB.Techinal Details:System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access Denied! Only site admin can access Data Source object from user profile DB.at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.SRPSite.AdminCheck(String message)at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.DataSource._LoadDataSourceDef(IDataRecord rec)at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.DataSource._LoadDataSourc... [More]

The Problem: Event ID 0The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( .NET Runtime ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Unable to open shim database version registry key - v2.0.50727.00000.The Solution:KB918642 - A .NET 2.0 ... [More]

Sometimes you get an application popup from MSSDMN (Microsoft Search Service Daemon) with following error message: mssdmn.exe - Application Error The instruction at “0×77ef6114″ referenced memory at “0×0000000087″. The memory could not be “written”.Click on OK to terminate the program or mssdmn.exe - Application Error The instruction at “0xffffffff” referenced memory at “0×00000000f5″. The memory could not be &l... [More]

The problem with above errors are that the event refer to an IIS problem. The errors occure because two threads access IIS 6.0 (Windows Server 2003) or IIS 7.0 (Windows Server 2008).   Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Office SharePoint ServerEvent Category: Office Server Shared ServicesEvent ID: 7076Date: 28.07.2008Time: 22:48:20User: N/AComputer: Description:An exception occurred while executing the Application Server Administration job.   Message: Exception from HRESULT: 0×... [More]

After a join of a second MOSS server an error occured withing the event log. Boring enough because within the standalone MOSS everything works fine.   Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Office SharePoint ServerEvent Category: Excel Services Web Front EndEvent ID: 5239Date: 7/15/2008Time: 11:40:06 AMUser: N/AComputer: Description:There was an error in communicating with Excel Calculation Services http:///SharedServices/ExcelCalculationServer/ExcelService.asmx exception: The request failed wi... [More]

One of the scenarios this happens is when someone renames a database and makes a site lock on site collection and then forgets to unlock it after restoring. This is difficult to troubleshoot because you think that you made everthing correct. Everything looks fine but you have no access to your site collection. If you have no access to your site collection first check the sitelock on the command line! stsadm -o getsitelock -url http:// Your output should be If not you can review you... [More]