The machine of my friend’s all of sudden started to hung up before the Windows logon screen. Later it went into a loop of continuously rebooting. I came in with safe mode and disable the auto reboot upon error feature, then I saw the famous death blue screen with the following error message every time:
Stop: c000021a [Fatal System Error]
The Windows subsystem system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xC0000006 (0x77f632fc 0x004ff228) The system has been shut down.
According to Microsoft knowledge base article, "The STOP 0xC000021A error occurs when either Winlogon.exe or Csrss.exe fails." But the root cause of that varies, so it is very hard to pin point the problem and fix it easily.
Unsuccessful methods I tried:
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These days the MOSS site went down a couple time, every time there was the following error messages:
page has encountered a critical error. Contact your system administrator if this problem persists.
At first, we could reboot the database and application servers to let the problem go away. But rebooting is not the good choice. Finally I figured out it was not about the database.
Here is what I did to find the real issue behind the generic error message above.
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A user with Full Control permission on the top site could not create an article page. The error message was Access Denied. I tried different ways to resolve this issue, include put her Full Control permission directly on the top site and Page library, but still had the same issue. Then I assign Full Control, Approve and Contribute and all permission levels to her, I got the following error:
List does not exist
The page you selected contains a list that does not exist.
It may have been deleted by another user.
But this user can do everything else except the Create Page from the Site Action drop down. From the URL, you can see the Create Page is using /_layouts/CreatePage.aspx file which I believe is using publishing template
Continue reading ‘Resolve Access Denied Error while creating new article page in SharePoint MOSS 2007′
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We just launched a new Intranet web site powered by the SharePoint 2007 (MOSS 2007). Everything works fine except the URL. By default, the SharePoint services uses the computer name of the server. But we need a nice name like “http://intranet” as the new site name.
We created a new DNS record named “Intranet” and pointed it to the SharePoint server. But it only did the initial re-direction, and it came back to the default http://servername/Pages/default.aspx URL again.
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I tried to upgrade my WordPress to 2.9.2 but I had to upgrade my database MySql first since WordPress 2.9.2 requires higher MySQL version. Just like I usually did with the database backup routine, I used “mysqldump” command to export data from MySQL 4.0 and then used “mysql” to import data into MySql 5.0. Everything seemed OK at the first, but I later on found out all my Chinese characters turned into non-readable mess characters.
The problem was my host provider, 1 and 1 located in Europe, uses “latin1-german1_ci” as default database collation. And the dumped SQL script from the MySql 4.0 does not have the database collation information even it is in UTF-8, so all new tables created in the new MySql 5.0 have the latin1_german1_ci as the default collation and latin as the default character set.
Continue reading ‘How to correctly import no-English (UTF-8) characters from MySql4 into MySql 5.0 with mysqldump’
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There is no a straight way to add SharePoint list from another site to the web part page. Recently I found out a simple way to do so from Path to SharePoint blog.
1), Create a new Content Editor Web part on the page you are working on.
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As I indicated in my previous post, I need to set up a SharePoint page with some frequently-updated lists. And I need this SharePoint page to be refreshed automatically every minute.
Here are some methods I tried.
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In SharePoint 2007 (WSS 3.0), you can put any URLs in the Links List. But when you click any of these links, they will be opened in the same browser window instead of in a new window.
I checked the Internet, and found a couple of ways to open the links list in a new window. The first one was the simplest one as I am concerned. I implemented and it worked for me.
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Challenge:
We are using a service called Roam Secure Alert Network to notify subscribers about any news needs immediate attentions. These alerts can be posted through Web, Email and SMS. And the subscriber can receive alerts with emails, phone text messages.
Recently we need an internal SharePoint web page to be developed to show all these alert messages. Since the Roam Secure system is not part of our system, and did not provide any RSS feeds due to secure concerns. We could not set up any data connection to retrieve these message from their system.
The simple way is to use the Incoming email feature of SharePoint to post these messages in a new list.
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Challenges:
I tried to connect to Oracle database in SharePoint (MOSS 2007). But got the following error when I tried to create a Database connections in Designer 2007.
1), Use custom connection string;
2), Select Microsoft .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle as the Provider Name;
3) Post the below as the Connection String:
Password=<passwd>;User ID=<userID>; Data Source = <mydatasource>; Persist Security Info=True; Provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle;
4), It seemed the Oracle db can be connected, but could not find the root catalog since the "Initial Catalog=root;" was appended to the above connection string automatically.
5), and the error message is:
Server Error: An error occurred while retrieving the list of Tables from the root Database: The query you are trying to execute contains syntax errors.
I searched on the Internet, and was told there is a way to use BDC(Business Data Catalog). But I just need a simple way to show Oracle data on a SharePoint page. BDC connection is too much for me at this point.
Continue reading ‘Issues with creating Database Connections to Oracle in SharePoint Designer 2007 (Resolved)’
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Challenge:
Create a form in InfoPath 2007 and implement a SharePoint Workflow to it for approval processes. In each step, a Status field in the InfoPat form should be updated automatically according to the change of workflow task status. So a different view in the InfoPath can be opened based on the Status field in the form.
But after the InfoPath was published to the SharePoint (MOSS 2007 with InfoPath Form Services turned on) as Document Library and Content type, the Status field could not be displayed when “Set Field value in Current item” action was selected in the workflow design. Even it was promoted to be available in the SharePoint document library.
Continue reading ‘How to pass InfoPath form fields to SharePoint workflow but hide from Document Library item properties’
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A few days ago, got an email forwarded by co-worker regarding a new law effective in Georgia. Its name is Move-Over Law, which says drivers must move-over for emergency vehicles stopped on the side of the highway. The law is meant to keep officers AND traffic violators safe from crashes with passing cars.
Continue reading ‘Be aware: New Law in GA which can cause you $500 fine’
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The machine of my friend’s all of sudden started to hung up before the Windows logon screen. Later it went into a loop of continuously rebooting. I came in with safe mode and disable the auto reboot upon error feature, then I saw the famous death blue screen with the following error message every time:
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