Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies - PostSetupConfigurationTaskException

Grr.

A really annoying exception I had while trying to upgrade one of my Moss farms Im working on. The thing is, that I haven't experienced this error in any of the other farms I upgraded before.

What's happened ? I installed the sp2 successfully. Then ran the Configuration Wizard, and In the step 3 out of 4 got this very odd exception :

Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies. An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfigurationTaskException was thrown.

As you can see it doesn't give you too much of a details. I started to google this issue and came across with a post about this exception.
In that post, it was suggested to stop the World Wide Publishing service of the IIS and to stop all the Sharepoint services you have working on that server ( i.e "Windows SharePoint Services Web Application" and etc ). And only then run the configuration wizard, and then restart the services.

In the first server, I did it this way and it worked like a charm.
On the rest of the servers, I checked it and decided to stop only the "Windows SharePoint Services Web Application" and not any of the IIS services or other Sharepoint services - Because of the long recovery time it took. That worked too. )


So my recommendation to you is just to stop the
" Windows SharePoint Services Web Application"
service. and save yourself the time of stopping all the other services which seems to be unnecessary to be stopped.

Be aware, when you stop that service, all web applications you had on that server ( That you can see in the iis manager ) will be gone, but once you start the service again, it will automatically re-create them and it might take a while depends on how many web applications you have - Though, you should check that they were created well, especially if you don't deploy your solution as MS recommends.

Good Luck upgrading.

Sharepoint בעיה נפוצה בעת התקנת עדכון לחוות

שלום,

.sharepoint לאחרונה נתקלתי בשגיאה שעיכבה לי הפצה של עדכון לחוות

.למעשה, לא נתקלתי בסוגיה הנ"ל ברוב המקומות בהם הפצתי את העדכון , אלא רק במקום אחד

בעת הפצת עדכון לאחת הסביבות אצל הלקוח שלנו, בשלב הרצת האשף קיבלנו שגיאה בשלב השלישי

השגיאה הייתה -

Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies. An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfigurationTaskException was thrown.

השגיאה למעשה לא ברורה ולא נותנת יותר מדי כיווני חקירה.

.הפתרון העוקף היה פשוט לעצור את אחד השירותים של השרת עצמו - שיוביל הפסקת אירוח האתרים עליו
Windows SharePoint Services Web Application גשו לאתר הניהול המרכזית והפסיקו את השירות שרץ על השרת.

לאחר מכן הריצו את האשף, ובסיומו הפעלת השירות מחדש, וכלל האתרים יחזרו להתארח על השרת הנ"ל.

.IIS אני בודק עכשיו אם אפשר להתמודד עם זה רק ע"י עצירת השירות של ה

.בהצלחה

How to uncheck the overwrite check box in Upload.aspx page ?

Hey.

Very common issue, that I was also asked to do over clients in past version of Sharepoint too.

Well, by default when you create a Doclib , in the upload.aspx page the "overwrite" checkbox is checked. The outcome is that people overwrites files by accident.

So how you uncheck this checkbox on all your doclibs ? Change it in the templates.

This is how -

in Wss 2.0 , go your sharepoint hive, under the TEMPLATE folder ( TEMPLATE\1033\SPSTOC\LISTS\DOCLIB ) - backup the Schema.xml file and change the follwing lines :

change the value to FALSE.

And then scroll a bit down and track down this line -

and delete the word CHECKED.

Now save the file, do an iisreset - and the upload.aspx page is done.

in Wss 3.0, it's even simplier because all of those pages are application pages.

Just go to the sharepoint hive ( 12\template\layouts ) , backup and open the upload.aspx file.
Track down this line -

and just change the "Checked" attribue to "false".

BE AWARE - on every hotfix/service pack you need to check that the file hasnt change. If it did, remember to fix it again.

Enjoy.

והפעם גם בעברית

,שלום לכולם

,לאחר תקופה ארוכה בה כתבתי בלוג אך ורק באנגלית

.החלטתי להתחיל לשלב גם פוסטים בעברית על מנת ולנסות להתקדם בצורה יעילה יותר במנועי החיפוש

- בימים הקרובים אתחיל להעביר את הפוסטים מהבלוג הלועזי שלי לבלוג הנ"ל

,מקווה שתצליחו להפיק את המיטב מהבלוג

.בהצלחה לכולנו

Archive for sharepoint ? Hitachi is joining the Game...

Another Player joined the game.
I don't want to go around the bush, so I will just say it. It's not ready.

Why ?

1. Broken links. How come ? its leaves a stub ( link ) to the archived file, but the link is not the same name of the file ( FILE_NAME.html )

2. You have to add an appliance, it's not only a software, so if you have a DR solution, you will have to buy two of those.

3.You can't crawl the document itself with the Moss search engine.
And some more issues. I can't find my notes from the meeting. I will update it soon.

Archive for Sharepoint ? Symantec Enterprise Vault... Round# 3

Finally. There is an archive product which is ready for archiving Moss.

Yes. They solved most of their issues. And I can proudly say that I saw this product developing progress since it early days.

Why it's ready ?
1. Supports Kerberos.
2. It is transperent to the end user. How come ? The list looks the same. The file name hasn't changed. It's only down sized to 1kb ( even less if you want to be accuarte ).
3. We can crawl it. Since they added the transperent mechanisim, the crawler just see it as regular file.
4. When you edit the file, or do any modification, or drag it to another list, it retreives it back from the repository to the list and bring it back to his original size.

Some small problems, that I still need to mention :
1. Doenst support item level premission ( but they have nice workaround ).
2. The policy mangement is not versital enough.
3. Not enough documentation. Capicity planning is not easy without it.

SPWeb.Users and SPWeb.SiteUsers are the same ?

Well no.

Sounds very close, but there is a difference.


SPWeb.Users - Property returns collection of user objects that are explicitly assigned permissions.


SPWeb.SiteUsers - Property returns collection of user objects that belong to site collection.