SharePoint

If you find a lot of DCOM errors with event ID 10016 in your application server role, this may be due to Windows Server 2008 R2. Here’s how to resolve these isuses On the failing server open Server Manager, and under Roles select Application server. You will most probably find quite a lot of DCOM [...]

If you run into this problem and you’ve checked that your Webclient service is running on your computer, there may be chance that the server running SharePoint has basic authentication enabled. There is a fix for this that needs to be installed locally. You can find the explanation and fix here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841215 Update: If you [...]

If you run into this problem and you’ve checked that your Webclient service is running on your computer, there may be chance that the server running SharePoint has basic authentication enabled. There is a fix for this that needs to be installed locally. You can find the explanation and fix here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841215

Not directly related to SharePoint, but since SP2010 is hosted on Win2008 I’d say this would come in handy to SP admins. I ran into an issue a while ago where the server would become unresponsive after applying Windows updates. It would finish installing updates, and after restart it would just hang in step 3 [...]

If you’ve been surprised when opening a DataSheet view in SharePoint by receiving a message like the one below: (Below also message in Slovene for my Slovene-SharePoint-using-friends) Then you’re missing something. The same as me. The support article from Microsoft (located here) explains that we need to do one of the following: Don’t use 64-bit [...]

If you’re having trouble with editing Office documents from SharePoint in Windows 7 or Vista, here’s one reason and fix: Reasons (besides Windows7 and Vista): WebClient service not started SharePoint domain has dots (.) in the name Your IE is trying to resolve LAN/Proxy settings Solution Important! Part of solution is also modifying your registry. [...]