Monthly Archives: September 2010

Access Denied! Only site admin can access Data Source object from user profile DB.

Read http://www.raregrooverider.com/post/2008/03/12/Office-SharePoint-Server-Error-Event-ID-7888.aspx to fix the problem below. Event ID 7888 Event Type: Error Event Source: Office SharePoint Server Event Category: Office Server General Event ID: 7888 Description: A runtime exception was detected. Details follow. Message: Access Denied! Only site admin can access Data Source object from user profile DB. Technical Details: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access Denied! OnlyContinue reading “Access Denied! Only site admin can access Data Source object from user profile DB.”

#MOSS 2007 Farm Restore (flag new) SSP login bug

I  had several MOSS 2007 Farm restorations in my test environments. Each time after a restoration SharePoint’CPU goes up to 100% and a lot of errors (6483, 6398, 7076) appear in the Application event log. The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerAdministrationServiceJob (ID 538459ed-46a7-47e5-ba80-2a7120c36336) threw an exception. More information is included below. Value cannot beContinue reading “#MOSS 2007 Farm Restore (flag new) SSP login bug”

#PowerShell Timing How Long it Takes a Script to Run

If you’ve ever wondered how long it takes to perform a specific task then the Measure-Command cmdlet is exactly what you’ve been looking for: it enables you to measure the running time of a command or script down to the millisecond. Measure-Command {Get-Service | Export-Clixml c:\scripts\test.xml} When you run this command, service information will be savedContinue reading “#PowerShell Timing How Long it Takes a Script to Run”

Acceptance Test Rule #1

Implementation/Script of the Acceptance Test (AT) should not rely on a particular Virtualization Technology! It is simple to understand that AT should be easy pointed to a different Virtual Machine. Also you should have an ability to switch between Virtualization Technologies (e.g. VMWare ESXi, MSFT Hyper-V) w/o changing AT’s implementation/Script.

#PowerShell#SharePoint HOWTO reassociate the service applications with the default proxy group

It looks like a bug in SharePoint 2010. After the restore happens you must start the services on the proper servers in the farm and you must also reassociate the service applications with a proxy group (usually default proxy group). Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy | % {Add-SPServiceApplicationProxyGroupMember (Get-SPServiceApplicationProxyGroup -default) -Member $_}