Alpesh Nakar – SharePoint Consultant's Blog

Situation

• New SharePoint deployment.
• Outsourced IT operations.

Problem

SharePoint alerts not working for users.

Cause

Outgoing email address is configured to support@serviceproviders.email. This mailbox is not configured on local SMTP server (Exchange 2003). Hence SharePoint cannot send email via Exchange as open relay is turned off; as it should be.

Solution

Outgoing email address should be configured to local.user@mycompany.com -an active local mailbox. Test that you can access local.user mailbox either through Outlook Web Access or Outlook client.

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3

Event Category: Database

Event ID: 5214

Date: 10/16/2008

Time: 8:43:58 AM

User: N/A

Computer: SHAREPOINTSERVER

Description:

Insufficient SQL database permissions for user ” in database

‘SharePoint_Config’ on SQL Server instance ‘SharePointDataBase’. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.

The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object

‘proc_putPendingDistributionList’, database ‘SharePoint_Config’, schema ‘dbo’.

This is a known issue and can be resolved with the August 2008 cumulative update.

1. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hot fix package  Read more... (104 words, 1 image, estimated 25 secs reading time)

Event Type: Error
Event Source: crypt32
Event Category: None
Event ID: 8
Date: date
Time: time
User: user name
Computer: computer name
Description:
Failed auto update retrieval of third-party root list sequence number from:

<http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootseq.txt> with error: The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://support.microsoft.com.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this behaviour, you must connect to the Internet or turn off the Update Root Certificates component. To turn off the Update Root Certificates component, follow these steps:

Are you seeing default.aspx after Pages in your SharePoint breadcrumb navigation?

I found a simple fix for this problem in MOSS, modify the master page.

Open the master page and look for PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb

Change SiteMapProvider="SPContentMapProvider" to

SiteMapProvider="CurrentNavSiteMapProviderNoEncode"

To quote from my reference

When you’re creating a new Page Layout, make sure you override the Title Breadcrumb with something that uses the CurrentNavSiteMapProviderNoEncode provider.

Heather Solomon has written a great post detailing the behaviour of out of the box page layouts breadcrumbs. She has also linked to other resources for how to modify and use the breadcrumb.

In our production setup, we experienced this issue when trying to access the Shared Service Provider Admin Web site. In a different environment, the SharePoint Configuration Wizard failed and it was same error that needed to be fixed.

Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    Office SharePoint Server
Event Category:    Office Server Shared Services
Event ID:    6482
Date:        26/02/2008
Time:        2:00:22 PM
User:        N/A
Computer:    xxxx
Description:
Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (03614600-d68b-43e2-9705-36d06c36b2f7).

Reason: Access to the path ‘C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS’ is denied.  Read more... (248 words, 1 image, estimated 60 secs reading time)