WebClient Services & OT-Enterprise Connect

Web Client Service:

Description: Web Client Service enables Windows-based programs to create, access, and modify Internet-based files. If this service is stopped, these functions will not be available. If this service is disabled, Enterprise Connect Services, which explicitly depends on it, will fail and documents will not open from Enterprise Connect.

Web Client Services should therefore always be in “Automatic” -> “Started” mode for Enterprise Connect to function properly and optimally.

Issue: Web Client in Stopping Mode in XP Machines Only

Resolution Steps:

IMPORTANT:  Follow the steps below exactly as they are spelled out, particularly steps 4 and 5.  One small misstep could severely compromise the user’s computer.

1. Start Task Manager (CTR +   alt + Delete) and click the “View” Tab; then select “Select Columns”.

2. Check PID (Process Identifier) box.  Hit OK.

3.Start Command Prompt (Start > Run) and type “CMD” and hit enter.  Then copy the command below in red, then right-click and paste it into the command window and press the enter key.

ttasklist /svc /fi "imagename eq svchost.exe". 

  

4. In the list that appears, check the PID number for the SVCHOST.exe (WebClient appears under the “Services” column).  Take special note of the PID code displayed next to “WebClient.”  In the screenshot below, the PID number is displayed as “1100,” but this number will be different on every computer.  Again, take special note of this number, because you will use it in the next step.

5.Open the task manager again (Ctrl + Alt + Delete) and find the SVChost.exe process with the same PID noted in step 4 (there will be several SVChost processes, so be sure to select the appropriate one).  Then kill it by clicking the “End Process” button.

  6.Next go to the Services page (right-click MyComputer > Manage > Services).  

   First under the “Actions” drop-down menu at the top of the page, hit “Refresh.”   Then browse to the “WebClient” Service under the “Name” column (the status should be blank).  Right-click this item and hit “Start” (or select the item and hit “Start” on the left-hand side of the page).

OpenText WebDav & IIS 7 WebDav Authoring

Hi:

If you are trying to set up your OTCS WebDav; after you run the installer for WebLink for the IIS WebServer to configure the local WebDav Directory over which your application will process the webdav requests, you will be prompted to Start the IIS WebDav Authoring over the application server.

WebDav Authoring can be added as a role over the IIS webserver.The WebDAV 7.0 and WebDAV 7.5 modules shipped out-of-band for IIS 7.0, which required downloading and installing the modules from the following URL:

Download the module from http://www.iis.net/expand/WebDAV.

Right click the installer and click "Install".Accept the terms and condition and click on Install.Once finished .

> Open Start, All Programs, Administrative Tools, Internet Information Services (IIS)                Manager.

> Navigate to the Default Web Site.
> Double click the WebDAV Authoring Rules.
> Select Enable WebDAV in the Actions pane.

Now to add the authoring rule, add the authoring rule as per your application design and requirement, for my case i added it as below, allowing access to specific content,all users and permission as Read & Source 

The Final step would be to configure the WebDav Settings.
For the application i work i have set it as in the screen-shot.

Cheers,
You are set to use WebDav  for your application.

OT Content Server 9.7.1's R&D With Vista\Win-7 & IIS 7

Some time back i was trying to do my own R&D over the personal lapi having Win 7 as OS HTTP server IIS 7 (Obvious :)) and wanted to see the Vanilla Open Text Content Server 9.7.1 deployment.

I came across few issue while doing so and wanted to post it if someone in actual is trying to implement it.

LL 9.7.1 vanilla installation din't give me and issue.Now when i was trying to configure the admin.index page after the installation..Oops i had faced few issue :(

These steps will explain a bit & resolve them:):).
Issue # 1: Error Summary

HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden

The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory.

Resolution:

We got to Enable directory browsing using IIS Manager.

1. Open IIS Manager. (run> inetmgr > Enter)
2. In the Features view, double-click Directory Browsing.
3. On the Directory Browsing page, in the Actions pane, click Enable

Reset IIS Server (run > iisreset).

Issue # 2:

The request was reaching till IIS level since i was able to get though directory browsing but when i tried to browse the "livelink.exe" file i was not able to reach the destination page i.e was not redirected.

After some troubleshooting i found ---ASP Was Not Installed on IIS 7.0

Now in order to get this set   

> Click Start, and then click Control Panel.

> In Control Panel, click Programs and Features, and then double click Turn Windows Features on or off.

> Expand Internet Information Services, --> World Wide Web Services, --> Application Development Features.

> Select ASP, and then click OK.

Issue # 3:

Now the next error which i encountered was of ISAPI & CGi restrictions.

Resolution :

> Open IIS manager and reach the top (root) level and select "Features View" and double click on "ISAPI and CGI Restrictions" and from the actions pane select "Edit Features Settings".

>Edit the ISAPI & CGI Restrictions Settings to allow the redirect of requests.

Issue # 4:
When i was trying to restart the livelink services i got to see some weird messages.

When your windows password changes you get such errors.

Go to your IIS manager and chage the password for your Livelink and Livelink Support virtual directories.

If you have selected the LL services to run for a particular domain account also restart the Livelink services.

While trying to do so I get error because of a change in windows password.
So we got to change the password for the Livelink Services too.

So finally after all these configurations
When i type : http:///livelink/livelink.exe?func=admin.index
I got to see the configuration page for my Livelink Vanilla Installation.

And eveyone who work on OT Content Server should must understand that we are done with our vanilla installation of CS 9.7.1 over our win7\vista operating system and web server as IIS 7.0.
Cheers!!!!

OpenText Content Server : Livelink WorkFlows

Recently i was visiting a page on SharePoint Vs Livelink workflows on

http://ecmthings.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/sharepoint-2007-workflow-wwf-vs-opentext-livelink-workflow/

And wanted to recorrect few things on CS Workflow capabilities though not going into much details of SharePoint WorkFlows, WWF and i liked the comments of "Anton" over the post

" If you are a consultant then you probably only see those who want a custom solution which is great for you and your continued employment. But you don’t see the thousands of people who are simply designing helpful workflows. It is also incorrect to say “there’s only very few of us in the country that are good with” Oscript. There are many independant consultants and Open Text partners who use it every day along with Open Text’s own Global Services organization. If you are really a professional programmer/consultant it is simply another scripting language to learn along with the Builder tool ".

Livelink goes deeper for a truely colloborative plateform of process\business management by handling the retention management process for documents and incorporating a seemless workflow approval chain along the organization tree completely automizing the Business Process and incorporating a true Collaboration.

 

Continuing the Development Languages and integretion ho-halla i would like to publish the capability OT has.
Open Text's solutions provide records and content life cycle management across multiple systems and applications, including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft SharePoint, e-mail, file systems, digital assets, and more.

Now coming to extending the LL (OT CS) Workflow capabilities --

Livelink Workflow Extensions Module is a compilation of commonly requested features for Livelink Workflow.

Upon module installation, the following new features is made available to Livelink users:

• Extended Variable Replacement Values for Workflow Email Process Step

• Workflow Monitor and Notifications etc

WebReports Extensions for Workflow from a firm "ResonateKT"  provides you still interesting features to dig out more.

I will be posting more and welcome your comments and feedback :)

Ad User Group & Sharepoint Groups..

Hi;
A small post for my self-appreciation over AD (Active Directory) users group and Sharepoint. Here is my link for one of user's help on Tech-Net.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/fea8f336-1c7b-4533-b6a6-e4d0b14119d7

There is two ways you can add users in SP.

1. Domain\Domain Users

2. NT Authority \Authenticated users : Includes all domains.

Windows SharePoint Services includes three groups by default

Owners (administrator)

Members (contributor) &

Visitors (reader).

Domain groups can be added to any of these three. Basically you need to add the AD group (local) to a SharePoint group.

MOSS Site settings >> People and Groups >> and click on >> "ADD Users".

If you have created sharepoint groups you have to take "Permissions' level into consideration. This link can give you some more help for Permission level consideration.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/8f8053d0-8572-4177-bbf6-2a98d6a85475/

For Groups and permissions levels please go through http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101032221033.aspx

Thanks,

My Threads Link On MSDN For Self-Help..

Mukesh Giri's threads
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/user/threads?user=Mukesh%20Giri
Hope few things can help others too on similar issues..
Cheers,
Mukesh Giri

SharePoint Designer 2007 Videos : A Learning Curve

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is utilised for creating and customizing SharePoint sites and customizing applications on the SharePoint platform.

Using Office SharePoint Designer 2007 efficiently, you can easily build sophisticated no-code solutions e.g :Reports,Data Views & workflows.

SharePoint Designer 2007 is now available as a free download. Link for free download try it out...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/bb190710

Introductory Video On SP Designer 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=0&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Customizing SharePoint Sites Video

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=1&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Creating & Modifying Layouts Pages

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=2&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Working with rule-Based Workflow Applications

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=3&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Building No-Code Sharepoint Applications

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=4&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Visual Studio Tight Integretion

http://office.microsoft.com/home/video.aspx?assetid=HX102200491033&width=0&height=0&startindex=5&CTT=11&Origin=HA102199841033

Feel free to post your question and comments if you require any help from my end in using SP-Designer 2007.

Cheers,

SharePoint Object Model : A Drill Down..

Hi:

I would be posting the code for basic and complete understanding of Sharepoint Object Model in detail..

Check out this place for code which i would be posting latter sometime.

Design view for the application i am gonna develope is shown.

Sharepoint 2007 ( MOSS ) Calender & Outlook

SharePoint 2007( MOSS ) has a two way sync with calendars in Outlook.So basically how to deal with its creation and synchronization ??

Steps :

Goto > Site Actions > Create > Tracking > Calender..

Once your calender is created to integrete it with Outlook.

Note : Upgrade to Outlook 2007 to get the full 2-way sync experience with MOSS ( SP 2007 ).

Goto > Lists > Actions > Connect to Outlook

Now your calender will be integreted with Outlook and you will find one more Calendeer tab in my case " Mukesh_Calender " with the list location been added to your outlook.

Cheers,

Synch Web Application : Failure

This is real pathetic to see such exception errors--

" Failure trying to synch web application "Some GUID" ContentDB "Some GUID" Exception message was Lock request time out period exceeded ".

Work-Around : Though you have to test it before implementing it in your production environment.

verify the number in cache.ini on all web-front ends in farm.

Ideally, different numbers indicate that the servers are not in sync.

Restting the password could solve your purpose.

Follow the KB article 934838 @

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934838

Also sometimes Reseting the file system cache could resolved many issues.

So stop the timer services

Stop this service by right clicking on it

%ALLUSERSPROFILE% \Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID

> Leave the cache.ini as it is.

> Delete all other files (all guid.xml)since they are timer jobs related.

> Open cache.ini in notepad and change the number to 0.

Now start the "Timer Services".

Check again the value in cache.ini for 

%ALLUSERSPROFILE% \Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID ; 

if it has changed to some other value then 0; your all web server has been synched with same timer job definitions.

Cheers

SSP -Shared Service Provider In MOSS 2007

In MOSS, it is mandatory for you to have a SSP-Shared Service Provider. This is a collection of application servers that provide shared services out to any portals or sites that need them.Services include-

Search

Index

Audience compilation

User profiles database

My Sites

Business Data Catalogue

Excel Services

The very first step towards the configuration of SSP would be

1.> "Configure server farm's shared services".

Clicking the link as shown in print-screen takes you to "Configure server farm's shared services"

Now you require to start the " Seacrh Services "
"Enable the Search and Indexing by clicking on the check boxes
Succes message will appear to show the succefull configuration of SSP-configuration. Cheers
If you have configured more then One SSP make the " You can have one amongst them as DEFAULT as per your requirement and understanding

Your SSP is configured.

Let me know for further details and any issues if you face.

Cheers,

References In : Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Hello:

To work with Sharepoint development you need to add references as when required. I am hereby detailing all standard Sharepoint references you might require to deveope your application.

Just go to add reference section of your Visual Studio ( in my case 2005 ) and say Add Reference and then Browse through all the .net references you need to add.

Lemme know if you require further help on each references in detail.

Cheers;

How To Check Visual Studio Version ?

Check the following registry key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\VS\Servicing\

Also follow these simple steps in your development environment..

Goto > Help > About Microsoft Visual Studio..

Food For Thought On:Moss 2007 SP2 Deployment

Hi:

Though you have a bug for SP2 deployment for MOSS 2007 which would be fixed by MS very soon; but how to deploy it for your Farm Installation?

Go to the links provided to download the release pack

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B&displaylang=en


When you see this message it means you have deployed WSS 3.0 SP2 and have started directly with MOSS 2007 Sp2 deployment.

When you see this message it means you have deployed WSS 3.0 SP2 and have started directly with MOSS 2007 Sp2 deployment.When you see this message it means you have deployed WSS 3.0 SP2 and have started directly with MOSS 2007 Sp2 deployment.When you see this message it means you have deployed WSS 3.0 SP2 and have started directly with MOSS 2007 Sp2 deployment.

Note:

How to Write Long String in Multiple Lines In c#

It is always good to have your big strings being splitted into multiple lines so that it is easy to read understand and give a professional llok of CODE.

e.g...

attachmentElement.InnerText = "Mukesh Kumar Giri is going to

show you how you can split your

big strings into small peices ";

You got have two ways to achieve it.

1.> attachmentElement.InnerText = " Mukesh Kumar Giri" +

"is going to show " +

" how you can split" +

"your big strings" +

"into small peices";

2.> attachmentElement.InnerText = @"Mukesh Kumar Giri is going to

show you how you can split your

big strings into small peices";

That is it.

Always prefer the former style as latter style does not move the next line to the starting of first line.

I had to try it while i was trying to insert multiple values in my XML and i had to struggle a lot to achieve it which does not have anything to do with XML.

Cheers,

Mukesh Giri

Understanding Setup Of MOSS 2007 Development Environment

I will be posting about my understanding which should be helpful for new users to understand the basics and the most important considerations to be taken into account to set up MOSS 2007 Dev. Environment. For convenience i will break the post into points to be considered and might delt with ease.

1.>Installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007)

1.A> Edition Selections

MOSS 2007 comes in two Editions, namely Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition.If you require features like e.g. Business Data Catalog, Excel Calculation Services, Forms Server 2007 etc during development, then simply use the Enterprise Key for installation of MOSS.

Which SharePoint technology is right for you? For complete reference use >

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/FX101758691033.aspx

1.B> Installation Style:

While installing of MOSS 2007 you opt for "Stand Alone" or "Complete" installation; either option will work but with "Complete", you can select the SQL SERVER to host your databases,

plus you can add other servers to the deployment.

2.> Virtualization in Development Environment:

Options available for virtualization like e.g VMware , Microsoft Hyper-V(comes with Windows Server 2008) , Microsoft Virtual Server , Microsoft VPC etc. for large organization, most likely you have to maintain several development environments so VIRTULIZATION comes handy.

3.> Development Framework: VS 2005/ 2008

Any flavor of VS could be used with the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1.These are the Visual Studio project templates for developing Web-parts, Site Definitions, and List Definitions. They also contain an application ,that generates MOSS 2007 solution file for you. These extensions can be downloaded from

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3E1DCCCD-1CCA-433A-BB4D-97B96BF7AB63&displaylang=en for VS 2005 &

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bf65b28-06e2-4e87-9bad-086e32185e68&displaylang=en for VS 2008.

4.>SharePoint Serve 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit

MOSS 2007 SDK, comes with a lot of samples which could be downloaded with folowing link.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en

Happy Reading and hope it creates your dev env up and running.

Cheers,

Mukesh Giri

Open Text CLM Services for SharePoint 10.1

I thought of publishing a littile bit about the

integretion as you hardly get any reference

googling for hours.

This blog deals with Open Text CLM Services for SharePoint 10.1.If you use the version LL9.7 ; Since this version is not supported anymore and you are just about to start with the product, I would propose to install the newest version 10.1.;You'll get some cool new features with the installation.

The concept which should be remembered here is..

> Install Open Text CLM Services for SharePoint.msi &

> Install CLMSP_10[1].1.0_WIN.exe

If you have already done the integretion you will face incompatibility error while adding and configuring Livelink Server from Sharepoint central Administration page.

So go to Livelink admin page and upgrade the existing integretion module. Then restart the Livelink admin services.

?func=admin.index and then goto upgrading section or directly type this URL after your Livelink Server value and upgrade the Module.

?func=admin.upgradeModule

Also if you get parsing error while adding server

> cmd > ping -a and enter the complete server name.

Then configure the storage provider and start using CLM services.

I will post few more finding very soon as the part-2 of this series.

Cheers,

Mukesh Giri