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Month: November 2010

SharePoint 2010 Farm Service Account passwords expired?!?!?!?

SharePoint 2010 Farm Service Account passwords expired?!?!?!?

Scenario: Managed service accounts passwords expired.  Access to part of Central Administration are no longer accessible.  Sites are starting to go down because app pool passwords are managed accounts and have expired. Soapbox moment: Firstly, there is NO real excuse for this in SharePoint 2010 because the ability to have this done automagically for you is BUILT-IN, so either your farm admin is so over taxed (usually the case) or incompetent (the two aren’t mutually exclusive).  I take the liberty…

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Random Server hang issues result in a required hard reset

Random Server hang issues result in a required hard reset

Symptom: Windows 2008 R2 64bit systems hang at random and require a hard reboot of the system to recover. You can remote to the system via KVM (RDP is not accessible) and even do a CTRL+ALT+DEL, but after the lock screen goes away and tries to give you a login screen… YOU GET NOTHING. Only silence… Root Cause: We ended up with a three headed root cause on this set of issues. 1.) Our blades had a bad BIOS version…

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Unable to access VMware Workstation Guest after Host Machine crash

Unable to access VMware Workstation Guest after Host Machine crash

Scenario: While doing SharePoint 2010 development is now able to be done from within a Windows 7 64bit system and even inside of a Hyper-V VM, many of us in the wide world of computing are still using VMware Workstation, Fusion, Player, or even the old VMware GSX Server to run local development environments.  This post deals with how to get back into a VM that seems horribly locked after your workstation hosting your VM crashes hard. Symptom: System crashed…

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Windows with Claims User gets access denied to a site they had access to earlier in the day

Windows with Claims User gets access denied to a site they had access to earlier in the day

Scenario: Small Farm 3 tiered topology using Windows with Claims implementation aggregating AD with a custom LDAP database to create the claims roles. Symptom: Users of a SharePoint 2010 site get access denied to a site they could access earlier in the day.  As the day goes on, the number of users effected increases.  Eventually only users with full control policies can access the farm. ULS Log error: An exception occurred in Custom Roles claim provider when calling SPClaimProvider.FillResolve(): The…

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