Monday, June 16, 2008

HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close Date: GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET ...

After deleting my My Site in QA I couldn't recreate it. I kept getting "HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:31:42 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET ..." error.
How I fixed this was going to the User Profiles and Properties page of the SSP and removed /personal/002733/ from my Personal Site: field. Then I recreated the My Site and it worked.

Site Collection Polices - Access denied

When trying to get to Site Collection - Policies I was receiving an access denied error. Double checking the portal sites everything was fine. Went to Authentication Providers under Application Management within the Central Administration and enabled client integration for the My Site web app and no more access denied errors.

Site Aggregator webpart not working correctly

Adding a site to a Site Aggregator webpart displays "Page not found" The primary problem is that by default the Site Aggregator adds “/_layouts/MyInfo.aspx"
I fixed this within my My Site by going to “Modify Shared Web Part” from the drop down arrow in the top right corner of the web part. This takes you into Edit Mode and gives you some settings for the Site Aggregator. Navigate to “URL” and you’ll see a field titled “URL to append to site” which is set to “/_layouts/MyInfo.aspx” by default. I deleted this text and now my site aggregator web part works correctly.
While adding to your My Links from the Portal or HR portal and error would popup stating 409 Conflict error. I modified the Alternate Access Mappings to point to http for the default and https for Intranet. This seemed to resolve the issue.

Thanks to one of my Colleague for this one. Discussing with him helped me research why it worked from the Groups site and not from the others

Changing My Site theme error

When trying to change my theme within my Mysite, I received an error.

What happened was we added blocked file types to our MySite webapp. We used the same list that is being used for Outlook. One of the file types was inf. The themes file is a .inf file. So once we removed we could now change/modify our themes.

Restore a site from test to prd

When restoring a site to another environment you need to first create a site with the same template the site was originally created it.

Once you have a site created you can use stsadm -o import
-url http://url -filename c:\Location of File

When importing a site that has the publishing feature enabled at the SC level you must first activate the feature and then do the import.

If not you will see an error stating "Warning: The Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature must be activated at the site collection level before the Publishing feature can be activated.Progress: Importing Feature PublishingWeb"