April 2014 cumulative update packages

April 2014 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Foundation 2013 and SharePoint Server 2013 have been released

April 2014 CU for SharePoint Foundation 2013 - KB 2863892

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2863892

April 2014 CU for SharePoint Server 2013 - KB 2878240

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878240

Access Denied when we start SharePoint 2010 approval workflow

Error:

Access Denied when we start SharePoint 2010 approval workflow

Troubleshooting:

• From the workflow reports I found an error  -" The workflow could not update the item, possibly because one or more columns for the item require a different type of information."
• Created a test list without content 
• Got the same error on all ootb approval workflow
• Disabled content approval on the list, still got the same issue
• During troubleshooting found – "Update the approval status after the workflow is completed (use this workflow to control content approval)" enabled on the workflow
• First disabled it on test workflow as we already have content approval enabled for the list
• Checked workflow behavior
• It worked successfully, so chnaged and applied the same settings to prod workflow
• Once all testing done successfully on test list, implemented the same settings to actual list 

Solution and Cause:

• "Update the approval status after the workflow is completed (use this workflow to control content approval)" enabled on the workflow
• Workflows started working by removing check box option from this option

SharePoint 2010 awesome resources

You might need to practice SharePoint 2010 a lot more but unavailability of such high configuration is common and you might need all the funds to invest for such machines but as many many people listed online and as MS did a great job in getting us the virtual labs available to us. 

I saw this MSDN blog online and thought that the publisher Eric Lingman did a great job in putting up the links in here. 

Reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/03/13/sharepoint-server-2010-msdn-virtual-labs-available-to-you-online-plus-more-sharepoint-2010-resources.aspx  

SharePoint Server 2010 Virtual Labs

• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Introduction
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Getting Started with SharePoint 2010
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint 2010 User Interface Advancements
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010 Connectors & Using the Business Data Connectivity (BDC) Service
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Advanced Search Security
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Configuring Search UIs
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Content Processing and Property Extraction
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Developing a Custom Connector
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Fast Search Web Crawler
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Federated Search
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Linguistics
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: People Search Administration and Management
• MSDN Virtual Lab: SharePoint Server 2010: Relevancy and Ranking
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Customizing MySites
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Designing Lists and Schemas
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing a BCS External Content Type with Visual Studio 2010
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing a Sandboxed Solution with Web Parts
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing a Visual Web Part in Visual Studio 2010
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Developing Business Intelligence Applications
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Enterprise Content Management
• MSDN Virtual Lab: LINQ to SharePoint 2010
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Visual Studio SharePoint Tools
• MSDN Virtual Lab: Workflow

In addition to the SharePoint Server 2010 Virtual Labs, here are a few other SharePoint 2010 resources that I thought you might also be interested in:

• Technical reference for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
• SharePoint 2010: IT Pro Evaluation Guide
• Connecting SharePoint 2010 to Line-of-Business Systems to Deliver Business-Critical Solutions
• Configure SharePoint Server 2010 as a Single Server with Microsoft SQL Server: Test Lab Guide
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies 2010
• Deploying FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
• FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Add or Remove an Index Column
• Upgrade worksheet for SharePoint Server 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
• Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Technical Library in Compiled Help format
• Microsoft Reseller partner Learning Path
• Microsoft solutions partners and ISVs Learning Path
• Microsoft partner Practice Accelerator for SharePoint
• Microsoft partner SharePoint 2010 Internal Use Licenses
• SharePoint Case Studies
• SharePoint MSDN Forums
• SharePoint TechNet Forums
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010 page on Microsoft Partner Network portal

Lets learn all we can for free … happy learning.

InfoPath 2010 gives "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program. "

Yesterday we had an issue reported by a few users that the InfoPath form library would just not open on a few desktops only, for the sake of information all other users and the effected ones were using IE 8 and InfoPath 2010. There was no difference in the environments.

What would happen is if you open a form from a Sharepoint library it would download in infopath and throw an error message as "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program. " and give you a close this program button.

We started troubleshooting

• We checked for the IE 32 and 64 bit then recent patch installed.

According to a lot of links in internet they recommend KB2760406 and http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-infopath/kb2760406-infopath-error-after-update/58631190-8bc1-401a-921c-b6351474350b but this patch wasn’t installed on our clients machine.

• Checked the event viewer and got the error as
• Faulting Module Name: IPEDITOR.DLL version14.0.7010.1000

We also doubted the IPEDITOR.DLL to run a repair by running SFC / Scannow that did not help.

• Finally we found the KB 2817603

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2817603/ )

Query parameters are lost when you open a new form in InfoPath 2010

Although we did not have the KB 2553210 which causes this issue we were still able to resolve the issue.

This resolution seems like a mystery to me but has saved our lifes, posting it so you guys can use it and also make me understand if possible why did this work J

Avepoint DocAve 6

We have recently started working on Avepoint DocAve with our Sharepoint and as we are getting to know this tool better the more easier Sharepoint sites management seems.

I wanted to write a post about DocAve which I will do soon but for now I want to share this amazing youtube video by BCW for an Idea what doc ave is and what does it do.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXnuVJD6aVE