My SharePoint Adventures

Save document library as template option not available

Andrew Toh — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:16:29 +0000

Problem

The Save Document Library as Template option is not available on the default Documents library that gets created by the site publishing feature.

Cause

This is a known issue in SP 2010 and a work-around has been provided.

Work-around

Open the document library -> Library Settings

On your address bar, change the link from [...]

Short break

Andrew Toh — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:10:23 +0000

Hello everyone,

I have just started a new job in another company and will try to continue post my adventures with SharePoint in the near future so stay tuned.

Andrew

Speed up SharePoint using the IIS Blobcache

Andrew Toh — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:19:25 +0000

Requirement

You can turn on the disk-based caching feature in IIS for your SharePoint sites. By default, this stores picture, video, and audio files on disk so that the files do not need to be retrieved again from the SQL server. This can greatly improve the end-user experience as large files are retrieved much faster. [...]

Could not generate mail report.An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch.No global profile is configured. Specify a profile name in the @profile_name parameter.

Andrew Toh — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:55:08 +0000

Problem

You configure SQL Server Maintenance Plan and set it to e-mail you when the job is complete. When you check the job history, you notice that it fails to send the e-mail and the following message is logged:

Could not generate mail report.An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch.No global profile [...]

Microsoft SharePoint is not supported with version 4.0.30319.296 of the Microsoft .Net Runtime.

Andrew Toh — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:04:55 +0000

Problem

You try to configure SharePoint Diagnostic Studio for SharePoint 2010 and get the following error:

Microsoft SharePoint is not supported with version 4.0.30319.296 of the Microsoft .Net Runtime.

Solution

This occurs when you have Microsoft Windows Management Framework 3.0 (KB2506143) installed on your SharePoint server.

Note that if you installed this update, SharePoint 2010 [...]