User Profile Application Proxy failed to retrieve partitions from User Profile Application: Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException: No User Profile Application available to service the request.

Jan 10, 2013 6:12 PM, - Posted by Tommy Segoro

INTRODUCTION

Following my other post about User Profile service instantiation, the service is now fully started but when I click on the User Profile Service Application link I get an error message straight away.

When I looked in the log I get the following:

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User Profile Application Proxy failed to retrieve partitions from User Profile Application: Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException: No User Profile Application available to service the request. Contact your farm administrator.     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplicationProxy.get_ApplicationProperties()     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplicationProxy.get_PartitionIDs()     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplicationProxy.IsAvailable(SPServiceContext serviceContext)

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RESOLUTION

Just do an IISRESET on the server and the problem will go away.

Cheers,

Tommy

Attaching SharePoint Portal Server (SPS 2003) Content Database to MOSS 2007 – error: pre-upgrade scan tool has not yet been run on this database SPContentDatabase

Jan 10, 2013 6:11 PM, - Posted by Tommy Segoro

INTRODUCTION

I’ve got an ugprade project from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS 2003) to SharePoint 2010. Looking at the articles on the Internet it seems that you can’t upgrade from SPS 2003 straight to 2010. You have to upgrade to 2007 first then 2010.

I decided to use the content database backup/restore/detach/attach approach.

When I tried to restore SPS 2003 content DB to MOSS 2007 I get the following error:

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error: pre-upgrade scan tool has not yet been run on this database SPContentDatabase

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After looking around in Google I came accross the following article:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joelo/archive/2007/05/01/your-friend-prescan-what-it-does-part-2.aspx

I haven’t run PRESCAN.EXE because the client has not had any TEST environment hence they wouldn’t want to take the risk of running PRESCAN.EXE.

The PRESCAN tool somehow updates the BitFlags column in Sites table to 262144.

SOLUTION

WARNING: Microsoft does NOT support updating records in SP database directly. Therefore do this at your own risk. For me it’s working very well and the method I suggested below works if you haven’t run PRESCAN.EXE.

It is highly recommended however that you run the PRESCAN tool first so you don’t have to fiddle around with my recommended solution below!

Run the following SQL statement:

UPDATE Sites SET BitFlags = 262144

That’s it!

Tommy

Service Applications Not Provisioning – User Profile Service Status Going Back to Starting

Jan 10, 2013 6:10 PM, - Posted by Tommy Segoro

INTRODUCTION

Everything was working fine only until recently where the User Profile Service status was going back to “Starting”. I then tried to delete the Service Application and start again but it failed. It popped-out with “Deleting” window but nothing happens.

I tried to provision a new Service Application and same. It opened the modal window but nothing happened.

I wait and wait and wait..the modal window was still there.

I look in Event Viewer – NOTHING.

In SharePoint logs I got bunch of these error messages

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01/27/2011 10:56:00.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C10 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {C10E192E-48AE-4894-970C-419DFF5BEBCE} e1addf21-07d2-42b8-b6c0-d4a9e4faa6c9

01/27/2011 10:56:00.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 71344b5d-5ce5-45ec-a342-c0753d3c6890

01/27/2011 10:56:00.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {E5A8B66A-8E77-4D70-9CEF-BDED793D9992} 71344b5d-5ce5-45ec-a342-c0753d3c6890

01/27/2011 10:56:11.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F4 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 328ca9f8-b5dd-48c9-a636-49c6480ed884

01/27/2011 10:56:11.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F4 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {8145D0E6-3343-446F-96FE-12D0F7D60F44} 328ca9f8-b5dd-48c9-a636-49c6480ed884

01/27/2011 10:56:14.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F8 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 1bfc2aab-9a80-4b7f-bdea-6fdc1f835cbe

01/27/2011 10:56:14.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F8 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {9FEC67F0-BBB6-42CF-8392-709561BA8B79} 1bfc2aab-9a80-4b7f-bdea-6fdc1f835cbe

01/27/2011 10:56:15.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0DE4 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 22502636-fdbd-4188-92b9-3a2b1afda0fa

01/27/2011 10:56:15.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0DE4 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {4F0CAA3B-986E-4177-95D3-BA4F72987A33} 22502636-fdbd-4188-92b9-3a2b1afda0fa

01/27/2011 10:56:16.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C10 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> ef5fff02-4240-4627-822f-4d3e243f030a

01/27/2011 10:56:16.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C10 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {7F455781-C720-4379-910C-E5A5AAA0F110} ef5fff02-4240-4627-822f-4d3e243f030a

01/27/2011 10:56:30.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 7ed267ea-ab6f-4c3b-8fe9-e6d954ee667a

01/27/2011 10:56:30.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {4F0CAA3B-986E-4177-95D3-BA4F72987A33} 7ed267ea-ab6f-4c3b-8fe9-e6d954ee667a

01/27/2011 10:56:35.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F4 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 28348254-d85f-48fa-9302-76b55e108cb0

01/27/2011 10:56:35.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F4 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {BE860398-C52F-448E-96E5-4A175F124A88} 28348254-d85f-48fa-9302-76b55e108cb0

01/27/2011 10:56:37.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F8 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 0af5c072-c9fe-4fdf-a97a-947ddf7cb34a

01/27/2011 10:56:37.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x07F8 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {DA969F44-03A0-4EE7-B40F-6CC1DB88B680} 0af5c072-c9fe-4fdf-a97a-947ddf7cb34a

01/27/2011 10:56:39.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0DE4 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> 1f9f9005-5639-47bf-88d5-bf07e9b43ac7

01/27/2011 10:56:39.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0DE4 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {784D9077-D1C4-4576-94AD-9BD964284006} 1f9f9005-5639-47bf-88d5-bf07e9b43ac7

01/27/2011 10:56:45.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C10 SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> ff8e5ec2-eb06-4c96-8144-305a7a8e68ff

01/27/2011 10:56:45.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C10 SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {4F0CAA3B-986E-4177-95D3-BA4F72987A33} ff8e5ec2-eb06-4c96-8144-305a7a8e68ff

01/27/2011 10:56:50.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          General                        8kh7 High     <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> e9ac1dd3-6dfa-441f-89df-3eb5ba870da0

01/27/2011 10:56:50.19  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0778)                    0x0C0C SharePoint Foundation          Timer                          5uuq Unexpected ERROR: Failed invoking job id {E823529E-671D-4F13-92F9-D516FBB888BF} e9ac1dd3-6dfa-441f-89df-3eb5ba870da0

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RESOLUTION

I’m not sure what caused it but I then tried to restart the SP Timer Service and it all worked now! The modal window is closed and the User Profile Service Application was stopped and deleted properly. The newly created Service Application was also created successfully.

Hope this helps,

Tommy

Nintex Workflow 2010 – SOAP Builder Error Upon Using Web Service Task

Jan 10, 2013 6:09 PM, - Posted by Tommy Segoro

INTRODUCTION

I personally like Nintex Workflow. I think it’s a great workflow and so much easier to use than the generic Visual Studio one. Anyway, one of the tasks that I can use is Web Service Call. Basically I can get result from a web service and save it to a workflow variable.

After I’m connected to the web service and select the method I want, when I tried to specify the input parameters, I get the following message:

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SOAP builder input form is only available for methods with primitive types as parameters. Please see your web service documentation for the format of the SOAP packet.

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While the method itself is only returning boolean and accepting an integer so I’m not sure why it’s not regarded as a primitive type.

RESOLUTION

Anyway, after 6 hours trying to find resolution I finally found that it has something to do with the .NET version of which the SVC was run with. I then switched the .NET version from 3.5 to 4 in IIS and it worked. When it works you are supposed to be able to enter input parameters as the SVC method input such as below:

Hope this helps,

Tommy

The Best SharePoint Issue Resolution Method

Jan 10, 2013 6:06 PM, - Posted by Tommy Segoro

Hi guys,

I thought I would share with you the best SharePoint resolution method that I have found so far. SharePoint is a great application however it somehow crashes and falls over by itself after few months of real use.

Generally the problem is always with the data. Once SP is handed over to general users (i.e. rolled-over to the rest of the company), it will be impossible for SP Administrators to monitor what data that has been uploaded into SharePoint. A lot of the times these data cause SP to fail.

I’ve had soooooooo many incidents where menu suddenly stops working. User suddenly gets javascript error. Viewing/editing properties of a list item/document is not working, etc etc etc.

The best way to resolve general SharePoint content/site issue is by backing up the content DB, delete the web application, re-create a blank web application then restore the DB. 99% of the time it has worked very well for me. The issues I mentioned above are always fixed by themselves…not sure how 🙂

Hope this helps,

Tommy