Reporting Service add-in for Sharepoint 3.0 & MOSS 2007

I’ve had a couple requests to see how the reporting service add-in for SharePoint looks like on my site. My purpose of merging the two is to allow our customers to view there current and past bug reports they had submitted to our company. I built a report to show the status of there ticket and all the notes that have been recorded on the ticket. The database that the report is quarrying is SQL and the bug tracking system we are using is TestTrack Pro. We had to convert the TestTrack Pro database to SQL from its Native database to allow for reporting. The reporting service add-in allows you to upload a report to any document library. The permissions for that report are managed by whatever permissions you define in SharePoint. Please note that the user must have sufficient permissions in the SQL database you are quarrying to allow for report viewing. The add-in also comes with a report web part which allows you to define perimeters. In my case i used the company name to allow the one report with all of our customers to be narrowed down to the specific company for report viewing on there site specific web page. If you have any questions please leave a comment.

- Kevin C -

Delete Orphaned Sites in SharePoint

So I ran into an issue the other day with deleting a SharePoint site. I needed to delete a site and re-create it because of our migration. To do this I went to Site Setting on the specific site and deleted it from the web browser. I have done this before with this site because I needed to practice the migration, no issues before. This time although the server was moving slow, and because of this it just continued to try and delete the site with no confirmation page that it was successful. The page was gone so I thought all was well. This was until I saw errors coming from the server logs relating to the page I had deleted! I looked in the Central Administration page to check the site list, the site was still there! I clicked to delete the site from the Central Administration page but it would not work, no option to delete. I then tried to delete the site with STSADM.EXE but I got this error with both stsadm.exe -o deletesite and stsadm.exe -o deleteweb: The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070003). I searched this error on the internet and found a solution which did finally work.

Go here for the Microsoft solution: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;918744

I did the following.

Step 1: I opened a Command Prompt and went to this directory: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN

I typed in the following to list the orphaned sites:
stsadm -o databaserepair -url http://URLofWindowsSharePointServicesSite -databasename DatabaseName

I then typed the following to delete the orphaned sites:
stsadm -o databaserepair -url http://URLofWindowsSharePointServicesSite -databasename DatabaseName -deletecorruption

This didn’t harm anything but didn’t seem to do anything either. Since I did preform this step I cannot say it didn’t help and I can’t say it did, so i would do it just in case.

Step 2: This was the final step that did fix the issue. Remove and then reattach the content databases on the virtual server. I am quoting this from Microsoft:

1. Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint Central Administration.

2. Under Virtual Server Configuration on the Windows SharePoint Services Central Administration page, click Configure virtual server settings.

3. Click the virtual server that you want to configure, and then click Manage content databases under Virtual Server Management on the Virtual Server Settings page.

4. On the Manage Content Databases page, click the content database that you want to remove.

5. On the Manage Content Database Settings page, note the following settings:
• The database server
• The database name
• The database capacity settings

6. Click to select the Remove content database check box, and then click OK. When you are prompted to confirm that you want to remove the content database, click OK.

7. Click OK.

8. On the Manage Content Databases page, click Add a content database.

9. On the Add a Content Database page, specify the database server, the database name, and the database capacity settings. Then, click OK.

I hope this helps. It worked for me. The sites were gone completely and I was able to create the new site with the old name.

- Kevin C -

Thanks for Blogging

So I have come to the conclusion that tech blogs are golden as far as tech references are concerned. I defiantly use technical articles from software companies but I rarely find my answers from the company’s themselves. I think that the tech community is an invaluable source. There are thousands of blogs from tech professions in the field sharing experiences, and I have to say THANK YOU to all of them, they have saved my butt more times then i can remember.

Report Server Error using SSL

I installed reporting services on a website when it was not setup with SSL to start. We had the security certificate so I setup report services for SSL but once I did this report manager stopped working. The error i received was this: The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized. I could still hit report server and view reports but i could not reach reports (Report Manager). After some research I found a Microsoft fix. It will require adding an entry into the registry. Well worth the time. It will not hurt anything (not that i know of anyway) to add the value. Once added I was able to get to the report manager on SSL.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;896861

This is the method that fixed my issue.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
3. Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
7. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer or just restart IIS

- Kevin C -

Joost Self-Invite

You can now invite yourself to Joost if you don’t have an account yet!

Follow this link: https://joost.com/presents/gigaom-newteevee/

Please note that Joost is seeming to have traffic issues today and some requests are not going though. I got an error 500 message about 5 times before seeing the invites page.

- Kevin C -