Of Ones and Zeros » admin http://www.ofonesandzeros.com a discussion of software and technology hosted by bryan napier Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:14:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 IIS and Windows 2003 Mismatched Service Packs http://www.ofonesandzeros.com/2008/09/11/iis-and-windows-2003-mismatched-service-packs/ http://www.ofonesandzeros.com/2008/09/11/iis-and-windows-2003-mismatched-service-packs/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:00:23 +0000 admin http://blog.ofonesandzeros.com/2008/09/11/iis-and-windows-2003-mismatched-service-packs/ I have this nagging feeling that I have been down this road before, so I need to blog it so maybe, just maybe, I won’t waste another hour troubleshooting something I’ve done before.

Scenario:

You browse to Central Admin, or any Site Collection really, and you are prompted incessantly for  your user credentials.  After about 5-8 times, the page comes up.  You are NOT presented with a Forbidden message.

You check your IIS log files, and you see several 401 errors for WebResource.axd.

You remember something about installing SP2 when IIS wasn’t on the box, then installing IIS from a source that did not have the Service Pack slipstreamed.  Hmmm.  Might be relevant.

Solution:

Explained thoroughly by Paul Culmsee on his blog www.cleverworkarounds.com, http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/11/15/darn-iis-and-service-packs/.  If it wasn’t foreshadowed by the last sentence of the Scenario, reinstalling Windows Server 2003 SP2 was the solution.

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888

]]> http://www.ofonesandzeros.com/2008/03/04/internet-explorer-ie-crashing-accessing-sharepoint-lists/feed/ 1 Import Spreadsheet – "Cannot connect to the server at this time." http://www.ofonesandzeros.com/2008/03/04/import-spreadsheet-cannot-connect-to-the-server-at-this-time/ http://www.ofonesandzeros.com/2008/03/04/import-spreadsheet-cannot-connect-to-the-server-at-this-time/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:31:32 +0000 admin http://blog.ofonesandzeros.com/2008/03/04/import-spreadsheet-cannot-connect-to-the-server-at-this-time/ Ran into an issue today with trying to import an Excel 2003 spreadsheet into a SharePoint list.  SharePoint would load Excel, then you select the cells in Excel that you want to import, you click Import and Excel responds with "Cannot connect to the server at this time."  After a long while searching for a solution, I came across the following link:

WSS FAQ – I cannot import from Excel 2003 to WSS. What’s…

Basically the solution was 2 workarounds:

a.) Import the spreadsheet into a root site, then create a list template and use that to create the list within a subsite.

or

b.) Use Excel’s List Publishing feature to publish directly to the subsite.

I tested both options and they each worked equally well, I ultimately went with option B as it seemed a cleaner solution.

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