The secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate sent by the server was invalid and this item will not be crawled

On starting the full crawl of the default content source I received the  error. “The secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate sent by the server was invalid and this item will not be crawled”

It was because one of the site was SSL enabled. 

Solved it in the following manner,
1. Navigate to Central Administration.

2. Go to Application Management > Manage Service Applications and click on your Search Service.

3. In the left Navigation, click on “Farm Search Administration”

4. Under the Farm-Level Search Settings, click on Ignore SSL warnings status “NO” (by default is No). Select the Ignore SSL certificate name warnings check box if you want to trust that sites are legitimate even if their certificate names are not exact matches

  

5. Restart Incremental or full crawl as needed.

OneNote Sync Error Code: 0xE4020005

We were noticing OneNote Sync issues with SharePoint 2010 and below workaround worked for us,

1. Right-click section in question, Move or Copy...

2. Select another Notebook beside the one it resides in, Move.

3. Sync the changes.

4. Move the section back to the desired Notebook.

5. Sync the changes.

Step-By-Step Provisioning the Web Analytics Service Application on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1

Web Analytics Service is a service application in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 that you can use to perform site usage statistics and reporting within a browser.

Provisioning the Web Analytics Service Application
Navigate to CA àManage Service Application

Click new and chhose "Web Analytics Service Application"

Specify the name for the Service Application. Choose or create new application pool.

Specify the default database for the SharePoint farm and provide the Staging and Reporting database name. You can also specify the Retention period.

Once Service application is created you can start the Web Analytics Data Processing Service and Web Analytics Service.

Services running on each server in a three tier SharePoint 2010 Farm

Last week I installed and configured SharePoint 2010 SP1 and not sure to enable which service in the farm. There is nothing right or wrong with the service configuration setup, so I decided to blog the list of services that I enabled in my SharePoint farm environment.

Front End Servers,

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Incoming E-Mail

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application

Search Query and Site Settings Service

SharePoint Server Search Service

Application Servers,

Access Database Service

Application Registry Service

Business Data Connectivity Service

Central Administration

Claims to Windows Token Service

Document Conversions Launcher Service

Document Conversions Load Balancer Service

Excel Calculation Services

Lotus Notes Connector

Managed Metadata Web Service

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service

PerformancePoint Service

PowerPoint Service

Search Query and Site Settings Service

Secure Store Service

SharePoint Foundation Search

SharePoint Server Search

User Profile Service

User Profile Synchronization Service

Visio Graphics Service

Web Analytics Data Processing Service

Web Analytics Web Service

Word Automation Services

Word Viewing Service

I am sure that others may have different ideas on the service configuration and I would welcome any inputs/thoughts through comments

There were problems searching audience, please contact the system administrator

In SharePoint 2010, when I tried to add/set Audience to the Navigation links, I kept getting the below error,

There were problems searching audience, please contact the system administrator

After spending some time in trouble shooting I noticed “User Profile Service Application Proxy” is not associated with the web application

Followed below steps to fix the issue,
Navigate to CA àManage Web Application
Select  “Web Application” that you are noticing the issues with the audiences.
In the Ribbon, Under Manage section click on “Service Connections”
Make sure that “User Profile Service Application Proxy” is checked by selecting custom.

After the above configuration step error disappeared and I was able to set the audiences to the Navigation links.

Install PDF iFilter for SharePoint 2010

I installed and configured SharePoint 2010 farm  along with Search Service. One day I tried to search for a content within the PDF file, no results were found and I am pretty sure I have the PDF file in the SharePoint . After reviewing my installation notes I found out that I had not installed PDF iFilter, so I thought to document the steps so that it can be helpful for some one.

Note: PDF iFilter has to be installed on all the machines in the Server

1) Install PDF iFilter 9.0 (64 bit) from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 


2) Download PDF icon picture from Adobe web site http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html  and copy to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\ 

3) Add the following entry in docIcon.xml file, which can be found at: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML
      <Mapping Key="pdf" Value="pdficon.gif" />  within <ByExtension> tags

4) Navigate to CA àManage Service Application à Search Service Application, Add pdf file type on the File Type page
5) Open regedit

6) Navigate to the following location:
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension

Right-click > Click New > Key to create a new key for .pdf

7)  Add the following GUID in the default value
{E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}
Note: Make sure to remove any space after the value. 

8) Restart the SharePoint Server Search 14

9) Reboot the SharePoint Server

10) Perform FULL crawl to get search results

Now I am able to retrieve the PDF document in my search results.

Saving a default document in SharePoint 2010 document library

When we create a new document (ex: Word Document) in SharePoint 2010 document library, while saving the document you will notice the following dialog box,

Which means that the document is going to be saved on your local hard drive and not on the SharePoint site.

This issue seems to be by design in SharePoint 2010 when you do not have content type associated with the Document Library, but this behavior is not reproducible if we have a custom content type associated to the Document library.

Workaround fix:
Open Microsoft Word, click on File -> Options

Click on Trust Center in the dialog that opens

Next Click on Trust Center Settings

In Trust Center Settings  click Protected View tab and uncheck Enable Protected view for files located in potentially unsafe locations as shown below.

Click on OK to close the open dialogs and close Microsoft Word.