Ivan Versluis June 4th, 2008
For weeks my local Infopath 2007 installation failed to open forms located on SPS server. See warning below.
InfoPath cannot open the following file: http://sharepoint/ChangeMgmt/Forms/abc.xml InfoPath cannot open the form. To fix the problem, contact your system administrator.
Form template: http://sharepoint/ChangeMgmt/Forms/solution.xsn. There is an error in the form’s cache. To correct the error, open the form again.
This was my solution is solving the problem. Before you start clean the Internet Explorer Cache!
For Windows Vista
- Locate C:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\InfoPath\FormCache2 and delete complete folder. If this fails than rename the subfolders to something else like abc and try again. I got a warning and the action failed if I did not rename the folder.
- Run C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12>INFOPATH.EXE /cache clearall
For Windows 2000/XP
- Locate C:\Documents and Settings\%Username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\InfoPath\FormCache2 and delete the folder.
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12>INFOPATH.EXE /cache clearall
After these steps my Infopath forms opened again 
Tags: 2007, cache, Error, form, howto, infopath, office, solution, warning
Ivan Versluis May 14th, 2008
I tried to install Windows Server 2008 x64 on one of my Dell PowerEdge 2900 servers, because the storage driver was failing for x64 bit OS installations of Windows I was forced to install Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x86. The server is up and running and I installed Virtual Server 2005R2 SP1 Enterprise. Through the SCVMM console I initiated the Add Host of this new Windows server. The job failed with message the server did have the WS-Management service installed.
I did not install the WS-Management service before and I found somewhere to install the Hardware Management option in Add/Remove Windows Components to get this working.
Than I retried to add the server as host in SCVMM but the installation stopped with the message below.
Error (421) Agent installation failed on ref-vmh-02 because of a WS-Management configuration error.
I reboot the server couple of times; reviewed the eventlog and nothing worked to get the Virtual Machine Manager 2007 agent installed. There is hotfix which you can use and install the WinRM component manually without control panel. Go here and download and install the fix http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=84599. This fixed my problem and errors 10101 WinRM in the application eventlog.
Tags: 2007, add, new host, scvmm, WS-Management
Ivan Versluis April 27th, 2008
After fixing my Active Directory I start the upgrade of my current Exchange 2007 server. As you will see from the screenshots below the installation is straight forward but the requirements are killing me with this service pack upgrade. First of all make sure a) your Active Directory replication is working properly, b) Exchange 2007 server has been installed with Windows Server 2003 SP2 and c) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 has been installed. To complete these requirements as posted before I was forced to remove one of my domain controllers running in a virtual machine with dcpromo /forceremoval and metadata cleanup; this box did not replicate for three months.
You can also upgrade from command line. I used gui mode to illustrate the process.
Setup.com /mode:upgrade
Check the hyperlink at Technet for all updates within SP1 What’s New in Exchange Server 2007 SP1. I like to integration with Windows Server 2008 and Exchange 2007 Sp1, Exchange Management console updates and the OWA premium changes.
Tags: 2007, exchange, sp1, upgrade
Ivan Versluis April 14th, 2008
Microsoft Office 2007 has a free PDF or XPS converter which is available for download from the Microsoft’s website and easy to install. No need for additional PDF printer/converter; just install and convert any of your documents into these two popular document formats.
Download SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe from here.
Run SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe and accept the Software Terms. Click Continue…
Click Office button; save as and choose PDF or XPS
That’s all and for free. If you put the SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe in the installation folder named “Updates” than it will automatically be installed as part of the installation routine. As far I remember Microsoft was not allowed to have this included by default and we as users are forced to first download the binaries from the internet.
Tags: 2007, free, office, pdf
Ivan Versluis March 27th, 2008
Are you looking how to share your calendar with co-workers, customers or any other email contacts who are not sitting in your Exchange organization? Today I shared my Outlook 2007 calendar which is sitting on a Exchange server with Microsoft’s Outlook Calendar Sharing Service.
The published calendar is based on the iCalendar exchange standard which is defined in RFC 2445. I love the Mircosoft’s integration and smooth registration on the internet. Check out my howto to configure this with your own Outlook 2007 calendar.
Tags: 2007, 2445, calendar, ical, office, outlook, publish, rfc, share
Ivan Versluis February 6th, 2008
Since ActiveSync role was published in ISA 2006 to my Exchange Server 2007 my Samsung i600 Windows Mobile 6 client start complaining with the warning message below.
"Your account in Microsoft Exchange Server does not have permission to synchronize with your current settings. Contact your Exchange Server administrator.
Support code: 0×85010004"
Before it was published with NAT and I have never seen this warning. I was not able to sync the mobile device anymore.
To fix this problem locate the Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync virtual directory in IIS MMC and uncheck Require secure channel (SSL) checkbox. Restart IIS.
This fixed my problem. Make sure you configure the internal SSL bridge to encrypt the data behind your ISA firewall. The communication between ISA and Exchange 2007 is not encrypted which is fine for lab, but for production generate a computer certificate on both ends for encrypted communication.
Tags: 0x85010004, 2006, 2007, exchange, isa
Ivan Versluis January 23rd, 2008
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is out for a while and I have been testing this product for two months now.
If you manually install SCVMM 2007 than Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Server Setup wizard may stop just before the installation is finished. I have also seen errors within the available SCVMM 2007VHD appliance from Microsoft’s website. Jobs are failing and Manager complaining about network paths incorrect.
Main reason why the setup fails is that the computername contains ‘-’ . For example I named the server REF-SCVMM-01 and the setup failed with error id 2917.
The network path was not found on the REF-SCVMM-01. Ensure that the share name provided maps to a valid local path, and then try the operation again. ID: 2917. Details: The network path was not found.
In the background PowerShell is not able to get the computername variable correct within the scripts it uses. In my case I renamed the computername to REF_SCVMM_01 and setup finished successfully.
Tags: 2007, 2917, Error, network path, Powershell, scvmm
Ivan Versluis January 17th, 2008
After you deploy the DPM agent on a Windows Server 2003 and you try to create new protection group the wizard may come back with the following error message.
Make sure you read the following Knowledge Base article 940349 and install the VSS patch.
Tags: 2007, 31008, DPM, Error, prerequisite
