André Krijnen

Well it was the first time I did a deployment of WSS 3.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2 at a customer… the installation went very well I could say but yet I found out that I had a strange DCOM error. Not the DCOM error I would suspect…

Type: Error
Source: DCOM
Category: None
Event ID: 10016
Description:
The application-specific permissions settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1} to the user DomainName\UserName SID {61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1}. This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administration tool.

So after searching on BING.com I found out that this has the do with the DCOM IIS WAMReg admin service. Normally you would say that this has to do with the location activation of the DCOM service. But when I found out that the DCOM service couldn’t be changed I had to figure out that I had to change some settings. I knew that you can activitate the DCOM service, but Microsoft had to change this DCOM service with the new release of Windows Server 2008 R2. On BING I found out that someone had this error.

So check the blog of Wictor Wilen It saves you a lot of time to figure it out.

I discovered a problem with the My SharePoint-Sites. Someone at the company I work for discovered that he had alot of sites in his SharePoint-Sites webpart at his My Site. So that shouldn’t be a problem I thought. Well it was…

I deleted a subsite of our company intranet, because we decided that the site needed his own dns and database, because it was growing to large. After two weeks we found out that the SharePoint-Sites didn’t update and when we hitted on of these sites we got an error. So, I thought it was maybe a My Site related issue. I deleted his My Site, because it didn’t have alot of information on and added his My Site to new.

Still the same problems came forward, so I decided to hit google.com for it. Well maybe I didn’t seek good enough, but maybe it was related to the search engine. So I decided to reset all the crawled content. After an hour I checked back on the My Site, but still the same problem exists.

Allright, so I decided to look in the help of the stsadm utility. Things that could help I sought on google.com. Well after a couple of searches I found out the following command:

stsadm -o sync -deleteolddatabases 0

In the ssp database you have the table ’sitesynch’ and holds the information for all synchronized information over your SharePoint sites and My Sites. This article mentioned also that sometimes the synchronization table isn’t sychronized. Well after an hour I checked back at the My Site and saw that the SharePoint-Sites didn’t appear anymore.

The job related to this is the â œProfile Synchronizationâ timer job