Thursday, January 03, 2008

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: OSearch (SPSearchAcct)

Setting up SharePoint? Accounts need their domain.
I have been meaning to post this forever and keep forgetting. A very common issue I am seeing people have when setting up and configuring SharePoint is the way they are specifying account names. You must always specify domain\username. Even though SharePoint will never tell you this is the problem it is. Many users are tempted to just type in username for a service and then the password then they are greeted with a random/cryptic error message. After about an hour (or a day of reinstalling) they realize it was because they forgot to specify the domain name.

I will attempt to compile a list of error messages that have been caused by this issue and post them here. If you have one please post it in the comments and I will update the post. Thanks

Sample Error:

An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: OSearch (SPSearchAcct)

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

SSIS training at Sandejord, Norway

Last week (09/12/2007) I traveled to Norway for a SSIS training for my customer SPN(System Partner Norge). Hasith yaggahawita one of my company mate also joined with me for this visit. We flew to Frankfurt, Germany and then using a Scandinavian air lines we landed to Oslo. It was a quite large air travel. This was my first visit to Norway and winter is beginning there. It was quite cold and temperature was around -10 Celsius.

We then traveled to Sandefjord by the train. It was a two hours journey and Sandefjord is very beautiful and quite. there are no big building and looks like a village.

SPN outside view



The apartment we lodged was beautiful and near to the railway station. SPN is 15 minutes from the apartment.

My Apartment





From Monday to Friday I had conducted the SSIS training for SPN employees and last day(Friday) We had the Christmas part which was organized in the Ferry to Sweden. This was my first experience in a Ferry. We really enjoyed the Norwegian foods and drinks.

Saturday I with my friend hasith backed to Oslo. We have visited the city as well as Castle.
We had the return flight on Sunday through Frankfurt.

Trees with friezed FOG