Authorize.net Gateway Error: The configuration with processor is invalid

  Got a generic error with authorize.net white setting up a new ecommerce website: “Gateway Error: The configuration with processor is invalid” Solution: make sure the gateway has the correct merchant service provider info. Before calling authorize.net make sure you have the following details: Merchant Number Gateway ID Store number bin number agent number terminal number category number chain number

Adobe Soundbooth error message NV_OGL

Started getting this error message NV_OGL when launching Soundbooth. Seems like a Video driver issue. So I reinstalled my NVidia drivers, even tried a beta version with no luck. Solution was to reinstall Soundbooth and it started working. Not sure how it got corrupt, but reinstall worked.

SharePoint 2013 Crawl Access Denied Error

I usally can fix these crawl errors fast. DisableLoopbackCheck, Check Web App permissions, check DB permmisions… But all was configured correctly. All other web apps were being index and running smooth. I just had one web app that would not get indexed. I even deleted the web app and recreated the site since it was a QA server. Even the logs were not very clear. Just some access denied to robots.txt. I dont even use Read more…

Check which users are editing profile details

I had to create a report to list which users are edting their profiles. Im not going to list all the details, but i created this PS script. You might have to change MySite URL and start date. $mysiteHostUrl = “http://mysite” $mysite = Get-SPSite $mysiteHostUrl $context = [Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($mysite) $manager =  New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($context) $query = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileChangeQuery $false,$false $query.Add = $query.Update = $query.SingleValueProperty = $true $query.ChangeTokenStart = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileChangeToken ([System.DateTime]”7/1/2013″) $query $manager.GetChanges($query) | ft ChangeType,ObjectType,@{Expression={$_.ProfileProperty.Name};Label=”Property”},NewValue -GroupBy Read more…

BI Resources and Links

Here’s a list of blogs that has helped me configure Power Pivot for SharePoint 2010 and 2013 SharePoint 2013 Kereberos setup http://blog.blksthl.com/2012/09/26/the-first-kerberos-guide-for-sharepoint-2013-technicians/#step4 Installing 2013 BI features : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/querysimon/archive/2012/11/26/installing-the-bi-features-of-sharepoint-2013.aspx Installing 2010 BI features: http://blog.cloudshare.com/2012/05/22/step-by-step-guide-to-installing-sharepoint-with-sql-2012-powerpivot-powerview-and-reporting-services/ another 2010 BI blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/karang/archive/2012/04/13/step-by-step-guide-of-installing-power-view-with-powerpivot-2012.aspx Notes: things get tricky in a multi server farm. the SQL install will have all the features needed for SharePoint. For SharePoint 2013 there is a spPowerPivot.msi you can use on the WFEs instead of the SQL Read more…

Application Pool Password Recovery

I had to figure out an App Pool password. Depending on your version of IIS you can extract passwords. You just need to login remotely and have local admin access. For IIS 6 Download resource kit from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17275 And run Metabase Explorer, then just browse to your App Pool. Change your view settings to show Secure Data. For IIS 7+ run this powershell command with your app pool name. &$env:windir\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe list apppool “Application Pool Name” Read more…