Month: March 2015

Document Information Panel was unable to load

Microsoft Office Word/Excel documents fails to open with ‘Document Information Panel was unable to load. The document will continue to open. For more information, contact your system administrator message. If you try to create a new document, Word may crashes without letting you create new document. After some digging, it looks like the […]

Code Signing Certificate for Admin Approved InfoPath form template

Security level for admin approved code behind InfoPath form templates should be Fully trusted. Code Signing Certificate should be used to sign fully trusted InfoPath form templates before uploading to Central Admin. Go to File and Select ‘Form Options‘ under Advanced options Select ‘Security and Trust‘ in the left pane Code Signing Certificate: You can […]

Cannot open this item Outlook error

Issue : Cannot open this item Outlook error when you try to do one of the following Import SharePoint Calendar to Outlook When you try import a SharePoint calendar into Outlook, Sometimes Outlook may give you the following error: Cannot open this item. You cannot use SharePoint. Your system administrator has turned off the feature. Connect SharePoint list/library to […]

ADFS as Identity provider for SharePoint 2010 Claims site - Part II

This blog post is continuation of Part I which explains how to configure ADFS as Identity provider for SharePoint. In this blog I will explain the remaining 2 steps: Step 2: Configure a Claims based Web Application The configuration of a claims-based SharePoint web application can be achieved using Windows PowerShell. The steps to be […]

ADFS as Identity provider for SharePoint 2010 Claims web site - Part I

I am going to explain how to set up ADFS as Identity provider for SharePoint 2010 Claims web site. I am splitting this topic into 2 blogs(part I & part II) considering the length. This this the first part which explains how to Configure ADFS 2.0 as Identify provider. Part II has the remaining 2 steps of […]

The form cannot be opened because either signature is corrupt or the certificate used to sign the form expired or revoked

You get the following message when you try to open an already submitted InfoPath form - ‘The form cannot be opened because either signature is corrupt or the certificate used to sign the form expired or revoked’ when the certificate used to sign the form has expired or revoked. Even if you try to open the […]

Clearing Infopath Cache

When you publish new version of InfoPath or update certificate for the form, some users may still see the old version or have issues with new certificate. Clearing InfoPath Cache in users machine resolves this issue. When user access an InfoPath form, it is usually cached in users machine. Whenever there is a new version of […]

Migrate admin approved infopath forms in SharePoint

In my recent project, I have to migrate admin approved InfoPath forms in SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 . Admin approved forms are deployed as features at farm level. They are under 12 hive folder named with GUIDs. After some googling, I found handy STSADM and Powershell commands. Using these commands we can easily package and […]

Due to heavy load, the latest workflow operation has been queued. It will attempt to resume at a later time

You might be greeted by this error message ‘Due to heavy load, the latest workflow operation has been queued. It will attempt to resume at a later time‘ sometimes when you check the status of a workflow. If there are many workflows trying to run at same time, SharePoint timer service has to push back […]