Hi all,
Today, I got a ticket concerning the fact that the “default.aspx” was deleted in a Site Collection.
My first question was “How did they achieve this?”, because they cannot delete system files, as SharePoint Designer 2010 access is limited at the Web Application level:
So, I had to open the Site Collection in SharePoint Designer 2010 with full access to be able to view all files.
To do this, I’ve allowed the Web Application option : “Allow Site Collection Administrators to see the URL Structure of their Web Site”
Then, I’ve opened the Site Collection in SharePoint Designer 2010, and set back the options in “SharePoint Designer Settings” as our default settings. (this, to avoid other clients to open their site in SharePoint Designer 2010 and letting them braking their site)
In SPD2010 (SharePoint Designer 2010), the “default.aspx” was missing.
But, I saw the file “Organogram.pptx” with the blue icon.
Checking it’s properties gave me the satisfaction that the “default.aspx” was overwritten by the .pptx, but was still known by SharePoint as the “default.aspx” file.
So, I decided to do a “Reset to Site Definition” of this file :
The .pptx file was “cleaned” (check it’s size), and the original faulty .pptx is now set as a copy, and not simply deleted:
Thus, I’ve renamed the “clean” .pptx into “default.aspx
A page refresh, and the client site is now up’n running again:
Job's done.
I have a sp 2010 site recently migrated from sp 2007 that does not open. There is something obviously bad on the site, and I am trying to figure out how to proceed to clean up things so that the users can access their lists and libraries.
ReplyDeleteI have tried resetting to site definition for the entire site and there is no change to the problem with that.
Do you have other suggestions of things that I could do to try to repair the site?
Thank you
Hi Larry,
ReplyDeleteFirst thing first: did you have a correlation ID, an error message.
Did you check your ULS logs?
Also, as you've written, the migrated site from Shp 2007 to 2010 didn't work anymore.
Did you remove the installed feature?
How did you migrate the site?
If you still have access to the site via SharePoint 2007, I'll proceed like this :
- create a new DB
- backup the site
- restore the site (with a different name) on this new DB
- remove all feature installed on the site
- check the DB (Test-SPContentDatabase)
- When error free, I'll try a detach/attach DB from Shp2007 to Shp2010
You can check here: http://blog.armgasys.com/?p=284
Hope this will help you.
Regards,
Marc
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, Peter.
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