Problem with the Sharepoint functionality

[moe]

Hello,

first of all, I`m pretty new to Alfresco as I`ve installed the software just yesterday.
So please don`t mind if I`m asking a beginner`s question.

I`d like to know how to get the Sharepoint support for Alfresco to work.

I`ve downloaded 'Alfresco-Labs-'3c-Mini-Setup.exe' which contains the Sharepoint functionality.
After that, the installation and configuration of Alfresco Labs went fine. I`m able to log on to Alfresco Explorer and Share.

Then, I´ve tried to use the Sharepoint functionality.
I`ve opened a Word document and set the Document Workspace to 'SPP'.
In the 'Location for new workspace' field, I set the value to 'http://10.2.181.79:7070/alfresco' and clicked on 'Create'.
Unfortunately, I received the following error message (translated from german ;-)):

'The action could not be finished. Please ask your web site administrator for further information or try again later.'

Does it really have to be port 7070?
I tried to do this with 8080, sure I had no luck, but the error message wasn`t displayed 😉

This is a log entry directly after the server start (alf_start.bat).

16:50:46,171 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.xml.XMLConfigService$PropertyConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/file-servers.properties]
16:50:57,656 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Schema managed by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect.
16:50:57,656 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Alfresco is using the Apache Derby default database. Please only use this while evaluating Alfresco, it is NOT recommended for production or deployment!
16:51:00,609 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] No changes were made to the schema.
16:51:05,453 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: C:\AlfrescoLabs3\alf_data
16:51:05,578 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchExecuter] Checking for patches to apply …
16:51:05,734 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchExecuter] No patches were required.
16:51:05,750 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] Found 2 module(s).
16:51:06,125 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] Starting module 'org.alfresco.module.RecordsManagement' version 1.3.
16:51:06,546 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] Starting module 'org.alfresco.module.vti' version 1.0.
16:51:08,437 WARN  [org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester] An initial OpenOffice connection could not be established.
16:51:08,562 INFO  [org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - v1.6.0_07-b06; maximum heap size 506,313MB
16:51:08,562 INFO  [org.alfresco.service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Labs): Current version 3.0.0 (c 1342) schema 1000 - Installed version 3.0.0 (c 1342) schema 1000
16:51:09,546 WARN  [org.alfresco.linkvalidation.LinkValidationServiceImpl] LinkValidationService Update is not running (virtualization server not registered or started)
16:51:24,734 INFO  [org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 21 Web Scripts (+0 failed), 23 URLs
16:51:24,750 INFO  [org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initialised Presentation Web Script Container (in 111.88629ms)
16:51:25,296 INFO  [org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 134 Web Scripts (+0 failed), 136 URLs
16:51:25,328 INFO  [org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initialised WebFramework Web Script Container (in 574.9116ms)
16:51:25,406 INFO  [org.alfresco.web.site.FrameworkHelper] Successfully Initialized Web Framework
16:51:59,312 INFO  [org.alfresco.web.site.FrameworkHelper] Successfully Initialized Web Framework‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I`ve also double-clicked on 'apply_amps.bat', as I`ve  read in another post that it might be helpful to run this file.

Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?
As there are only a few threads regarding Sharepoint functionality, it doesn`t seem to be that difficult…

Thanks in advance,
moe

[moe]

Isn`t there anyone who encounters the same problem?
Please, I`d really like to get this done.

Best regards,
moe

[bimmo2007]

I have the exact same problem, also working on 8080 from word as you described but same message on 7070: The action could not be completed…

[gronfelt]

Same issue here, I get the same uninformative error message from Word.

My settings are

vti.server.port=7070
vti.share.shareHostWithPort=http://a1:8080
vti.alfresco.deployment.context=/alfresco
‍‍‍‍‍

I can also save through WebDAV as described above (by supplying "http://a1:8080/alfresco" as the filename in the Save as… box).

I'm running a multi-tenancy environment, but I don't think that should be an issue, since I'm able to log in to Alfresco Share through the web interface (http://a1:8080/share) with my tenant users.

I have tried to go to "http://a1:7070" with my web browser, that brings up a login question (a simple http authorization box), it won't accept any of my login credentials, neither for my tenant users nor for my underlying admin account. I don't know what's supposed to happen when you try that.

In Word, when I try to save to workspace, I get a login window, and it seems to accept my credentials, or at least it only shows up once.

Any ideas?

UPDATE:
I had obviously put the custom-vti files in the wrong extensions-directory. I had placed them in

tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/

although they should be in

tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/

Now it's working as intended with the normal admin user, but I get the same generic error message as before when i try with a tenant user (for an example admin@mydomain.com).

Is it not possible at all to use the SharePoint Protocol Support with multi-tenants?

[gronfelt]

I've been trying a bit further to get SharePoint functionality with a tenant user and I can't seem to figure out exactly what's not working.

This is what I believe to be the essential part of the alfresco.log:

13:28:54,889 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.VtiFilter] Ticket was validated
13:28:54,889 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.VtiRequestDispatcher] Process request
13:28:54,889 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.VtiRequestDispatcher] Find appropriate action by specific rules
13:28:54,889 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.VtiRequestDispatcher] Specific rule not found
13:28:54,889 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.VtiRequestDispatcher] Find appropriate action by pattern for uri='/_vti_bin/dws.asmx'
13:28:54,889 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.VtiRequestDispatcher] Action found for request
13:28:54,889 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.VtiRequestDispatcher] Execute target action
13:28:54,890 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.ws.CreateDwsEndpoint] SOAP method with name CreateDws is started.
13:28:54,891 DEBUG [net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.AbstractSecurityInterceptor] Secure object: ReflectiveMethodInvocation: public abstract org.alfresco.service.cmr.model
.FileInfo org.alfresco.service.cmr.model.FileFolderService.resolveNamePath(org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NodeRef,java.util.List) throws org.alfresco.service.cmr.mo
del.FileNotFoundException; target is of class [org.alfresco.repo.model.filefolder.FileFolderServiceImpl]; ConfigAttributes: [AFTER_ACL_NODE.sys:base.ReadProperties]
13:28:54,891 DEBUG [net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.ProviderManager] Authentication attempt using org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticatedAuthenticationPas
sthroughProvider
13:28:54,891 DEBUG [net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.AbstractSecurityInterceptor] Authenticated: net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken@485220c
0: Username: net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.dao.User@7e44258: Username: admin@domain.com; Password: [PROTECTED]; Enabled: true; AccountNonExpired: true; credentialsNo
nExpired: true; AccountNonLocked: true; Granted Authorities: ROLE_AUTHENTICATED; Password: [PROTECTED]; Authenticated: true; Details: net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.dao.
User@7e44258: Username: admin@domain.com; Password: [PROTECTED]; Enabled: true; AccountNonExpired: true; credentialsNonExpired: true; AccountNonLocked: true; Granted
Authorities: ROLE_AUTHENTICATED; Granted Authorities: ROLE_AUTHENTICATED
13:28:54,891 DEBUG [net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.AbstractSecurityInterceptor] Authorization successful
13:28:54,891 DEBUG [net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.AbstractSecurityInterceptor] RunAsManager did not change Authentication object
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.store.MemoryStore] Initialized net.sf.ehcache.store.LruMemoryStore for org.alfresco.tenantsTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-4420-beb2-
3ccd4e3b0d39_updates
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.store.LruMemoryStore] org.alfresco.tenantsTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-4420-beb2-3ccd4e3b0d39_updates Cache: Using SpoolingLinkedH
ashMap implementation
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.Cache] Initialised cache: org.alfresco.tenantsTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-4420-beb2-3ccd4e3b0d39_updates
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.store.MemoryStore] Initialized net.sf.ehcache.store.LruMemoryStore for org.alfresco.tenantsTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-4420-beb2-
3ccd4e3b0d39_removes
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.store.LruMemoryStore] org.alfresco.tenantsTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-4420-beb2-3ccd4e3b0d39_removes Cache: Using SpoolingLinkedH
ashMap implementation
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.Cache] Initialised cache: org.alfresco.tenantsTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-4420-beb2-3ccd4e3b0d39_removes
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.store.MemoryStore] Initialized net.sf.ehcache.store.LruMemoryStore for org.alfresco.storeAndNodeIdTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-442
0-beb2-3ccd4e3b0d39_updates
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.store.LruMemoryStore] org.alfresco.storeAndNodeIdTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-4420-beb2-3ccd4e3b0d39_updates Cache: Using Spooling
LinkedHashMap implementation
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.Cache] Initialised cache: org.alfresco.storeAndNodeIdTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-4420-beb2-3ccd4e3b0d39_updates
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.store.MemoryStore] Initialized net.sf.ehcache.store.LruMemoryStore for org.alfresco.storeAndNodeIdTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-442
0-beb2-3ccd4e3b0d39_removes
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.store.LruMemoryStore] org.alfresco.storeAndNodeIdTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-4420-beb2-3ccd4e3b0d39_removes Cache: Using Spooling
LinkedHashMap implementation
13:28:54,892 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.Cache] Initialised cache: org.alfresco.storeAndNodeIdTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-4420-beb2-3ccd4e3b0d39_removes
13:28:54,893 DEBUG [net.sf.ehcache.store.MemoryStore] org.alfresco.storeAndNodeIdTransactionalCache_44552833-33ea-4420-beb2-3ccd4e3b0d39_removesCache: Cannot remove entr
y as key workspace://@domain.com@SpacesStore/9965f4b9-a63c-491e-8f35-9086d5bb1cbb was not found
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There's no error, nothing obvious failing ("Cannot remove entry…"-messages are seen when it's working too, in a single-tenent environment). Any ideas of what could be the problem?

Obviously the above is a very verbose logging (root level set to debug), if I set only the sharepoint logging level to debug, the last output connected to the SharePoint module is this:

13:28:54,890 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.ws.CreateDwsEndpoint] SOAP method with name CreateDws is started.‍

So the method starts, but it never finishes. How do I go about to find out why?

[moe]

UPDATE:
I had obviously put the custom-vti files in the wrong extensions-directory. I had placed them in

tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/

although they should be in

tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/

Hello gronfelt,

which files do you mean?
"custom-vti.properties.sample" and "custom-vti-context.xml.sample"  from "/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/module/org.alfresco.module.vti/context", which should be copied and renamed to "vti.properties" and "vti-context.xml"? I copied those those 2 files to the directory you have described above.
But even with using the admin user in Word, I still receive the same error messagen.

Best regards,
moe

[gronfelt]

UPDATE:
I had obviously put the custom-vti files in the wrong extensions-directory. I had placed them in

tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/

although they should be in

tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/

Hello gronfelt,

which files do you mean?
"custom-vti.properties.sample" and "custom-vti-context.xml.sample"  from "/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/module/org.alfresco.module.vti/context", which should be copied and renamed to "vti.properties" and "vti-context.xml"? I copied those those 2 files to the directory you have described above.
But even with using the admin user in Word, I still receive the same error messagen.

Best regards,
moe

Hello moe,

those are the files I meant, however I did not rename them that way, I just copied them and removed the ".sample" extension, keeping the "custom-" in the beginning of the file names.

To clarify:

../tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/module/org.alfresco.module.vti/context/custom-vti.properties.sample
../tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/module/org.alfresco.module.vti/context/custom-vti-context.xml.sample

where copied to

../tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-vti.properties
../tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-vti-context.xml

I then edited custom-vti.properties as described in previous posts and restarted Alfresco, this worked for me, I hope it works out for you to.

[ndemarco]

Hi,

I've been following this thread and other resoucres to get SharePoint integration working properly. It's not working for me either. My experiences are identical to many on this thread.

I'm saving a document AND creating a new document workspace (SPP) per the user doc for sharepoint functionality. I get the same 'unimaginitive error' from Word.

At times, I've seen a login box, but my credentials are not accepted. Thanks to all for their help so far. I suspect we're all a few well placed keystrokes away from solving this.

Best regards,

Nick