Unable to restore Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine

Note: The same issue also occurs when VirtualBox is upgraded to version 4.0.6 r71416. when you try to start any virtual machine

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine <your machine> Implementation of the USB 2.0 controller not found!
Because the USB 2.0 controller state is part of the saved VM state, the VM cannot be started. To fix this problem, either install the 'Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack' or disable USB 2.0 support in the VM settings (VERR_NOT_FOUND).
Unknown error creating VM (VERR_NOT_FOUND).

Today this message appeared when resuming the development machine.. Oracle VirtualBox v4.04

Especially interesting because the server was paused during a windows update (Not normally something that I do, but my host ran out of resources)

This is a verified bug, and can be easily fixed!

Locate your machine xml files (In windows they are stored in C:\Users\<your username>\.VirtualBox\Machines\<your machine>

STOP VirtualBox Manager

Open the file and locate the line:

 <USBController enabled="true" enabledEhci="false"/>

Set enabledEhci to false

Start VirtualBox Manager, and resume the virtual machine.

See VirtualBox.org for more information (Ticket #8182)

SharePoint Indexing - mssdmn.exe is using 100% CPU

After experiencing a slow SharePoint system it was discovered that the process mssdmn.exe was consuming all available CPU. (Frontend and Indexing service on same server)

SharePoint indexing was correctly configured, and performance configured not to use all CPU…

The resolution in this case was to install the latest IFilters for Office from Microsoft and the latest IFilter for Adobe PDF from Adobe (Version 8 and 9 has also support for for 64-bit systems)

Note: To compare Foxit and Adobe see the “Jie Li's GeekWorld (BLOG)”

After installing the filters, and changing the ObjectID in registry for PDF files (See documentation at Adobe (Page 2)) The process started indexing, and stopped consuming CPU after the indexing tasks were finished…

No need to restart the server, just restart the Search Service and the IIS

• net stop ossearch –> net start ossearch
• iisreset /noforce

Error when opening a list in Datasheet View

“Access web datasheet is attempting to retrieve data from a different domain…”

When seeing this error message I first thought of cross domain access using JavaScript.

By checking the field types of the dropdowns that did fail I discovered that the only fields that failed was lookup fields that uses other tables as data source, other dropdown menus that where static worked fine. The lookup fields returned blank in datasheet view, but worked  in a normal list view.

By examining the links that the site presented I saw a combination of links pointing to different server names. ex: the user entered intranet in the address field in the browser and some links where pointing to the server name (Without the domain suffix or zone)

The problem: Alternate Access Mappings were not configured for the alias intranet. Therefore the server returned different links. And to my understanding this was the case for the error message, and the empty lookups.

The Solution: Add a internal URL in the Access Mappings located in the SharePoint Central Administration->Operations->Global Settings->Alternate Access Mappings that points to the alias (intranet)

After adding a new url to the access mappings the datasheet view returned correct values in the lookup fields.