Unexpected error when attempting to create a Business Intelligence Center site

Hello Guys,

Today I am going to share one more interesting issue and troubleshooting steps so that it would be helpful to all of you.

Present environment entities:

-SharePoint server 2010

-SQL Server 2008 R2

-Windows 7 Operating system

-Internet Explorer 7

Problem description: We are trying to use the performance point in SharePoint so one of the basic need is to create a site with BI template i.e. business intelligence

-We opened our site collection

-site actions

-site settings

-site administration

-sites and workspaces

-provided site name, entered the appropriate URL, selected the required template i.e. business intelligence template and clicked OK

-as soon as we clicked OK then we got the following error message

Error Message:

An Unexpected error has occurred

Correlation ID

Date and time

Troubleshooting Done:

-Tried creating different site using different template under the same site collection- it works

-so one thing is sure that problem is with creating a BI template site.

-checked numerous site collection features

-activated performance point services at the site collection level
-checked the SharePoint logs and found the following:

Publishing Feature activation failed. Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: The SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature must be activated at the site collection level before the Publishing feature can be activated.    

From the above, it’s very clear that what needs to be done to make it working.

Resolution:

Activated Publishing infrastructure at the site collection level

-site actions

-site settings

-site collection administration

-site collection features

-activated Publishing infrastructure feature

Please let me know in case of any queries/questions so that we can discuss and proceed towards the resolution, Thank you.

Contributor Settings in SharePoint Designer

Issue:

Client was unable to open a site in SharePoint Designer after the activation of the SharePoint Designer on his site.

Reason:

He is not admin of that site or may not have proper permissions to make changes to site using SPD.

Notice:

- You may be able to open the site on your machine using SPD.

- While trying to open the site using SPD on the client machine you get message “Site is not allowed for editing using SPD”.

- You also notice that a small Icon at bottom right side of the SPD console with “Contribute Authentication”.

- It says the user who is trying to access the site is not a Site manager and has contribute rights to edit the site.

Resolution:

- Being Site Administrators, you can disable the use of contribute settings from the sites.

- To do that, open SPD console -> Sites -> contribute settings -> Under Advance tab -> Click Disable Contributor Settings.

Important: 

Contributor Settings is not a security feature. Contributor mode is a limited access mode for users who open and edit SharePoint sites in Office SharePoint Designer 2007. Contributor mode is designed to be used in an environment where site managers are confident of their users’ intentions. Contributor mode helps to guide users in a particular direction to carry out their tasks, and this guidance prevents accidental changes to the Web site.