InfoPath form cannot be displayed because sessionstate is not available

Yesterday I had to place an InfoPath 2003 form on a MOSS 2007 farm. Everything seemed to be configured correctly. Accept after publishing I found the newly created form library and the form but when I tried to open it I was spoiled with a nice error message in a soft lightgray kind of way. It could have been red cause an error is an error people light gray or not it was not going to work.

Error Message
The form cannot be displayed because session state is not available.

 

Solution
The solution to fix this is simple, in the web.config of your site collections you find the SessionStateModule commented. just uncomment >> iisreset /noforce (so do this outside office hours 🙂 ) and you are up and running again.

To find this section just use ctrl+F and search on HTTPModules

 

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I have not checked it in SharePoint 2010 but I think it’s default already as it should be.

 

 

Run as an Administrator

 

And then people dare to say administrators a lazy people :+)

For some programs it’s essential that if you use them you are in Administrator mode, for instance PowerShell or Visual Studio. Just because we admins are humans, special once of course we tend to forget things to from time till time and to make sure we don’t need to remember everything we got these little tricks.

Just to make sure you always run the program as an administrator choose properties of the shortcut and choose the compatibility tab. Nearby the bottom you find Priveledge level and a nice option Run this program as an administrator with a checkbox beside it. Mark it and from now on you don’t have to remember.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Want to stand-out with your LinkedIn profile?

 

If you want to have more than just another profile here’s a need little trick for if you want to post a website but not, Blog, Company web site, and the others like everyone else has on their profile.

Go to Profile >> Edit Profile >> at the website section click edit. In the boxes that appear choose the bottom one, “Others”. Because if you choose the bottom option you get an extra field so you can personalize the name. instead of Blog you can type My SharePoint Scrapbook or something more business-like.