Had a strange problem on our K2 Dev Server where all of a sudden we could not deploy any K2 processes, old or new. Basically we would click deploy & it would never complete, the deployment would appear to be happening but if you looked at the K2studio.exe in process monitor it wasnt using any processor resources after the 1st second or so ie 0% processor usage.

If you then looked at C:\Users\MyUserName\Documents\K2Studio\K2Project1\obj\Debug\my-project-my-process.exe you would see that its file size would always be 0k.

After logging a call with K2 a spending a few hours troubleshooting it turned out to be something corrupt with my userprofile on the K2 Server. Once we deleted my profile & then recreated it we could then deploy K2 processes as expected.

Hopefully this will help someone with similar problems deploying K2 Blackpoint or K2 Blackpearl processes.

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A list of the default profile properties that get returned by the MOSS 2007 userprofileservice.

UserProfile_GUID
AccountName
FirstName
LastName
PreferredName
WorkPhone
Office
Department
Title
Manager
AboutMe
PersonalSpace
PictureURL
UserName
QuickLinks
WebSite
PublicSiteRedirect
SPS-Dotted-line
SPS-Peers
SPS-Responsibility
SPS-Skills
SPS-PastProjects
SPS-Interests
SPS-School
SPS-SipAddress
SPS-Birthday
SPS-MySiteUpgrade
SPS-DontSuggestList
SPS-ProxyAddresses
SPS-HireDate
SPS-LastColleagueAdded
SPS-OWAUrl
SPS-ResourceAccountName
SPS-MasterAccountName
Assistant
WorkEmail
CellPhone
Fax
HomePhone

The contact selector available in InfoPath is a very useful control but has some pretty big feature limitations which will hopefully be rectified in Sharepoint 2010 / InfoPath 2010 but I havent had time to check yet.

How to make the InfoPath contact selector mandatory – http://www.myriadtech.com.au/blog/Alana/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=16

Limit the number of names a user can enter into the InfoPath contact selector – http://www.myriadtech.com.au/blog/Alana/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=13

Using the InfoPath contact selector to get other users details eg Dept, Office, Manager etc from the User Profile Database – http://www.myriadtech.com.au/blog/Alana/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=15

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For anyone else having this issue it looks like this is an issue with the beta version of Sharepoint 2010 as when using service accounts it appears that the user profile sync just sticks on ‘Starting’ & never actually starts.

To get it started add your service account as a local admin & reboot & you should find it starts OK.

Good job its a beta in a test environment!

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Grant rights via a special personalization services permissions link from the SSP Admin UI. Specific rights can be granted to different components:

http://server:port/ssp/admin/_layouts/ManageServicePermissions.aspx