Web Part Maintenance Page

Steve sent me this link this morning. Sweet!

We had a major headache last month on a project we were doing because we were getting this annoying SoapServerException error and couldn’t find a way to access the web part maintenance page. We were held up from development for about an hour while we were scrambling to try and figure out why noone was able to access the page anymore via Frontpage – Let alone understand what had happened to cause it. We eventually got it fixed but this way is much cleaner.

In the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 830342, entitled “Soap:Server Exception of Type Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException” Message Appears When You Try to Edit a Portal by Using FrontPage there are a variety of solutions which probably do work. However, one of the solutions mentions opening up the web part page maintenance page.

In order to do this, simply append “?contents=1″ to the URL of the page. For example:

http://myportal/myarea/default.aspx?contents=1

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