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From: sean.chees...@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: 404 and Page Not Found error on Sharepoint Site
Date: 5 Apr 2007 13:10:03 -0700
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Doesn't work so well for me.  I have tried running the dw20w.msp and
it finished successfully.  Or I should say it finished without
throwing up an error.  But I still cannot access the SharePoint site
or the administration side.  404 errors.  However, it is a different
404 error than if I were to request a specific page (default.aspx for
example).  The root requests generates a detailed 404 error, whereas
the page requests generates the generic which IE dumbs down for me (I
compared the source so I know they're different).  I don't know if
this makes any difference or not.  One other thing I've also tried is
the SharePoint Configuration Wizard.  It will not successfully run
either.  This is very frustrating!  You don't expect patches to break
things, especially critical patches deployed via Windows Update...