Microsoft KB Archive/939030

= You receive an error message from the SharePoint 2007 provider when you try to provision a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site by using HMC 4.0 =

Article ID: 939030

Article Last Modified on 7/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.0
 * Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

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SYMPTOMS
When you try to provision a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site by using the Microsoft Provisioning System from Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) version 4.0, you receive a “0x80131509” error message from the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 provider. The error message resembles the following:

Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'

This problem occurs when 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services are used for the collaboration server or for the collaboration servers.



CAUSE
This problem occurs because the HMC 4.0 installer encounters a problem when it creates the Internet Information Services (IIS) virtual directory that is named MPSSharePointAdminWS.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, perform the following operations:
 * 1) On the local drive, use IIS Manager to note the path that the MPSSharePointAdminWS virtual directory refers to. Then, determine which application pool the MPSSharePointAdminWS virtual directory uses.
 * 2) Delete the MPSSharePointAdminWS virtual directory, and then create a new virtual directory in IIS Manager.

Note Use the same name when you create the new virtual directory.
 * 1) Point the new MPSSharePointAdminWS virtual directory to the same path and to the same application pool that the previous virtual directory used.
 * 2) Make sure that Read and Execute are enabled when you create the new virtual directory.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.



MORE INFORMATION
The following is an example of the code that contains the error message.      

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