Friday, March 18, 2011

How to fix Error: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040E14

Have you got this error message when you connect to your Windows SharePoint Services Web site:

Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040E14.
Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services.

If this error occurs you are not able to perform these actions:

  • Edit columns on a list
  • Import a spreadsheet
  • Add choices to a choice field

To resolve this issue, use the Stsadm.exe command-line tool to force an upgrade of the content databases. To do this, follow these steps:

Windows SharePoint Services 2.0


  1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd in the Open box, and then click OK.
  2. At the command prompt, type the following lines, and then press ENTER after each line: cd /d %commonprogramfiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\Bin
    stsadm -o upgrade -forceupgrade
  3. Type exit to exit Command Prompt.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0


  1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd in the Open box, and then click OK.
  2. At the command prompt, type the following lines, and then press ENTER after each line: cd /d %commonprogramfiles%\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN
    stsadm -o upgrade -forceupgrade
  3. Type exit to exit Command Prompt.

After applying these steps if you still get same error message then you should try SharePoint Recovery Software to resolve this issue.

Stellar Phoenix SharePoint Server Recovery Software is very easy to use & you can check its all functionality by its demo version. It provides recovery for SharePoint server 2010 & 2007. It recover SharePoint database as well inaccessible SharePoint site content.

4 comments:

  1. HI
    i am also getting the same error i have done application pages coding in wss 3.0 for creating new list item i am getting this error and even for updating the list item also and if run the cmd as mentioned above for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 it says
    "you must specify either the inplace parameter or by sidebyside parameter in the command prompt"

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  2. Hi

    i am using Version: 12.0.0.6535 for sharepoint wss 3.0 for application page developement
    and it was working fine recently i am facing an problem with an error
    "Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040E14 " whenever i am making updating for an list or an adding
    an item to the list i suspect is this ?

    1.need to cumulative update need to be done for wss 3.0 from Version: 12.0.0.6535
    to Version: 12.0.0.6545 with an update one?
    or else what may be the cause for this?

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  3. Hello nagaraj

    You can check this software http://www.sharepoint-server-recovery.com/download-sharepoint-server-recovery.php, it resolved this error & get back all your precious data..

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  4. Hi Gorge

    Thanxs for your comment but when i looked the url provided that says this SharePoint Tool provide recovery for SharePoint 2007 and 2010.
    Is it suits for wss3.0 if so what extent the mdf files get stored .
    in our development server i have made so many ports for testing and by searching i came to know that its may be due to sql transaction log get full so i deleted some of the unwanted ports.if i use this software it brings back all unwanted database ports which one i have deleted.
    Please have thought on this

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