Task 'SharePoint' reported error (0x8004010F): ‘The SharePoint List (site name - list name) cannot be found. If the problem continues, contact the SharePoint site administrator. HTTP 404.'

When you are using Microsoft Outlook 2010 or Microsoft Outlook 2013, you receive the following error in the Outlook status bar:

Send/Receive Error

Error

Task 'SharePoint' reported error (0x8004010F): ‘The SharePoint List (site name - list name) cannot be found. If the problem continues, contact the SharePoint site administrator. HTTP 404.'

Cause:

The SharePoint list no longer exists or you cannot connect to it.

How to fix this:

1) Open Outlook

2) Select File, and then click Account Settings.

3) Click Account Settings, and then click SharePoint Lists.

4) In the Account Settings dialog box, double-click the SharePoint list for which you received the error.

5) Clear the check on Display this list on other computers with the account: and then click OK.

Make sure that the SharePoint list for which you received the error is still selected, and then click Remove.

6) Close the Account Settings dialog box.

Binding SharePoint 2013 with Office Web Apps Server

This post is continued from here

Binding between SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps Server

1) We will create the binding between SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps Server. To do this, lLogin to the SharePoint 2013 Central Administration Server and login to SharePoint 2013 Management Shell as Administrator

New-SPWOPIBinding -ServerName server.contoso.com

where server.contoso.com is the FQDN of the URL that you set for the internal URL

2) Now we have to verify that Office Web Apps is working. Browse to a document library and tried opening the document. I got this error.

Problem: You see the error "Sorry, there was a problem and we can't open this document" when you try to view an Office document in Office Web Apps

3) To fix this error,change the AllowOAuthOverHttp setting in SharePoint 2013 to True.

Run the below PowerShell scripts. Login as Administrator on SharePoint 2013 Management Shell.

(Get-SPSecurityTokenServiceConfig).AllowOAuthOverHttp 

false

$config = (Get-SPSecurityTokenServiceConfig)

$config.AllowOAuthOverHttp = $true

$config.Update()

(Get-SPSecurityTokenServiceConfig).AllowOAuthOverHttp

true

4)Browse to a document library and try opening a document now.

Some screenshots

Word Document in OWA




Opening Word Document in OWA

Opening Word Document in OWA with Editing features in OWA



































Excel in OWA




Opening Excel in OWA



Opening Excel in OWA with Editing features in OWA

Installing Office Web Apps Server for SharePoint 2013

Install Office Web Apps Server

1)  The Operating System on the Server for installing OWA is Windows Server 2012.Login to the Office Web Apps Server as local administrator.

2) Run the pre-requisite on the Windows PowerShell. Right click Windows PowerShell and login as administrator)

Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Static-Content,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,InkandHandwritingServices

3) Go to Microsoft Download center to download Microsoft Office Web Apps Server. Copy the file to the local machine desktop.

4) Double click on the image file and click on the setup.exe file

5) Click on “I accept the terms of this agreement” and click Continue.

6) Choose the location for the file and click Install Now.

9) Installation progress is shown below.

7) Click Close.

8) The server certificate is installed on the server. After the certificate installation ,this is verified by going to IIS Manager ->Server Certificates ->

9) The certificate details are listed below.

  

10) In this step we will create the Office Web Apps Server farm .Open windows PowerShell ->Run as Administrator

New-OfficeWebAppsFarm -InternalURL "https://server.contoso.com -CertificateName "Web OWA" –EditingEnabled

 11) To verify that the Office Web Apps Server farm was created successfully, browse to this URL

https://server.contoso.com/hosting/discovery

The binding of SharePoint to Office Web apps Server is done in a different post 
(Binding SharePoint 2013 with Office Web Apps Server)

Office Web Apps Server 2010 with SharePoint 2010

Microsoft Office Web Apps enable SharePoint 2010 users to view and edit Office documents from anywhere using a web browser.

Office Web Apps is installed on top of SharePoint 2010.It can be installed on one of the servers on the farm. Based on the size of your farm, you can have it installed on multiple servers as well. After the installation of Office Web Apps , run the SharePoint configuration Wizard.

Once Office Web Apps is installed, browse to Central Administration -> Manage Services on Server and you will see the below services listed.

Excel Calculation Services

PowerPoint Service

Word Viewing Service

After this browse to Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products-> SharePoint 2010 Central Administration 

Create a service application for each of this:

Excel Service Application

PowerPoint Service Application

Word Viewing Service

After the service applications are created, activate the feature at site collection level. 

Excerpts from TechNet:

Microsoft Office Web Apps is the online companion to Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications that enables users regardless of their location to access documents and edit documents. Users can view, share, and work on documents with others online across personal computers, mobile phones, and the Web. Office Web Apps is tightly integrated with SharePoint 2010 Products. When you install Office Web Apps, the Office Web Apps Services are added to the list of SharePoint Services and the Office Web Apps Feature is added to the available SharePoint Features.

Office Web Apps services include the Word Viewing Service, PowerPoint Service, and Excel Calculation Services that are created and run within the context of SharePoint Services. The Office Web Apps Feature and services integrate with SharePoint's robust enterprise content management capabilities to provide users the ability to access and work on your organization's documents from anywhere using a Web browser.

How to clear DNS Cache on your machine

The DNS cache stores locations (IP addresses) of webservers that contain pages which are recently viewed. If the location of the web server changes before the entry in the DNS cache updates, we cannot access the site.

To fix this we need to clear the DNS Cache

Click the Start button.

On the Start menu->Run ->cmd

Type the following: ipconfig /flushdns