There was a problem retrieving data for this field. Updating values in this field is disabled temporarily. You can still update values in other fields.

While trying to update user profile of a user in SharePoint 2010 I got this error  "There was a problem retrieving data for this field. Updating values in this field is disabled temporarily. You can still update values in other fields.".

The SharePoint farm was using cross-farm services. The "Managed Metadata Web Service" was shared between the farms. This issue can be resolved by enabling "This service application is the default storage location for Keywords." option for the "Managed Metadata Web Service Proxy".

Configure outgoing email for a farm

You can configure outgoing email for a farm by using the SharePoint Central Administration website. Use the following procedures to configure outgoing email. After you complete the procedures, users can track changes and updates to individual site collections. In addition, site administrators can, for example, receive notices when users request access to a site.

To configure outgoing email for a farm by using Central Administration

1. Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators group on the server that is running the SharePoint Central Administration website.
2. In Central Administration, click System Settings.
3. On the System Settings page, in the E-Mail and Text Messages (SMS) section, click Configure outgoing e-mail settings.
4. On the Outgoing E-Mail Settings page, in the Mail Settings section, type the SMTP server name for outgoing email (for example, mail.example.com) in the Outbound SMTP server box.
5. In the From address box, type the email address as you want it to be displayed to email recipients.
6. In the Reply-to address box, type the email address to which you want email recipients to reply.
7. In the Character set list, select the character set that is appropriate for your language.
8. Click OK.

sps3:// Search Crawl Access is denied error

If you are looking at SharePoint Search Crawl logs, and find a top level Error, in details you'd find:

Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has "Full Read" permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled. ( HttpStatusCode Unauthorized The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized. )

You need to go to the site settings of the site giving error and do the following:

In Site Administration section of Site Settings, find Search and offline availability click that link. Make sure the Allow this site to appear in search results is set to Yes.

Missing People Results in SharePoint 2010

Real quick, I wanted to share with you what I did to remedy this situation.  I’m sure they’ll have this fixed by RTM, so don’t worry if it’s not perfect:

• Open your Search site in SharePoint Designer 2010.  The URL will be something like http://sitename.test.com/Search
• Click All Files on the left side of the screen.
• Copy the Results.aspx page, and paste a copy right there in the same folder.  Rename the copy to peopleresults.aspx.
• Browse to your new page in the browser.  Click the <Page> tab at the top, and click <Edit> at the top left to edit the page.
• On the left side of the page, delete the “Refinement” web part, and replace it with the “People Refinement” web part. 
  Note that all of the Search web parts are grouped together under Search in the list of web parts to insert.
• Delete the Search Core Results web part, and replace it with the People Search Core Results one.
• In the top zone, replace the Search Box with the People Search Box. Done editing.
• I’ve also noticed that when I’m looking at tag profiles in SharePoint 2010, there’s a button in each tag page that says “View people who are following this tag”.  Notice that the URL for this link is under http://sitename.test.com/Search/Pages/Peopleresults.aspx.  This page needs to be created also.
• In SharePoint Designer, in All Files, right click and create a new folder.  Call this folder Pages.
• Copy the peopleresults.aspx file you just perfected AND the results.aspx, navigate to the new Pages folder, and simply paste them in there.

Again, maybe I’m missing something in the bigger picture as to why these pages didn’t exist, but this was just a little bug I came across today, and quickly fixed.  Enjoy.