The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service

Error: The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service.

You get this error when you try to access an InfoPath form in 2010.

Figure 1: Form error

Usually this happens after you have migrated an existing application from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. If you have used “Attach Database” approach to migrate your application, then you would have created a new application in 2010 corresponding to the original application in 2007. Follow steps below to resolve this error.

1.       Run Central Administration

2.       Click on Configuration Wizard in right hand side navigation links and then Launch the Farm Configuration Wizard.

3.       Start the Wizard

4.       Make sure checkbox along with State Service is checked.

5.       Click Next.

This will resolve the issue and the form will start opening. Also note that the service account you provide should be different from the farm service account. The process will take a few minutes to complete. It will ask you to create a new site. Create a new site and click ok. It will show you following screen:

Figure 2: Farm Configuration

Now try to open the form again, it should open fine.

A SharePoint Saturday on Monday #SPConfRU(Via Ilia Sotnikov)

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"It was a very pleasant and unusual experience for me this week to speak at the SharePoint Conference Russia – 2011. The conference was awesome and the crowd was much more interested in SharePoint than I was expecting. My session was the last before conference wrap up, and we stayed for almost half hour after the session for Q&A! The biggest challenge for me – surprisingly – was to keep speaking Russian, and not switch to English completely when using all the SharePoint terminology."

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