Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) is a fantastic product that is part of the Windows Server 2003 operating system. WSS is actually written using ASP.NET and leverages many different aspects of the .NET Framework. By default, WSS provides its own error messages that most of the time provides enough information and data needed to troubleshoot errors. I recently ran across a problem today that I just couldn’t figure out. To solve the problem I needed to see the ASP.NET error that was occurring. Actually, this is pretty easy to do. Here are the steps:

1.      In the Local_Drive:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions60TEMPLATELAYOUTS folder, change the name of the global.asax file to global.bak.

2.      In the web.config file in the same folder, change customErrors = "On" to customErrors="Off".

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