You receive a "Navigation Error" error message when you use MCMS Authoring Connector after you upgrade MCMS 2002 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to run on a Wind

SYMPTOMS

After you upgrade Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to run on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer, you receive the following error message when you try to publish or update a Web page by using Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) Authoring Connector:

Navigation Error
Navigation to
returned error500:
Internal server error.

Note The placeholder ServerName is a placeholder for the name of the MCMS 2002 SP1 computer. The placeholder DocumentName is the placeholder for the name of the Web page that you are trying to publish or update.

Note This problem occurs even if the computer has MCMS 2002 Service Pack 1a (SP1a) installed.

CAUSE

This problem occurs when the Microsoft .NET Framework Web.config file for the MCMS Web application does not have the optional attribute specified.

Note The default value for the validateRequest optional attribute is true.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, add the pages validateRequest=false optional attribute to the Web.config file for the MCMS Web application.

Note In a default installation, the physical location of the MCMS Web.config file is located in the following folder

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Content Management Server\Server\MCMS

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.