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Enterprise Library Logging and Error 100 - its relationship with Search Faceted Caching - a Resoluton maybe? |
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How do you get a define site structure for your site then? Dive in and do it? I don't think thats a great idea... |
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Training Material and Free Stuff from Microsoft concerning SharePoint 2010 |
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Got some info hot off the press today concerning SharePoint 2010 release dates... - things are going steady... |
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It's easy to forget in the heat of getting your CMS deployed, that you may be creating a single point of failure scenario, where the data is stored in a SQL or database instance is located on the same machine running the content management system.
Sharepoint is no different in this regard, with the known fact that you can have architecturally all SharePoint services on one server. And, as we now march from SharePoint version 2007 into 2010 where more features mean ‘more issues left unchecked’, system security is a key facet in ensuring an effective and productive platform. This article states what security issues there may be and the strategy you could adopt to ensure a secure platform. |
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In this short article, I'll describe a what it means and the high level strategy for use. Log shipping enables you to configure SQL Server to continually send transaction log backups on from a primary database on a primary server instance to one or more secondary databases on separate secondary server instances |
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A quick article to describe my thoughts on SharePoint support provision at high level. The key to using SharePoint properly is education and training. Education; to ensure that those using your sites, are aware of the boundaries for your group of sites in terms of support. What they can expect and how. Training; because there is no point having a site if you don't know its purpose or how it should be used in the company it lives. |
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Installing Sharepoint 2010 on Windows 7 is easy! |
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List one or all sites on a farm with information concerning size, storage, bandwith, owner, optionally including a switch for displaying those with a specific right on the sites. An enhancement upgrade to the nifty utility GEGETRIGHTS, this is yet another nifty application and FREE! Works with Sharepoint SP2 CU October update and tested against Sharepoint 2010, AND outputs to a Text or XML or Html file (you choose!) |
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People have often asked me, hey Geoff how do we build a Sharepoint environment? What kind of questions should we be asking ourselves and those who need it? What documentation do we need to build - how should we communicate the delivery?
I always go at a environment by breaking it down into blocks - a Sharepoint 2010 whilst easier in some ways is slightly different and probably more involved from the backend; I think however, that the principles are the same.
In my forthcoming book – Sharepoint 2010 and Implementation Procedures, I’ll be taking a look at these all and giving a process to capture all of them – this way, hopefully it would help those who are attempting to put Sharepoint in place but “can’t see the wood for the trees”….
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Was asked the other day from this company that has invested a huge amount of time effort and money clustering the Web Front Ends, but amazingly did nothing about the SQL server - advised them to cluster and move their databases. This is a quick blog describing basicially what it is, and links to places describing the process for moving dbs |
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Sharepoint 2010 and Repair feature on Orphaned items in Content Databases from Sharepoint 2007 - a resolution? |
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Is there a way to delete MySites from a Site Collection on-Mass? Yes there is, starring GEMySiteLockDown! |
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Another of my blogs explaining a way to install the product on a single server and in Complete mode because you want control the user accounts in SQL for example... |
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Thought I managed to sort out the 403 Forbidden - another hectic day of sorting this one out - but required a different solution. So, here's a step by step account of how to resolve getting a 403 Forbidden when attempting to access the Search Administration on the SSP. I've tried this against various farms and it seems to work fine for me! |
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Sharepoint 2010 information, where to get it, the beta, evaluation papers and much more |
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Watch out for the sync issues concerning content database moves - Event ID 7888 and 5553 being major culprits! |
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A rant from me concerning the implementation of a 'better' search engine than the one provided out of the box |
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When moving your sharepoint instance to another server group, watch out for synchronisation issues. For example, you may see a situation where old memberships from your old instance is still being shown. This describes how to correct that issue |
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Sharepoint Repositories - Block files based on Content? |
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Before the release of PDF iFilter 9.0, you have to install windows desktop search, PDF reader and iFilter 8.0 to configure PDF iFilter on MOSS 2007 environment.
Now, Adobe has released PDF iFilter 9.0 for 64bit operating system, so configure of PDF iFilter is lot easier than before. Here's the steps required to configure PDF iFilter 9.0 on 64-bit OS running MOSS 2007 Server Farm |
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Describes a procedure to ensure that you can upload files greater than 50mb to SharePoint |
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Describes the work carried out to get around the HTTP 500 Bad Request and HTTP 400 Bad Request error which may pop up on any environment using http requests i.e. outlook web access, report server access, sharepoint, normal html server access, asp net server access |
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"A usage report is not available for this site. Usage processing may be disabled on this server or the usage data for this site has not been processed yet” in Sharepoint - A Resolution! |
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Was asked today my thoughts on closing versus deleting web parts on a web part page, and also what my definition of a web part page in Sharepoint actually is - thought I'd do this on a simplistic level <hehe> here goes! |
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Following SP2 for Sharepoint up comes the dreaded Event ID errors 2424 and 2436 from good ole Search. This quick blog entry describes the things tried that worked - tested using four farms |
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Fix to correct the issue of this error occuring when say trying to access the Search Administration of the SSP |
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You may notice something rather 'strange' when going into a site and noticing that you as an owner or site collection administrator doesn't seem to be able to modify anything! - It may be that the site is actually locked! |
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When trying to export or manage a BDC application you may get access denied if the application was created by another user, and the other user accounts are not explicitly defined against the BDC. This quick workaround allows you to get around that |
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Introducting - Manage Content and Structure Feature in SharePoint. It is a very useful browser interface that allows you to move items and yes, check in and out multiple documents. |
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This post will help you understand how to configure SharePoint so that you capture all of the activity to one type of log or another |
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The import resolution to Sharepoint import - Failure To Create Package File |
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Checked out and noticed receive the following error message in the error log if you go to "Site Settings->Configure search and indexing->View errors and warnings on:" and click on "portal content" or "non portal content"
The address could not be found, (0x80041209 - Cannot Connect to the server. Please make sure the site is accessible. ) - The address could not be found, (0x80041206 - A server error occurred. Check that the server is available. ) - this describes a workaround
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Describes a very quick but proper method on how to setup Kerberos in a Sharepoint Environment |
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The Content Editor Web Part occasionally gives me this error when it contains HTML source and it doesn't like something in the HTML source after it has parsed (changed) the HTML source. Once this happens, the page is uneditable and the problem is not able to be easily rectified. Managed to find a workaround! |
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Tries to solve the mystery of having a sharepoint calendar to force an expanded view |
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Describes how to solve a slow Sharepoint system! |
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Every so often, you get project related requests that are simply content related - heres one - how do I Geoff display a status icon in a list based on a Risk Assessment. For example, I want to show a AMBER status icon if the RAG status is AMBER - Can I do that? |
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When building a SharePoint environment, its important to define a level of functionality that allows developers and business users to test out features of SharePoint and create new functionality. It’s never a good idea to simply plant a SharePoint environment and assume that “hey don’t worry, they need a test environment? That’s ok, lets create a couple of test sites on the live environment and they can do all their stuff there” – doing this will end in a land of pain. This article explains some of the methods and links to places that describes the best way to go - for me, its Content Deployment all the way!
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Using good ole stsadm -o backup doesn't quite cut it when you want to restore a site as a subsite. That routine only works at top site level. So, how on earth would you restore a site into a subsite? This blog explains how to do this via -o import and export |
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List of the templates provided out of the box, and this relates to the import export error "Cannot import site. The exported site is based on the template STS#1 but the destination site is based on the template STS#0" |
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This product allows an extaction of all Guids including title, description and even list items from all components in a Site Collection. This is brilliant because then you can provide developers with all the information they need concerning List Ids, and you can also see the kind of content, web parts, etc that has been exposed on the site. |
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Upon going into the CA and creating a Shared Servers Provider found that I could not go any further, because there were no Web Applications listed to plant the SSP against… Using stsadm to force a createssp worked a treat to fix this... |
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Restore a content db via SQL restore and attach it to another SharePoint web application via Central Administration, and for some reasone the Current Number of Sites is 0. You are sure the content db has content. People can still access their sites!! Try this workaround... |
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You may find an error complaining that the host site collection list could not be displayed, when at the DOS prompt following an stsadm command to enumerate subwebs or enumerate sites. Try this out but watch out for the dreaded new id issue! |
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Here are guidelines for designing a server that has good overall performance for Sharepoint Services
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For those are looking for a feature comparison of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) |
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Lots of people ask me this one, so I thought it best to Blog it!
When on the portal and using a people search you may find that there are no items in the index. This blog gives a workaround that should correct the problem |
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When creating a new Shared Service you may see Error Event 7888 and next to the Shared Service Provider in SharePoint, “Provisioning Failed: Windows NT user or group ’somedomain.org\username’ not found. Check the name again”. After digging around and reading several other posts on the issue, I found what my problem was. Apparently, SharePoint doesn’t play well with the FQDN somedomain.org (or .com, .info, .local, etc). So everywhere an account that is needed for SharePoint is entered, it must simply be somedomain\username (without the .org). |
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Defining the information architecture for your SharePoint environment and ultimately for your business is a fine art. Some would say a black art! J It marries your business information schema, designed typically by your information architect or intranet portal specialist, to SharePoint’s containment hierarchy and the site structure that under pins your portal infrastructure. |
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Describes a nifty little utility for MOSS that allows the listing of user and group permission rights across one or all of your Sharepoint sites in a farm. Also allows specific report restrictions, for example, against a specific user and/or a specific permission right. |
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This descibes how to backup site collections using a tool I wrote that enumerates the sites and creates a backup batch file that can be scheduled using Windows Scheduler! |
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How to resolve (500 Internal Server Error. An internal error occurred. (1359)) |
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Describes how to upgrade MOSS from Standard to Enterprise |
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Corrects the problem where you only get the error 'No Authority could be contacted for authentication'. Occurred with Sharepoint 2003, but I suspect could also happen on MOSS 2007 |
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Describes the purpose of the various SSP protocols used for indexing MOSS 2007. |
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A good old explanation of MOSS 2007 Theasurus Files and how to utilise them. |
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This is a great and easy way to start of customising a team site using a theme for MOSS 2007. |
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Filtering a list by approval status |
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Describes the process of creating from scratch a disposition workflow and connecting IRM. |
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A product I've created that writes a batch file to automate the the lockdown state (No Additions, Readonly, None, NoAccess of any Sharepoint site in a Farm. This could then be scheduled so that in an environment where you have MySites you could lock them down without having to do it manually. |
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Describes how to resolve accessing an SSP and getting ACCESS DENIED on trying to setup scheduled Crawls on Content Sources. |
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This blog describes the process for adding a template to a site content type and applying it to document libraries |
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ISA causing http 500 errors on the MOSS web servers and what to check out for. |
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A 'resolution' on how to use PDF in MOSS - tricky or what in a 64bit environment! |
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Describes how to fix the =rss issue in IE7 resulting in the RSS feed not being displayed |
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This blog describes how to implant search features of MOSS into MS Office and IE7 |
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Describes how to clear timer service errors on MOSS |
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Probably the most common errors in MOSS are search crawl related. This blog describes a method of getting rid of these unwanted errors in the event log |
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Describes an issue concerning alerts being blocked by the virus checker and how it was resolved. |
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This describes how to turn off the Display Mixed Content (if you want to) |
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Shows how to implement a redirect on a page using the redirect layout page |
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This describes how to get around the issue of when the user gets ACCESS DENIED when creating a new page |
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User Information, Profile Database and Active Directory synchronisation issue described, and a possible resolution. |
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Describes how to resolve error 2436 which is when the search crawl looses its connection to the content database. |
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Describes the custom scopes in place to ensure that proper content is indexed. |
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Describes the fight and resolution for using RSS within an ISA perimeterd MOSS Farm and some alternatives that could be used |
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Description of methods used to ensure the crawl works by forcing the crawl on the index server - useful if the site is under the https syndrome! |
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A quick and easy method of getting to the save site as template option on a publishing portal in MOSS 2007 |
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These are the steps I used to migrate a sharepoint 2003 farm into Sharepoint 2007 with little customisation.
Note. It is wise to get your SP2003 environment to the latest service packs (i.e. 3) before the upgrade, however, I have been able to upgrade 2003 successfully using SP2003 Service Pack 2 without having to go to SP2003 Service Pack 3. |
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