SharePoint

If you’re having some of the following symptoms:
1. You’ve created a web application and you’re sure that credentials are right, but you’re unable to login to the site collection in that web application.
2. Search index log returns strange errors about not finding the web application or access denied.
Then the solution is in the following [...]

At TehNet they’ve released a very nice silverlight interactive help for STSADM command which the SharePoint Admin almost can’t imagine living without.
Straight to the point:
stsadm for MOSS 2007
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/cc948709.aspx
stsadm for WSS
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/dd418924.aspx

If you have a SharePoint environment which not every employee in the organization uses you’re stuck with two obsticles:

How to limit that the person is not selected and/or added as a member of the site collection (because of licencing issues)
How to stop MOSS from importing entire AD domain or forest. If you’re stuck with 100 [...]

A very interesting symptom occurred to me the past time. In a document library I was trying to edit document properties but I received an error that I don’t have rights. Strange. Even if I tried to edit with a site collection administrator account, I got the same error.
After searching for a while, I’ve [...]

Today the strangest thing happened. During the content migration suddenly the target list lost the proper destination. The result was ALL the lookup values missing and the dropdown empty when adding /editing. Horror! if this would have been a short list the first thing I’d do is to restore it from backup and recover the [...]

If you’ve moved the entire site collection by using stsadm –o backup and restore commands, you might notice that the email notifications either might not work or the links in email notifications might still point to the old URL. This can be resolved simply by using the following stsadm command on the destination server:
stsadm -o [...]

With the new installation of MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 you might run into a slight bump when trying to upload large files – to be more precise – files larger than 28 MB. Even though you’ve increased the maximum upload limit in SharePoint central administration, the upload still doesn’t work. Here are some [...]

If you’ve been trying to use one of my earlier described methods to migrate a SharePoint site (using stsadm -o export) you might have gotten frustrated, because even if you did use the -cabsize 1024 switch the result was still exported to two or more files with 25 MB size.

If we take a look [...]

SharePoint Config database logs are one thing to keep an eye on since they do have a tendency to grow. If you don’t perform a full farm backup usually the log doesn’t get emptied and it just keeps bloating.
If you’re running SQL Server Express with default installation, you can find the files in C:\Program Files\Microsoft [...]

Not long ago we’ve had a situation where the newly created users in Active Directory couldn’t be recognized to add them in SharePoint.
The whole topology was the following:
1 server as Primary Domain Controller for domain 2 server as secondary Domain Controller for same domain and for hosting SharePoint
Each on its own [...]