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Ok, so this drove me bonkers. I’m not loving the workaround (basic authentication) but I’m happy enough, as I have an SSL cert protecting the site anyways, thus auth is secured. But even after blowing away the web application and site collection, creating a new web application and restoring the site collection from backup, this …

This from Zac Mullett today, blog ready, I just needed to cut and paste. Nice 🙂 I resolved the problem I was having where I would create a DataViewWebPart for one of our lists and get this: The server returned a non-specific error when trying to get data from the data source. Check the format …

Well this came in handy the other day… Use this path, to connect to your local SharePoint Windows Internal Database (WIB) using SQL Server Management Studio Express (2005). .pipeMSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEEsqlquery (note: there are two backslashes at the front of that syntax that aren’t shown via HTML, so don’t forget those)

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SharePoint Dataviews – ROCK! The BDC may be cool but it’s also expensive (it’s not in WSS, and in MOSS, it is only in the Enterprise product which is BIG $$). Learned a bunch about them this week, and then learned more, by reviewing some articles presented on Microsoft’s website. These were worthy of a …

Ok, so I’ve never found this information outlined clearly in one place, so I’ve done it. If you want to enable incoming e-mail in SharePoint, you need to know the following: You need to be running MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) – the $$ version, not WSS 3.0 (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) You …

Just starting to build out this list but some good entries to start: http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=503 http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/Training.aspx

I’m starting to put a listing of tools together: SharePoint Portal Server Support Report Tool (SPSReport) This is a information gathering tool that collects logs and reports that we need to troubleshoot the issue. It will create a cab file at following location: c:windowsspsreportsportalrptcab http://www.codeplex.com/spsreport/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5706 Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and …

Pretty smooth and simple really… Reference: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288716.aspx All I had to do was… Backup:cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%Microsoft sharedWeb server extensions12Bin stsadm -o backup -url http://sourceserver:port -filename backupfilename Restore:cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%Microsoft sharedWeb server extensions12Bin stsadm -o restore -url http://destinationserver:port -filename c:tempbackupfilename Notes: In my case, I moved the site collection from one farm in one domain, to another farm …

Ran into this today, with a few variances on the fixes, so thought I’d bookmark them. Basically, we’ve been getting this error (or variations) when trying to do a full crawl (or incrementals): this crawl has been paused by the search system Appears as though, SQL Database Maintenance Plans are to blame, as is outlined …