It is the typical scenario isn’t it. Site works fine for a week and then is officially launched on a Monday morning and the site breaks after an hour complaining that it cannot connect to the configuration database. Whoa? The …
Office Server Search memory leak and stuck on "crawling" Read more »
My home-town compatriot Jeremy Thake has hit onto a governance topic that I think will turn into a very popular series once he is done with it (in committing to writing it, he will be a busy boy indeed for …
This one had me going for a while. I was minding my own business doing a MOSS install. I successfully created the Office Server Search Service and onto the creation of the Shared Service Provider. Created the SSP and MySite …
I thought that I was getting pretty good at deciphering odd SharePoint errors. After all, most of the time they are not very friendly! After the subsite/site collection issue of yesterday, you would think I would be in for an …
I recently encountered an nasty, nasty error that threatened to cause me a lot of grief. I exported a site to a new site collection and initially things looked okay. However, I soon started to encounter strange errors such as:
There has been a bit of a gap in this series between part 5 and 6 – and fortunately for the both of us, I think this is the penultimate post in my series on SharePoint branding. While it has …
SharePoint Branding Part 6 – A "solution" to all issues? Read more »
So, here we are at the fifth article in my series on SharePoint branding. By now, we have left all the master page stuff way behind, and we have created a custom feature to install our branding to a server. …
SharePoint Branding Part 5 – Feature Improvements and Bugs Read more »
One thing you will first notice in planning a MOSS install is the sheer number of service accounts used. Without proper planning, it is only going to result in a poor set up and most likely be insecure. Despite the …
I found that a 5 server MOSS07 farm was very sluggish in terms of windows explorer view performance compared to a single farm running on a vmware box. This seemed on the surface to make no sense, but some further …
Poor windows explorer view performance in SharePoint? Read more »
After a web designer applied a new master page to a site, he killed the site. We saw these messages (debug logging was enabled on the site) Server Error in ‘/’ Application. ——————————————————————————– Compilation Error Description: An error occurred during …