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IMPORTANT - DIRECT MODIFICATION OF ANY SHAREPOINT DATABASE IS UNSUPPORTED. This doesn't mean you can't peak though. Important Tables I have found usful for troubleshooting. I will publish as I define more. Contentdb ImmedSubscriptions / SchedSubscriptions...

So if you move a site from a SPWeb to a SPSite and it is a publishing site you should expect an array of problems and unpredictability. In otherwords don't make a subweb a top level site. THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT DO THIS! IT IS UNSUPPORTED! http...

MOSS SP2 Upgrade Process: As defined and cleansed by http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx#section1 Database Maintenance: 1. Run MOSS BPA and resolve any problems defined 2. Stop the www service and disconnect any users...

Because I get asked so often about what are the best practices for IOPS. I thought I would summerize from our article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850692.aspx Type RAID level Spindles Optimization TempDB...

Several people have encountered the problem of confusing cummulative updates(Infrastructure Update KB951297) where we update all of MOSS and the Oct and Dec patches where we update only certain components. For clarity in a Cummulative Update we update...

Beware that we have come across a regression in the July patch involving reverse proxy. If you are using this functionality you should hold off until a patch is created. Also the product team has created a blog just for the July patch . I would encourage...

This post is targeted towards the large customer and may not completely apply to medium or small organizations. This my list of the top ten priorities that a PM should focus and consider when given this task. This is a high level overview based upon my...

Special Thanks to Tim Walton for Researching And Contributing This. PROBLEM: Slow response from custom SharePoint Application components may be happening because we are seeing a timeout going to the Certificate Revocation List. As I understand...

I thought I might spend of a few minute with my answer to this question that seems to be coming up with managers more often with each passing day. My response is complicated to explain to becuase the answer is always you are asking the wrong question...

I wanted to say a few things that may help when deciding upon when a Farm, Web Application, Content Database and Site Collection are necessary. For the purposes of this discussion I am defining a Large organization as any organization implementing a medium...

MOSS SP1 Upgrade Process: As defined and cleansed by http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx#section1 Database Maintenance: 1. Run MOSS BPA and resolve any problems defined 2. Stop the www service and disconnect any users...

You have two choices, you can use either of the following stsadm cmds: searchadcustomfilter or setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath. setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath: When people picker resolves the user, it will check whether the user exists in...

VMWare could impact Windows services that depend upon the Windows Time Service for maintaining time synchronization across systems. Apparently the proper way to keep the guest time synced is to use the VMWare TimerSync and not the default Windows Timer...

Over the years I have seen a lot of SharePoint deployments from many customers going back to 2003. This has allowed me to develop a unique perspective and observation on how to deploy this product best. Here is what I have learned are the top ten things...

The most common cause of this problem is not running stsadm -o preparetomove prior to moving or upgrading the database. In case if you don't know there is a hidden list named "USER INFORMATION LIST" which displays all the users of the site (collection...

Content database IO utilization depends upon how the system is used. Generally, read access is more of a prominent need, but if your plans include lots of updates and additions of documents or list items then write IO will be important to your decision...

932378 Members of the domain local group cannot view a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;932378

Users see the following error which can be fixed by a hotfix for IE or by using HOST records rather than CNAME in DNS Error message in Internet Explorer when you try to access a Web site that requires Kerberos authentication on a Windows XP-based computer...

Reference the Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration Namespace and call the SPWebApplicationBuilder class to create a new SPWebApplication object. [system.reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Sharepoint") $webAppBuilder=new-object Microsoft...

1) Find the content Database These are listed under Central Admin->Application Management->Site Collection List 2) Backup the content database You could alternatively detach it, and copy it. Just doing a backup in SQL Server 2005...

The quickest way to fail from a user perspective is to not train your users how to build a good site taxonomy in collaboration with IT. Remember that you want to build your taxonomy wide not deep. Use the 6 P's and you will have a true collaboration site...

Search service account - It is a db_owner in ALL SSP databases. - It is a db_owner in ALL Search databases. - It has READ ONLY access to all the content in ALL web applications via a policy. - It has read/write access to the propagation...

The configuration of a SharePoint farm could be broken into two parts: - Initial deployment , e.g. adding a server to the farm and provisioning an indexer. - Synchronization , i.e. continuous automatic activities to change and self heal the configuration...

In short, a lot of what you do in the SSP admin console is executed through OWSTimer jobs. There is a known issue on 64 bit systems that can result in an exception being thown and the service will shutdown. From there what can happen is that whatever...