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...

When using audiences to set up to trim the top link bar on a MOSS team site. When you adds more than one Active Directory security group to the audience for the navigation link and saves the settings, the audience only works for the last group in the...

I wanted to let you know about this TCP command that I highly recommend that you apply on all Windows Server SP 2 servers. While this functionality is designed to improve the overall functionality and scalability of TCP connectivity, there can be problems...

This is a known issue defined in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928303

Error - Crawling this document could not be completed becuase the remote server did not respond within the specified timeout. Try crawling the server later, or increase the timeout value. You may also try scheduling crawls during off-peak usage times...

If you have a multi server farm with dedicated query servers then the indexer must not be configured as a query server too. If you do this then propogation will fail.

select w.fullurl,* from features f inner join sites s on s.id=f.siteid inner join webs w on w.id=f.webid where w.fullurl like 'sites/XX/YY%' Compare the results to a master guids list I found at http://thorprojects.com/blog/archive/2007/05/16/652...

You may encounter a scenario where a 403 error is encountered when browsing the searchsspsettings.aspx page. If you browse directly to the indexer the page will display without error. I have found two causes for this behavior. 1. Permissions on the...

I have seen on two ocassions where the index entries in MSSCrawlURL table grew from 39K to 13 million entries. While I have not figured out the root cuase, the workaround is to just rebuild your index.

I have had two customers that have created features lately where the Field ID element in the feature.xml was not in lowercase. This caused various bheavior problems such as slow performance and duplicate list items. So make sure your Field ID GUID is...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946517 - Fix to correct 6482 Timer job Heap Corruption Issue on 64 bit system After applying SP1 the accounts on the WFE OSearch DCOM object permissions were removed. This was most likely caused by a failure in the OWSTimer...