If you see these either or both of the warnings messages below in your Application Event Logs after provisioning the SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization Service (ILM/FIM), don’t be concerned.  These warnings are thrown when the ILM/FIM client...

  Here’s a quick script to set the “Daily Time Window for Large Queries” for all the web applications in a SharePoint 2010 farm via Windows PowerShell. #The start hour in the default time zone or in the local time zone. If the DefaultTimeZone property...

  Here are some PowerShell example to add a domain user or group to the User Policy for a SharePoint 2010 Web Application. In this example, we’ll give domain\user01 “ FullRead ” permissions to the SharePoint Web Application http://sharepoint2010...

The following will demonstrate how to update the SequenceNumber on an SPEventReceiver via Windows PowerShell. First, we need to get a reference to the SPList that has our SPEventReceiver registered on it, which can be done with the following PowerShell...

I worked an issue with a customer yesterday that was causing the SharePoint Search Service to fail to provision the query server role on one of the servers in the farm.  After some research into what SharePoint is trying to do in this call stack...

If you are like me and are trying to install SharePoint 2010 on a machine that does not have internet access, you will need to manually install each of the six prerequisite components.  Here are the download links for each component: Microsoft Filter...

I had a customer encounter an error while trying to restore a site collection using STSADM -O RESTORE.   They had backed up the site collection without error from the same farm, but when they tried to restore the site collection using a new URL to...

Good news for those of you who like the “pleasure” of patching SharePoint, we have four new updates for you, WSS and MOSS Service Pack 2 and the WSS and MOSS April Cumulative Update packages.  If you have a multi-lingual farm, you will also need...

I was working with a customer recently that has a business need to disable property promotion/demotion in WSS/MOSS.  If you don’t know what property promotion is, it’s the functionality in WSS that pulls the document metadata (e.g. Title, Subject...

A colleague of mine was working on a BlobCache issue with a customer.  During troubleshooting, they wanted to flush the cache store on all the servers in the farm.  Under Site Settings, we provide site administrators the option to flush the...

In case you didn’t know, you can slipstream server pack 1 (or the latest SP) of a language pack into the RTM service pack installation point, creating a single install point for each language pack include includes SP1.  You may think, big deal, I...

The WSS and MOSS server packages for the February Cumulative Update have been released.  These two packages are cumulative from SP1, so on new or existing farms you only need to install SP1 (use the pre-build the slipstreamed downloads ( x86 &...

Update, see the latest update on the February CU packages here .   Great news for WSS and MOSS patching!   From this point forward each Cumulative Update will also consist of a package that contains the latest of every hotfix patch that we have...

Please refer to the newest updates, posted here: http://blogs.msdn.com/josrod/archive/2008/12/17/latest-wss-and-moss-patches.aspx UPDATED: 12/11/2008 - 957693 was relased with 957175 built in (they are identical patches [complicated stort...

For those of you that are building a new WSS and/or MOSS farm, I've assembled a list of the patches you will need to build a "lastest and greatest" farm. The list below is published for an RTM farm, but if you have a farm in production already, you only...

Today we released some very important updates for WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2007, Project Server 2007, Search Server 2008 (Full and Express) and Project Professional 2007. This updates includes fixes for several areas of the product, including search, content...

There's an IIS 6.0 update that recently came out that should be applied to all WSS/MOSS servers, as it often falls victim. JB has more on his blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/jb/archive/2008/02/28/so-your-iis-manager-comes-up-blank-too.aspx You can...

The latest post SP1 global WSS and MOSS patches are: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: March 27, 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/?id=950487 Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: March...

Just in case anyone is looking, the WSS & SPS 2003 post SP3 rollup packages have been released. The links are below for quick reference. Windows SharePoint Services 2003 Windows SharePoint Services SP3 Download Site http://www.microsoft...

After a couple failed attempts and a bunch of swearing at the " The media for installation package couldn't be found. It might be incomplete or corrupt. " error message, I ended up going through the required components, finding that "Windows Format SDK...

Details are in KB941412 , but it's got a couple notable updates, one specifically for a New Zealand DST change. You'll have to contact MS to get the download or use our new hotfix request system linked in the KB. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941412

If you are experiencing a opening a blank IIS 6.0 server manager snapin and/or seeing Event IDs 7076, 6398, and 6482 in the App Log, check out KB 946517 for a hotfix for a recent issue found with the IIS 6.0 ADSI Provider.

Wanna keep tabs on new MOSS 2007 TechNet articles being published? Check out this TechNet site under the Office SharePoint Server 2007 content site. http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr...

In SharePoint 2003, we had an option in the central admin to add users and/or domain groups to a group called "SharePoint Administrators". This group was granted full control for all site collections within the farm. Many customers took full advantage...

Steve Peschka has released a great three-part article on Forms Authentication. If you are planning on hosting a multi-authentication environment, these article are a must read. Steve provides some sample web.config settings and also offers some troubleshooting...