Symptom Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Event Category: (964) Event ID: 6398 Date: <DATE> Time: <TIME> PM User: N/A Computer: <SERVERNAME> Description: The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office...

When specifying the SQL server, Configuration Database name and account for SharePoint you may see the following error Failed to connect to the database server or the database name does not exist. Ensure the database server is a SQL server, and...

This is a very basic sample of a service level agreement for SharePoint. This would be more typical of providing an SLA to an internal department of an organization. Providing an SLA to an external party would probably include an additional set of items...

Call to action - What parts of governance for SharePoint do you want to hear about? I'll post new topics based on user requests. Just create requests by posting comments at the bottom of this blog. (request it again, even if others have already asked...

There are many little "gotchas" with setting up incoming email for MOSS. Just nit picky little things, normally they are all about email infrastructure, SMTP, etc. My advice below is to help you avoid taking your heart medication, it can be easy to set...

Obligatory Introduction BAM is such a good name for this technology for a few reasons. The first is that it reminds me of the kid Bambam on the Flinstones (You know, the baby with the club that had a thing for Pebbles). Very powerful and very cool...

This posting is intented to complement the Training Roadmap for Office SharePoint Server 2007 with additional resources for non-technical staff members. This are excerpts from webcasts available at msevents.microsoft.com . These are best for Technical...

This blog posting is a page designed to support basic feedback and management for the Training Material Roadmap that I created for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007). (Oct 16 2007) - Training...

I have had this recurring conversation with customers and partners. Clustering is not a simple concept, and neither is BizTalk. If you put them together you seem to have a perfect storm. There's lots of confusion, which I hope to be able to dispel with...

I've seen one too many BizTalk groups with poorly configured Host/Host Instances. So I've decided to create a BASIC post on the subject. This is a pretty sophisticated topic having to do with scaling, high availability, resource management etc. so please...

Introduction: This post is the first in a series of posts that will describe a number of production considerations for Enterprise customers (“Enterprise” loosely defined as those with moderately complex BizTalk implementations) This is in response...

This is a fairly common scenario after Windows 2003 SP1 (or greater) is installed, so I thought I better put in my two cents Scenario: BizTalk seems to lose connectivity to the MsgBox (and all other databases on that SQL instance) Problem: The operating...

Office 2007 users want to see something cool? Save out a word 2007 .docx format, rename the file to have a .zip extension, and then crack it open. How cool is that? You can read more here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338205.aspx

------------------------------------- Addendum – June 22 2007: Under absolutely NO circumstances should you modify the data model of the BizTalk databases in any way. You should only optimize your own application databases. --------------------------...