Ref: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library... The scenario is to backup the Office SharePoint Server 2007 related databases from one farm and restore the contents and Shared Service Providers (SSPs) to the other farms. Migration scenario...

No this blog is not dead… i must admit I was involved with wide variety of things and honestly speaking didn't had any spare time to Blog…. its a lame excuse .. I know :-). However, I did explore a lot of stuff and learnt a lot as well.. i will be posting...

Here is the situation and i must tell you that i cracked my head for almost 4 hours on this :( I had 1 MOSS Server (Complete install) connecting to 1 back-end SQL Server. We decided to add 1 more MOSS Server and 1 more SQL Server in the farm. Database...

I know I know its a SharePoint Blog. But I faced this problem in my server farm and thought of posting it so that it helps somebody else too... So this is what happened:- I came to office and logged on to my Remote Desktop Console to take a look in my...

Today morning i was working with a SSIS package and came across this error while running the package through a SQL Agent Job on a 64 Bit WIn SRV 08 running SQL 08 SP1. A little more about my dev environment: My Dev machine is running a 64 bit Win 7 RC...

To use the Web content management features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you need to turn on the Publishing feature on a site. You can then brand the site so that it has your corporate look and feel, and you can enable users to edit the...

Ok, so i just finished configuring Remote Blob Storage with FILESTREAM for SharePoint Foundation. I hit a few glitches hence thought I will share the steps with you. First, why RBS?? For all of you guys who has WSS 3.0 running on Windows Internal Database...

I get this question quite often and frankly speaking there is no one way of doing it. This is what I do in my environment....   Note: this process can also be followed in case of Migrating the MOSS farm from 1 server to another. Of coarse you can...

Workflow Unable to start workflows via browser on list item if list item was created and never updated on v2 site. The workaround is to update the list item first, and then you can navigate to workflow.aspx page for the list item. Views You...

I am sure you have seen enough blog posts on this and so I thought will add one more to the ever growing list!! So for last few days I have been working with one my my colleagues to install and Configure Enterprise Portal (AX 2009) with SharePoint...

Check out the version comparison at: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/product/Pages/Features.aspx http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Editions-Comparison.aspx   This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers...

That’s right. It’s not a typo!! SharePoint Foundation 2010 now allows Business Connectivity Services that runs on BDC Technology. Read it yourself at - http://office2010.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-foundation-help/what-s-new-in-microsoft-sharepoint...

One of the most common question that I face everyday is how to index PDF files in SharePoint. The business scenarios in which this is required are mainly the companies that want to move to a paperless office.A lot of companies like those in the insurance...

Well, there are sevaral ways to do this, but here is what I would do: Take a full back up of the portal using SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Backup and Restore Utility. Install SharePoint 2003 on the new box Use the same backup and restore...

One of the common business requirements is to have a custom name for the Admin Content (Central Administration) Database. There are two ways to achieve that. One is to choose the custom name while installation and the second way is to rename the databases...

After I removed a WFE from the Server Farm (MOSS), I get the following error in the Application Log. As usual it worked fine when I did the same thing in Lab, but everything has to go wrong when it comes to production... :( Anyway, lets get down to the...

If you haven't read it yet there is a nice document posted here that has overall view of the great enhancements made in SP2. For your convenience the extract of the document is below…   Performance and Availability Improvements Windows SharePoint...

If you are a Microsoft Partner (or even a customer) and want to demo / Test  a SharePoint Solution and don't want to spend days configuring your demo environment use the ready made VHD’s below: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID...

I have heard some confusions on this recently and wanted to post this for generic reference. You can install SharePoint 2007 connecting to SQL 2008 R2 as long as you have SP2 for SharePoint 2007 or later CU installed. Ref: (scroll down to software...

Often people ask me how to use custom ASP or ASPX pages along with SahrePoint. For example, if you want to use FrontPage Database wizard – it wont run on a page that belongs to WSS. Here is the workaround: Create the ASP /ASPX page as you want and...

Recently I was working on a project and preparing a Lab environment. The goal was to install and configure MOSS on Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 and monitor it with SCE. Since I faced some roadblocks while trying to install and configure SCE on a Win 08 VM...

Some really good information on SAP and MOSS Integration available at the following post: http://blogs.msdn.com/joanna_bichsel/archive/2007/09/25/sap-integration-with-moss.aspx . and the following link on MS Site: http://www.microsoft.com/isv/sap/technology...

Another common scenario!! Today everybody wants to have a internet presence and SharePoint definitely gives a edge when it comes to internet presence. The common questions that I face day to day is what are the best practice of deploying SharePoint...

One most common deployment questions that I get is whether it is possible to to have a mix and match of 32bit and 64bit servers in the same server farm. In short the answer is yes, you can. A little more explanation on this.... The inevitable scenario...

A great resource for comparing various feature of SharePoint Online VS On-Premise and between various Office 365 SKU’s and various SharePoint Online Plans - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819267.aspx   This is one the best comparison...