Overview In SharePoint 2007/2010, if you have a document library that contains lookup columns that were programmatically created or created via a custom feature, you may run into a problem where when a user clicks on a document to open the document, the...

Overview I have recently come across an annoying problem, and I have seen it often enough that I decided to blog about it. Consider the following scenario: You open your SharePoint Central Administration Website and it takes a long time to load the first...

Introduction If you are looking at a System.Net.IPAddress object in a memory dump in WinDbg and are wondering what I.P. address it actually represents, this post explains how you can get that information nice and quick. The Details I was looking at a...

Overview In MOSS 2007, there is a known issue where the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service enters a deadlock after being started. If you try to stop it, you’ll notice that you’ll a message from the SCM that the service is not responding. The symptoms...

Updated 9/28/2011. Added “Other Issues” section. Summary On September 13, 2011, Microsoft released security bulletin MS11-074 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Elevation of Privilege . The security bulletin had a security rating of...

A common problem that I have recently seen crop up is where you configure your web application to use portal super reader and/or portal super user accounts, and for whatever reason, you need to “unset” the configuration or revert back to the default setting...

[ Updated 10/28/2011]: Changing the title of the post . This problem affects several areas of the product, not just profile synchronization Overview I recently came across a nasty case where the user profile synchronization service just won’t start. Additionally...

Updated 02/02/2012 – Added two more scenarios to “Known Issues” section based on feedback Introduction SharePoint 2010 uses Forefront Identity Manager to synchronize user profiles between the SharePoint 2010 profile database and backend user repositories...

Introduction With SharePoint 2010, you now have the ability to synchronize user profiles between the SharePoint profile database and user repositories such as Active Directory, SUN One LDAP, IBM Tivoli, and Novell eDirectory. If you have a custom user...

The Problem NOTE: Note that this article does not apply to you if do not have the following features activated: Office SharePoint Server Publishing (Site Feature) Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure (Site Collection Feature...

The Problem On some Windows Server machines that are virtual machines hosted in a VMWare environment, SharePoint will not be able to send emails or alerts. The symptoms of the problem described in this article are: When you subscribe yourself...

Introduction Crawls are taking unusually long to complete! My crawls are running very slow, maybe they are stuck! If you have run into any of these questions and don't have the answer yet, this post is meant to help you find it. This post assumes that...

Introduction MOSS relies heavily on timer jobs for a number of its functionality areas. Timer jobs execute on a fixed schedule, and no matter what, they will execute on the schedule that has been assigned to them. What if you want to get a particular...

Introduction If you install a feature in your MOSS 2007 farm and after that the feature folder or the feature manifest file accidently gets deleted from your Web Front End servers file system, you will get the error "Failed to find the XML file at...

Introduction When using Variations in MOSS 2007, it is important to understand what gets propagated to target variations and what doesn't. I have seen a lot of people assuming that with variations, the entire source site should get propagated to all...

Note: This post applies primarily to SPS 2003, but the solution for this problem in MOSS 2007 is also very similar. I might write another post for this problem for MOSS 2007 in the future. Introduction SPS 2003 crawls text files with the .txt extension...