March 2008 - Posts

Virtualization Known Impacts
27 March 08 03:26 PM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

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 Read More...

Filed under: Virtualization

Top 10 Things You Need to Consider When Implementing MOSS
17 March 08 04:41 PM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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 Read More...

Filed under: Governance

User Profiles Out of Sync with AD
15 March 08 01:09 AM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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) Read More...

Planning a SharePoint Implementation From a DBA Perspective
14 March 08 12:50 PM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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. Read More...

Domain Local Users Group Can't Access SharePoint
08 March 08 02:48 AM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

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 Read More...

Kerberos Fails When Using CNAME
08 March 08 02:44 AM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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: Read More...

Howto use Powershell on Sharepoint from wbaer
05 March 08 02:40 PM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

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.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplicationBuilder( Read More...

How to Move a SharePoint Database To a New Server
05 March 08 02:11 PM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

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 Management studio Read More...

Think About Your SharePoint Taxonomy Before Deployment
05 March 08 07:31 AM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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 Read More...

Service Account Descriptions & Permissions
05 March 08 06:44 AM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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 share on Query Read More...

SSP and OWSTimer Service - Job Descriptions Used for Synchronization
05 March 08 06:41 AM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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 Read More...

Why Does My SSP and Index Service Keep Becoming Unstable
04 March 08 08:42 AM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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 Read More...

Audiences Fails to Resolve Security Groups When Being Added
04 March 08 12:17 AM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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 Read More...

Slow Performance Seen on MOSS Server WFE After Applying W2K3SP2
04 March 08 12:11 AM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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 Read More...

Content Query WebPart Links Fail with 404
04 March 08 12:08 AM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

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

Search Fails with Timeout Error
04 March 08 12:06 AM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

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. Read More...

Query Services Fail To Get Propogated When Index Server is configured as Query Server Too
04 March 08 12:02 AM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

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. Read More...

stsadm –o export command and receiving a "Failed to compare two elements in the array."
03 March 08 11:55 PM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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.aspx Read More...

403 Errors when accessing searchsspsettings.aspx from WFE
03 March 08 11:48 PM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

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 Windows\Tasks Read More...

Index Grows Out of Control
03 March 08 11:45 PM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

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. Read More...

Variations and Content Deployment Field ID in feature XML GUID needs to be lowercase
03 March 08 11:42 PM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

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 Read More...

Apply 64 bit Fix before Applying SP1 to avoid problems
03 March 08 03:35 PM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

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 Read More...