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Event IDs 7076, 6482, 6398 in Appplication Log
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.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerAdministrationServiceJob Read More...
Configuration Wizard - Failed to Connect
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 that you Read More...
SharePoint - Sample Service Level Agreement (SLA)
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 Read More...
SharePoint - Governance (Part 1)
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 Read More...
SharePoint 2007 - Incoming Email
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 Read More...
BizTalk Server 2006 - Enterprise Production Considerations - Part 4 - BAM
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. Also Read More...
Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Training Material Roadmap
Training Material Roadmap Author: Neil Thompson ( neilth@microsoft.com ) Site: Neil’s MSDN Blog page Date: September 2007 Click here for the word document version of this document. Abstract This document provides an extensive series of links to publicly Read More...
SharePoint Office Server 2007 - Overview WebCasts for Decision Makers
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 Read More...
SharePoint 2007 Training Material Roadmap
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 Read More...
BizTalk Server 2006 - Enterprise Production Considerations - Part 3 - Clustering
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 Read More...
BizTalk Server 2006 - Enterprise Production Considerations - Part 2 - Host and Host Instances
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 Read More...
BizTalk Server 2006 - Enterprise Production Considerations - Part 1 - Production Server Topology
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 to Read More...
BizTalk gets "General Network Error" under heavy load
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 Read More...
Office 2007 Open Format
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 Read More...
Excessive Blocking when using BizTalk SQL Adapter
------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------- Read More...
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