Priyo's SharePoint Blog

Having a custom Admin Content Database in SharePoint 2007

2009-05-11T21:41:08Z

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 the initial configuration. Choose Custom Admin Content DB Name During Initial Configuration It is possible to have a custom Admin Content DB name while setting up SharePoint for the first time. Follow these steps to achieve a custom name for...(read more)

DTS_E_OLEDB_EXCEL_NOT_SUPPORTED : Resolved

2009-05-04T17:01:03Z

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 with 08 BIDS My Production machine is running SQL 08 SP1 on Win 08 all 64 Bit. What I am doing? Creating a SSIS package to get some data stored in a Excel File (Office 2003 Format) on a remote share to my production warehouse. What's the Error? Simply...(read more)

Do I need SP1 for WSS and MOSS before I install SP2

2009-05-01T21:37:07Z

A question on everyone's mind now!! The answer – No You don't. SP2 has the following inbuilt:-) This service pack includes the following updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: · Service Pack 1 · Infrastructure Update · All Cumulative Updates through the February Cumulative Update. If you need to know more read here - Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Products and Technologies and More about SharePoint 2007 SP2 . This posting is provided "AS IS" with no...(read more)

More about SharePoint 2007 SP2

2009-05-01T21:26:36Z

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 Services 3.0 SP2 and Office SharePoint Server SP2 include several fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms. Database Integrity Index fragmentation is a major cause of performance degradation...(read more)

SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 SP2 is here….

2009-04-29T18:11:26Z

The long awaited SP2 for MOSS and WSS is here!! Download them from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b7816d90-5fc6-4347-89b0-a80deb27a082 Description is available here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953334 This file has all the changes that has been made in SP2 - Download the 2007 Office servers Service Pack 2 Changes.xlsx package now For how to deploy software updates on a MOSS Server Farm (or WSS Server Farm as the case may...(read more)

Error: Essentials is already installed in this domain

2009-03-25T23:32:33Z

Recently I am working on a project where i am using SCE 2007 to monitor MOSS. Yesterday my DC crashed while merging snapshots and hence i had to start all over again. I was about to install SCE when it came up with a error that said SCE is already setup in the domain and that i can have only 1 SCE per domain. I realized that when i had uninstalled SCE last time, it didn't remove everything from the DC (which was recovering from the restore). The error message is as shown below: I found a KB that...(read more)

How to install System Center Essentials on Windows Server 2008

2009-02-25T22:02:33Z

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 i thought to post the step-by-step here to make someone’s life a little easier. Note – reference - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb422968.aspx First you need a SCE SP1 Step 1 - Install .net 3.0 Framework - From Administrative Command Prompt...(read more)

Move MOSS 2007 from test to production

2008-01-14T10:05:33Z

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 also to a full farm backup and restore using the Central Admin UI. The best and fastest way that I find is content DB attach and detach mode. Usually you will not have any change in the Search / SSP DB and User Profiles in test. Hence no point moving...(read more)

Remotely reboot Windows Server 2003

2007-11-20T11:56:43Z

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 MOSS Farm Event Viewers (something I started doing in MOSS Beta 1 days and now I am addicted :-)). What I found was a Event ID 10039 from Office Server Search: "Retry of query machine 'WFE2' has failed with error: The network path was not found. ...(read more)

Microsoft Search Server 2008

2007-11-11T22:03:51Z

Its there and its there to rock!! Microsoft Search Server 2008 is launched. Read what Forrester has to say about it... "...MSSE has a substantial set of capabilities, most notably its connectivity to many intranet- and Internet-based resources, including Microsoft Exchange, IBM’s Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and even EMC’s Documentum and IBM’s FileNet enterprise content management systems. MSSE trumps Google’s search appliances by offering a stronger...(read more)

Crawl Lotus from MOSS

2007-11-11T21:55:36Z

One of the great feature of Microsoft Enterprise Search - crawling a Notes Database through MOSS. Though the protocol handler is installed by default with the MOSS installation it is not enabled by default. To enable the crawler to work read the great article posted at: How to setup the MOSS 2007 Protocol Handler for Lotus Notes to search multiple Domino Databases How to setup the MOSS 2007 Protocol Handler for Lotus Notes to search multiple Domino Databases. Part 2 of 3 How to troubleshoot MOSS...(read more)

MOSS and SAP Integration

2007-10-26T18:44:00Z

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/interop/sharepoint.aspx . Apart from this MOSS Out Of Box have iView webpart which allows users to connect to SAP EP from MOSS. If you are considering using SAP Data in MOSS for Search etc consider using Business Data Catalogue. With the help...(read more)

MOSS Deployment - How to mix 32 bit and 64 bit servers

2007-10-26T14:52:27Z

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 where you would need a 32bit server is where you have a MOSS farm and you want to crawl Lotus. Since Lotus does not support 64bit C++ API (at the time of publishing this post) it is mandatory to use a 32bit MOSS Server. You can have all WFE (Web Front...(read more)

Configuring WSS 3.0 on Longhorn (Windows Server 2008) RC0 Build

2007-10-26T13:06:58Z

Sorry folks, I have been pretty busy lately and its been long that I have posted something here. So here we go.... How to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a Windows Server 2008 (Codename: longhorn) Build RC0. (You can download RC0 build from here .) First of all, I did a upgrade from Windows Server 2003, (it didn't had WSS installed, but IIS was there.). I had Windows PowerShell 1.0 installed, and that needs to be removed before you can do a in-place upgrade. After the upgrade I had to...(read more)

Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments

2007-08-12T11:57:09Z

Good capacity and performance planning guidance at http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/5465aa2b-aec3-4b87-bce0-8601ff20615e1033.mspx?mfr=true This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights....(read more)