A consultant's perspective on FAST ESP and SharePoint Technologies.

You can’t create a SSP right?

Sometimes I find this error when I’m creating Shared Service Provider (SSP). Provisioning failed: User cannot be found. Yes, it happens a lot and there are some places to look at, usually I find myself updating user accounts for: Search and SSPs: I use Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:43 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

When I click in a Virtual Server from the list of Virtual Servers in SharePoint v2 it displays the help Window.

First of all, I can't believe I'm still posting for SPS2003, but here we go... Ok, this happened a while ago, I tried to see the settings for a Virtual Server in SharePoint v2 farm and it kept displaying the help window to upgrade a virtual server (it Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:32 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

SPS2003 SP3 applied but Content Databases still in SP2 schema.

I am supporting another consultant who is participating in a migration from SPS2003 to MOSS 2007 (yes, there are still many companies who have SPS2003, larger companies tend to move slower). So, customer applied SP3 and my friend scanned with prescan.exe, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:25 AM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

SharePoint Learning Kit 1.2 and Alternate Access Mappings

I am currently working with SLK and setup a basic site with Learning Features. I also configured this webapp to be available from the outside so I configured both default and external zones for this webapp. I could access the site from both the http://internal Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:49 AM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

MOSS' blobcache causing 404 errors

Yesterday I found myself with a problem with this MOSS feature. For some reason we had to delete our dev site collection. When we tried to recreate it the site was created succesfully but every resource needed for the main page was lost (404 error for Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:32 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

Project Portfolio Server 2007 "A name was started with an invalid character" error.

I don't know why but last time I tried to access my PPS2007 installation the following error arised: The xml page cannot be displayed A name was started with an invalid character <% Response.Redirect("..... At first it looked like the .aspx mapping Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:22 PM by Ricardo Loo | 6 Comments

&amp;quot;An error ocurred while retrieving server information for Project Server&amp;quot; error in EditSite

IMPORTANT : This article contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information about how to back up, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:58 PM by Ricardo Loo | 0 Comments

SPS 2003 Single Sign-On Configuration Issue

Recently, I was installing a SPS2003 SP2 dev environment with SQL Server 2005 and when I tried to configure SSO Service the following error kept appearing at the "http://localhost:<<adminport>>/SSO/ManageServer.aspx" page: “No tiene derechos Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 7:03 PM by Ricardo Loo | 0 Comments