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ULS CMS Errors

The CMS features that were rolled into SharePoint have their fair share of issues. Working with one of my recent customers, we found a number of errors in the ULS logs in their farm. The follow errors fit into the two following categories. Although these Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:10 PM by ronalg | 0 Comments
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PAL Thresholds for MOSS Crawling Performance

Over the last couple of months I’ve been helping my customer work through MOSS Crawling Performance issues. The sad part of this task is, there isn’t an easy way to do it, because there are so many moving parts and variables. A couple of months ago, some Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:18 PM by ronalg | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): PAL MOSS.zip

Excel Services SSO Configuration Issue

This post is about a case I worked on back in April, which was a real doozy, to say the least. My customer was trying to set up SSO for Excel Services. In short, they wanted to create a couple of shared data connections, that used one credential to access Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:55 PM by ronalg | 0 Comments

Configuring inter-farm shared Services

When configuring Inter-Farm Shared Services, as per the following article , there is a slight variation. If you’re running MOSS Standard, in the child farm, you won’t see the option to select an SSP for the local Excel Services, since the farm cannot Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 21, 2009 12:29 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

SSO NOT WORKING AFTER CONFIGURING PARENT/CHILD FARM

I recently ran across a scenario where SSO stopped working in a parent/child SSP farm set up. In this instance, there was one farm. A new parent SSP farm was created. SSO was configured there. The child farm was connected to the new parent farm. All the Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 21, 2009 10:47 AM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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PSConfig/Content Database Attach Error - "Unknown server error number: d"

I recently ran into an issue when applying the MOSS August CU. This issue is not necessarily isolated to this patch. When the patch ran, the B2B upgrade process was failing in the site collection action upgrade sequence. The specific step was 12.1. 6301 Read More...
Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 9:03 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

Adobe Releases 64 bit PDF iFilter

Adobe has FINALLY released a 64 bit PDF iFilter. For everyone out there running 64 bit MOSS, without a proper 64 bit PDF iFilter, please go get this for yourself. I haven't seen any performance data, but it should increase your indexing performance of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:32 AM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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Limiting the number of site collections in a content database

In my opinion, part of being a good SharePoint admin is to pay attention to the size of your content databases and try to keep them to a specified maximum size. (Usually for DR reasons) In order to do this, you should limit the number of site collections Read More...
Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 11:04 AM by ronalg | 0 Comments

Object Model exports bad audit log XML

I've recently been doing some work analyzing audit logs for a customer. Exporting the audit logs via the Site Collection's Administration pages reports fails due to the amount of data I'm pulling back, so I've turned to the Object Model to get the data Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:10 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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SharePoint Patching Story Improves! (a little bit)

If you haven't had the pleasure of patching WSS 3.0 or MOSS2007, you're missing a real fun experience. If you are one of the folks who've had to go through the pain, there's some good news for you. If you're particularly adept at reading KB articles, Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:40 AM by ronalg | 1 Comments

Setting up cross farm searches via Federated Search

In recent months I've seen significant issues with search crawl times at numerous customers who have deployed MOSS globally. The issues often are caused by the need to crawl other farms across the world, so "global" results will show up on one search Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:02 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

SQL Maintenance for SharePoint Databases

If you don't already know, you can't treat SharePoint databases like any other database in regards to SQL Server. Here's a listing of articles that talk to what you can do. Before doing any maintenance, PLEASE read these articles. Index fragmentation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:15 AM by ronalg | 2 Comments

MOSS Farms with Windows Server 2003 and 2008

Due to the confusion around running x86 and x64 in MOSS farms and it's supportability, I wanted to take a minute to talk about Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 machines in one farm. Some of the SharePoint PMs confirmed internally there are Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 2:09 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

MOSS and SQL 2008

If you didn't catch the news, SQL Server 2008 RTM'ed a couple weeks ago. The SharePoint team has quickly announced full supportability for MOSS 2007 on SQL 2008. The SharePoint Team Blog has a full write up with some specifics. Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 2:06 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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ForeFront for SharePoint Issue

This post's goal is to serve as a word of warning when using ForeFront and SharePoint together. If you're going to disable ForeFront (or any of its services), please first disconnect SharePoint and ForeFront in Central Admin for SharePoint. If you don't, Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 1:52 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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