Troubleshooting SharePoint!
Odd issue around configuring a dedicated WFE for SharePoint crawl
We had an interesting issue recently where the SharePoint services would not start up and the...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 06/29/2012
SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - Steps to Partition the User Profiles Service Application
Pre-requisite: These are few steps to be done prior to getting the User Profiles provisioned....
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 05/10/2010
SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - You receive an error - "An unexpected error has occurred." when you try to browse to the page to Manage a newly created User Profile Service Application
You create a new User Profile Service Application and try browsing to the Manage link for the User...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 05/05/2010
SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - Upgrade consideration
SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization has undergone a major architectural change. I have...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 05/04/2010
How to configure a Dedicated Web Front End for crawling in SharePoint 2010
In SharePoint 2007 (MOSS v3) we have an option in the Office Server Search User Interface to...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 04/26/2010
MOSS 2007: Creation of Content Deployment Path on Windows 2008 fails with Access Denied
Faced an odd problem today! I had installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (SP2 + Oct CU)...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 03/11/2010
Incremental Content Deployment completes with a Warning message – User or group with ID “X” cannot be resolved.
While running content deployment import job on destination farm, you get the following warning...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 11/30/2009
Incremental Content Deployment Errors out with "Save Conflict" when deploying User information without Security information
Technorati Tags: sharepoint content deployment import While running content deployment import job on...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 11/30/2009
Changes to the custom dictionary.txt file are not taking effect
You might face a peculiar problem when you implement the custom dictionary functionality in...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 07/23/2009
Change the application pool associated with a web application in sharepoint.
Recently I researched on case where the SharePoint Service Pack 2 upgrade failed with the following...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 07/21/2009
PowerShell script to list all User Profiles in an SSP
I had few thousand user profiles in my SSP and needed to delete them. So here is a script that I...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 05/12/2009
PowerShell script to delete all items in a List
Another script I wrote is to delete all items from a List....
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 04/30/2009
PowerShell script to remove all users from a SharePoint Group
I have been experimenting with PowerShell scripting for the past few months. Below is a script I...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 04/26/2009
Import of a variation site fails with "An error occurred while parsing EntityName"
We had an interesting case the other day. The customer had a variation enabled SharePoint site with...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 02/23/2009
Users do not see then 'View by Social Distance' link in the people results page in Search Center
When you do a people search on SharePoint, you see the results in the "Results by Social Distance"...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 06/23/2008
Colleague tracker Web Part on the MySite does not display data!
If you apply the Obsidian Theme to your MySite, the Colleague tracker webpart might show some blank...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 06/19/2008
Troubleshooting issues with SharePoint crawling Forms based Authenticated sites.
What this blog describes is the steps you need to get SharePoint to crawl a Forms based...
Author: Vijay - MSFT Date: 06/18/2008