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• SharePoint Performance -- Quick (But Unusual) Tip

  We've been working in a user acceptance testing (UAT) environment which, as compared to development, is dead slow. It's a complicated environment using FBA, SQL 2008, SSRS and extended web applications accessible over the internet using https... Posted Jul 02 2008, 10:05 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: sharepoint administration

• Have You Performed Your Monthly Search Analysis?

  It's a good practice, probably even a Best Practice, to review your search reports once a month and look for opportunities to add best bets, tune your thesaurus and maybe even uncover some business intelligence that is otherwise hidden to management... Posted Jun 03 2008, 07:52 AM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: sharepoint administration

• Data Protection Manager: Seems Like a Great SharePoint Backup/Restore Solution

  At the New Jersey SharePoint User Group meeting last night, Microsoft Sr. product specialist DuWayne Harrison presented Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 . DuWayne was great (and he was supported by one or two colleagues from the audience whose names... Posted Apr 17 2008, 06:15 AM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: sharepoint administration

• SharePoint site and multiple domains - alternate access mappings is the way

  This is an update to one of my older posts - SharePoint 3 is bound to host headers - I was explaining the problem how the SharePoint binds itself to one host header and a simple trick to avoid this. There is a better way to add another host header to... Posted Mar 08 2008, 12:45 AM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, sharepoint administration

• Quick Impression: System Center Capacity Planner for SharePoint

  I just fired up the capacity planning tool that's all the rage these days . I found it easy to use and quickly modeled a client environment I worked on this past summer. With some trepidation, I pressed the final OK button and it recommended something... Posted Feb 07 2008, 06:58 AM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: sharepoint administration

• "Cannot find c:\...\exportsettings.xml" error when restoring with SharePoint Designer

  When making a SharePoint Designer backup of a certain Windows SharePoint Services site it's creating it normally. But when you try to restore the same backup you receive the cannot find ... exportsettings.xml error. After digging a lot around I've... Posted Jan 23 2008, 04:04 AM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, SharePoint Designer, sharepoint administration, exportsettings.xml, SharePoint backup, Restore error, restore problem

• Backup, restore and migration of sites on SharePoint 3 pt. 3/3

  stsadm -o export and stsadm -o import To backup: 1. Locate stsadm.exe 2. in Command prompt type stsadm -o export -url http://[url-of-the-web-site-or-subsite] -filename [path and name of the file.dat] To restore: 1. Create a web application and a site... Posted Jan 23 2008, 03:29 AM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, sharepoint administration, SharePoint backup, SharePoint restore

• Backup, restore and migration of sites on SharePoint 3 pt. 2/3

  stsadm -o backup and stsadm -o restore To backup:   1. On the server locate the file stsadm.exe (if you have sharepoint 2 and sharepoint 3 locate the one in the "12" folder.   2. Open command prompt and type [path to stsadm.exe\] stsadm... Posted Jan 21 2008, 04:10 AM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, sharepoint administration

• Backup, restore and migration of sites on SharePoint 3 pt. 1/3

  SharePoint Designer Backup and Restore To backup:   1. Open the site with SharePoint Designer   2. Select Menu "Site" --> "Administration" --> Backup web site   3. You can select to backup also the subsites  ... Posted Jan 21 2008, 04:09 AM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, sharepoint administration

• Yet Another Network Credentials Multi-Challenge Issue and Solution

  My client recently installed a magic device from Juniper that apparently replaced their old Cisco network load balancer (NLB). At about the same time, we installed a hotfix to address a workflow problem . A day or two later, we noticed a problem when... Posted Dec 15 2007, 04:30 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space: Blog Filed under: sharepoint administration

• How to Remove Unwanted Top Sites

  Body: Ok so this isn't going to be news to many but this stumped me today. I was approached by the Admin I am training to hand over the environment keys to with what seemed a simple enough question. How do you remove items showing up in your Top Sites... Posted Nov 15 2007, 10:55 AM by Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog: Posts Filed under: sharepoint administration

• Governance / Deployment Checklist

  Body: So your working in a medium to large corporation and your beginning to plan out your deployment of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS for short). You have a small IT staff dedicated to this project and currently you have been working... Posted Oct 27 2007, 12:58 PM by Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog: Posts Filed under: sharepoint administration

• Want a Better Understanding of Search in MOSS2007?

  Body: Microsoft recently released a number of great documents to go through. One being very detailed document related to MOSS 2007 Search. You can get it HERE Happy Reading Category: SharePoint Administration Published: 10/27/2007 1:55 PM Read More..... Posted Oct 27 2007, 12:55 PM by Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog: Posts Filed under: sharepoint administration

• Building a VM Test Lab Part 2

  Body: In the last post I walked through the initial steps of setting up your environment using Virtual PC and VMWare. In this post I want to dive a bit deeper. At this point you have already configured your base OS. You have gone to Microsoft Update and... Posted Oct 27 2007, 12:49 PM by Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog: Posts Filed under: sharepoint administration

• Resolving the "Unable to display this Web Part" problem after SharePoint Designer restore

  If you've restored the SharePoint site using commands Site --> Administration --> Restore site and this site had special XSLT data views you may be in for a big surprise! You can receive the following message: Unable to display this Web Part... Posted Aug 17 2007, 02:06 PM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, SharePoint Designer, sharepoint administration, Web design, Backup, Restore, GUID, XSLT, Data View

• Page File on the server too high? Alternative to IISRESET

  I've already been explaining in my previous post about application pools how to save on page file by reusing application pools. When you need to release page file size and memory consumption, you can run iisreset. This will kill each application pool... Posted Jul 17 2007, 12:28 PM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, sharepoint administration, internet information services, iis

• Unable to create SharePoint list from Excel (import spreadsheet)

  If you're trying to import spreadsheet to create a SharePoint list in SharePoint 3.0 you can receive some errors. This especially occurs if you're using Excel 2003. Thanks to Matjaž from Portorož, there is a resolution to this problem: update... Posted Jul 09 2007, 01:46 AM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, sharepoint administration

• SharePoint 3 is bound to host headers

  With the old SharePoint we were using host headers much more freely. When the site was extended, all you needed to do is add additional host headers in the Internet Information Services console. With SharePoint 3 the story is a bit different. When you... Posted Jul 05 2007, 01:37 AM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, sharepoint administration

• "Cannot connect to the configuration database" and SharePoint

  Today I've received another of the cases when SharePoint (v2) couldn't connect to the configuration database. This can be a common problem but it's not so horrible to solve it. The reason for this is that SharePoint lost the connection to... Posted Jul 05 2007, 01:15 AM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, sharepoint administration

• Reinstalling SharePoint (WSS3) to run under SQL server 2005 instead of Windows internal database (##SSEE)

  Recently I was fixing on one server an installation of Windows SharePoint Services that has gone wrong. Even though we've had SQL server 2005 installed correctly, WSS3 installed its own Windows internal database (##SSEE) and started using it. I thouhght... Posted Jun 11 2007, 12:10 AM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, sharepoint administration, install, windows server 2003

• Application pool for each SharePoint (WSS) site?

  After a long time I'm returning with some SharePoint administration and deployment topics. One of them is Web application pools with SharePoint. When creating more top level sites with each its own application pool, you can seriously think about how... Posted Jun 05 2007, 02:53 PM by Web BorG Filed under: Sharepoint, sharepoint administration