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-cabsize 1024 not working

If you’ve been trying to use one of my earlier described methods to migrate a SharePoint site (using stsadm -o export) you might have gotten frustrated, because even if you did use the -cabsize 1024 switch the result was still exported to two or more files with 25 MB size. If we take a look [....

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-02-2008
SharePoint Config database Log file too big - reduce it!

SharePoint Config database logs are one thing to keep an eye on since they do have a tendency to grow. If you don’t perform a full farm backup usually the log doesn’t get emptied and it just keeps bloating. If you’re running SQL Server Express with default installation, you can find...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-31-2008
AD Users not recognized in SharePoint?

Not long ago we’ve had a situation where the newly created users in Active Directory couldn’t be recognized to add them in SharePoint. The whole topology was the following: 1 server as Primary Domain Controller for domain 2 server as secondary Domain Controller for same domain and for hosting...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-06-2008
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 the web application: On the Server in... Visit my...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-08-2008
"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 discovered that this is actually a SharePoint...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-23-2008
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 collection using sharepoint central administration...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-23-2008
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 -o backup -url http://[url-of-the-web-site]...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-21-2008
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 4. Select where to save the backup file and write...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-21-2008
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. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-17-2007
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 for each site and therefore release the memory...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2007

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