Sharepoint – custom solution deployment failure
I recently ran into a problem where custom SharePoint solutions will randomly fail to deploy on any of the web servers in the farm. The nature of the problem was hard to debug. The failure can occur on...
View ArticleSend to… Other Location feature, MOSS & Office clients
Have you used this feature before? I see a lot of people on the internet using this feature and there are a couple of scenarios in which this feature won’t work “as expected”. I recently had a chance...
View Articlepeople picker & user accounts resolution in domainS FROM different forestS
Ever run into a situation where the people picker in SharePoint will fail to resolve usernames that are within a domain in a totally different forest? Assuming the trust relationships are setup...
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access denied while trying to save to favorites
I use the “Add to Favorites” feature in Internet Explorer a lot. After moving to Windows Vista, I ran into a problem where I’d get an Access Denied error, anytime I attempted to create a folder within...
View ArticleProvisioning shared services fails with user cannot be found error
I was recently rebuilding one of my farms when I ran into the problem I describe below. I logged onto the machine using my domain account. Then created local user accounts for use with my standalone...
View ArticleCONTENT DEPLOYMENT – the remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found
This is one of a series of blogs that I plan to write on troubleshooting content deployment issues. Here’s a scenario The destination farm is running on a Windows Server 2008 computer. When deploying...
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MOSS Search error – The Search application is not available for this site
I recently got a hardware upgrade and had setup up a new farm in a virtual environment using Hyper-V, after which I ran into the following problem after configuring search and attempting to perform a...
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MOSS 2007 – request timed out browsing or during administrative tasks
How many of you are running into this problem & how many of you have been able to find out the cause for this? I am guessing quite a lot of them out there are running into this problem with...
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Webdav folders – no full functionality
I recently got to work on a problem where MOSS 2007 SP2 was installed on a Windows 2008 machine. As you all know, Windows 2008 comes with IIS 7. The problem we had at hand had 2 particular symptoms a....
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debugging a crash – An example
Debugging & troubleshooting applications is a major part of my job, but not using debuggers like WinDBG. Although I have a great liking around using the debuggers, I don’t spend a lot of my time...
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