As discussed in my previous blog, its been observed that starting User profile sync job is not an easy task at times. This post describes errors and the solution that I recently worked on. The issue was on a SharePoint 2010 farm which is migrated from...

Its  been commonly observed that working with User profile service application is one of the pain areas of SharePoint 2010. Most of the time, it fails with starting the User profile synchronization service from Central administration site. I was...

I had spent a good amount of time understanding how Windows Rights Management Services works and how it can be deployed over Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Thought of sharing my findings on this topic here. Before we begin this topic, please...

Rights Management Services RMS stands for “Rights Management Services” and as the name indicates it is a Microsoft Windows information protection technology that uses encryption and a form of selective functionality denial from limiting access to documents...

This document will help you out in configuring a document library to set document expiration policy. Meaning , you can configure a document library to automatically manage its documents . Image , we need to gradually check all the documents in the document...

The Explorer View is an excellent feature that is integrated with  Windows SharePoint Services that allows a user to access a document library as if you were accessing a file system through a Windows Explorer window. Being end users , everyone might...

This article will help you to configure  your MOSS2007 environment for libraries to receive incoming e-mail using a standard e-mail address that can be used both internally and externally. In order to describe the steps to achieve the above task...

This ‘How to’ blog will help you to configure custom properly mapping when importing user profile data. To import custom profile attributes , we need to configure the connection first. In this blog post we are discussing about an issue where some of the...

This article is about an error generated when running configuration wizard in WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007. The scenario is like this. The SharePoint environment was running with WSS 2.0 and tried to upgrade to WSS 3.0. The WSS 2.0 was installed with a default...

This article is about an error when you perform a back up operation from Central administration or using stsadm command. In my case , I was able to perform back up of individual web applications using Central administration / stsadm . The below given...

Recently we had come across a issue where the solution package gets deployed successfully , but while checking the central administration site->operations->solution management the deployment status shows “Not deployed” . The biggest problem with...

I was recently working on a case where the end users are unable to login to FBA site hitting the request on one of the WFEs in the farm.When credentials are provided  , it keeps prompting for the credentials again and no error message is not displayed...

I was troubleshooting an issue where an item in a custom list is not editable. While clicking on Edit item , it just displays a blank screen. No specific error message is logged in ULS logs/event viewer etc. It was difficult to to troubleshoot without...

This document will help you to extend and configure a web application with Forms based authentication using .Net membership. To begin with , we have a web application which is already running under port 80 with windows integrated authentication. http...

As every one of us know, when a database is created in Microsoft SQL server MDF file and LDF file will be created automatically. Generally these files will be located at c:\ (or the driver where MSSQL is installed)->Program files -> MSSQL.1 ->...

Here is a scenario :- Sharepoint by default allows us to upload a file with 50 MB as the upper limit.But when trying to upload a file over 30 MB, the upload instantly fails with a 404 (Page Not Found) error. One of the possible option is the server may...

We often experience performance issue while accessing document library in explorer view. Even though it opens up after few seconds, we feel its taking too much time to open up the document library in explorer view.Here is one of the possible reason and...

It’s well known that when SQL Server is installed, the default instance is setup to listen on TCP port 1433. A virus program or a hacker can access the server on port 1433. So, to prevent unwanted hits on port 1433, most of us prefer to run the SQL server...