Came across this a couple of times and, unfortunately there is no easy way out of it. Here is the behavior description: Crawling your site, full or incremental will not finish, even after a long time. If you try to access the SQL server’s tempdb...

How to remove something (the port) from the URL as returned in the search results (searchresults.aspx): UPDATE : the behavior depicted below should not happen after installing October 2009 Cumulative Update package: Download October 2009 Server...

What we have here is not actually a how to , nor does it point to a known issue, it's more of a logical reason behind writing the entry. As a starting point, we have the SharepPoint standard Approval workflow which can, through the UI, easily be attached...

You are of course aware of the fact that starting with Service Pack 1 the workflows created in SharePoint designer that should launch under the credentials of the system account will no longer start automatically. You know what the resolution is for this...

Purpose : To get notified whenever something new gets indexed, based on a search term you specify. Say for instance that you would like to get notified whenever a new “TOP SECRET DOCUMENT” :) gets indexed. Go to the search page, issue a query and when...

This might come in handy whenever you (like myself and I am sure thousands of others) see some error in the execution of one workflow and found the completely useless messages like “Error Occurred” Dig deep and find nothing first troubleshooting...

This is concerning an error found encountered in Sharepoint Designer based workflows after installing the October Cumulative updates. The behavior you will encounter is the following: Create a simple list with two fields: Title (default) ...

I know that reading the above you will say : backup and restore  or export and import . Perfectly true. What if the procedure involves moving one BIIIIIIG Site > 15 Gb? If you have the time to do it, that’s perfect. Just schedule the operations...

Working through the recycling of the services on server, changing the accounts for Sharepoint Timer Service, I found myself in the interesting situation of not being able to start the service.It worked , it was started but it's not working now and it...

Why do you receive a 404 when trying to visit Default.aspx on your SharePoint Site ( among other multiple reasons) ? Answer ( among other potential answers ) :) The site might reside at the root of a Wildcard inclusion managed path. EX: Webapplication...

  So , you are in need of a warm-up , and do not want to invest in writing and deploying a timer job as per http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686(office.12).aspx , or simply you want to keep things to a minimum … Hmmm. Here’s a PowerShell...

  One interesting topic was suggested a couple of days ago by a colleague of mine. As  SharePoint Developer , one needs to have all the things near.That means , on the development  workstation, we need the tools, the assemblies, the server...

IMPORTANT NOTE: This blog entry adresses the steps that need to be performed when moving SSP A to SSP B within the SAME farm as a recovery for a broken SSP scenario. IMPORTANT NOTE 2: The tools provided as reference from codeplex.com are provided ...

One issue you might have encountered after experiencing some Search problems.Although everything looks ok, the crawl schedules are not respected and the crawler fails to index the content at the specified times. No errors are logged and if you start...

A javascript error. Simple. Neat. Clean. But... since you noticed it, no Sharepoint controls are working. No paging controls, no buttons, generally any control that would require a postback between the webbrowser and the server will cease to function...

The idea to write this entry came as a result of many failed Profile sync operations I've seen lately, so, here it is: As a scenario, let's assume that you have a webapplication you want to move on a different port. I stress the word move , because...

Recently I faced several issues regarding the corruption of the index right after a reboot of the server following a patch installation. The issue, as I could observe it, occurs whenever the server is crawling and needs to reboot at the same time.The...

Office Server Search Service cannot be started because it does not exist. One of the most simple problems I’ve seen lately is : Why can’t I start the Office Server Search Service in my MOSS install.I have the right key , the right CD and the latest...

Here is a procedure that might come in handy when you, for some reason are required to            re-install the binaries of the server. Scenarios requiring this might include reverting to a previous...

Have you ever seen the following behavior ? You create a new document library and start uploading content.Then the users start modifying the documents, however, the Modified by field does not update to reflect the Name of the user that modified the...

Here's one behavior that you might see. Since the error is not that enlightening and the logs do not tell you what happens, I thought it's usefull to document it. You have configured your farm and attempt to browse to the site you created. Instead...

Consider the following scenario: You have deployed a number of solutions on your Sharepoint Site. During the time, you deactivate the solutions, delete them, add new ones, and so on. For unknown reasons, some of the solutions still remain in the database...

Let’s say you want to use the Media Player web part to enhance your web site by playing an audio file. Of course, you do not want the component to take too much visual space , and if at all possible, you would like to only display the control buttons...

Ran into this message and I thought it would be nice to share the resolution. Consider the following callstack from ULS: Exception=Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEndpointAddressNotFoundException: There are no addresses available for this application. at...

I have seen this not only once so I thought it's worth a couple of lines to (potentially) save some trouble-shooting :) . among the properties that can be set to restrict peoplepicker behavior we have serviceaccountdirectorypaths http://technet.microsoft...