Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007

Crawl schedules do not work

Victor Butuza — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:48:25 GMT

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 the...(read more)

Profiles don’t get imported from AD

Victor Butuza — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:00:53 GMT

I ran into this while attempting to import the profiles and playing with my managed properties in the SSP. Here’s what I did and noticed: Having defined my BDC as a People Details Repository the initial purpose of the test was to completely...(read more)

This Site scope does not return any results

Victor Butuza — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:42:41 GMT

Noticed something weird the other days: I was fiddling around managed properties in my search settings and thought of deleting some of them to remove them from being indexed and from the search results. Among other managed properties deleted, I also deleted...(read more)

"The language is not supported on the server. "

Victor Butuza — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:23:44 GMT

If you, like me had the chance of re-installing SharePoint (with all the language packs that you might have used before), it is likely that you have encountered this message. You will most likely see this message when running the configuration wizard...(read more)

Search crawl issues after installing .NET 3.5 SP1

Victor Butuza — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:54:03 GMT

A number of issues with crawling content in SharePoint was observed since installing .NET 3.5 SP1. The behavior, usually is the inability to crawl the content and various permission-related messages in your crawl log. Among these the most frequent...(read more)

Federate to Sharepoint inside the same domain across farms

Victor Butuza — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:30:00 GMT

Among many features and improvements to the search engine, things brought by the Infrastructure Update, perhaps the most awaited one, search federation, was finally deployed. With search federation the search results are no longer restricted to the site...(read more)

Move one site collection from one web application to another

Victor Butuza — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:24:42 GMT

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...(read more)

Manual SharePoint uninstall procedure

Victor Butuza — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:45:54 GMT

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...(read more)

Workflows do not start

Victor Butuza — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:55:32 GMT

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...(read more)

How to enable workflow tracing (debug)

Victor Butuza — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:38:00 GMT

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 step...(read more)

Search Based Alerts

Victor Butuza — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:27:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How to move an SSP

Victor Butuza — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:29:00 GMT

In the past few months , I have come across quite a big number of issues who’s only supported solution (other than rebuilding everything) was to create a new Shared Service Provider. Easier said than done, an SSP change raises a very valid question: What...(read more)

Office Server Search Service cannot be started because it does not exist.(Object reference not set to an instance of an object)

Victor Butuza — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:46:00 GMT

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 fixes.I...(read more)

Sharepoint Designer 2007 workflow error occurred on Update List Item when field is Person/Group

Victor Butuza — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:58:00 GMT

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) User type Person/Group...(read more)

Type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldUserValueCollection' in Assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' is not marked as serializable.

Victor Butuza — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:36:00 GMT

Among other things solved by the August Cumulative Updates, here is an issue which arosed after installing this patch. One of those issues is that if you modify a default list form (Editform.aspx, DisplayForm.aspx) using Sharepoint Designer 2007 and on...(read more)