"It is great to follow up with new technologies but the greater is not to lose you mind or your peace" John Naguib
When trying to edit page layout in web content mangement templates it gives error this due to incorrect URL that was set there during a patch and solution is to update this url
I have found a nice tool to do that in the following blog or you can create your own.
http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2007/08/fix-publishing-pages-page-layout-url.html
A nice free toolkit from MS help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=412A9EF1-3358-4420-B820-0CA3F4641651&displaylang=en
Steps to make a disaster back up: Record which Web applications are associated with the SSPs · Perform a full back up of the SSPs. · Completely stop the farm by stopping the services associated with Office SharePoint Server 2007 and by stopping Internet Information Services (IIS). · Back up the following databases by using SQL Server 2005 tools: o Content databases o Central Administration content database o Configuration database o Windows SharePoint Services Help Search database o Back Up the SQL ......
To migrate lotus notes to SharePoint here you are the steps and some useful links: Steps: Use Microsoft Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino to start the process of analyzing Domino applications: a. Identify which applications are still active and which applications should be archived. b. Eliminate administration and mail applications from the migration or integration list. c. Determine which applications should be migrated and which applications should be integrated with Microsoft technologies. ......
Somtimes the solution status keeps as deploying, seems that it is stucked to solve that we can do the following:
Run stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs on all the servers in the farm
Restart the timer service.
Here you are a list of nice SharePoint resources: http://sharepoint.microsoft... http://www.sharepointreview... http://social.technet.micro... http://sharepoint.microsoft... ......
A new version of Service pack 2 is ready to be downloaded after solving the issue of expiration
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/06/25/service-pack-2-update.aspx
Changing the passwords from time to time is a healthy thing to do.
Here you are a nice link to do that in SharePoint accounts.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934838
We have faced an issue before that some users when opening a document in SharePoint document library the internet explorer crashes.
After investigation I have found that this issue most pobably happens due to existance of several versions of office on the machine.
To solve that check these links:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929360
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888
Classroom Training – Microsoft Learning Solutions Partners Course 50205A: SharePoint 2007 Web Development Course 50207A: Learn Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step, Level 1 Course 50208A: Learn Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step, Level 2 Course 50209A: Learn Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step, Level 3 Virtual Labs Creating and Deploying Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Workflows for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Office SharePoint ......
To Get the SharePoint Versions:Go to any document library you will find it at the top And here you are the version number of the deployed components: MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 June 2009 Cumulative update: 12.0.0.6510 MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 April 2009 Cumulative update: 12.0.0.6504 MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2: 12.0.0.6421 MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Feb 2009 Cumulative update: 12.0.0.6341 MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Aug 2008 Cumulative update: 12.0.0.6327 MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Infrastructure Update: 12.0.0.6318 ......
This is the link in MS for downloading the full free version of SharePoint Designer
http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42&displaylang=en
I faced an issue with IIS when trying to see the available application pools. But the IIS tree seems to be empty. To solve this issue: 1- Close the IIS 2- Open the Services (click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Services. ) or if on windows server go to Administartive tools from Start and then services. 3- Stop the IIS Admin service and then start it and make sure to stop and start the services that depends on it too. 4- Open the IIS the application ......
In debugging a lot of large log files in SharePoint you need to use a nice tool to help you.
I have used this tool and i have found that it is a nice and easy one.
http://sharepointloggingspy.codeplex.com/
Microsoft Announcing SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview http://sharepoint.microsoft... ......
This is an important list of SharePoint books I thought it will be good to share. Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Step by Step Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building ......
The sharePoint conference will be held in the period October 19-22, 2009 Las Vegas, NV
http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx
If you faced an issue with document library when trying to open files in edit mode they are opened in read only mode with no ability to edit in it.
There are a lot of reasons for that among it is some configurations in the load balancer.
Kindly find the below link.
http://blogs.msdn.com/vsofficedeveloper/pages/SharePoint-Cisco-CSS-Switch-Issue.aspx