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"Error: Unable to find user” and the stsadm –o migrateuser command
Here is an interesting “gotcha!”: When migrating a user who also happens to be the sole site collection administrator for a site collection (this means that no secondary site collection owner has been...
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AD property changes not synchronizing in SharePoint 2007?
Here is a nice one:Problem:User has a property changed in AD (like surname when married) Changes do not reflect in SharePoint 2007 when you view the userTroubleshooting and Solution:First check that...
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Beware Application Pool Changes and the IIS Metabase.XML
Woohoo! So here was a weird one (I love these).I recently came across an issue where all the images for SharePoint 2007 were not being displayed (little ‘x’ instead of image).After much investigation...
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SharePoint 2009 conference
Currently at the 2009 SharePoint Conference, watch this blog as I will be posting new content about SharePoint 2010, mostly around how to do things I did in 2007 in 2010 :)
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Reporting Services 2008 SharePoint Integration
Seems like a day for Reporting Services. Here are the brief steps to get Reporting Services 2008 to work with SharePoint 2007: Install Reporting Services on a computer that it is already part of the...
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Reporting Services for DPM checklist
Thought I would create a little "Reporting Services" checklist for DPM, not much but covers some common issues. Must be installed on the remote SQL machine where the DPM databases are.If the DPM...
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More 2008 and Kerberos: Authentication Denied, app pool account being ingnored
Wow, what a day for Windows Server 2008 and Kerberos. There is a new step now that needs to be performed in order to get Kerberos working correctly. One of the major changes incorporated into IIS 7.0...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Blank Central Admin Sites, IIS_IUSRS
So got another interesting issue where a mate of mine said that after installing SharePoint 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 that they were unable to see the CA site. The interesting part is that there...
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Kerberos, DCOM and Windows Server 2008
Here is an interesting little issue I came across the other day while setting up Kerberos on Windows Server 2008 R2: Everything went fine until I wanted to allow local activation permissions on the...
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Change the location of MOSS user account environmental
A couple of things I have been noticing is that a lot of content ends up in the TEMP directory of the MOSS service accounts (think content deployment, workflow etc.)We all know that the default TEMP...
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The sneaky content deployment job
The other day I ran into an issue where the admins were seeing an Event ID in the application log that indicated that a content deployment job had failed. Well the actual details were something like...
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The Mystery of the 1 to 30 Usage Log Files
*insert spooky music*Ok so here is one that truly shows that I have no social life: a customer once asked me “why can we specify 1 – 30 usage log files, when configuring usage analysis processing?”,...
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SharePoint 2007: RSS Viewer Web Part and Kerberos
Went to a customer who had setup Kerberos but the RSS Viewer Web Part was still throwing the “does not support authenticated lists” message, even though Kerberos was setup 100% correctly. Turns out the...
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SharePoint 2010 + OCR + Tiff + iFilters
Wow, long time no post; not that there wasn’t anything to blog about just a serious amount of 2010 work out there :)Well some good news here; the TIFF iFilter available in Windows Server 2008 and 2008...
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User Profile Sync + UAC + August Cumalitive Updates
Hey there, Had a customer who installed latest August CU for SharePoint 2010 to address some issues with the User Profile Sync Service. Once they had it installed an rebooted the servers they ran into...
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