A disclaimer fist: I am in no way advocating the installation of SharePoint 2010 on a DC in a production environment. This information should only be used to set up SharePoint in a lab environment. Microsoft do not support the installation of SQL Server on a DC, which is why the Standalone option is not
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My Profile in My Site – Error 404 File Not Found (SharePoint 2007)
Just doing some pre-upgrade checks on SharePoint 2007. Want to make sure that everything is working as it is before upgrading. As part of this I went to edit my profile on my personal site. Whenever I did though, I got an error message stating 404 File Not Found. Symptoms are described exactly in this
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Exchange 2010: No In-Place Upgrade
Really disappointed to have just found out that an in-place upgrade is not available when migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2010. Totally understand why this is the case though. Database schema changes and the lack of storage groups in 2010 being the root cause. Not great news for the smaller places which probably haven’t got
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SharedServices1 (Unprovisioning) – Delete the SSP failed.
Just had to do a restore of our Sharepoint server. Someone had deleted a load of resources from our room bookings site, but also deleted from the Recycle Bin. We use Symantec Backup Exec 12 with the Sharepoint agents installed. Took a backup of the current state of the server (after all, it does work,
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SharePoint_Config_Log file size is 78GB
Been doing a routine check of my servers, and noticed that our SharePoint server was lacking some free space. A little unusual, given our SharePoint installation is quite small. And although this server also acts as a Streaming Media server using Windows Media Services, I didn’t think that we had that much streaming media. Turns
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Sharepoint Search 2007: Your License for Office Server Search has expired.
Just been fixing the problem mentioned above. Lets set the scene here: Walk in this morning, coffee, boot up. Open up IE, need to update a record on our asset log. Enter the asset ID into the search bar, press enter. Easy day ended. 9:10am. ‘Your license for Office Server Search has expired’ We have
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Backup Exec 12: Remote SharePoint Agent – Access Denied
Just coming to the end of fixing a very frustrating problem with Backup Exec 12, and backing up our SharePoint 2007 farm. After over 8 hours on the phone and extra work done by email with Symantec engineers, I have a solution. Here’s the basic information: SharePoint Server: Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 SharePoint Server
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SharePoint Workflows
Many people have probably already found this resource, but I thought that I would post it again as once more it has been the solution to my workflow woes. This great collection of resources gives you greater flexibility with all of the workflows included with SharePoint, and with no setup hassles. I’m not going to
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SharePoint Search
Although we have had SharePoint running now for quite a while, since the server rebuild in August we have not had our search service working. We access our local site through http://intranet.domain.co.uk. Works great. The problem with this is that the web address is different to the machine name, and is mapped to the local
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FBA Using AD
Just working on Forms Authentication for SharePoint. Causing a bit of a headache to say the least. The objective: Enable staff to access the Intranet from home on a specific URL, and sign in using their username and password with a graphical form, so that a disclaimer can be shown. After some hunting I came
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