Troubleshooting SharePoint!

Odd issue around configuring a dedicated WFE for SharePoint crawl

We had an interesting issue recently where the SharePoint services would not start up and the...

Date: 06/29/2012

SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - Steps to Partition the User Profiles Service Application

Pre-requisite: These are few steps to be done prior to getting the User Profiles provisioned....

Date: 05/10/2010

SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - You receive an error - "An unexpected error has occurred." when you try to browse to the page to Manage a newly created User Profile Service Application

You create a new User Profile Service Application and try browsing to the Manage link for the User...

Date: 05/05/2010

SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - Upgrade consideration

SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization has undergone a major architectural change. I have...

Date: 05/04/2010

How to configure a Dedicated Web Front End for crawling in SharePoint 2010

In SharePoint 2007 (MOSS v3) we have an option in the Office Server Search User Interface to...

Date: 04/26/2010

MOSS 2007: Creation of Content Deployment Path on Windows 2008 fails with Access Denied

Faced an odd problem today! I had installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (SP2 + Oct CU)...

Date: 03/11/2010

Incremental Content Deployment completes with a Warning message – User or group with ID “X” cannot be resolved.

While running content deployment import job on destination farm, you get the following warning...

Date: 11/30/2009

Incremental Content Deployment Errors out with "Save Conflict" when deploying User information without Security information

Technorati Tags: sharepoint content deployment import While running content deployment import job on...

Date: 11/30/2009

Changes to the custom dictionary.txt file are not taking effect

You might face a peculiar problem when you implement the custom dictionary functionality in...

Date: 07/23/2009

Change the application pool associated with a web application in sharepoint.

Recently I researched on case where the SharePoint Service Pack 2 upgrade failed with the following...

Date: 07/21/2009

PowerShell script to list all User Profiles in an SSP

I had few thousand user profiles in my SSP and needed to delete them. So here is a script that I...

Date: 05/12/2009

PowerShell script to delete all items in a List

Another script I wrote is to delete all items from a List....

Date: 04/30/2009

PowerShell script to remove all users from a SharePoint Group

I have been experimenting with PowerShell scripting for the past few months. Below is a script I...

Date: 04/26/2009

Import of a variation site fails with "An error occurred while parsing EntityName"

We had an interesting case the other day. The customer had a variation enabled SharePoint site with...

Date: 02/23/2009

When you do a people search on SharePoint, you see the results in the "Results by Social Distance"...

Date: 06/23/2008

Colleague tracker Web Part on the MySite does not display data!

If you apply the Obsidian Theme to your MySite, the Colleague tracker webpart might show some blank...

Date: 06/19/2008

Troubleshooting issues with SharePoint crawling Forms based Authenticated sites.

What this blog describes is the steps you need to get SharePoint to crawl a Forms based...

Date: 06/18/2008