Service Pack What is it: A service pack is a combination of previously released fixes, fixes which have only been released in context of the service pack and potentially new functionality added to the product. What is included: new fixes, new functionality, all previously released fixes (older Service Packs, CUs, PUs) Multilingual: No. You need …
Issue I have encountered an error in the web export/import routine. The thing is that the feasibility of import seems to depend on the state of the web. I have several subsequent export packages of the same web and say #2 works fine (I can see it extracting the contents of the package and the …
The content migration APIs provide a simple but flexible solution for migrating content between SharePoint Foundation Web sites. You can export the content from a SharePoint site, along with any dependencies (for example, security, roles, versioning, and other metadata), into single or multiple XML-formatted files called content migration packages. On import to the destination Web …
SharePoint 2010 : Missing server file or server configuration issues While upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 we come across many issues and the following is one of them. Note: Before performing an upgrade, ensure that you run the preupgradecheck tool (STSADM.EXE -o preupgradecheck) which would indicate the issues which may encounter while performing …
To list all web application-ids. Try to execute the following query in SQL when you are connected to the sharepoint_config database: ” “Select ID, Name from objects where properties like ‘%Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPContentDatabase%m_nWarningSiteCount%’ “This is useful for example, if you start to see the following type entries in MOSS log files: “”ProfSynch: Exception attempting to enumerate site …
You may know that several out-of-the-box Content Types belong to the group _Hidden. This means that when you first start using the site, you cannot create child Content Types based on these types. Also, if you want to aggregate Blog Posts with a Content Query Web Part, for instance, you will need to expose the …
SharePoint makes it pretty easy to assign very granular permissions to various elements of a SharePoint site. The problem is that managing those granular permissions over the long haul can be a pretty daunting task. Sure, you start off with the best of intentions: create groups, assign permissions to groups, put users in groups. But …
Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 is one of the new products which supports Windows Powershell commands. Its really easy to do the most tasks you do normally in the Sharepoint Central Administration with Powershell. Microsoft created a Powershell Snapin for Sharepoint 2010, which is called “Microsoft.Sharepoint.Powershell”. This enables a lot of new Powershell cmdlets for Sharepoint. With …
As you may already know, you can use the “Manage Services on Server” option from Central Administration to centrally start and stop service instances across all SharePoint servers in your farm. An example of this administration page is shown below: The issue with this page is that it can be cumbersome to use if there …
When reviewing the event log you will see the following error and you get the error in the screen shot below. Failed to create the configuration database. An exception of type System.Security.AccessControl.PrivilegeNotHeldException was thrown.” Additional exception information: The process does not possess the ‘SeSecurityPrivilege’ privilege which is required for this operation. System.Security.AccessControl.PrivilegeNotHeldException: The process does …
I highly recommend reviewing the Services upgrade model and User Profile Service overview”on SP 2010 TechNet site before trying the following steps to upgrade a MOSS 2007 SSP database and My Site content to SharePoint Server 2010. Upgrading the SSP Database 1. Under Services on Server in Central Admin, make sure both the User Profile …
SharePoint 2010 includes the new Get-SPWebTemplate cmdlet for getting a list of site templates from the farm. You can use it by typing the following command (note that I am also sorting the table by template internal name): Get-SPWebTemplate | Sort-Object “Name” This can be quite useful, especially if you want to use PowerShell …
Welcome back to the second article in this series on upgrading a SharePoint 2007 content database to SharePoint 2010.” In part 1 we deep dived into the preupgradecheck that Microsoft made available with SharePoint 2007 SP2 and today we will complete our upgrade journey utilizing one of the 3 upgrade models that are available to …
I’m sure there are a lot of SharePointers out there who are excited about the 2010 release and as I have been working my way through the installation and configuration of this updated beast, I have also been providing you with posts along the way sharing my experiences.” Today isn’t any different, and in this …
Unless you love the default SharePoint 2010 error pages for 404 (not found) and 401 (access denied), it is usually a good idea to change them. The steps are a bit different than a standard ASP.net application. 1) Browse to C:\inetpub\custerr\ 2) You should now see a list of localization folders like en-US or fr-FR. …
1. Install Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms on the INDEXING server(s) in your farm. You can get the binaries here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 2. Verify that PDF has been added to the registry. a. Run Regedit by browsing to c:\Windows\system32\regedt32.exe and double-clicking it. b. Within left-side tree, browse to: \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Applications\{site GUID}\Gather\Portal_Content\Extensions\ExtensionList c. If PDF …