I was recently working on an interesting issue where Search Centre, Center for our American cousins, was not returning any results. Picked up the case and thought, yeah it’s going to be a breeze. The guy was accessing the site from one particular URL and the content source the gatherer was crawling was pointing to [...]
I can’t remember how many times we’ve had to run through these processes on changing service accounts passwords. If I had a drink for everytime I had to run through this and it solved an issue, my kidneys would quickly just give up and say enough! people out there simply don’t know that by changing [...]
We finally have the release of the Infrastructure Update for MOSS, WSS and Project! There are some big changes to the core infrastructure of the product and I for one am looking forward to seeing the stability changes in certain components of MOSS and WSS. Here are some basic Q&A’s about the patches. Q: What [...]
Recently came across a couple of issues where users haved decided to split their Index and Query roles. Now there’s nothing crazy about that, as most folks out there will utilise their Web Front-Ends as Query server or indeed have a dedicated Query servers if you’re servicing thousands of users. When we moved the Query [...]
It seems like our Technical Writers have been little bees so the latest round of content is up there for you luck people to read. Have a look at some of these articles; Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Deploy using DBA-created databases (Office SharePoint Server) Downloadable books for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Install Office [...]
Recently had this case where a certain hosting provider wanted to apply multiple SSL certificates to his HMC (Hosted Messaging and Collaboration) 4.0 solution. Now HMC comes with WSS (Windows SharePoint Service) v3 as part of the kit, along with Exchange Server 2007, ISA Server 2006 and some more tid bits which we don’t need [...]
Recently came across quite a few of these errors for some reason from a handful of customers when they want to perform the site action “View in Web Browser” for an Excel Workbook. Typically you would receive the following error on screen; “Excel services was unable to load the workbook that you requested” In the [...]
After what may seem an eternity have posed another blog. Hopefully this one will last a little bit longer then the last. Attention is a fickle thing. Firstly I’d like to say g’day to all that visit and hopefully you’ll get some useful information from this site. I’ll try and talk about some of the [...]