I love this tool – the ULSViewer: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer If you spend any amount of time digging into SharePoint farm issues – this tool makes it so much easier to filter and find what you need. Here is a screenshot of the app:
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This post should also be titled “My Penalty for not Reading ALL the Instructions“. As it turns out, when you install the Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Server (first Foundation, then Server) – you are required to run the configuration wizard on your own at the end of the process. I can only assume this [...]
From time to time, deleting the Search Service Application can not be completed through the GUI or through powershell. Sometime you will get an error like this one: The timer job completed, but failed on one or more machines in the farm. And sometimes the PowerShell command runs indefinitely. In these circumstances it’s good old [...]
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In this video, SharePoint Server MVP Eric Shupps and I talk about having a plan for “Day 2″. In other words – it is equally important to have a plan to monitor and manage growth as it is to deploy SharePoint in the first place. Having a defined “Managed Service” for SharePoint defined inside of [...]
OK, I’ll admit it – this one was hard to figure out. Background: SharePoint 2010 Standard server. Search was returning content, crawlers were filling the index. No immediate customer impacting issue. The Issue: The event viewer had an error occurring every minute – Event ID 6482 which states: Application Server Administration job failed for service [...]
I’ve pointed out in several WEB-Casts how much I like the feature of being able to customize a SharePoint 2010 Theme right in the browser. If you’re not familiar with the feature, here is a screen-shot: Now I made the assumption this was a feature that could be found throughout all of SharePoint (SharePoint Server [...]
As we get ready for SharePoint Conference 2009 I am starting a new series called “SharePoint Street Talk” where I sit down and talk SharePoint with someone who spends the better part of their day working with the product. In this first installment I sat down with Shane Young of SharePoint911.com fame. Shane is a [...]
I can’t explain why this file was changed or by whom. What I do know is, if SharePoint is unable to recognize a known file-type make sure you check out the DOCICON.XML file.
This one actually hurt. I still don’t know why I had this error –but after installing Infrastructure Update on a fresh install I went to the SSP to ensure search was configured and happy. To my amazement, I was presented with the error: The resource object with key ‘S2SearchAdminDashboard_Title’ was not found” There wasn’t a [...]
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