Enterprise Library Logging – Event 100
Well, back in the land of SharePoint ducking in and out of writing my now tome of a book <grin> Strange issue today with a client setup - typical farm arrangement, two front ends, application, cluster. Fromt checking one of the front ends scanned the application...
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery in Sharepoint This section will describe what you need to know in order to protect the SharePoint environment. There is one golden rule when it comes to SharePoint backups: In other words, if you make a backup of a site, you will be able to restore...
Developing DRP
This section will describe what you need to know in order to protect the SharePoint environment. There is one golden rule when it comes to SharePoint backups - make sure you can restore backups in the timeframe required by the business. The consequence is that you...
Business Continuity
Business Continuity is a management process that provides a framework to ensure the resilience of your business to any eventuality, to help ensure continuity of service to your key customers and the protection of your brand and reputation. In defining a SharePoint BCM...
Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 Tip
If you are planning to install Sharepoint 2010 on Windows 7, here is an excellent article in MSDN, just follow the steps and you will end up successfully installing SharePoint 2010 beta on windows 7. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx...
Orphaned items from Sharepoint 2007 Content databases – a way to solve this in Sharepoint 2010
Had a problem today where a content db migrated from a supposedly clean Sharepoint 2007 environment didn't show up some document libraries or lists when visiting the site. This left me really puzzled because they were visible in 2007, not 2010!! So, ok, decided to go...
Resolution – ‘Local accounts should only be used in stand alone mode’ – How to fix that!
One thing that you will find installing the Sharepoint 2010 BETA Installation is that things have changed concerning Standalone versus Complete installation. Standalone build is usually the one to go for when you want a single server developer type environment and...
Solve 403 FORBIDDEN when trying to access SEARCH Administration SharePoint 2007
Ok, had a right old hassle here, another blog will follow detailing how to resolve the dreaded 'cannot access sts3' etc. Anyway, to business. What now follows is a step by step account of how to resolve getting a 403 Forbidden. I've tried this against various farms...
EVENT 7888 and 5553 – Failure trying to synch site and Cannot insert duplicate key row in object
Thought it high time I blog this. You may get errors like this following a DB move, for example, moving a content db from a sql box to a cluster / vice versa <grin>. 7888: A runtime exception was detected. Details follow. Message: Cannot insert duplicate key row...