When moving your sharepoint instance to another server group, watch out for synchronisation issues. For example, you may see a situation where old memberships from your old instance is still being shown.
The membership functionality strictly works off the users listed in the Members group of the SharePoint site. A point – if you are a owner of a site you may not see a membership update – The only thing we have to do now is insure the owner of the site is ALSO a member of the site in order for them to take advantage of the membership features.
You cannot directly edit the memberships or delete them from the UI. This information is taken from you being an member of a sharepoint site and is updated through Timer jobs.
You may have moved content database improperly. The ID for the content database is stored in the Config database. By not moving the content database properly you do not prepare the SSP for a new GUID, and the Timer Jobs will continue to try to sync with the old GUID not allowing us to sync with the new one.
The preparetomove operation was introduced before Infrastructure Update. Once SP2 is applied this is no longer required.
Try doing this:
a. Run the command stsadm -o sync -listolddatabases 1 You should then get a list of database GUID.
b. Run the command stsadm -o sync -deleteolddatabases 1 This will remove the record from the SSP database but will not touch the actual Content Database.
c. Then wait for the next sync and you should see memberships getting updated..
Introduction.
Trying to extract a GUID from a site component directly is a hassle. And the developers always asked for a GUID from a list etc. Options was to give them Design Rights to a List so they could use the ahem ‘Famous’ hack of extracting it from the List Settings, or writing a script! I thought, aha, a script sounds better, but lets give it some options!
GEGETLISTID gets the list title, description, number of items in the list, the list items (and optionally the ability to turn that output off) and of course, the List ID! It works against all components of the site, e.g. Shared Documents, Calendars, Tasks, Web Parts List, etc. GEGETLISTID works against a site, do you must enter the name of the site when running the command.
The output can be pushed to a text file of your choice or by default goes to GEGETLIST.TXT
Project Management – A Process This is a map showing a project management process – note this is not directly Prince 2(tm) related but marries up with that methodology.
A simple diagram showing a physical framework showing the request-serve model for Sharepoint 2010, showing the content data paths and much more.
Introduction.
This little nifty and FREE application allows SharePoint administrators to list group membership and ownership for all users or specfic against all or specific sites and subsites! Works for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.
List User Rights against all sites, or a specific site or a specific with site against a specific user ID and with the ability to select users against a specific permission. Updated to run against version .6237
Oh yes, I need to mention that you should watch out for this tools older brother which is a GUI with lots more options – for example, the ability to set rights on users team site access without having to visit the site!
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This paper guides new administrators of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services to the most common issues encountered when getting started with SharePoint Products and Technologies, including server administration, governance, branding, and development. It presents high priority information consisely to help new administrators get up and running quickly.
The command line backup / restore routine in SharePoint environment whilst good does not offer any scheduling capability. There are of course products providing granular backup (e.g. DOCAVE) but this is geared to corporate site collections. This document describes the GEMBACKUP application, that can facilitiate the backup of the SharePoint environments and how to backup site collections using a tool I wrote that enumerates the sites and creates a backup batch file that can be scheduled using Windows Scheduler.
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F5 ensures the successful implementation of SharePoint by providing technology that guarantees the most efficient network possible. Because F5’s unique TMOS operating system is a full proxy, it can optimize any end point that connects through the system. As a full broker of communications, the system optimises communication for every single end device communicating through it.
