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Import of a variation site fails with "An error occurred while parsing...
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangWorked on an interesting case the other day. The customer had a variation enabled SharePoint site with multiple sites for different languages. He would export...
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PowerShell script to remove all users from a SharePoint Group
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang There have been many instances where we find users have added too many individual user accounts to a specific SharePoint group. This causes many issues like...
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PowerShell script to delete all items in a List
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangSample script to delete all items from a List in SharePoint...
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PowerShell script to list all User Profiles in an SSP
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangI had few thousand user profiles in my SharePoint 2007 SSP and needed to delete them. So here is a script that lists all the user profiles in an SSP. If you need...
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Change the application pool associated with a web application in SharePoint.
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangRecently I researched on case where the SharePoint Service Pack 2 upgrade failed with the following exception.[SPIisWebSiteWssSequence] [ERROR] [7/18/2009...
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Changes to the custom dictionary.txt file are not taking effect
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangYou might face a peculiar problem when you implement the custom dictionary functionality in SharePoint. This functionality is documented under "Plan dictionary...
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Incremental Content Deployment Errors out with "Save Conflict" when deploying...
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangApplies to SharePoint 2007While running content deployment import job on destination farm, you get the following error message and the import job fails. This...
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Incremental Content Deployment completes with a Warning message “ User or...
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangApplies to SharePoint 2007While running content deployment import job on destination farm, you get the following warning message and the import job completes...
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MOSS 2007: Creation of Content Deployment Path on Windows 2008 fails with...
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangApplies to SharePoint 2007I had installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (SP2 + Oct CU) on a Windows 2008 Server with IIS 7. I then tried to create a...
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How to configure a Dedicated Web Front End for crawling in SharePoint 2010
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangApplies to SharePoint 2010In SharePoint 2007 (MOSS v3) we have an option in the Office Server Search User Interface to configure a specific Web Front End as the...
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SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - Upgrade consideration
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangSharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization has undergone a major architectural change. I have attached few articles below which explain this in more details....
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SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - You receive an error - "An unexpected error...
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangYou create a new User Profile Service Application and try browsing to the Manage link for the User Profile Service Application, this page might fail with the...
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SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - Steps to Partition the User Profiles Service...
Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgangPre-requisite:These are few steps to be done prior to getting the User Profiles provisioned. Understand the new User Profiles architecture in SharePoint 2010....
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Managed Metadata, Taxonomy & More
One of the most talked about capabilities since the launch of SharePoint 2010 is the Managed Metadata Service. For those of you who aren’t already familiar with this service and the support it...
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Why do you see VSS errors when you configure SharePoint 2010 Search in least...
The information here resulted out of an engagement with one of our customers and we felt it was important to capture the knowledge so it’s not lost and can be reused.The scenario is pretty basic, after...
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Job Opening for COSS-Support Escalation Engineer
Job Category: Customer Service & Support Location: India, Bangalore Job ID: 77970075558 Division: Services & SupportPosition: Support Escalation Engineer – SharePoint TeamFor Details of Job...
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MOSS list library lookup column drop down - performance issue with IE7
You may experience performance issue on a SharePoint 2007 site page where it has sharepoint list library lookup column, for example there is a custom list named 'List1' with custom column 'Column1',...
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All you want to know about People Picker in SharePoint ( Functionality |...
The people-picker is a SharePoint interface responsible for querying repositories for identities or groups in order to grant them permission in the SharePoint application. Site administrators and...
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All you want to know about People Picker in SharePoint ( Functionality |...
The Part 1 of this series talks about how People Picker works under the default configuration . In this post I will focus on what changes when we have SharePoint servers in the farm & principals (...
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Blob Cache in SharePoint
1.What is Blob Cache?Disk-based Caching for Binary Large ObjectsDisk-based caching controls caching for binary large objects (BLOBs) such as image, sound, and video files, as well as code fragments....
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