[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Requirements for a successful content deployment Be aware that this article cannot provide a complete list of all requirements. I will update it from time to time if required. Today I will list all the requirements […]
When developing a public facing website using the publishing features of MOSS it might be required to emit a ROBOTS meta tag that prevents internet search engines from indexing specific pages. The standard RobotsMetaTag control included in WSS generates the following tag: <META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOHTMLINDEX”> Unfortunatelly most search engines do not understand the NOHTMLINDEX content […]
Another issue which I have seen a couple of times in the past when using STSADM -o export or content deployment is a failure during the export phase with the following error message: Failed to create package fileUnknown compression type in a cabinet folder In all cases I have seen this problem was caused by […]
We had a big number of cases where customers reported the following pattern: Event ID 7076 – Office SharePoint Server “Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. ” “System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is […]
I have seens this problem a couple of times in the past: sometimes when running incremental content deployment the deployment job fails with the following error message The changeToken refers to a time before the start of the current change log. To make a long story short: to resolve the problem you should do a full […]
A question we have often seen in the past is to have a method to prevent IIS from sending the server identification header to a client which allows a client to identify which type of http server it is talking too. Usually this request comes from security concerns as knowing the server would allow a […]
In the past I have seen the following problem a couple of times: a customer creates a backup of a content database on one server farm (e.g. using STSADM -o backup or a DB backup in SQL) and restores the backup on a different farm and attaches the content database to a web application. After […]
On March 3rd, the first day of the sold out SharePoint Conference in Seattle, Bill Gates will announce, during his keynote session at 9AM PST, Microsoft’s Exchange Online and SharePoint Online services being available on a per user subscription basis to organizations of all sizes. Bill will also announce the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint and the […]
Database Maintenance for Microsoft® SharePoint® Products and Technologies Summary:This paper describes the recommended maintenance strategies for the databases that host content and configuration settings for SharePoint Products and Technologies. Link, http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=111531&clcid=0x409 Abstract: This white paper provides information and guidelines for maintaining the databases that host Microsoft® SharePoint® Products and Technologies data and configurations. It describes and […]
As some of you already noticed: GotDotNet is now down and the code samples previously hosted there have been migrated to the MSDN code gallery. For your convenience here is an overview page of all the code samples which now link to the new location
As some of you already noticed: GotDotNet is now down and the code samples previously hosted there have been migrated to the MSDN code gallery. For your convenience here are links to all my code samples: SharePoint Powershell Script to identify the patch baseline for SharePoint and language packsThis script retrieves the version information for […]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article which explains how to deal with memory pressure situations in MOSS/WSS. Roger Lamb has now created an article which discusses one of the issues – missing Dispose() or Close() for SPWeb, SPSite and PublishingWeb objects. When to dispose and when not to dispose can be confusing […]
