Extended web applications are not listed in the web application list and cannot be deleted using the Delete Web Application link in Central Administration. Use the following steps to delete extended web applications: Start Central Administration Go to Application Management Click Remove SharePoint from IIS Web Site to get a page with a form similar [...]

The other day we came across an issue where a user inadvertently inserted a “https” in the URL of a SharePoint site.  The resulting page that was displayed was the Central Administration site. The only site that is secured with SSL on our SharePoint servers is the Central Admin site.  The Central Admin site also [...]

There are several steps that you need to take in order to enable anonymous access.  Below are the steps taken from Microsoft TechNet. Enable anonymous access for a zone of a Web application From Administrative Tools, open the SharePoint Central Administration Web site application. On the Central Administration home page, click Application Management. On the [...]

Change the Central Administration Web site port number Use this procedure to change the port number of the Central Administration Web site. Change the Central Administration Web site port number by using the Stsadm command-line tool On the drive where SharePoint Products and Technologies is installed, open a command-line window and type the following command: [...]

One of our developers reported to me that the SharePoint Alerts were not sending emails.  The initial notification that the alert was setup was sent but not the alerts themselves. I was able to find a great article by a MS MVP named Susan Bradley called How to Troubleshoot Alerts in WSS 3.0 / MOSS. [...]

!!!*** NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER EVER STOP WINDOWS SHAREPOINT SERVICES WEB APPLICATION ***!!! The Windows SharePoint Services Web Application is what identifies your server as a SharePoint Web Front-End.  If you stop this “service” it will remove all SharePoint websites and the directories from which they are served.  So, unless you know exactly what you [...]