We were having trouble adding a user to a site collection.  Every time we hit the search button or clicked the check userid button the system would just sit there and spin. I added the following section of the web.config to resolve the issue. </compilation> <pages enableSessionState="false" enableViewState="true" enableViewStateMac="true" validateRequest="false" pageParserFilterType="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPPageParserFilter, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" [...]

Whenever I create a new MOSS site this is going to use the Office SharePoint Server Publishing feature I get an “Access Denied” error when I try enable it. So, I am finally posting the solution: stsadm -o activatefeature -name PublishingResources -url <site> *Be sure to include the “http://” in the <site> Hope this helps!

I installed a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Web Front End (WFE) onto an external server to be used for the External Collaboration Tool-Kit. Once I got it installed I ran the SharePoint Products & Technologies Configuration Wizard and received the following error: Failed to register SharePoint services. The log pointed to several different registry keys [...]

One day, we noticed that our search was not working.   Well really, one of the applications managers noticed that it wasn’t working.  Anyway, we found the following errors in the event viewer on our SharePoint 2007 Server: Event Type:      Warning Event Source:      Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search Event Category:      Gatherer Event ID:      2436 Date:            4/11/2009 [...]

When trying to enable the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature we were getting an “Access Denied” error.  The error in the application event log was: Event Type:    Error Event Source:    Office SharePoint Server Event Category:    Publishing Provisioning Event ID:    4965 Date:        5/13/2009 Time:        10:16:31 AM User:        N/A Computer:    SERVERNAME Description: Event log message was: [...]