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 [...]

I was trying to export a site that had been moved from a MOSS farm to a WSS farm and was getting an error that a list did not exist.  Well, I’ve fought with this particular web application for quite a while and was sick of getting stupid little errors because of the move from [...]

From time-to-time we have incremental deployments fail because of issues with checked out pages or other objects.  So, I searched for a way to find all the checked out files and came across Ryan Steeno’s blog. Here is an overview of the process: Create a new managed property in the Shared Service Provider (SSP) Perform [...]

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" [...]

I have been wanting to setup a non-www host header for our external websites and found that there are 2 steps to get this working: Setup an Alternate Access Mapping in the default zone that specifies the domain without the “www”. Manually add the host header to the IIS properties of the website.

Lately, we have been getting a lot of errors on our content deployment jobs.  The error that the jobs seem to have in common is “An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action”. I followed this Microsoft KB Article to resolve the issue: Error message when you try to modify or to [...]

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: [...]

A great resources for DevExpertise – SharePoint List Template IDs and Site Template IDs. Tech Training Notes – SharePoint: RegistrationId List Template Type IDs

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!

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. [...]