I ran across an issue this morning that had the Sharepoint WSS Search Server in a “Pausing” state.  I had to restart the Office SharePoint Server Search service in order to resolve the issue. Now to see if it will complete successfully.

Today, I came across a Windows Service on a server that I inherited. By the name of the service I could tell that it was built in-house and I even found enough information to determine who the developed it.  However, since it was not in the Add / Remove Programs list of the Control Panel, [...]

Did you know that there is a script that was shipped with Windows 2003 SP2 that allows you to recycle your IIS Application Pools. Below is the command that you use from the command line: Description: list IIS application pools and associated worker process Recycle application pools. Syntax: IIsApp.vbs [{ /a | /p } [/r] [...]

While working to email-enable SharePoint lists I ran across a great post on Microsoft Support about testing SMTP: SMTP relay behavior in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Exchange Server The basic test: Start a command prompt. Type telnet ServerName 25, where ServerName is the SMTP server name or IP address and 25 is the port [...]