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.

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 [...]

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.

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

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 [...]

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 [...]