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 [...]

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. [...]

UPDATE:There is a more complete list of WSS Features at Thor Projects WSS v3 Features: 33 Features in WSS v3 AdminLinks AnnouncementsList BasicWebParts ContactsList ContentLightup ContentTypeSettings ctypes CustomList DataSourceLibrary DiscussionsList DocumentLibrary EventsList fields GanttTasksList GridList IssuesList IssueTrackingWorkflow LinksList MobilityRedirect NoCodeWorkflowLibrary PictureLibrary SiteSettings SPSearchFeature SurveysList TasksList TeamCollab UpgradeLinks WebPageLibrary WikiWelcome WorkflowHistoryList WorkflowProcessList XmlFormLibrary MOSS 2007 Features: [...]

I used a tool by Steven Van de Craen called FaultyFeatureTool to compare the features that were enabled on two different sites. It’s not the original purpose of this tool but it came in very handy. You can also remove the feature using the application or STSADM. STSADM -o deactivatefeature -id <FEATUREID>-url http://localhost -force