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 [...]

!!!*** 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 [...]

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 [...]