The other day we came across an issue where a user inadvertently inserted a “https” in the URL of a SharePoint site.  The resulting page that was displayed was the Central Administration site. The only site that is secured with SSL on our SharePoint servers is the Central Admin site.  The Central Admin site also [...]

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 [...]

There are several steps that you need to take in order to enable anonymous access.  Below are the steps taken from Microsoft TechNet. Enable anonymous access for a zone of a Web application From Administrative Tools, open the SharePoint Central Administration Web site application. On the Central Administration home page, click Application Management. On the [...]

The Sharepoint Knowledge Base blog has a great post about setting the user’s Time Zone and other locale info.

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: [...]

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 [...]

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