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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

WssRemoveFeatureFromSite is a great tool to have in your SharePoint arsenal.  I combined it with some Windows commands to create a batch file that removes multiple features from a site or sitecollection.  This isn’t real complicated stuff, but most useful things aren’t. set site=http://www.example.com/sites/site set scope=site :: Analytics WssRemoveFeatureFromSite -scope %scope% -url %site% -featureid 56dd7fe7-a155-4283-b5e6-6147560601ee [...]