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Backup Hangs/Fails

charlesrobinson — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:46:05 GMT

It seems when I select a full farm backup it fails.

I'm getting this error:

Object 9480c611-4d19-4f96-a2e4-dc6d62880af1 failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. InvalidOperationException: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The device is not ready. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Administration.MSSITLB.IGatherApplication2.BackupRegistry(Boolean fBackupNow) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Administration.SPSearchBackupRestoreTimerJob.Execute(Guid targetInstanceId)

It seems to stall around the Shared Search Index and SSP_Search_DB

[10/9/2011 2:35:23 PM]: Verbose: Starting object: UserProfileApplication.

[10/9/2011 2:35:23 PM]: Progress: [UserProfileApplication] 50 percent complete.

[10/9/2011 2:35:23 PM]: Verbose: Starting object: SessionStateSharedApplication.

[10/9/2011 2:35:24 PM]: Verbose: Starting object: Shared Search Index.

[10/9/2011 2:35:24 PM]: Progress: [Shared Search Index] 50 percent complete.

And it hangs there. I'm also seeing a com error in the logs. I'll post it in a second.

Any suggestions?

Moving Custom List To Subsite

miti2005 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:08:20 GMT

Does anyone know how to move a custom list from a parent site to a subsite. I was hoping that you could move everything including all of the formats for each column. I appreciate the help in advance as I am new to sharepoint.

Upload of document using add as New Version to Existing removes required properties in SharePoint 2010

gtidman — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:42:15 GMT

In MOSS2007 this does not seem to be the case.

In SharePoint 2010 we are seeing that if you upload a document and fill in the metadata properties and then check file in. If you come back later and upload the file again with the open selected as new version to existing file, the metadata properties are removed and you must enter them again.

Is this a "as designed" behavior change between MOSS2007 and SP2010?

I haven't found any documentation on this and wanted to confirm.

claims based user/group membership

paulsur — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:22:01 GMT

Looking for a way to report on the group membership of claims based users. This is a SOX requirement for many of our clients. Is there an OOTB way or script available to perform this?

Search Service Application error in SharePoint 2010

Dameon Roman — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:35:59 GMT

· Small SharePoint farm (single server)

· SharePoint 2010 and SQL 2008 are running on the same server

· Administrative Domain User account: SharePoint Administrator

· SharePoint Administrator is in the Administrator group on the local server

Error log

Count Error Message

1) 3 - Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has "Full Read" permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled.

2) 2 - The object was not found.

Page Viewer Web Part with alternative credentials

breaker119 — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:00:41 GMT

I need to display a series of Page Viewer web parts to display some small proprietary reports from our Request For Change application. It has a thin client and we have a universal login that I can apply. Does anybody know how to apply default credentials that are different from the SSO used in the SharePoint session?

Server Error - All gueries combined using a UNION, INTER.....

breaker119 — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:45:46 GMT

I am getting a recurring server error that I cannot figure out. Has anybody else run into this? It happens from source Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services 3

Unknown SQL Exception 205 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.

All queries combined using a UNION, INTERSECT or EXCEPT operator must have an equal number of expressions in their target lists.

WSS_Content log file grows very large

tjedwin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:49:36 GMT

Dear SharePoint Guru,

I'm newbie to MOSS 2007 and I assigned to maintenance the MOSS 2007.

The WSS_Content database log file was growing so big 200 ++ GB.

Will the SharePoint data be deleted if I am going to truncate or shrink the WSS_Content database log file?

Please help and advice.

Thanks,
Edwin

Unable to Access Newly Created Sites in MOSS 2007

Admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:48:44 GMT

Last week I created the Site Collection by giving my name as Site Collection Administrator. This is team site. When trying to access that SharePoint site I am getting access denied page. The weird thing is the Site is still not accessible even with farm admin account. Any thoughts on this issue and how to resolve this?

Please respond to vinaydeep410@gmail.com

Vinay

Adding a second App server

rinu_v — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:52:34 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I've been asked to research on adding a second app server to our farm. Our current farm has two WFE that are load balanced and we have one app server and clustered SQL backend. I've been asked to find out if its possible to add a second app server to our current environment to have full redundancy at each layer. We don't have indexing server in our current farm. The new server will serve as another application server. Is it possible to do that? If so, could you please point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance for any input.

Rinu

Why are users denied access in SharePoint 2003

sthomson77 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:06:44 GMT

Why are my users rejected, even if I pre-list them as contributers?

Intranet users can go to my List Library and complete a form I have setup by selecting "New Item". However, after they have completed the entire form, and select "Close and Save", they get a message saying that access is denied. They then need to make 3 attempts before getting the message where they can send access request to me, the administrator.

After I grant them access, then they can go back to the site and fill out the form again.

Thanks in advance,

Steve

Add subsite navigation

davidmfox — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:45:15 GMT

Hello,

If I'm using main navigation at the top of my Intranet site, and I want to have each section have its own navigation in the left margin, is the Quick Launch the best tool for this? If so, is it possible for each section's own navigation to be unique? I'm not sure I know if creating a Quick Launch menu will only display links for one particular section, rather than the whole site, which I don't want. I tried using the "Insert Web Component" then choosing the Link Bars and whatever I created as a side navigation automatically showed up alongside my upper navigation, which I don't want. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Sharepoint 2003

shailubhai — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:06:15 GMT

Hi Guys

I am trying to migrate my Sharepoint 2003 sites to Sharepoint 2007. Before sending out the migration communication, I would like to find out how many sites are being used or view on daily basis or monthly basis.

Can some one please tell my how I can find this? Can you please send me step by step instructions. Whether its enabling Logging to checking web logs on the server. How can I enable logging and where can I check the web logs??

Thanks

Path To SharePoint - Cool Javascript Tricks

RuskaFamily — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:29:26 GMT

During last nights meeting we were discussing how to make changes to the gantt chart to improve it's usage. Here is the site that provides great tips and tricks http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/

Content rollup across site collections

raysid — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:20:57 GMT

In the monthly meeting on 7/21 question was asked if there is a way to rollup content across site collections. Below is what I had referred too in the session. This is currently a "working proof of concept"

http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2009/06/30/Introducing-the-Content-Monster-Web-Part-by-Todd-Baginski-amp.aspx

How to troubleshoot when site collection won't load?

gina_gentile@yahoo.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:31:17 GMT

I've created a site collection with the url, http://mytntdev. However, when I try to access that website, I get the error,

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

I've stopped/restarted IIS, but am not sure what else I should check to see why this site collection won't launch.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Deleting content source

vr030379 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:47:45 GMT

Hello,

I'm new to sharepoint and I wanted to setup a custom scope. I ran into some issues and I wanted to delete the scope and content source and recreate it. But when I go to delete the content source, it just hangs there. I re-booted the server and still have no luck.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Change user email associated with my ID

traceynolte — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:27:25 GMT

I need to update my email and can't see where to update my profile with my new email.

Backup hanging at WSS_Search_

treemtsma — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:27:37 GMT

Is anyone having an issue of their backup freezing at this point?

WSS_Search_servername	Preparing backup	11/3/2008 2:00 AM

WSS_Search_servername

Preparing backup

11/3/2008 2:00 AM

I had this issue a few weeks back and applied the latest hotfixs. However, it is happening again.

Daylight Savings Time was said to be one of the problems before. Now that the clocks have changed, is anyone having this issue too?

Thank you all

stsadm export error There is no row at position 0

mvh0477 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:11:35 GMT

When trying to run a backup either by SharePoint Designer or by using stsadm.exe I get the following error: "There is no row at position 0"

Can you please tell me more about this error? I also have the error log and will be glad to send you the file.

SharePoint Theme Generator - CSS

RuskaFamily — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:11:06 GMT

During tonights (9/16) breakout Administrator breakout session we discussed Master Pages and CSS. Here is the online tool that can be used to simplify color in an existing theme:

http://hermansberghem.googlepages.com/themegenerator.htm

Chris Ruska

Need ideas to just database rights as a Sharepoint admin

kehedges — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:45:53 GMT

At my company, the database administrators are resisting granting my team ( Sharepoint admins) rights to our sharepoint databases. I am forming a document to justify the access. Has anyone else had to go through this kind of exercise?

Migrating Wikis through Web Services

dwinter — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:13:29 GMT

I just posted a large series where I talk about Migrating Wikis through Web Services. I know Eric has been working with web services in SharePoint. He posted recently on the topic--so to keep your minds going in that direction, I thought I'd throw the link down.

http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx

Opening MOSS 2007 up to Internet

snewsome — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:37:22 GMT

I am looking to pick someone's brain who has went through the process of opening up MOSS 2007 to the internet. I will cover lunch if someone who has gone through this process would sit down with me for around an hour. Cell # 972-415-6711. Thank you.

Tool to see entire farm in 'org chart' style view

FFjlocke — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:10:12 GMT

I'm trying to find a tool that will show me all of my site collections and all of their subsites in an org chart style view. I have SharePoint Designer 2007 and I'm able to see a site collection like this in the 'navigation' tab, but I need to see the entire farm. Can anyone suggest a tool that will do this? Quest's Discovery tool will also show me top level sites and subsites but it's a tree view and not able to be exported. Thanks in advance.

instalation difference between standard and enterprise

ed@dfw — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:02:33 GMT

What is the installation difference between MOSS 2007 Standard and Enterprise? We have been told that when MOSS 2007 is installed there is no way to restrict users from using the Enterprise options. We want to only install the standard version.

All Day Calendar Events in MOSS 2007 are shifted by 7 hours when synced with Outlook 2003

jherrmann — Fri, 04 May 2007 06:13:26 GMT

When click the checkbox on a calendar item in SP 2007 and select "this is an all day event", the item looks fine in SharePoint but when synced into Outlook 2003, it is shifted back by 7 hours (looks like GMT). I've checked the timezone in the site collection and on the workstation and they are both set to CST. If I create the calendar entry manually as a full day event starting at 12:00 am - 11:59 pm, it syncs into Outlook just fine. Has anyone else seen this?