Windows SharePoint Services Search won’t stop

Background: I had been asked to create a second Sharepoint application server to reprovision the one that is currently in the SharePoint Farm. I installed the os, SharePoint, and SP1. I then began the process of moving all the services on to the new server. (The central farm consists of 2 WFE and 1 App … Read more

Sharepoint Services 3.0: 403 Forbidden fun

Can’t get to the Administration or the “companyweb” site itself; was working up to a week ago. Old threads, blog posts, etc. indicate that there was an issue with a KB update but was resolved when .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 was deployed/installed. Running Process Monitor, I can see a lot of PATH NOT FOUND’,’NAME NOT … Read more

MOSS 2007 Sharepoint Shared Services AD Import SQL/Search Error prevents user import

When attempting to import new AD users (Shared Services Administration > Shared Service > User Profiles and Properties) I receive an error on the top of the User Profiles and Properties page. “An error has occurred while accessing the SQL Server database or the Office SharePoint Server Search service. If this is the first time … Read more

Outlook 2007 and Sharepoint Services Issue

We have a Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS 3.0) Project Management site on one of our Windows 2003 servers. We are trying to give our users access to forms showing them the status of their requests and a form to allow them to add projects through Outlook 2007 which runs on Exchange 2003. We found a … Read more

SharePoint admin configuration inaccessible

I successfully moved three out of four SharePoint Service databases from one database server to another, except for the admin content database. Now I am unable to access the Admin Configuration on the old or new server, but the main SharePoint site and search function normally. I’ve tried disconnecting and reconnecting the farm Configuration: 1 … Read more

SharePoint: users cannot see document create or last modified dates

As the SharePointServices admin user for my organization, I can see all the attributes created and last modified date on documents. However, all non-admin users cannot see them. For example, all they see is Created at 04/09/2010 09:24 by (blank). Other than giving all users admin rights (which is not going to happen), how can … Read more

Add office365 Sharepoint library to OneDrive Sync

I’m working on automating the OneDrive setup for new computers, and I’m new to this kind of thing. I need to automate the Sharepoint shared library setup on the user computer. This way the user has all the shared librairy in the Windows file explorer. This Sharepoint is provided with our Office365 account. I read … Read more

SQL database login failed for Windows Sharepoint Services 3 with TFS 2010

I had to restore a TFS 2010 virtual machine and am having trouble getting WSS running. When I try to go to the Sharepoint Admin portal localhost:17012 it fails. In the event viewer I see a bunch of SQL database login failed. Addition error information from SQL Server is included below. Login failed for user … Read more