I got a report from one of our power users that SharePoint search was not returning any results. The default search service under WSS 3.0 is not very easy to troubleshoot. Things will get better with Search Server 2008 (I hope). Anyway, I did find the following in my Application Event Logs:
So, you have a site that needs to to run over SSL-only (shouldn’t they all?)? You don’t trust your clients to type that ever-important “s” after “http” (and why would they?)? You think they will get scared off by those “Secure connection required” error pages (they will!)? You are not running IIS7 (who is?)? Not [...]
Our Microsoft Sales Rep for the Live@edu Cloud Computing offering ran a web conference for us a few days ago on the Wave 3 release of Live@edu. After the presentation I was feeling a bit shocked and depressed. I think I have moved into phase 4 of the “Denial to Acceptance” process. In the interest [...]
After a semi-disaster with SharePoint earlier this week, I have been forced into the view that I really should have our SharePoint infrastructure hosted on more than one web server. To that end, I am planning the deployment of a new, 2+ node Windows SharePoint Services farm.
Initial architecture will be something like this:
Host: SharePoint2
Roles: Web [...]
Users of our ECTS implementation “PartnerPoint” are not an overly happy set. Most of the problems that we have experienced are centered around login errors. This application is particularly prone to login errors for the following reasons:
Randomly generated initial password is too complex – data entry errors cause login denial
Password expiration errors are not transparent [...]