Feb14

SharePoint Large File Upload Configuration

Categories: SharePoint Administration
Several times I have had SharePoint environments where there was a need for large file storage (I mean large files, 100MB+). SharePoint can accommodate, but you need to change a few settings in different parts of the overall system, or you'll run in...
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Nov15

Use PortQry to Determine Ports Listening

Categories: Tools and Utilites, SharePoint Administration
Working in a new server farm, it’s inevitable that you’ll have a moment where somebody (application) or something (server) is not talking to each other.  Windows Firewall, Hardware Firewalls, ISA Server, Named Instances, Non-Default ports, Load Ba...
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Nov9

Kill database connections to SharePoint

Categories: SharePoint Administration
There will be occasions where you need to work with the databases for SharePoint in SQL Server Management Studio.  Backups, restores, etc... If you run into problems with there being existing connections to the databases preventing you from perfor...
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Nov8

Files and Permissions for SharePoint 2007

Categories: SharePoint Administration
Last week while troubleshooting some rights and permission issues for groups in SharePoint, I found myself on this little gem of content. It covers the installation directory, windows directory, site directories, registry settings, databases, etc...
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Oct30

Start Central Administration site with STSADM

Categories: SharePoint Administration
Oops.  I stopped central admin.  Can’t access the site to start services… no bueno.  No worries however, because you can actually start Central Administration up via STSADM (don’t you just love this utility?) Web Service stsadm -o provisionservic...
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Oct27

Create a Site Collection Administrator with stsadm

Categories: SharePoint Administration
Taking over administration for SharePoint after a previous administrator was ‘let go’ always has little gotchas that pop up. One of those can be needing to create a new site collection administrator.  If you can’t get access to the site, you can u...
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Sep18

Quiesce The SharePoint Server

Categories: Admin
Qui-what?  According to Wikipedia, Quiesce is used to describe pausing or altering the state of running processes on a computer particularly those that might modify information stored on disk during a backup in order to guarantee a consistent and us...
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Aug20

Reset SharePoint Web Application Policy Permissions

Categories: Admin
Probably the most painful part of being a consultant, is coming in behind another company who had previously been working on your client’s SharePoint environment.  It’s not always a case of ‘they did something bad’.  Even if they did everything ‘co...
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Aug17

How SharePoint Locates the Configuration Database

Categories: Admin
Well, I guess I never really thought about this much until I had to (long story).  SharePoint actually stores the connection to the configuration database in the registry.  Makes pretty good sense considering I’ve never seen it in a config file anyw...
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Aug14

Change Passwords for SharePoint Accounts

Categories: Admin
While on a project I had taken a couple of days off to move to another project.  I left the implementation fully configured, and returned to migrate data to the new SharePoint environment.  When I walked in the door, I was greeted with “Dan, Share...
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