Jason Medero SharePoint MVP: SharePoint Space for all things SharePoint, OCS, RMS, InfoPath, and Office

Hey guys/gals,

 Just wanted to pass on a solution to a problem that I ran into today in case anyone else runs into it.  So today I had a customer who was simply trying to access their SharePoint Usage reports .  Unfortunately when they were going into site settings and selecting the link they were receiving a 403 forbidden error..  So the first thing i checked was that the application pool account had the correct rights in SQL server (dbcreator and security admin) on the content databases in which I was accessing.

 Everything looked fine and then it struck me.  I wonder if the application pool account is running under the correct identity of the application pool that was running the web application that I was trying to access the usage reports through?  Bingo I checked the application pool identity under IIS and it was running under Network Service (very bad because this service account does not have rights to access the content databases).  So I quickly changed the application pool identity to the account which had the correct permissions above ran an IISRESET (just in case) and the usage reports were now accessible!

Another day another problem solved now if I could only keep all of the solutions I have written down on this blog in my brain that would be even better.

 Cheers,

Jason Medero
WSS MVP
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Hey guys/gals,

 Just wanted to pass on a solution to a problem that I ran into today in case anyone else runs into it.  So today I had a customer who was simply trying to access their SharePoint Usage reports .  Unfortunately when they were going into site settings and selecting the link they were receiving a 403 forbidden error..  So the first thing i checked was that the application pool account had the correct rights in SQL server (dbcreator and security admin) on the content databases in which I was accessing.

 Everything looked fine and then it struck me.  I wonder if the application pool account is running under the correct identity of the application pool that was running the web application that I was trying to access the usage reports through?  Bingo I checked the application pool identity under IIS and it was running under Network Service (very bad because this service account does not have rights to access the content databases).  So I quickly changed the application pool identity to the account which had the correct permissions above ran an IISRESET (just in case) and the usage reports were now accessible!

Another day another problem solved now if I could only keep all of the solutions I have written down on this blog in my brain that would be even better.

 Cheers,

Jason Medero
WSS MVP
Need SharePoint Consulting?? Contact me

 Just wanted to point everyone out to a great SharePoint MVP developer oriented blogger that is finally back to blogging!  This blog will certainly have some awesome content which you can directly relate to some of the development questions/issues that you and your team might run into.  So without further delay go check it out!

 http://wssguy.com/blogs/dan/archive/2008/10/27/back-with-a-vengeance.aspx

Cheers,

 Jay

 Just wanted to point everyone out to a great SharePoint MVP developer oriented blogger that is finally back to blogging!  This blog will certainly have some awesome content which you can directly relate to some of the development questions/issues that you and your team might run into.  So without further delay go check it out!

 http://wssguy.com/blogs/dan/archive/2008/10/27/back-with-a-vengeance.aspx

Cheers,

 Jay

 I received a great email this morning which said that I have been renewed as a SharePoint MVP!  It is a great honor to be an MVP and also be doing work with a technology that you enjoy and truly believe in.  The SharePoint community is so tight and its like being friends with a bunch of smart SharePoint people…Well its not like being because it is !  I have been a SharePoint MVP since 2006 and it just amazes me when I think about just how much the community has grown and has responded so positively.

 I want to thank the community, my awesome colleagues at B&R Business Solutions,  and Microsoft for realizing the value in the community and making a concious effort to increase interaction outside of the MS doors.

Thanks and I am looking forward to another great year helping the community where ever I can!

Cheers,

Jason Medero

 I received a great email this morning which said that I have been renewed as a SharePoint MVP!  It is a great honor to be an MVP and also be doing work with a technology that you enjoy and truly believe in.  The SharePoint community is so tight and its like being friends with a bunch of smart SharePoint people…Well its not like being because it is !  I have been a SharePoint MVP since 2006 and it just amazes me when I think about just how much the community has grown and has responded so positively.

 I want to thank the community, my awesome colleagues at B&R Business Solutions,  and Microsoft for realizing the value in the community and making a concious effort to increase interaction outside of the MS doors.

Thanks and I am looking forward to another great year helping the community where ever I can!

Cheers,

Jason Medero

You are invited to the upcoming meeting of the NYC SharePoint User Group at the Microsoft office in NYC.
The meeting will start at 5:30pm on  October 1, 2008.
The meetings are held at the Microsoft office in Manhattan (1290 Avenue of the Americas at 51st Street)

Register Now!

The speaker for our October meeting will be Bill English (MCSE, MCSA, MVP, MCT). His presentation is titled: "Findability & Taxonomies,: Notes from the Field".

In
this presentation, Bill will cover the latest research on Findability
& discuss why it is much more than a set of applications or
technologies. Bill will outline the inherent problems with keyword
queries & offer suggestions on how the SharePoint platform can be
improved to be a foundational technology in an overall Findability
solution. This session will challenge assumptions about search
technologies & is appropriate for technologists as well as project
managers, information architects & CIOs.

An
author & educator specializing in SharePoint products &
technologies, Bill English is an industry leader on this exciting
product set form Microsoft. Since 2000, Bill has authored 11 books on
Exchange & SharePoint products & is currently working on
another book with Microsoft Press. Bill is the co-owner of Mindsharp (www.mindsharp.com),
a company that offers top-notch educational opportunities on the
SharePoint platform. He has presented at Comdex, The Microsoft Exchange
Conference, TechMentor, TechEd, Advisor Live, TechEd Europe &
Networld Interop. You can find his blog at his AdminCompanion book site. Bill lives in Minnesota with his wife & two children where he enjoys boating, photography & summer.

Here's the agenda for this meeting:

You are invited to the upcoming meeting of the NYC SharePoint User Group at the Microsoft office in NYC.
The meeting will start at 5:30pm on  October 1, 2008.
The meetings are held at the Microsoft office in Manhattan (1290 Avenue of the Americas at 51st Street)

Register Now!

The speaker for our October meeting will be Bill English (MCSE, MCSA, MVP, MCT). His presentation is titled: "Findability & Taxonomies,: Notes from the Field".

In
this presentation, Bill will cover the latest research on Findability
& discuss why it is much more than a set of applications or
technologies. Bill will outline the inherent problems with keyword
queries & offer suggestions on how the SharePoint platform can be
improved to be a foundational technology in an overall Findability
solution. This session will challenge assumptions about search
technologies & is appropriate for technologists as well as project
managers, information architects & CIOs.

An
author & educator specializing in SharePoint products &
technologies, Bill English is an industry leader on this exciting
product set form Microsoft. Since 2000, Bill has authored 11 books on
Exchange & SharePoint products & is currently working on
another book with Microsoft Press. Bill is the co-owner of Mindsharp (www.mindsharp.com),
a company that offers top-notch educational opportunities on the
SharePoint platform. He has presented at Comdex, The Microsoft Exchange
Conference, TechMentor, TechEd, Advisor Live, TechEd Europe &
Networld Interop. You can find his blog at his AdminCompanion book site. Bill lives in Minnesota with his wife & two children where he enjoys boating, photography & summer.

Here's the agenda for this meeting:

Today I ran into this problem at a client when I simply
moved the indexing role over to a new server in the MOSS 2007 farm.  I first noticed the problem when I wanted to
manually execute a full crawl in the farm because I had to rebuild the index
when moving the role.  So I went into SSP
admin site and clicked on search settings that is when I got hit with the error:

                “The search service is currently
offline.  Visit the Services on Server
page

in
SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is

enabled.
This might also be because an indexer move is in progress.”

At first glance this error seemed right on because I did
move the indexing role and I thought that SharePoint was just getting things
aligned and I would be back up in no time. 
About an hour past and I tried it again and received the same error this
is when I suspected that something was definitely wrong.  So I went through the initial steps:

1.        Stop and start search services on new index
server and all servers running the query role

2.       Then
restarted the search service via central administration under operations
tab>>Services

3.       Went
into Services.msc and found the Office Search Service and restarted it manually

4.       Checked
to make sure that the search service account had correct rights to SQL.

None of this seemed to work. 
Finally I was able to resolve this problem by:

1.        Going into the SSP settings (clicking on SSP
administration not the SSP link itself) within the left quick launch navigation
from within central administration.

2.       Selecting
the dropdown arrow next to the SSP where I was having the search issue

3.       Select
edit properties

4.       Within
the properties screen of the SSP look for the “Process accounts”

5.       Make
sure that your search account is in there!

Once I added the search account there I was then able to
access the search settings page within SSP admin without a problem.  Hope this helps everyone who might run into
the same issue!

Cheers,

Today I ran into this problem at a client when I simply
moved the indexing role over to a new server in the MOSS 2007 farm.  I first noticed the problem when I wanted to
manually execute a full crawl in the farm because I had to rebuild the index
when moving the role.  So I went into SSP
admin site and clicked on search settings that is when I got hit with the error:

                “The search service is currently
offline.  Visit the Services on Server
page

in
SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is

enabled.
This might also be because an indexer move is in progress.”

At first glance this error seemed right on because I did
move the indexing role and I thought that SharePoint was just getting things
aligned and I would be back up in no time. 
About an hour past and I tried it again and received the same error this
is when I suspected that something was definitely wrong.  So I went through the initial steps:

1.        Stop and start search services on new index
server and all servers running the query role

2.       Then
restarted the search service via central administration under operations
tab>>Services

3.       Went
into Services.msc and found the Office Search Service and restarted it manually

4.       Checked
to make sure that the search service account had correct rights to SQL.

None of this seemed to work. 
Finally I was able to resolve this problem by:

1.        Going into the SSP settings (clicking on SSP
administration not the SSP link itself) within the left quick launch navigation
from within central administration.

2.       Selecting
the dropdown arrow next to the SSP where I was having the search issue

3.       Select
edit properties

4.       Within
the properties screen of the SSP look for the “Process accounts”

5.       Make
sure that your search account is in there!

Once I added the search account there I was then able to
access the search settings page within SSP admin without a problem.  Hope this helps everyone who might run into
the same issue!

Cheers,