Share'ing my Points

Let's say you created a master page and put it to the Master Pages and Page Layouts Gallery. After a while, you wanted to delete the master page but you got the "This item cannot be deleted because it is still referenced by other pages". error. Do not be frightened. This is a bug and there is no solution for this situation. Microsoft offers a workaround for this situation which you can find at this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926812

If you just installed SharePoint and clicked the "Blocked File Types" link at the Central Administration site, you get the "Unknown Error" exception Why? Because, this is a bug If you haven't created any web application yet and opened "/_admin/BlockedFiledType.aspx" URL, the page can not populate the web application list menu on the right top and you get the "Unknown Error" exception :p Just go and create at least one web application, and that's it; the problem is solved

I installed the Active Directory Right Management Services role on Windows Server 2008 to test the IRM integration of MOSS 2007. When I clicked the "Information Rights Management" link on Central Administration site on MOSS 2007 and select "Use the default RMS server specified in Active Directory" option, I got the "The required Windows Rights Management client is present but the server refused access. IRM will not work until the server grants permission." exception. This error occurs because of the lack of NTFS permissions on related RMS web service. To overcome this issue, go to the "C:inetpubwwwroot\_wmcscertification" folder and assing read permissions to default content access account of MOSS 2007 installation on ServerCertificate.asmx file.

My portal was working perfectly but SharePoint was consistantly logging the error below to the error log:

Failure trying to synch web application …, ContentDB … Exception message was A duplicate site ID … (http://…) was found. This might be caused by restoring a content database from one server farm into a different server farm without first removing the original database and then running stsadm -o preparetomove. If this is the cause, the stsadm -o preparetomove command can be used with the -OldContentDB command line option to resolve this issue.

This is logged when you detach and reattach a content database on SQL Server, or when you create a new web application with an existing content database. To solve this issue you can use the stsadm command below:

stsadm -o sync -deleteolddatabases

I created a web application. Then I extended the web application with a new host header url and deleted the first web application. Then, I wanted to backup the web application, but I got a "sharepoint KeyNotFoundException" exception while backing up. The description of the exception was "The given key was not present in the dictionary". To overcome this issue, I deleted the existing web application without deleting the content database, and I created a new web application using the existing content database. The problem was solved

Since the alert e-mail sending architecture works with a the timer job that sends the alert e-mails every 5 minutes, the alert e-mails are not sent instantly. To change execution period of alert e-mail sending timer job, you can use stsadm.exe with command line parameters as below:

 stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname "job-immediate-alerts" -url http://yourmosssite -propertyvalue "every 1 minutes between 0 and 59"

As we all know, SQL Server 2008 ships with many new features. One of these features is the File Stream data type.

SharePoint's document management module stores the uploaded files on SQL Server. This new data type will improve the performance of SharePoint. Unfortunately, usage of File Stream data type of SQL Server 2008 in SharePoint technologies will be avaliable with the new version of SharePoint. None of the service packs nor the hot fixes will change the way documents are stored on SQL Server 2008. Sorry