Transparency in projects is becoming a requirement for many organizations today. SharePoint provides a number of out of the box features and integrations with third party tools to support the transparency required. But even before you go about designing the solution, make sure you have your transparency objectives and processes in place.
15Apr/100
Event ID-6398,6482,7076 SharePoint Errors
I have been noticing these errors 6398, 6482 and 7076 in my production and test environments for quite some time occuring every other minute in the application log.
The errors were:
15Apr/100
Idera PointCheck for SharePoint- Free Tool
Idera Point Check: Monitor the status and Performance of your SharePoint Site. This is available for free from Idera.
Idera Point Check has been a very helpful and handy tool that provides dynamic alerts and notifications about the SharePoint Host Server, IIS Server Status and the ASP Requests.
This tool helps me to monitor my SharePoint environment everyday. Here is the screenshot of PointCheck
15Apr/100
IIS Reporter v2.0
I have been looking for a free tool quite some time to figure out the number of current users logged into SharePoint.(IIS) Even though you could get this information through the IIS logs but it is tedious so IIS Reporter v2.0 to the rescue!!! The actual count may not exactly show the number of connections but itz kind of Bellpark Solution to get an idea of how many were connected to the SharePoint Application. Hope this helps. If you are interested you can find a similar product available on Code Plex for SharePoint to get the same information.
14Apr/100
Best Practices for SharePoint Backup & Recovery
AvePoint Doc Ave-SharePoint Backup Tool
We (My Manger, DBA and My Self) always talk a lot about Share Point Data Protection and various backup procedures.
In My opinion it is not how fast you backup your data but how fast you could restore your data from the backups.
13Apr/100
How SharePoint Can Deliver Project Transparency???
How SharePoint Can Deliver Project Transparency
13Apr/101
Reusable Content Publishing Feature-MOSS 2007
Reusable Content Publishing Feature
One of my Power User blew me away with this one… reusable content, write once, display everywhere. You will need to be running MOSS with the Publishing feature enabled to pull this one off, along with access to the top level of the Site Collection with Contributor permissions.
13Apr/100
Bridging SharePoint’s Faults
Executive Summary: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are hugely popular collaboration platforms, but they're not without their faults. Perhaps Microsoft will fix these gaps in future versions, but until that happens, you can use these tips to work around things such as having to remember the port number when accessing SharePoint's Central Administration console, having to drill down whenever accessing the Stsadm utility, and assigning a permission level for the Check In Documents feature.
13Apr/100
SharePoint Governance
SharePoint Governance
What is SharePoint Governance?
'SharePoint Governance' is a guideline on how SharePoint will be used within your organization. It is a set of all the rules and procedures as you will apply them to SharePoint.
Proper Sharepoint governance assigns responsibilities and access levels to various members of your organization to ensure SharePoint runs smoothly.
In short, SharePoint governance determines how SharePoint will run, who will do it and what equipment will be used.
13Apr/101
SharePoint is a woman-Absolutely!!!
SharePoint is a woman
Yes.. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. SharePoint is all woman. Here is why:
“If you don't know why I'm mad, I'm not going to tell you!”
13Apr/100
MOSS Installation Pitfalls
The Office SharePoint Server 2007 administrators now have three years of experience in installing MOSS in various environments. I thought to gather here all the common errors faced in MOSS installation process. Most of these are now luckily documented in MS KB articles. This was not case a year or two ago.
13Apr/101
One Fine Day -SharePoint Permissions Gone
All of a Sudden, My SharePoint (Site Owner) Permissions were gone and the SharePoint Site is READ Only
Issue:
SharePoint site that is normally accessible with the defined permissions exhibits Read Only behavior, even though if you are a Site Owner.
Also you would see something like this….. Where is my settings option?