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May 2009 - Posts

AD property changes not synchronizing in SharePoint 2007?

Here is a nice one: Problem: User has a property changed in AD (like surname when married) Changes do not reflect in SharePoint 2007 when you view the user Troubleshooting and Solution: First check that none of your content databases are in “offline” Read More
posted 29 May 2009 13:15 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

"Error: Unable to find user” and the stsadm –o migrateuser command

Here is an interesting “gotcha!”: When migrating a user who also happens to be the sole site collection administrator for a site collection (this means that no secondary site collection owner has been specified), you may find that after migration you Read More
posted 25 May 2009 13:54 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

Attaching content databases, where did my root site collection go?

Got to love SharePoint 2007, you learn / encounter something new everyday :) I recently got a request to help resolve an issue with a missing root site collection after a backed-up content database attach procedure. What happened was that the user had Read More
posted 20 May 2009 16:07 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

Kerberos Checklist

So the other day I felt like a real chop as I “assumed” something was done while I was setting up Kerberos, we all know that assumption is mother of all youknowwhats. So here I have put together a “Kerberos Checklist” which should help to troubleshoot Read More
posted 19 May 2009 12:54 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

Running a x64 guest OS in a Virtual Environment

For those of us who like to play around with virtual machines and find ourselves unable to to load a guest 64-bit OS without the wonderful Hyper-V or some other costly solution, there is HOPE! I stumbled across VirtualBox, a FREE VM environment that Read More
posted 15 May 2009 14:20 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

Adding two forests with different authentication accounts to people-picker

from www.sharepointhack.net: Earlier I spoke about how you can tell the people-picker control to look up a list from a different domain. Now what happens if you need people-picker to look up users from two different domains and each domain has a separate Read More
posted 14 May 2009 17:46 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments
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SharePoint.H@ck has a new (backup) home

Hi, I have registered www.sharepointhack.net where I will be posting new information (which will be copied here). Why? I need some more space to upload files and I like the domain ;) Regards, Doug Read More
posted 13 May 2009 18:44 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

Infrastructure update and Kerberos (SP2 included)

Note to all of those out there that are using / planning to use Kerberos authentiction in your SharePoint 2007 environments: if you have applied the Infrastructure Update you will need to modify the registry to support new SPN naming conventions and then Read More
posted 13 May 2009 18:43 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments