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October 2009 - Posts

The Mystery of the 1 to 30 Usage Log Files

*insert spooky music* Ok so here is one that truly shows that I have no social life: a customer once asked me “why can we specify 1 – 30 usage log files, when configuring usage analysis processing?”, the answer to which at that time was “not entirely Read More
posted 27 October 2009 22:58 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

The sneaky content deployment job

The other day I ran into an issue where the admins were seeing an Event ID in the application log that indicated that a content deployment job had failed. Well the actual details were something like this: content was copied successfully to the destination Read More
posted 19 October 2009 17:32 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

Change the location of MOSS user account environmental

A couple of things I have been noticing is that a lot of content ends up in the TEMP directory of the MOSS service accounts (think content deployment, workflow etc.) We all know that the default TEMP directory (if unchanged) is in the %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp Read More
posted 19 October 2009 17:24 by bobthebuilder | 1 Comments

Kerberos, DCOM and Windows Server 2008

Here is an interesting little issue I came across the other day while setting up Kerberos on Windows Server 2008 R2: Everything went fine until I wanted to allow local activation permissions on the DCOM objects for the SharePoint service accounts, much Read More
posted 19 October 2009 17:16 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Blank Central Admin Sites, IIS_IUSRS

So got another interesting issue where a mate of mine said that after installing SharePoint 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 that they were unable to see the CA site. The interesting part is that there were no errors and viewing the source of the site showed Read More
posted 19 October 2009 17:15 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

More 2008 and Kerberos: Authentication Denied, app pool account being ingnored

Wow, what a day for Windows Server 2008 and Kerberos. There is a new step now that needs to be performed in order to get Kerberos working correctly. One of the major changes incorporated into IIS 7.0 is that Kernel mode authentication for Windows Authentication Read More
posted 19 October 2009 17:13 by bobthebuilder | 1 Comments

Reporting Services for DPM checklist

Thought I would create a little "Reporting Services" checklist for DPM, not much but covers some common issues. Must be installed on the remote SQL machine where the DPM databases are. If the DPM database is not on the same server that DPM is installed Read More
posted 19 October 2009 17:13 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

Reporting Services 2008 SharePoint Integration

Seems like a day for Reporting Services. Here are the brief steps to get Reporting Services 2008 to work with SharePoint 2007: Install Reporting Services on a computer that it is already part of the SharePoint Farm / or setup a new machine, install MOSS Read More
posted 19 October 2009 17:12 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments

SharePoint 2009 conference

Currently at the 2009 SharePoint Conference, watch this blog as I will be posting new content about SharePoint 2010, mostly around how to do things I did in 2007 in 2010 :) Read More
posted 19 October 2009 17:10 by bobthebuilder | 0 Comments