Category Archives: Admin / Config
SharePoint 2010 Web Analytics under the covers
I encountered an issue with Web Analytics not processing usage that was evident through the lack of hits in the usage reports in central administration and site collections. Fortunately I got the problem fixed which I’ll share with you in … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, Fixes / Solutions, SharePoint 2010, Uncategorized
“No valid proxy can be found” when publishing content type in SharePoint 2010
I found a number of posts with possible fixes for this problem, many of them relating to the Content Type hub URL in the Managed Metadata Service e.g. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010setup/thread/d9efe46c-7d55-4f51-9e09-c41ff4d40bda http://charliedigital.com/2010/01/06/sharepoint-2010-content-type-publishing-setup/ However, I received this error and the Content Type Hub url in the Managed Metadata … Continue reading
LdapMembershipProvider not available in SharePoint 2010 Foundation
Despite there being a number of TechNet articles covering how to configure forms-based authentication using the LdapMembershipProvider for a claims-based web application in SharePoint Foundation 2010, it turns out that the LDAP provider isn’t part of Foundation. The only way round … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, SharePoint 2010 Foundation
Access denied, HTTP 401 error crawling a SharePoint site on another farm
I had two SharePoint 2010 farms (both on the same domain), one running Enterprise Edition and the other SharePoint Foundation. When trying to crawl a site on the Foundation farm from the Enterprise farm all I got was a single error in … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, Search, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2010 Foundation
What is really fast in returning results from a list based query ?
What is really fast in returning results from a list based query ? Is it SPList, SPQuery, w index, w/o index, List Web service, Search or PortalSiteMapProvider ? I found these really surprising results with test done on very large … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, Fixes / Solutions, SharePoint 2007
Search Administration – Could not connect to server
If you have the query server and index server roles on different servers in the farm and you get the following error showing in the ‘Server Status’ area of the Search Administration page…. Could not connect to server yourservernamehere for application ‘yourSSPnamehere’. This error … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, Fixes / Solutions, SharePoint 2007
Windows Server 2008 firewall ports on a multi-server SharePoint farm
I ran into this problem a few weeks ago when installing & configuring a customer’s Sharepoint 2007 farm comprising an application/index server and a single web front-end on Windows Server 2008. I was unable to view or configure the services (Office … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, Fixes / Solutions, SharePoint 2007
Fix errors in Search Administration page
I was recently asked to look at a search issue reported by one of our clients. Although users could search, it was no longer indexing documents which had been working correctly until now. In the search administration page, the query … Continue reading
Filed under Admin / Config, Fixes / Solutions
