Category Archives: SharePoint 2007
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
Replicating SPThemes.XML Changes to Multiple FrontEnds
After being asked to create a new custom SharePoint 2007 Theme on an environment with three front-end servers for an internal project, I soon noticed (post deployment) that the Add/Remove items changes in the SPThemes.xml file performed by the FeatureReciever … Continue reading
Filed under Fixes / Solutions, SharePoint 2007, WSS 3.0
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
