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  • Whole farm is down because timer jobs are not running

    One of my clients this week managed to take his entire farm offline this week by upsetting the timer service. First a little background – currently they are scrambling to get SharePoint back to a happy state. Why? Well, as happens with lots of customers, SharePoint is too successful. When we originally...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-09-2008
  • Error using Stsadm –o restore

    Got this email earlier this week. Shane, I am using the Microsoft Site Undelete tool (download from here ) you recommended. I had user delete his site accidently and I am trying to restore it. It was successfully backed up by the tool to a file called sitename.bak. So I ran the command: Stsadm.exe –o...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-20-2008
  • Error message in multi server farm

    I was adding a new web front end (WFE) server to a farm last week and ran into this error while running config wizard. Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception 07/21/2008 14:18:39 8 ERR Exception: System.IO.IOException: The device is not ready. at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-27-2008
  • Another Error Message – Access Denied on Profile Import

    I noticed the error message below repeatedly in event viewer and realized it was happening every time a profile import was happening. Event Type: Error Event Source: Office SharePoint Server Event Category: Office Server General Event ID: 7888 Date: 6/27/2008 Time: 11:37:17 AM User: N/A Computer: ServerName...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-30-2008
  • More Problems with SQL Server High CPU and MOSS Search

    I got this in email a couple of weeks ago and thought I would share. Figured it would help a few people searching the web for troubleshooting if nothing else. <email> Hi Shane, We are having a peculiar problem with our SharePoint Farm, that we are unable to resolve, we currently have a case logged...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-01-2008
  • The Trial Period For This Product Has Expired.

    Even after I put in a good MOSS Enterprise key, did and iisreset, and rebooted. UGH. Why? Well, it turns out as a final reminder this server once was setup as a basic install, my Central Admin app pool was running as Network Service instead of my farm account. And for some reason Network Service did...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-04-2008
  • Errors installing after uninstalling

    Once again it is midnight on a Sunday evening and I find myself working. Oh the joys. :) Anyway, a quick post for you. SharePoint911 got a new client this week and like many of them they had someone in to do SharePoint before us. And I am the lucky guy who gets to clean up after someone else's half...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-03-2008
  • Weird error due to permissions

    So it is 1:30 am and I am sitting here trying to hodge-podge a medium server farm together to test a Kerberos issue/theory. My environment is a Windows Server 2008 box as my central admin, WFE, Excel, and query server (physical hardware), Windows Server 2003 VPC as the Index server, and a another VPC...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-10-2008
  • Kerberos and MOSS case sensitive?

    Warning I am not a Windows AD Security "expert", I don't play one on TV, and I did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. :) Ok, so it is 1 am in the morning and I am working on my labs for Professional SharePoint Administration . In the class we do a least-privilege install where...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-27-2007
  • Another day, another new error message

    After upgrading from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 we had an issue with the index process. After starting a full crawl it would peg the server out and would have a status of Crawling – Local Office SharePoint Server sites | computing ranking. And while it would index most of the items it never would actual finish...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-23-2007
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