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Best Practice Analyzer for Windows SharePoint service 3.0 and MOSS 2007

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:31:13 GMT

What Best Practice Analyzer for WSS/MOSS can do?

The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System creates detailed reports to help administrators achieve greater performance, scalability, and uptime.

Install Best Practice Analyzer for WSS and MOSS 2007:

1. Download the best practice analyzer from the following URL.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cb944b27-9d6b-4a1f-b3e1-778efda07df8&displaylang=en

2. Create the BPA folder on C drive.

3. Now run the downloaded file that Extracted to the C:\BPA folder.

Now we are going to execute the best practice analyzer on WSS/MOSS using command.

4. Start -> RUN-> CMD and type the following command.

Cd C:\BPA

Where C:\BPA is the location that contains the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System. (If the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System is in a different location, replace C:\BPA with that location.

5. Type the following command, and then press ENTER:
sharepointbpa.exe -cmd analyze -substitutions SERVER_NAME CentralAdministrationServer

where "CentralAdministrationServer" is the server name for your SharePoint Central Administration.
It is important that SERVER_NAME is included in the parameters capitalized and that CentralAdministratorServer is replaced with the server name that is running SharePoint Central Administration.

6. After the analysis is complete, open sharepointbpa.report.htm in a web browser.
sharepointbpa.report.htm will be in the same location that the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System was installed.

7. Exit the command. Now on the report html page you will get available Error on your server and warning message with solution.

8. Find the Problem and resolve it one by one.

Written by

A.Ramu

Manage Content Types on New Button

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:38:51 GMT

SharePoint Lists are enabled with multiple content types, because of that we can add items with different type of properties and documents. In advanced, the New Menu displays those Content type available in List as its sub-menu.

Fig1 Content Types Visible in New Menu

So how the SharePoint displays those Content types under New menu and how we can enable and disable those content types under that new Menu.

So here is the simple snippet to list out the content types enabled in New Menu.

SPList list = web.Lists["ListName"];

IList ctoFolder = list.RootFolder.UniqueContentTypeOrder;

foreach (SPContentType ctype in ctoFolder)
{
Console.WriteLine(ctype.Name);
}

UniqueContentTypeOrder of SPFolder member lists out the Content Types visible on New Menu. Now we’ll see the code for removing the ContentType on New menu.

SPList list = web.Lists["ListName"];

IList ctoFolder = list.RootFolder.UniqueContentTypeOrder;

//Code for removing the Content Type sub-menu in New Menu.

//Removing the "Test Content Type" menu under New Menu

for (int i = ctoFolder.Count – 1; i >= 0; i–)
{
    if (ctoFolder[i].Name == "Test Content Type")
    {
        ctoFolder.Remove(ctoFolder[i]);
    }
}

list.RootFolder.UniqueContentTypeOrder = ctoFolder;
list.RootFolder.Update();

//Code for adding the Content type sub-menu under New Menu

//Adding the "Test Content type" menu under New Menu

SPContentType ctype = list.ContentTypes["Test Content Type"];
ctoFolder.Add(ctype);
list.RootFolder.Update();

The above helps us to enable and disable the Content type on New Button in SharePoint List.

The SSP Timer Job Distribution List Import Job was not run.Event Id 6641

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:59:55 GMT

if the user profiles is not updated after you changed users property on the SSP and you get the following error

then follow the following solutions steps

1. One of Microsoft’s best practices is to make sure that the application pool account for your SSP and your service account for the SSP are the same account.

2. Make sure to add this account to the backup operator’s local group on all your MOSS servers.

3. If you are using Kerberos authentication for your web applications make sure you set your service name principle account for you ssp on you MOSS application server. In order to complete this operation you must install Window support tools from your Windows server installation files under support>>tools>>supporttools.msi. Once you have installed the support tools go to start>>All programs>> Windows support tools>> command prompt.
setspn.exe –A HTTP/name_of_ssp_address domain\appication
Assume your site address is ssp, your domain is sharePoint, and your application pool account is svc_ssp. Run these commands
setspn.exe –A HTTP/ssp SharePoint\svc_ssp (Run this Command)
setspn.exe –A HTTP/ssp.sharepoint.com SharePoint\svc_ssp (Run this command)
If you are using Kerberos authentication on any of your web applications you must run these commands for the web applications to function properly including your central administration site.

4. Check your system event logs on your MOSS server for any DCOM errors. You will notice your DCOM errors are associated with your application pool accounts. Add these acounts to the IIS WAMREG admin service. Make sure the accounts have local launch, remote launch, local activation, and remote activation.

5. Next stop your Office SharePoint Server Search through central administation>> operations>> Services on Server.

6. Then go to central administration>> operations>> service accounts. Click on web application pool. Then under web service choose Windows SharePoint Service Web application. Next under application pool, choose your Shared Service Provider application pool account. Under configurable you will notice that it populated your application pool account. Now re-enter your password and click ok.

7. Login into all your MOSS servers and run iisreset /noforce.

8. Go back to central administation>> operations>> Services on Server and restart your Office Server Search.

9. Then go to central administation>>Application Management>> Manage this Farm's Shared Services. click the drop down on the default SSP and click edit properties. In the SSP service credentials enter username and password. In the index server catagory select your index server and then click ok. Make sure you wait about 5 minutes.

i hope this should work.

User Profile synchronization is not working in SharePoint server 2007, Event id 5555

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:58:46 GMT

If the user profile is not synchronizing after you changed the property of the user property on SSP and if you found the following error message in your event log

then follow the following solution steps.

Solution Steps:

open the command prompt and run the following command.

stsadm -o sync -DeleteOldDatabases 0

then it removing the old data.

Now it should work properly.

Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. Event Id:2436

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:42:08 GMT

If you are getting the below error in event log in your SharePoint server 2007

Then follow the below solution steps

Method 1: Disable the loopback check
1.    Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2.    In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
3.    Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4.    Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
5.    Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
6.    In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
7.    Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer.
Method 2:- After I restarted the server I went to the Sharepoint Admin site and started a full crawl. Some seconds later I went to the crawl log and found a warning this time with the following entry:
Content for this URL is excluded by the server because a no-index attribute.
So "Reset All Crawled Content" and tried the full crawl again.

Now it should work.

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:30:48 GMT

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