The manage access requests feature is great for allowing users that don’t have permissions to a SharePoint site requests access. This link is exposed when users attempt to access a site they don’t have permission to. Clicking on the link automatically sends an email to the email address specified within Manage Access Requests/Access […]
We have two main issues with provisioning User Profile Service Application. First, props go out to Sheyi at Microsoft who’s done some extremely valuable work in discovering, troubleshooting, and communicating these issues. Also, I need to give props to Jose at Microsoft for doing some key validation work. Both of these issues affect usability of […]
Recently, some of my coworkers and I started to see some customer problems where membership wasn’t populating for users my sites. Membership population issues are complex and difficult to troubleshoot if you’re not sure where to start looking. Part 1 of this blog is intended to cover the basics of how site Membership population to […]
I’ve seen a couple of these issues come from our customers so wanted to get the word out. When crawling PPTX files with embedded links in 2007 generates the following error in the crawl logs: “The filtering process could not be initialized. Verify that the file extension is a known type and is correct”. […]
I ran into a particularly unique issue where any user was unable to create alerts for one discussion board. All other libraries, lists, and discussion boards worked and the same users could create alerts with no problem. Steps to validate you’re hitting this particular problem: 1. Go to a Document Library, list, or discussion […]
I recently had an interesting issue where the customer was getting the following errors accessing the User Profiles and properties link within his SSP. “An error has occurred while accessing the SQL Server database or the Office SharePoint Server Search service. If this is the first time you have seen this message, try again later. […]
Introduction into Problem I had an interesting issue with People Picker performance and SharePoint 2007 that is deserving of some additional documentation. As many of you know, the people picker is built in feature of SharePoint and assists in looking up users to perform various tasks like adding to AD and/or SharePoint security groups etc… […]
I moved back to my original role as a Support Escalation Engineer so future posts are going to be random. Some post involve troubleshooting both SharePoint 2007/2010. I’ll also still continue to post the How To/Conceptual stuff with SharePoint 2010. This post involves an interesting issue I recently got where the customer was unable to […]
This blog is intended to fill some gaps and provide a foundation to understand components in the claims model and how these components work together. Claims will provide a huge benefit which I will outline some of those benefits below. I suspect this will turn into a multi blog series so stay tuned for further […]
This is a short blog which briefly discusses Shared Service Architecture in a multi farm environment. I will discuss some core components and describe how these components work together. I will not go into exact setup steps due to the fact TechNet has a great run through here: Exchanging Certs: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee704552(office.14).aspx Publishing a Service […]
