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Enable error viewing in SharePoint

If you faced an unknown error in SharePoint, I am sure that it will not be your happiest moment. To know what is the real error to be able to solve it you have to change 2 options in web.config of the web application that  hosts your site. 1-Open web.config 2- Change customErrors mode="on"   to customErrors mode="off" 3- Change CallStack="false" to CallStack="true" And wishing you a happy debugging.

Application Pools doesn't appear in IIS

I faced an issue with IIS when trying to see the available application pools. But the IIS tree seems to be empty. To solve this issue: 1- Close the IIS 2- Open the Services (click Start , click Control Panel , double-click Administrative Tools , and then double-click Services) .  or if on windows server go to Administrative tools from Start and then services. 3- Stop the IIS Admin service and then start it and make sure to stop and start the services that depends on it too. 4- Open the IIS the application pools will be there.

SharePoint Disaster Backup

Steps to make a disaster back up: Record which Web applications are associated with the SSPs ·          Perform a full back up of the SSPs. ·          Completely stop the farm by stopping the services associated with Office SharePoint Server 2007 and by stopping Internet Information Services (IIS). ·          Back up the following databases by using SQL Server 2005 tools: o         Content databases o         Central Administration content database o         Configuration database o         Windows SharePoint Services Help Search database o         Back Up the SQL Server logins, fixed server roles, fixed database roles, and permissions for these databases o         Backup System Databases ·          Start all services again ·          Back up a farm by using Central Administration (Office SharePoint Server 2007 or using STSADM command. ·          Backup the IIS Metabase http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/cc706954.aspx and document

Internet Explorer crashes on opening of a document in Document Library

We have faced an issue before that some users when opening a document in SharePoint document library the internet explorer crashes. After investigation I have found that this issue most pobably happens due to existance of several versions of office on the machine. To solve that check these links: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929360 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888

change service accounts and service account passwords in SharePoint

Changing the passwords from time to time is a healthy thing to do. Here you are a nice link to do that in SharePoint accounts. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934838

Failure to deploy Solutions on MOSS Farm

Somtimes the solution status keeps as deploying, seems that it is stucked to solve that we can do the following: Run stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs on all the servers in the farm Restart the timer service.