Consultancy Soup

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

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

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

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.

To migrate lotus notes to SharePoint here you are the steps and some useful links: Steps : Use Microsoft Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino to start the process of analyzing Domino applications: a. Identify which applications are still active and which applications should be archived. b. Eliminate administration and mail applications from the migration or integration list. c.  Determine which applications should be migrated and which applications should be integrated with Microsoft technologies. Build a proof-of-concept environment to test the migration to new or existing applications   Use Transporter Suite, .Net or third-party tools to migrate or integrate applications, or move to existing applications or off-the-shelf applications. Tools:     http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=35FC4205-792B-4306-8E4B-0DE9CCE72172&displaylang=en [Free from Microsoft]     http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?famil