"Your search cannot be completed because this site is not assigned to an indexer. Contact your administrator for more information."

If your site gives this error when search is accomplished , check this place;

Go to Central Administration -> Application Management -> Content Databases .
Choose your database and on the opening window and at the bottom combobox choose your indexing service.

Failed to activate feature {GUID} at scope {sitename}

When I created a new web application at a custom port in WSS 3.0, the features on my old web site are NOT activated automatically.
But the features are listed anyway. When you try to activate them from site actions -> site collection features you got this error message:
Failed to activate feature {GUID} at scope {sitename}.
What you should do is to add the dll's of your features to your safecontrols list in your web.config file located in your site root. (namely c:inetpubwwwrootwss{portnumber})
You can copy them from your current site.

Getting rid of "Welcome System Account"

I have installed WSS 3.0. To my surprise when I tried to log in the system recognized me as sharepoint\system. The problem is even I log with my company domain credentials wss still recognizes me as sharepoint\system. And there is no domain , or server called "sharepoint" either.

I have crawled the web and tried the following with no success

Checked the application pool accounts and changed them to a wss admin account for all content, config databases wss 3.0 uses.

• I have changed the domain accounts for the windows services for sharepoint.
• I have checked the local user groups like IIS_WPG etc, removed my domain name.
• I have checked the database users and switched them to wss admin account.
• I have swithed the database owners to wss admin account

None of them worked, till Jukka Paajanen [MSFT] solved the problem suggesting the following command On a machine hosting the central admin web application:

stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin "domain user" -password "newPassword"

This did the trick!


Thanks Jukka :)

Adding Pdf search to WSS 3.0 ,Sharepoint 2007 or MOSS 2007

Adding Pdf search to WSS 3.0 ,Sharepoint 2007, MOSS 2007
Although it is easy to found around, I have compiled the following information anyway:

1. Download the ifilter plugin for adobe pdf documents.
2. Install the filter as in told here.
3. Download the pdf icon here.
4. Edit C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\XML\DOCICON.XML -> add an entry for pdf
5. copy the pdf icon to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\IMAGES
   
6. iisreset
   

Sharepoint tools

SharePoint test data load tool

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

Enabling anonymous access in WSS 3.0

Two steps:

1. Enable anonymous access in Central Administration > Application Management > Authentication Providers
2. Enable anonymous access in Site Settings > Permissions > Anonymous Access

Enabling forms authentication in Sharepoint 2007 or WSS 3.0

9.4.1 Create forms authentication database
You can do this by running aspnet_regsql and choosing the database to configure for aspnet forms authentication
9.4.2 Create users
You can accomplish this by creating a simple web site in VS 2005 and configuring it for forms authentication.
Run asp.net configuration tool

9.4.3 Change application name if necessary
You can do this using sql server management studio express.
Navigate to your portal authentication database and choose table Applications and change the column applicationName.
9.4.4 In sharepoint site edit machine.config file
Be sure that the provider sections for authentication and role management uses the same application name as forms authentication database application name
Edit LocalSqlServer connection string for custom authentication database connection
9.4.5 In sharepoint administration change authentication provider
Navigate Central Administration > Application Management > Authentication Providers
choose forms authentication
Edit Membership Provider Name
Fill with AspNetSqlMembershipProvider
This entry is defined in machine.config file located in c:\windows\Microsoft.Net\(2.0 framework directory)
This is the place where machine wide configuration information is kept.
Edit Role Manager Name
Fill with AspNetSqlRoleProvider
This entry is defined in machine.config file located in c:\windows\Microsoft.Net\(2.0 framework directory)
This is the place where machine wide configuration information is kept.
9.4.6 Change site administrators
Navigate to Central Administration > Application Management > Site Collection Owners
Choose the users you have created
9.4.7 Execute a iisreset command on sharepoint server machine
9.4.8 Restart your browser

Enabling versioning on documents

WSS 3.0 does not initially come with document versioning as Office 2007 Server does. You should enable it, this is how:

1. Open your site (eg.http://sp2007test/default.aspx)
2. Click on Site Actions -> Site Settings
3. Under Site Administration click "Site Libraries and Lists"
4. Click the "Customize ..." link to customize your library.
5. Click Versioning Settings
6. Choose the appropriate options you like.

That's it.Now you should see the "Version history" option in the document drop down list.

Sharepoint Essential Sites

WSS 3.0 SDK
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms472057.aspx
Workflow development blog series http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/tags/Workflow/default.aspx
WSS 3.0 Demo(will launch a video)
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/asstvid.aspx?assetid=ES102055641033&vwidth=884&vheight=540&type=mediaplayer&CTT=11&Origin=HA102055631033
Developer Site
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx

Sharepoint Blog Series

I am currently evaluating Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) as a base for a portal project. I will try to share the difficulties I have come across and the solutions I managed to find. Hope it helps newbies like me.

sharepoint 2007 ve sharepoint wss cikti

sharepoint 2007 trial http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2e6e5a9c-ebf6-4f7f-8467-f4de6bd6b831&DisplayLang=en

sharepoint wss 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d51730b5-48fc-4ca2-b454-8dc2caf93951&DisplayLang=en