If you’re toying around with SharePoint and want to move a site to another location, you might run into what I’ve run into: broken Lookup field links.
SharePoint Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 feature 20 server templates you can integrate within your SharePoint infrastructure with the command line utility stsadm.exe.
This command line utility also allows you to move sites. SharePoint does not have any features to really move sites, and so the advised way to move sites within and over SharePoint web farms is to use stsadm.exe export and import operations to export a given site, and import it on another location.
For instance, exporting a site from your SharePoint web farm goes somewhat like this:
stsadm.exe -o export -url http://mysharepoint/site/subsite -filename subsite.bak
Importing this site back into your SharePoint web farm goes like this:
stsadm.exe -o import-url http://mysharepoint/subsite -filename subsite.bak
You now have moved your subsite to the root site. Or did you? Continue reading ‘Moving stuff breaks stuff’
When you have rolled out your Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server or Windows Sharepoint Services together with Microsoft Search Server, you probably want to be able to search all sites through any search field on any site. But you still only see “This Site” as the only scope to select.
This is not fun.
Continue reading ‘Search Scopes not visible in Search dropdown’
Ik had al de 120d Cabrio getest, en de dubbelgeblazen 123d in coupé-model geproefd. Ik had ook al even een zijspoortje binnen VW gedaan met een Passat CC en EOS, maar ik was nog altijd niet aan een echte sechszylinder geraakt. Zou ie echt zo goed zijn, of is het allemaal krom gelul van fanboys? Toch even bij mijn atypische BMW-vriendje aangedrongen (hij probeert me altijd in een 320d te lullen), en hij regelde me dan toch een testrit in een 325dA Cabrio - iets anders was niet direct beschikbaar. Piekfijn, dacht ik zo! Een zescilinder, een drie-serie cabrio én een automaat. Drie dingen die nog niet aan bod waren gekomen!
Continue reading ‘Car Test: BMW 325dA Convertible’
If you’re like me, you sometimes play with SharePoint. In the last SharePoint Services 3.0 installation I noticed that the search function did not give back results, and I went out to scout what the problem was.
The Windows SharePoint Services Search is configured on the Central Administration website, Operations tab and Services on Server section. There, you can select which server’s services you want to see, and see their running state and if necessary stop them.
I stopped the Windows SharePoint Services Search services, and that was a Bad Idea.
Continue reading ‘Stopped the WSS Search? D’oh!’
If you ever run into one of those messages “The current time on the computer and the current time on the network are different” when trying to log on, you will probably try to log on on the domain controller and try to assess in which amount the time got desynchronised in your domain or between domains in your forrest. As you might know, Active Directory is picky about time, because the Kerberos authentication does not accept timestamps that differ more than 5 minutes between the machine that is trying to host the login and the domain controller.
Continue reading ‘Be mindful of the Current Time’
