Simple redirect script

If you want to redirect your users to another URL when they press the “Save” button inside a list form, then just add the following in the link to the form: /lists/yourlist/newform.aspx?Source=/thankyou.aspx I usually use relative url’s as in the example, but you may also write the whole URL of course… Great!

SP2 on its way….

Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 due to ship April 28th. Office Service Pack team announced Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 would be available on April 28th. It provides many fixes and performance improvements, as well as some …

Event 2436 returns no search results

All of a sudden the search stopped working on a MOSS 2007 server. Looked into Event Viewer and found the error message: Event Type: WarningEvent Source: Office Server SearchEvent Category: GathererEvent ID: 2436Date: 24-04-2009Time: 13:29:31User: N/AComputer: DKxxx001Description:The start address cannot be crawled.Context: Application ‘SharedServices1’, Catalog ‘Portal_Content’Details: Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access …

SharePoint BestPractices

I visited the SharePoint Best Practices UK in London last week and it was a really great conference with lots of interesting seminars. It was hard to select which seminars to attend, I wanted to go to them all! But I decided to pick one from each track, there were IW, BA, Dev and IT-Pro …

SharePoint Online!

I got an account to SharePoint Online (with mr Z’s song ringing in my head)! And of course you want to change to a new master page to get rid of the ugly boring usual interface. Easy. Just open SD and enter the URL to the site. Change to your customized master page and you …

IE 8 and compatibility view

I installed Internet Explorer 8 yesterday – yeah a bit late, I know 🙂 Entered a customers site that I have built on MOSS and paniced a little when I found out that the drop down menus where… white!! No, not again. Not another strange issue with my customized drop down menu… the last time …

No results matching your search were found

A search on “All sites” returns results, but when you select the “This site: xxx” no results are returned: Match your default zone url in Alternate Access Mappings with the url used in the Content source, then you will fix this issue. A clarification: This issue concerned a MOSS server, not a WSS installation.

Part 2: Search issues

This is the rest of the story regarding Search issues Problem: the customer has a server farm (the platform is one SQL, two WFE with MOSS 2007) and NLB running. When accessing one of the servers, the Search Box is missing. This is what the customer reported to me, and where my troubleshooting started. Summary: …

Attempted to read or write protected memory

I have installed WSS 3 and Search Server Express on a Windows Server 2008 machine. No problems with that, all is fine. But today I found that three errors were logged in Event Viewer. They are: Event ID 6398 Event ID 6482 Event ID 7076 Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchAdminSharedWebServiceInstance (02203890-d48f-4db7-9704-017c33fe14ff). …