Passed exam 70-667!

I am proud to announce that I passed exam 70-667, configuring SharePoint 2010. Which gives an MCTS title. It was not so hard, some questions were really easy actually. But of course, when you have worked with a product since 2003, you should know some stuff about it!!

Google + vs FB

I have registered my account on the new “Facebook killer app” (as media calls it), Google+. Can’t say that I am too impressed. It is a quite simple UI, too large fonts (what will happen to that news feed when there are as many users as on FB?), not much happens in there and what is the …

Same blog, new URL

My old blog url was miss-sharepoint.blogspot.com but that name was lame, so I have changed the URL to sharepointbabe.blogspot.com which is my aka – self announced of course, and I am sure it always bugs someone 😉 I think it’s an awesome name! The downside of switching URL is that my followers are gone, and …

Script for SharePoint installation

This weeks task was to setup a SP2010 medium server farm. It took half a day, and using this powershell script to install the index server was AWESOME! You must edit the files before you run them, to add your own db names, servers etc, but once that is done it’s a really fast setup! …

User profile synchronization error

The crawl log in Search Administration returned the following error: sps3://xxx could not be crawled What you must do is to set permissions to the search account that you use for crawling the User Profiles. Select User Profile Services (do not click the link, but highlight the application) Up in the ribbon, click a button …

The semaphore timeout period has expired

I got this error message on my SharePoint farm backup (using the STSADM commandSTSADM.EXE -o backup -directory \srv001sqlbackups -backupmethod full): Object SharePoint_Config failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. SqlException: Write on “\srv003SP_Backupspbr0001000001D.bak” failed: 121(The semaphore timeout period has expired.) BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. My …