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). …

AvePoint Migration tool

Today I tried out the Migration Tool from AvePoint, for migrating data from Lotus Notes to SharePoint. And I was impressed, very easy tool to use and simply drag and drop a view from Notes onto either a list or document library (or whatever template you will use). So what you must do is to …

Part 1: Search issues.. again

Search had gone to status “Computing ranking”, happens every now and then. Usually a Full crawl makes the index work again, and status changes to Idle, but sometimes you have to perform the “Reset all crawled content”. Did that on a server yesterday, but this time the action hung and I got an error message …

Search and Basic Authentication

We wanted to add a Default Domain so that the users did not have to enter a domain name to logon to our site. Did that, using Basic Authentication and added our domains on the IIS site. Fine, worked perfectly – the user only had to enter the username and password to logon. Fine. But…. …

Edit the welcome-dropdown menu

If you want to remove the “MySettings” from the user dropdown menu (up in the right corner of a sharepoint page) so that it looks like this instead: Then go to folder:C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions12TEMPLATECONTROLTEMPLATESMake a copy of welcome.ascx!Then open the file Welcome.ascx in NotepadAdd the following attribute to each element you wish …