Monthly Archives: April 2008

Windows Server 2008: Add/Remove Server Roles

Windows Server 2008 has a new feature called Server Manager (Start -> Administrative Tools -> Server Manager) that provides one place to manage all the server roles (Application Server, AD services, DNS Server etc) and Features (.NET 3.0, Message Queueing … Continue reading

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SharePoint : Developing FBA MOSS Internet Sites with Anonymous access

I was recently developing SharePoint community web site that needs to have the following features: Internet access (Forms based authentication and anonymous access) Intranet access (Windows authentication (AD)) I have referred to various links and web casts that have provided … Continue reading

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SharePoint: enable Stack trace for better logging information

SharePoint (WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007) errors sometimes are not descriptive enough or through the generic error message "Unexpected Error occurred". It doesn’t provide more information than this and it does not even log any thing to LOGS or event log or … Continue reading

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ISA Server 2006: Upgrade ISA Server 2004 to ISA Server 2006

I recently upgraded ISA Server 2004 to ISA Server 2006 (Standard Editions), the upgrade process is pretty straight forward but you will have to do couple of manual steps before you can ISA Server 2006 setup (ISAAutorun.exe).   When you … Continue reading

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SharePoint: Restarting Services and IIS using WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007

Our team has been using the following script to restart services on the front end servers. Sometimes restarting just IIS does not fix issues related to update GAC or features/solutions. @echo on net stop "Windows SharePoint Services Administration" net start … Continue reading

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Web Services: .NET Web Services, server was unable to process request

  On some environment (may be Production) you may run into a situation where you would not be able to run web services hosted in IIS. the error message would be something like below. Server was unable to process request. … Continue reading

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