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MOSS 2007 setup program may crash on 64 bit Windows 2003. You can get the following error message: Setup did not complete successfully. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If it is happening with you then just check one thing: Open Terminal Services Configuration. Click Server Settings. Right-click Permission Compatibility, and then click Properties. Select the Full Security check box, and then click OK. Now you should be able to install MOSS 2007. Please note that directly changing the Terminal Services Configuration settings can be dengerous. So, be very careful before changing.

In 64 bit Windows 2003, you may need to change the emulation mode of IIS depending upon the cases and conditions. To change the IIS emulation mode to 32 bit to 64 bit and vice versa, do the followings: Open command promp and run the following command cd C:\Inetpub\Adminscripts (I am assuming that C is your windows drive) cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1 (to make it 32 bit) cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 0 (to make it 64 bit) iisreset

For a fresh MOSS Administrator like me, it's very important to know the maximum capacity of sharepoint objects like lists, libraries, pages, sites, users etc and to get the optimum performance benefit upto these limits. Limits that are used over here are can be used to design a portal or a farm to get the best out of MOSS 2007 and crossing this limit may cause MOSS 2007 to create performance bottlenecks: Site collections (Database scope) : 50000 Web sites (Web site scope)  : 2000 Web sites (Site collection) : 250000 (Nested Subsites) Documents (Folder scope) : 2000 Documents (Library scope) : 2 million (Nested Folders) Users ( Web site scope) : 2 million Items (List scope) : 2000 Web Parts (Page scope)  : 100 Web Part personalization (Page scope) : 10000 Document size (File scope) : 50 MB  (2 GB if WSS SP1 is applied) Checkout this link:  http://blogs.msdn.com/bgeoffro/archive/2008/03/19/list-atta...

Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 provide very powerful and wide range of feature riched applicationd which can be very useful for Social Networking and daily computing in any bussiness environment. In this post, I am going to list down 10 very powerful features freely available at codeplex: Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS): Podcasting Kit for Sharepoint (PKS) helps to save time and money for an organization to deliver the next generation knowledgement management solution using social media. Any podcast enabled device along with the general web users can access this highly user interactive sharepoint feature. It is built with Silverlight 2.0 and Microsoft Expression Encoder 2.0 to provide the podcasting solution. To view more and to download the February 2009 beta edition, just go to http://pks.codeplex.com/ . Community Kit for SharePoint(CKS): Community Kit for Sharepoint (CKS) is a bouquet of rich features which make existing features in ...

SQL Server Reporting Services offers programmatically handling various report subscriptions. You can read the specific subscriptions and change those in code-behind as required. I assume that you are already aware about the subscription mechanism in reporting services. For some of you who are not aware about this, I would like to write that subscription in reporting services is nothing but a automated service (sql server job) defined and set by you to deliver reports at specific time or in specific events. You also define in which format the report will be presented to the user. Now whatever subscription properties you have set, everything will be stored in the ReportServer database. Schedule, Subscriptions and ReportSchedule tables contain alll those informations. Now create a Windows or Web Application. Add a Web Reference towords ReportingService2006. If SSRS is isntalled on your system then you can easily find the ReportService2006.asmx in the following url: http://servername ...

I was shocked by one problem that I experienced while developing a SharePoint application. I was trying to open IIS Manager but it was showing me a blank screen. Even if I was trying to connect to localhost, it was denying. After being disturbed for a while, I came to know that OWSTimer.exe wants to access IIS ADSI (Active Directory Service Interface). OWSTime.exe has multiple threads and those are trying to access the IIS at the same time. That is why IIS Server Manager suddenly goes blank. OWSTimer.exe is a Windows Sharepoint Services timer process which is responsible to execute defined tasks in specific time interval in background. I restarted the OWSTimer.exe service and believe me it worked like a magic. Restarting IIS also forces all running threads to release their access. So that also would have solved my problem. By the way, this may be a small issue but when I experienced it, felt quite surprised.