401 Unauthorizd error when you try to access the Shared Services Provider site

Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 16. Jan, 2010 | 0 Comments

When accessing the shared services provider site you get ”401 Unauthorized” error after you get prompted 3 times to enter your username and password.
This normally happens if there was some change in the accounts used to access the shared services site such as changing the domain account or if you are using local account and [...]

404 error when uploading large files to Sharepoint Document Library

Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 27. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments

When uploading larger than 28 MB files to a SharePoint library, you get 404 error. This occurs because SharePoint , IIS , Windows needs to be configured to handle large files.
Solution:
To solve the issue:
- Opened the file : %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationhost.config
In the ApplicationHost.config file, locate the node.
add a large value that matches the size of the Content-Length [...]

How to Provision a service in Sharepoint

Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments

To Provision a service, 1st enum all services to get the needed all the services and search for the needed service to provision as in the below example:
run: Stsadm –o enumservices
If you are searching for SSP Job Control Service as i did, you can see below that it is disabled so to start it you need [...]

Why the “SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard” needs to be run after the installation of the hotfix

Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments

It is essential that you run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration
Wizard after installation of a hotfix. This wizard or command line depending on the
way you run it, will perform an inplace build to build(b2b) upgrade on the
SharePoint installation. SharePoint hotfixes are inplace upgrades from one build of
SharePoint to another. The hotfix package simply copies [...]