Slipstreamed Install of MOSS 2007

Until recently to install SharePoint 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 we had to manually slipstream MOSS SP1 with SP2, but since Jan 20th 2010 Microsoft have released MOSS SP2 slipstreamed package, it is available on MSDN!

Adding web parts to Document library throwing error

Sometimes you may want to add a content editor to a document library page http://server/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?PageView=Shared and might want to move it above or below the document library and might get the error below

"The file is not checked out. You must first check out this document before making changes."

This is because in the "Versioning Settings" of the document library settings the item "Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited?" might have been set to "yes". Though you may wonder that you were not editing any documents but just trying to move the document library web part around in the page and it still would not allow you to make any changes before you turn the "require documents to be checked out..." option to "no"!

Once you have moved your web parts around you can go back and change the versioning settings back to how it was.

Delegation Tab missing Windows Server 2008

When trying to setup Kerberos to work with SharePoint you need to setup the app pool account as trusted for delegation. you may find that the delegation tab is missing in AD in Windows Server 2008, this is "as designed", the delegation tab will appear only after an SPN is created for the service account.

So do setspn -A HTTP/intranet.domain.local DOMAIN\Account from a command prompt in the famr and then go to AD and search for the DOMAIN\ACcount and you will see the delegation tab appear.

WSP Stuck on deploying or retracting in Solution Management

If your solution package is stuck on deploying or retracting status for a long time on the "Solution Management" page in SharePoint Central Admin then check that the "Windows SharePoint Services Timer" windows service is started on ALL the web front end machines.

SharePoint Server 2010 VS SharePoint Foundation 2010 Features

Microsoft have a good feature list available in the new SharePoint release.

Sharepoint foundation is the free version, was called WSS in 2007 version.
Features can be found here..
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee539826(office.14).aspx

SharePoint Server 2010 is the licened version, was called MOSS in 2007
Features can be found here…
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee557323(office.14).aspx

Error when adding web part solution package An object in the SharePoint administrative framework

You sometimes may recieve the error below when trying to do stsadm -o addsolution -filename "wspname.wsp"

An object in the SharePoint administrative framework, "SPSolutionLanguagePack Name=0 Parent=SPSolution Name=il.sharepoint.workflows.wsp", depends on other objects which do not exist. Ensure that all of the objects dependencies are created and retry this operation.

wspname.wsp: The Solution installation failed.

This is especially the case if you have just done a retract/uninstall and you try to add straight away. If you try again in a few seconds it will work. Basically this is because when you delete a wsp from solution management and then immediately run this stsadm command, there will still be clean up operations going on in the background. So just leave a slight delay between uninstall of solution packages and re-deploys.

SharePoint Search Crawl Returns Access Denied

Our SharePoint search suddenly stopped working last week and on googling found out that if the Default Content Access Account in SSP - Search Administration - Default Content Access Account is of the format domain\username it seems to fail but once changed to the format of username@domain.local it works!

"Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (The item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it.)".