SharePoint 2010 Search Error: "Internal server error exception"

Configured SharePoint 2010 Search in a new environment. When trying to search, received: Internal server error exception:" Error! Here are some workarounds: Restart the SharePoint timer services/ IIS/ SharePoint Search service / Restart Server Enable "Search Server WebParts&quo…

Configuring iFilter for PDF Search in SharePoint 2010 - Step by Step

What is iFilter by the way? IFilters are components that allow SharePoint to index content of specific file types, letting users to search for content in those files. Using the SharePoint Search we can find documents based on their filename, metadata or content within a document. By default …

Top Navigation bar highlight problem - Resolutions

SharePoint 2007 fails to highlight correct top navigation tab in some cases. Check for the following causes: Highlight will work ONLY for content pages (not for AllItems.aspx or for /documents) Highlight will work ONLY for relative URL's (Not for http://sites/pages/abc.aspx, But will …

Tools to Create Mockup for SharePoint Sites

Looking for Creating Mockups for your SharePoint Site? Here is the wonderful product: Balsamiq URL: http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups SharePoint 2010 balsamiq wire frames: http://tuney.blogspot.ae/2011/03/sharepoint2010-balsamiq-wireframes.html Visio 2010 comes with Powerful UI …

Migrating InfoPath Forms to SharePoint 2010

When migrating InfoPath forms to SharePoint 2010, The first show stopper is: Data connections. Data connections are hard coded in the InfoPath Farm. Lets say: we are migrating from MOSS 2007 environment (Say: http://MOSS.Company.com) to SharePoint 2010 (Say: Http://SharePoint.company.com). Does…

Disk space analyzing utility - Nice one

I had to do the analysis on my server's disk space, because it was getting reduced time to time. The best utility I found is: Disk Space Fan! it provides nice interface, navigation options.  URL: http://www.diskspacefan.com/index.html More utilities comparison: http://www.techsupporta…

Automating the SharePoint Site owner change process

I'm the farm administrator of 5000+ site collection. People moving from role to role used to send a mail to me, for changing the site collection owners. hmm, for these requests I've to manually go and check, for which site collection owner needs to be changed, Is the requester is a previo…

Build SharePoint Feature to Deploy File System Changes

With SharePoint solution packages, its possible to port the file system changes and providing Feature based solutions! Lets build a SharePoint 2007 feature to deploy file system changes (12 hive files) using WSP Builder. Here are the steps: 1 . Create a new WSP project ( you need to have WSP B…

Hide Quick Launch (Left Navigation) in SharePoint 2007 / 2010

Place the below CSS in Content Editor Web Part (or in your CSS / Master Page/etc) In MOSS 2007: <style> .ms-quicklaunch { display:none } .ms-navframe { display: none } </style> In SharePoint 2010: <style type="text/css"> .v4master #s4-leftpane…

No content databases are available for this operation - Error while tyring to restore using stsadm

My requirement is to rename a site URL, so I took a STSADM backup, then I went to restore using the new URL.  When I ran the restore with the new URL, It resulted the below error: "No content databases are available for this operation. Create a content database, and then try the operation…

Site Recycle Bin for SharePoint - Must have Utility

Site Recycle Bin (formerly known as: Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture) Enables administrators to create a snapshot of site collections and Webs as they are deleted through the SharePoint user interface, the SharePoint Administration Tool, SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, or SharePoint Desi…

Disable logging in SharePoint

In one of my development box, Logs grown rapidly and occupied disk space. By default logs are stored under:   C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS I wanted to STOP the logging altogether. Here is what I did to disable logging in SharePoint:     Go Centr…