Windows Sharepoint Technical Hints and Tips

A technical workspace to publish the tips and hints for configuring / troubleshooting Windows Sharepoint product

SharePoint 2010: Unable to start UPA sync service ,stuck at “Starting”

As discussed in my previous blog, its been observed that starting User profile sync job is not an...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 03/06/2011

SharePoint 2010: Unable to start the User profile synchronization service

Its  been commonly observed that working with User profile service application is one of the...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 02/06/2011

Configuring Windows Rights Management Services with Microsoft Office SharePoint server 2007

I had spent a good amount of time understanding how Windows Rights Management Services works and how...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 07/18/2010

RMS / IRM – An insight

Rights Management Services RMS stands for “Rights Management Services” and as the name indicates it...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 07/18/2010

How to configure Document expiration policy

This document will help you out in configuring a document library to set document expiration policy....

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 01/10/2010

All about “Explorer view” in SharePoint

The Explorer View is an excellent feature that is integrated with  Windows SharePoint Services...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 01/03/2010

Configuring email enabled Document libraries in MOSS

This article will help you to configure  your MOSS2007 environment for libraries to receive...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 12/27/2009

"Data source field to map" and "Enter field to map" drop downs are missing

This ‘How to’ blog will help you to configure custom properly mapping when importing user profile...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 12/20/2009

Unable to run SharePoint configuration wizard - Error”Unable to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies because an upgrade is already in progress."

This article is about an error generated when running configuration wizard in WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007....

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 11/10/2009

Unable to perform SSP Backup

This article is about an error when you perform a back up operation from Central administration or...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 10/28/2009

Solution package gets deployed successfully , but status shows "not deployed"

Recently we had come across a issue where the solution package gets deployed successfully , but...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 10/13/2009

Unable to login to SharePoint site with FBA

I was recently working on a case where the end users are unable to login to FBA site hitting the...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 09/30/2009

Getting a blank page while editing any item on a list

I was troubleshooting an issue where an item in a custom list is not editable. While clicking on...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 09/21/2009

How to configure FBA with .Net membership on an extended web application

This document will help you to extend and configure a web application with Forms based...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 09/21/2009

Moving SharePoint content DB files to a different location on same server

As every one of us know, when a database is created in Microsoft SQL server MDF file and LDF file...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 09/20/2009

Unable to upload files with more than 30 MB to sharepoint document library

Here is a scenario :- Sharepoint by default allows us to upload a file with 50 MB as the upper...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 07/01/2009

Performance issue while accessing document library in explorer view

We often experience performance issue while accessing document library in explorer view.Even though...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 07/01/2009

How to configure SharePoint when SQL listens on a different TCP port

It’s well known that when SQL Server is installed, the default instance is setup to listen on TCP...

Author: Manjesh M Menon Date: 06/24/2009