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Move one site collection from one web application to another

I know that reading the above you will say : backup and restoreĀ  or export and import ....

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 04/15/2009

Manual SharePoint uninstall procedure

Here is a procedure that might come in handy when you, for some reason are required...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 04/14/2009

Workflows do not start

You are of course aware of the fact that starting with Service Pack 1 the workflows created in...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 03/14/2009

How to enable workflow tracing (debug)

This might come in handy whenever you (like myself and I am sure thousands of others) see some error...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 02/26/2009

Search Based Alerts

Purpose : To get notified whenever something new gets indexed, based on a search term you specify....

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2009

How to move an SSP

IMPORTANT NOTE: This blog entry adresses the steps that need to be performed when moving SSP A to...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 02/10/2009

Office Server Search Service cannot be started because it does not exist.(Object reference not set to an instance of an object)

Office Server Search Service cannot be started because it does not exist. One of the most simple...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 01/29/2009

Sharepoint Designer 2007 workflow error occurred on Update List Item when field is Person/Group

This is concerning an error found encountered in Sharepoint Designer based workflows after...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 01/20/2009

Type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldUserValueCollection' in Assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' is not marked as serializable.

Among other things solved by the August Cumulative Updates, here is an issue which arosed after...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 12/29/2008

Error 1058: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because

Working through the recycling of the services on server, changing the accounts for Sharepoint Timer...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 12/12/2008

Javascript Error: Webform_DoPostbackWithOptions is undefined

A javascript error. Simple. Neat. Clean. But... since you noticed it, no Sharepoint controls are...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 12/04/2008

Workflow Error: "An error has occured in Approval"

What we have here is not actually a how to , nor does it point to a known issue, it's more of a...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 11/19/2008

Event ID: 4138 - An index corruption was detected in component ShadowMerge in catalog ....

Recently I faced several issues regarding the corruption of the index right after a reboot of the...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 11/11/2008

How to properly move (Detach/Attach) a content database.

The idea to write this entry came as a result of many failed Profile sync operations I've seen...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2008

How to remove something (the port) from the URL as returned in the search results (searchresults.aspx):

How to remove something (the port) from the URL as returned in the search results...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 10/20/2008

Forms Based Authentication Timeout

Say you have a Sharepoint Site you want to make available in the internet. You implement the custom...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 08/26/2008

Cannot Update A List Item

I started the other day to create a simple workflow which should create an item in a tasks list and...

Author: Victor Butuza [MSFT] Date: 08/26/2008

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