The other day I was laying out the framework, wire-frame if you will, of a few SharePoint Site Collections. During the planning process I was doing my god-like role of determining which divisions would have their own Site Collection and which divisions would share a Site Collection. As part of the... [More]

When starting a full or incremental import of Active Directory, either manually or scheduled, the import is successful, but there is an error thrown as soon as the import is initiated. My assumption is the AD import kicks off several simulateous jobs such as updating users "My SharePoint Site... [More]

Today's Task: Find all memberships related to a specific user in SharePoint. Still searching? I'll give you a hint… you cannot list all memberships related to a specific user in SharePoint. That's right. SharePoint does not have the capability to perform a simple look-up t... [More]

Event ID 2424 Recently I've seen a new error in our SharePoint server's application log event viewer occur every 5 minutes (non-essential fields removed): Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search Event Category: Gatherer Event ID: 2424 ... [More]

note: I'd urge you to read all the comments other users have posted before renaming your database. During the installation and subsequent configuration of SharePoint you are provided the option of naming every database in your farm with the exception of one: The SharePoint Centr... [More]