Tech Battle Field

let's assume the following names to the listed servers: Domain Controller - DC12345 Exchange Server - ES12345 MOSS 2007 Server - SP12345 (SMTP Enabled) Domain - mydomain.com Do the following on the server DC12345: 1. Access AD and create an OU under the domain - mossmails 2. right click mossmails and click delegatecontrol and add the service account you used for AD 3. Click Next 4. Select "Create a Custom Task to Delegate". Next, Next 5. Grant Read, write and create child objects permisions 6. Access DNS (Administrative tools>DNS) 7.Add an MX record in DNS for MOSS Server (Open dnsmgmt, right click the mydomain.com and add a new MX (mail exchanger) record 8. Name the Host or child domain > sp12345 9. Fully qualified domain name > sp12345r.mydomain.com Do the following on the server SP12345: 1. Central Admin.Operations>Topology& Services> Incoming Email Settings>Click Yes to enable incoming mail and the s...

1. take a look at this blog posting - http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/HowToConfigPublishingSiteWithDualAuthProvidersAndAnonAccess.aspx 2. If you don't want to create multiple applications, then just do those entries on the same web app and configure the default zone from windows to forms. 3. Once you setup anonymous access anyone can access your site 4. Grant privileges to the appropriate party (for the appropriate areas of the site) 5. Configure MySites for teh same using this post http://www.devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/03/01/Office-SharePoint-Server-2007-Forms-Based-Authentication-FBA-w-MySites-Walkthrough-Part-2.aspx

Last friday, I was trying to take a back-up of a contentDB from one farm to restored it to another without removing the contentDB on the second farm. Farm1 had the latest content and I wanted to move the Content DB from there to Farm2. Farm1 : http://farm1.spiderwool.com ContentDB : farm1_spider_ContentDB Farm2 : http://farm2.spiderwool.com ContentDB : farm2_spider_ContentDB Instead of removing the content database at the web app http://farm2.spiderwool.com and restoring with the farm1 content database. I directly restored the farm1_spider_ContentDB over farm2_spider_ContentDB Note : Please read the full post before trying any commands specified. I faced the following issues: Issue 1: Failure trying to synch web application ab9788f9-d490-4785-8d4a-3666e1af13d3, ContentDB 0f17f1de-d2cb-8890-9ead-c21fb54ac8d4 Exception message was A duplicate site ID 8768xdsd98-0c57-421b-be76-fa71f0f20375(http:// ) was found. This might be caused by restoring a content database from one server farm int...