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1.If you are on the medium or big farm, after doing a patch update/hotfix, run the config wizard in all the servers and come back to the application server and run the config wizard, else you might encounter a concurrency error. 2. If you are trying to replace the content DB, DON't attach the new one before removing the existing one. Else, you might get some weird behavior after the restore. Also, make sure that you go and change the site collection administrator for the site you replaced the content DB.

The easiest way to test and verify whether you have the right versions of MOSS in Prod Vs Staging is to do the following : 1. Goto Central Administrator 2. Operations >Servers in Farm> You would find the appropriate version (something like  12.0.0.6421) Now, check this link on what version/hot fix you need to match the version in Staging or in other environment. For 2010 Version, follow this link

The Clipboard is a temporary storage area used by all Microsoft’s operating systems including  Windows Vista  and  Windows 7 .The information’s such as text, files, graphics, sound, or video can be copied to the Windows Clipboard from one program or location and pasted elsewhere. The Windows Clipboard can only hold one piece of information at a time. Whenever something is copied to the Clipboard, it replaces whatever was there before automatically.In this article i explained how to create a desktop shortcut to  clear the Clipboard content manually in Windows 7 or in Windows Vista .This will help you to increase your work speed and system performance when you are working with large files.Working with an empty memory dramatically increases the speed and  Performance of  Windows 7  or Vista computer especially with slower machines. And this is also a very useful to clear your clipboard if you copied something that you don’t want to leave on there for someone to see like credit card detai

Use the below commandline to RDP into your remote computer. You will not get 'Maximum number of connection reached." mstsc /v: IP /admin My n/w admin told me this little command...sweet

Created a VM environment for one of my customer and did the following to configure search - pretty straight forward. Start and configure the Search service On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Operations tab on the top navigation bar. On the Operations page, in Topology and Services , click Servers in farm . On the Servers in Farm page, click the server on which you want to configure the search service. Click Start next to Office SharePoint Server Search . On the Office SharePoint Server Search Settings page, in the Query and Indexing section, make sure that the Use this server for indexing content and Use this server for serving search queries check boxes are selected. In the Default Catalog Location section, type a path to a physical folder to store the index files, or use the default location that is specified. In the Contact E-Mail Address section, specify a valid e-mail address. In the Service Account section, click Configurable , and i

When a get an error like the above in Windows 7 or in Vista, the primary reason is that you don't have enough privilege. You might encounter this error when you do a command line operation which doesn't have enough privilege for the user logged in. Way to solve this is run the command line using the administrator. Start>All Programs>Accessories I would suggest you reading the below post for in depth understanding of UAC -  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Your-permission-please-Understanding-User-Account-Control-in-Windows-Vista