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SPWeb.Groups returns collection of cross-site groups which has some permission on the site. So if you add group from a site without any permission on the site, then this group wont appear in SPWeb.Groups collection, but it will appear in SPWeb.SiteGroups collection.

This is one of the wierd error you might get, if your SQL server hard drive is FULL. Clean up the space on your C drive and you should be all set.

Anyone who lives in NJ & has applied for H1B extension and if the extension is delayed for some reasons by HomeLand Security beyond 90 days (upto which the driver's license would be valid). You still can use the H1B Extension reciept notice original ( I797c - CaseType I129) to extend it to 240 days. A lot of the DMV's in new jersey doesn't know and all they expect is a valid I-94 which is pure dumbness. If you are in the same situation and looking to get this 240 days extension, please goto 45,Killmer Rd,Edison NJ. They do this right..no hazzles. It happened for my collegue, we nearly went to 3 DMV's before we went to Killmer Rd. Hope this helps. Good Luck :)

1. Open Sharepoint 2010 Management Shell 2. Add the solution with this script - Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath "Path of your solution" 3. Now, you will find the new solution at the Central Admin>System Settings>Farm Management>Farm Solutions 4. Click Deploy to deploy the solution. 5. Do a IISReset Note : You have to get used to Visual Studio 2010

I just discovered, by default Sharepoint 2010 document library doesn't open PDF files or any other file types that MS doesn't trust anymore. The library will force you to download the PDF file since it's not trusted. You can do the following to resolve this : 1. Goto Central Administartor>Application Management>Manage Web Application>Select the Web App>Click General Settings 2. Change the 'Browser File Handling' from 'Strict' to 'Permissive'.

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With the official launch of SharePoint 2010 last week, we thought now would be a perfect time for us to share some resources to help you to get started evaluating and learning about the new release.  This post contains links to download evaluation software, guides, demo virtual machines and lots more, for both Developers and IT Professionals. 1. Check out the Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010 Launch  Keynote and on-demand sessions , and the  SharePoint 2010 Product Site  on Microsoft.com 2. Download the  SharePoint 2010 Overview Evaluation Guide , the  SharePoint 2010 Professional Developer Evaluation Guide  and the  SharePoint 2010 IT Professionals Evaluation Guide  to quickly ramp up on platform updates and additions. 3. Check out the learning plans for  IT Professionals ,  Developers  and  End Users  and get started on your SharePoint 2010 learning plan. 4. Download the pre-configured Hyper-V  SharePoint 201...

One of my customer send me a lot of data in excel 2010 and wanted me to upload it onto a sharepoint list and it wasn't that bad to do that. I refered this post and it made my life easier.

If you get this message, The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: - A datasheet component compatible with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is not installed. - Your Web browser does not support ActiveX controls. - A component is not properly configured for 32-bit or 64-bit support. when you try to open the Sharepoint 2010 List in the DataSheet view, do the following : install the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components after you install Office 2010 64-bit on the machine. Hope this helps

My earlier post of installing Sharepoint 2010 is for the Beta 2 release. We got the release version last month. A trial download which is valid for 180 days is published on May 12th. A link for that is here . Don't forget to install the  WCF fix for R2 and Win7 is  here  prior to installing sharepoint . Release version is so smooth and I had everything done without any error. I configured the search and created a new user profile synchronization connection to import all the users from AD. It went so smooth and took me couple of hours today-sunday :(  to complete the entire installation. Am excited with the release version. They fixed a lot of issues (including the crazy user profile import issue) Good Luck

I find this link as the best resource for installing Sharepoint 2010 Beta on Win Server 2003. http://mosshowto.blogspot.com/2009/11/installing-sharepoint-2010-windows-2008.html I followed everything as it is but I encountered this error : "An error has occurred while validating the configuration settings.  An exception of type System.ArgumentNullException was thrown.  Additional exception information: The errorData argument cannot be null or zero length.  Parameter name: errorData" I browsed the net for nearly 4-5 hours to see different solutions but eneded up here. http://linium.us/ism/microsoft-solutions/sharepoint-2010-beta-here-we-go/ It didn't solve the problem yet until  I turned-off the firewall. I thought it's something to do with the Sql Server Firewall, but it's both the firewall's (Sharepoint + Sql) that has to be turned-off.   My prev post defines the Issues encountered in Sharepoint 2010 Beta installed on Win 7 ...

I got a call from one of my customer last night that all the MOSS sites are throwing the 403 forbidden ( 'You are not authorised to view this page ') errors including the Central Admin and "Yes" the windows automatic update screwed it all...Again. The funny thing is if I browse mysite with "/default.aspx" included in the url, the site works Have to do the following to get it fixed : Open IIS Manager and go to Sites>Properties>Home Directory>Configuration, then in the Wildcard Application Maps box, add the aspnet_isapi.dll located in C:\windows\microsoft.net\"framework" or "framework64"\v2.xxxxx Ensure that the checkbox “Verify that the file exists” is UNchecked, otherwise error 404 page not found will be displayed. This is because the data is rendered from the SQL database and not from IIS locally, and SharePoint will process this on the run while the site is being accessed. A nice reference here - http://etiennel.b...

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 som...

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 Configurabl...

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

I had one of my customer having more than 48GB on the content DB. After couple of search, I found the following method that worked for me: 1. Empty your sharepoint Recylce Bin (This actually gets you a lot of space) - Navigate to you Recycle Bin in two ways http://yoursite/_layouts/AdminRecycleBin.aspx http://yoursite//_layouts/storman.aspx 2. Defragment your content DB : Defragmentation of the database keeps the data organized.  If you have installed Service Pack 2, then this happens automatically.  If you have not installed Service Pack 2 then there are instructions for how to do this.  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943345    3. Shrink the DB - A shrink reduces the size of the database.  If there is a very large amount listed reported as "space available" when you right click on a database in SQL Server Manager and look at properties then you may want to perform a shrink on the database.  Note: The content db grows as data increa...