MOSS 2007 service account passwords change steps

Given below MOSS 2007 service account passwords change steps

To Update Central Administration application pool Password

Update the password for the account that is used by the Central Administration application pool. To do this, follow these steps:

On all servers in the server farm, open a command prompt, type the following line, and then press ENTER:

cd %commonprogramfiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin

On the server that hosts the Central Administration Web site, type the following line at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:

stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DomainName\UserName -password NewPassword

On all other servers in the server farm, type the following line at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:

stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DomainName\UserName -password NewPassword -local

Restart Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. To do this, type the following line at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:

iisreset /noforce

To Update application pool account

Update the password for the application pool account that is used by Web applications on the server farm. To do this, type the following line at a command prompt on every server on the server farm, and then press ENTER:

stsadm -o updateaccountpassword -userlogin DomainName\UserName -password NewPassword –noadmin

To Update Shared Service Password

Update the password for the account that is used by every Shared Services Provider (SSP) on the server farm. To do this, type the following line at a command prompt on every server on the server farm, and then press ENTER:

stsadm.exe -o editssp -title SharedServicesProviderName -ssplogin DomainName\UserName -ssppassword NewPassword

To Update Search Service Password

Update the password for the account that is used to run the Office SharePoint Server Search service. To do this, type the following line at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:

stsadm.exe -o osearch -farmserviceaccount DomainName\UserName -farmservicepassword NewPassword

To Update Single Sign On Service account Password

If the server farm is configured to use single sign-on, update the password for the account that is used by the Microsoft Single Sign-On Service. To do this, follow these steps:

Click Operations in SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, and then click Service accounts under Security Configuration.

Under Windows service, click Single Sign-On Service.

Under Configurable, specify the password, and then click OK.

For more details visit : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/934838

What makes an intranet valuable

Interesting article from Andrew Wright What makes an intranet valuable - Part 1

Over 6,500 intranet end users from 20 different organisations have responded to the Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC). From these responses, we can gain a good understanding of how end users currently perceive intranets and what they think makes them valuable.

Based on article Staff being able to contribute and interact with the intranet’ is seen as the second least important quality of a valuable intranet by intranet end users. Interactive functionality such as wikis, blogs and discussion forums do not appear to be considered as important as the basics of an effective intranet, such as finding information and quality of content.

MySite Personalization site links

When user view MySite the don’t have way to come back to Corporate Portal Site. So we thought of adding link to MySite.

Under Shared Services you can add Personalization site link.

http://yourserver.com/

The system will show URL on MySite as displayed below

When you click “Corporate Home” the URL display as http://yourserver.com/ default.aspx?MySiteView=1 and Page Display as below

If you nice there is a person image icon embedded in to Navigation bar, its happen because of the MySiteView=1, which automatically appended by system.

To overcome above issue you need added # at end of the URL (i.e. http://yourserver.com/# which will display pages as normal.

Service Unavailable HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable

Today when we try to deploy webpart to SharePoint site, System display following error

“Service Unavailable  HTTP Error 503.  The service is unavailable”

When I research online come across that the error cause due to following reasons

1. Application Pools Identity account password may changed

2. The administrator has stopped the application pool

To Enable Service

1. Open up IIS Manager and

2. Go to Connection and Expand click on Application Pools

3. Select Application Pools and Start (if Services stopped)

If changed Identity account password

4. Locate your App Pool account and right-click on it and select ‘Advanced Settings’.

5. Click on the right of the Identity box to change it (A window will pop up).

6.  Click on Set and simply retype your App Pool Identity in there with the new password.

SharePoint Hit Counter

Today i received request from customer to add Hit counter on SharePoint site homepage.

Let's go through how to insert "Hit Counter"

1. SharePoint Designer Open Site and Page that you need insert "Hit Counter"

2. Open Page in Edit Mode and place the cursor where you want to insert the hit counter.

3. Go to Insert - Web Component

4. Select Hit counter and System display different types styles that readily available.

5. Click on Finish, system will open the below Hit Counter Properties window

6. To start the counter on given number Select Reset counter to option and give number to star.

7. Once you click OK, The counter will be inserted to your page.

8. Preview on Web browser and start refresh your page the counter will increase count.

A Manager's Guide to SharePoint

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• Why SharePoint?
• Initial Business Considerations
• Technology Platform for the Non-­Technical
• Organizational Change Management
• Governance
• Roadmap

Thank you to Noble Acuff of the Acuff Group for allowing us to offer of free download.

To download A Manager's Guide to SharePoint

Pattern and Practices for SharePoint Guidance

Summary

The Developing SharePoint Applications guidance helps architects and developers design and build applications that are both flexible and scaleable. It shows developers how to provide IT professionals with the information they need to maintain those applications and diagnose problems when they arise. The two reference implementations illustrate how to solve many of the common challenges developers encounter. One reference implementation addresses basic issues such as creating lists and content types. The other addresses more advanced problems such as how to integrate line of business services, how to create collaboration sites programmatically, and how to customize aspects of publishing and navigation. A library of reusable components helps you adopt techniques used in the reference implementations. The guidance discusses approaches for testing SharePoint applications, such as how to create unit tests, and documents experiences with stress and scale testing one of the reference implementations.

To view click here

SharePoint List / Document Libraries Scalability

Recently SharePoint forum user posted a query about SharePoint Document Library and List item limitation. When search technet founded that.

Each document library can store 2 million records, if you need very large document libraries by nesting folders.

Each List can store 2000 items however you can create nested folder to overcome this limitation.

Each List / Doc library can create 2000 folder. If you have beyond a thousand entries each folder Folder do not perform

For more details visit

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/07/25/scaling-large-lists.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287743.aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34728/sharepoint-list-scalability

Stsadm command "Access Denied"

When I run stsadm command to deploy feature I get an "Access Denied" error.

The user is Part of Domain Admin Group and also the Primary Site Collection Administrator in SharePoint Central Administration.

Few minute later I discover that I need to run “Setup.bat” file with Run as administer mode, (Windows 2008 Server)  than you the Stsadm command run without any issue. :)

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Modify this view page cannot be displayed Error Code : 500 Internal Server (ISA)

Yesterday… we got an interesting issue… When user go and Click SharePoint - View - Modify this view action menu (OR) Modify Column link the browser display following message “The Page cannot be displayed” Error Code : 500 Internal Server Error. The request was rejected by the HTTP filter. Contact the server administrator. (12217)

When I search online, Microsoft support provided me following work around for the issue, configure the Web publishing rule so that it does not block high-bit characters.

1. Start the ISA Server or Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition Management tool.

2. Expand ServerName, where ServerName is the name of your ISA Server or Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition computer.

3. Click Firewall Policy, click the Web publishing rule that you created to publish the Exchange Server computer for access by OWA users, and then click Edit Selected Rule.

4. Click the Traffic tab, click Filtering, and then click Configure HTTP.

5. Click to clear the Block high-bit characters check box, and then click OK two times.

6. Click Apply to update the firewall policy, and then click OK.

But doesn’t solve my problem. Later I found that the issue coming from ISA HTTP Filter policy…. to resolve follow the below steps.

General Tab

The figure shows the default settings on the General tab of the HTTP policy properties

1. Start the ISA Server

2. General tab of the HTTP policy properties

3. Un Check Verify normalization, (Select if you want to block requests with URLs containing escaped characters after normalization.)

According to Tech Net

Web servers receive requests that are URL encoded. This means that certain characters may be replaced with a percent sign (%) followed by a particular number. For example, %20 corresponds to a space, so a request for http://myserver/My%20Dir/My%20File.htm is the same as a request for http://myserver/My Dir/My File.htm. Normalization is the process of decoding URL-encoded requests.
Because the % can be URL encoded, an attacker can submit a carefully crafted request to a server that is basically double-encoded. If this occurs, Internet Information Services (IIS) may accept a request that it would otherwise reject as not valid. When you select Verify Normalization, the HTTP filter normalizes the URL two times. If the URL after the first normalization is different from the URL after the second normalization, the filter rejects the request. This prevents attacks that rely on double-encoded requests.
Note that while we recommend that you use the Verify Normalization function, it may also block legitimate requests that contain a %.

Now we do not have an error.... Hope this information may helps someone…. If yes provide me comments and feedback

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Silverlight base STSADM commands

Silverlight base STSADM commands technical reference available at TechNet Web site.

Beside a view that shows all the commands you can choose a view.

For details view go to

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/cc948709.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/dd418924.aspx

SharePoint Audit Log Error "The template could not be found for the specified report"

"The template could not be found for the specified report"

Go to Site Settings > Site Collection Administration > Site collection features

Deactivate the "Reporting Feature"

Go to command prompt use below STSTADM command

stsadm -o activatefeature -name Reporting -url http://yourserver/sitecollection/ -force

Operation completed Successfully

Got to Audit log reports on the Site Actions/ Site Settings menu. You will able to see below screen.

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SharePoint Audit Log Error

"The specified web does not contain a reporting metadata list."

Go to Site Settings > Site Collection Administration > Site Collection audit Settings

 

Make sure that you enable audit events

Go to command prompt use below STSTADM command

stsadm -o activatefeature -name Reporting -url http://yourserver/sitecollection/ -force

Operation completed Successfully

Got to Audit log reports on the Site Actions/ Site Settings menu. You will able to see below screen.

Audit Settings Error

"Report Contains no data" 

Go to Site Settings > Site Collection Administration > Site Collection audit Settings

 

Make sure that you enable audit events

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SharePoint SSO Access Denied

1. Make sure that you Logon as Service Accounts domain user

2. Right click Internet explorer shortcut select "Run As" provide the credentials for the service account to run it.open share point central admin using  this IE Window

 

Hope this may helps you.

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Microsoft Single Sign-on Service configure Error

"Failed to connect to Microsoft Single Sign-on Service. To configure, please ensure the service is running."

Go to Administrative Tool > Services

Make sure that Service is running, If server not running don't start service.

1. Logon as SharePoint SSO Service domain account

2. Go to Central Administration > Operation > Security Configuration

3. Click Windows Service drop down box and Select Single Sing-on Service.

4. Select Configurable option and Enter Service account username and Password.

Provisioning failed SharePoint Shard Service (SSP)

I had very good experience last week one our customer installed and configure SharePoint on Server Farm Environment, When they installed Server A as Web front-end server, Server B as Complete setup and Enable only Office SharePoint Search service.

When I try to start to create and configure SharePoint Shard Service (SSP) the system start to surface following error.

“Provisioning failed: Windows NT User or group ‘Domain Name\username’ not found. Check the name again”

I was cracking our mind (1 day) and seeking help from various people and search Internet. There is no correct solution, Finally Tech net help me resolve the issue.

Accounting to Tech Net. When you configure Share Point Shard Service “ The user account must be a domain user account, but the user account does not have to be a member of any particular security group. It is recommended that you use the principle of least privilege and select a unique user account that does not have administrative rights on your front-end servers or on your back-end database servers. You can use the user account that you specified as the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 service account; however, if that user account is a member of a security group that has administrative rights on your front-end servers or your back-end database servers, you will not be following the principle of least privilege. The user name must be in the format DOMAIN\username.”

Then, I notice that Server B uses to Local Service account to run the Search Service. Due that when try to create Share Service from Server A it prompt Provision error.

According to SharePoint Best Practices you must have few set of account, to setup SharePoint. Where as my customer use one account setup SharePoint.

One of the biggest recommendations when installing a SharePoint environment is to think carefully about what accounts are going to run which roles that are used. TechNet has a large section on this called Plan for administrative and service accounts.

You can get the comprehensive list from http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/ site and article called SharePoint User Accounts for Least Privilege Installs

SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only

SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only and require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 to run. It also will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.

According to the SharePoint Team Blog SharePoint Server 2010 won’t support Internet Explorer 6. SharePoint 2010 will be “targeting standards based browsers (XHTML 1.0 compliant) including Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.x. running on Windows Operating Systems. In addition we’re planning on an increased level of compatibility with Firefox 3.x and Safari 3.x on non-Windows Operating Systems”

10 SharePoint Themes For Free

Microsoft release new SharePoint themes, looks awesome.  I am sure that lot of company interest to use for their intranet.

Currently the download come with source code you need to package them and need deploy selected themes one by one.

In future, If they package as a WSP or something would be better. Any something better than nothing :-)

 

To download : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0a87658f-20b8-4dcc-ad7a-09ad22641f3a

SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

Currently we are migrating HTML and Notes Database data to SharePoint due project timeline, We plan to migrate content first in to staging environment and use SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard to export site's and Import in to Production environment.

The SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard is a tool for SharePoint 2007 which provides the means to deploy the following content:
- site collections
- webs
- lists
- folders
- list items (including files)

Export selection screen:

Import settings screen:

Note :

1. Content deployment does require the target site to be created with the blank site definition. Since it also requires that both the source/target site are based on the same definition, this means you should select blank when creating the site in development too

2. From single file'/'From multiple files' options - the Wizard always exports with file compression enabled, so when exporting content over 25MB, files are split into several files at this threshold.

Introducing the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard' for more screenshots and information visit @  http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2007/12/introducing-sharepoint-content.html

Download - SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard on Codeplex