SharePoint 2007

SharePoint disable loopback check (DisableLoopbackCheck dword in registry)

Ive found this very handy.. recently, I was working on a server and we were trying to access the local SharePoint site http://127.0.0.1 or http://nameoflocalserver/pages/default.aspx and I was constantly prompted for the username and password. in SharePoint 2010 it can really annoy you by not accepting your username password credentials in the popup window.

Its a ‘feature’ on the server that you need to disable as a workaround..

You would need to create a DWORD registry key in the registry called DisableLoopbackCheck and set it to 1.
Follow these steps:

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK
In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 1 and then click OK.
Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer.

For more information about this, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 281308 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281308/ ) Connecting to SMB share on a Windows 2000-based computer or a Windows Server 2003-based computer may not work with an alias name.

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Creating custom SharePoint MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0 themes

I was looking around for some reading today and I thought of collecting information on whats out there on SharePoint skinning, SharePoint customisation of themes and master pages. There are a few articles on the web that I have read before and would like to share them with you. May I suggest you bookmark this article so you can refer back when you need. I will add more links as I come across them. You may be able to share your favourites with me and I will edit this article to include your valuable suggestions! Thanks!

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SharePoint Central Administration High Availability, Load Balancing & General Recommendations

A few questions have come up about having dual SharePoint Central Administation servers in a farm. In short, it is possible to run two CAs in a farm. (It is Microsoft supported).
In a 5 server farm (3 WFE, 1 Index, 1 CA), we may feel the need to load balance the CAs with Microsoft’s Network load balancing NLB.
I found a good article that helped reinforced some concepts..
http://www.harbar.net/articles/spca.aspx

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SharePoint MOSS Shared Services SSP delete unprovisioning

When you try to delete a SharePoint Shared Services Provider – SSP, you may notice the SSP stuck with unprovisioning as its state. Eg. SharedServices1 (Unprovisioning)

Possible Cause: The SSP database has been deleted in SQL and SharePoint is unable to delete the SSP.
Some objects may still be dependent on the configuration database, hence you are unable to delete the SSP.

Solution: Manually delete the SSP by the following stsadm command:
stsadm -o deletessp -title “ssp_name”


You may also want to check if your SSP is providing services to other farms.
1. Go to Central admin > Application Management > Manage Shared Services between Farms
2. Disable “This farm will provide shared services to other farms”
3. Enable “This farm does not participate in shared services between farms”

Try to delete the SSP again.


You may also receive this error:

“An object in the SharePoint administrative framework, “SharedResourceProvider Name=SSP Parent=SPFarm Name=MOSS”, could not be deleted because other objects depend on it. Update all of these dependants to point to null or different objects and retry this operation.

Solution: Identify the GUID of the SSP in SQL and then delete the configuration object by the GUID.

Perform the following steps to get the GUID of the unprovisioning SSP and then delete it:
1. Log into the SQL Management studio and go to the configuration database.

2. Expand the tables and open dbo.object

3. Update the following queryto your database name and run it to receive the GUID

SELECT * FROM [Name of your configuration database].[dbo].[Objects]where name like ‘Name of the Shared Services’

4. Run the following stsadm command

stsadm -o deleteconfigurationobject -id “GUID retrieved from object table in SQL database”

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SharePoint Timer Job Administration

I came across a solution to modify timer jobs from the Central Admin interface. This is the equivalent of using the stsadm -o setproperty command. The best part is you can modify your timer jobs without having to redeploy them!
When you install it, you will get a link in your Central Administration site to ‘Manage Timer Jobs’.

Wait! Theres more, you can also deploy your own custom timer jobs, update job properties and schedule all from this neat interface.

Read more and download here: http://sptimerjobadmin.codeplex.com

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