Archive for category SharePoint
Search Crawler Impact Rule permission issue
Posted by Brian in SharePoint on February 6, 2012
Hello world. I ran into an issue today that I don’t currently have a solution too. We are building out a large FAST search environment. We have a team dedicated to Search in the Enterprise but I’m in charge of building the infrastructure. That is all done but I’m having trouble delegating administration to the search team. I gave them full control over both FAST search service applications. They are able to create content sources and most other search administrative tasks. This morning however, they attempted to create a search crawler impact rule. After submitting the page, they receive “Access Denied.”
My first thought was to double check permissions. Their active directory admin group is listed as an administrator and they are still members of the group. I went ahead and added them under Permissions as well. No help. Other search administrative tasks seem fine so I believe permissions are correct. The Access denied error had a correlation ID so I checked out the trace logs. This is what I found:
SharePoint Foundation Topology 8dyu High The SPPersistedObject, SearchService Name=OSearch14, could not be updated because the current user is not a Farm Administrator.
Is that true? Can you not update Crawler impact rules without being a farm administrator? Making the search team farm admins is way beyond the permissions they should need in order to manage search. I need a solution that doesn’t require giving them the keys to the kingdom!
If you have any ideas, please post in the comments below or hit me up on twitter. I’ll be sure to update this post if I’m able to find a solution.
Pictures From SharePoint Saturday Indy. #SPSIndy
Posted by Brian in SharePoint on January 30, 2010
My pictures from today’s SharePoint Saturday Indy have been uploaded to the gallery. I have to apologize about the quality. I decided to try something new and not be the annoying guy blinding the presenter with my large flash. Unfortunately with the Lens I was using, I couldn’t really get any good shots in the low light of that building. Most shots are at a noisy 1000 ISO and some are even at 3200. My Canon 50D just isn’t that great at high ISO. At the end I gave up and threw on the flash and tried bouncing it off the ceiling. It was better but not great. I guess next time I’ll have to turn back into annoying blinding flash dude.
Check’em out and if anyone would like a larger version of any pics, send me an e-mail or leave a comment on this post and I’ll get it to you.
Hopefully last ISA/SharePoint SSL Termination Search Issue Update
Posted by Brian in SharePoint on December 18, 2009
I’ve wrote about it HERE, HERE and HERE. And my last post was correct. I installed the update on my test farm and it no longer experiences the search scope issue. Had I known it was a bug and not my own fault, I would have contacted MS sooner. 
If you are still experiencing the problem, grab the December 2009 cumulative update and patch.
Quick update to ISA and SSL termination issue
Posted by Brian in SharePoint on December 16, 2009
I posted about this a few times here. More Here and Here. This problem no longer affects my installation but it looks like Microsoft has released a fix. The December cumulative updates for SharePoint state the following as an issue they fix:
When you try to perform a search in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site, the “This List: Name of list, doclib etc.” scope for a list is missing. This issue occurs because https:// is used to visit the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.
That looks an awful lot like what we were experiencing. If you are still seeing this issue, try installing the latest updates and let us know if it fixes it.
Go HERE to get the updates.
Update: Huey Lewis & The News @ the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009
Posted by Brian in SharePoint on October 28, 2009
I did a dump of all my concert pictures at:
http://www.hugheserblog.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=32
A few of my favorites are in the previous post:
http://www.hugheserblog.com/2009/10/24/huey-lewis-the-news-the-microsoft-sharepoint-conference-2009/
If you would like a high quality version of any of these pics, let me know and I can send them your way.
Enjoy!
Huey Lewis & The News @ the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009
Posted by Brian in SharePoint on October 24, 2009
Here are a few pictures from the concert. Feel free to contact me if you want a higher quality version.
SharePoint / ISA AAM and SSL Termination issue UPDATE
Posted by Brian in SharePoint on October 6, 2009
UPDATE: Take a look HERE for an update.
I’m a blog stats junkie so I pay a lot of attention to what brings people to my site. Currently one of the most popular posts is this one: SharePoint / ISA AAM and SSL Termination issue. This really bothered me because I was never able to provide a solution. It wasn’t important enough to burn a Microsoft support incident since it has a simple solution.
This is a quick post to let you know that I gave up and went with the simple solution. I no longer do SSL termination on ISA to SharePoint. It is now completely SSL from the client browser, to ISA, and from ISA to the SharePoint front end servers. Since we own the switch and the internal network between them, it isn’t necessary from a security standpoint. The only reason we chose to terminate SSL at ISA is to save the administrative headache.
We used multiple host headers on a single IP on the SharePoint frontends. If we needed to add a new web application, it still had the same internal IP but SharePoint added in the new host header. In the new, non-SSL termination world, each front end has a dedicated internal private IP for each web application as well as one external public IP covering all front ends. As the envirnment grows, it is going to cause a few headaches. We have a dedicated subnet for all our internal stuff but it is possible we would eventually hit some limits. Especially as we begin moving other services behind ISA.
I feel bad that I wasn’t able to get this to work since my logs show other people are having this problem. Hopefully I’ll be able to pick the brains of some experts here in a couple weeks.
Executive buy-in and Governance for SharePoint
Posted by Brian in SharePoint on August 18, 2009
Sorry for the absence in posting. Those of you that followed the old blog are probably used to it. Things have been incredibly nutty around here lately. But there is something on my mind I wanted to write a quick post about. Hopefully this will push me to write something a little more in depth in the future.
Having SharePoint governance is more than just a recommendation. Having governance in place is a necessity. They say that if your production SharePoint install is your only install, you don’t actually have a production environment. You only have a test environment.* The same thing goes for governance. You can’t have a true production environment without a governance plan. If you are an admin for a SharePoint environment without a governance plan, your life becomes incredibly difficult. You have no pull to get anything accomplished. You may be receiving pressure to move it forward or make changes but without someone with the power to make things happen, they don’t. You’re at a standstill. Unless you are willing to be the one stop shop for support, development, administration, end user training, and customization, you need to be able to bring others on board. You need someone that can force the developers to build a custom solution or can force the Support area to learn the product enough to help with end user needs.
I’m starting to ramble so I’ll cut this short. If you don’t have executive buy-in or a C-level evangelist, you don’t have a governance plan. In fact, I would go so far as to say you don’t have a production environment unless you are a very small shop and can handle it all yourself. I’ll butcher a quote and say “if you build SharePoint, they will come.” They don’t care if you have a governance plan. They’ll come anyway. They don’t care if there is an executive evangelist. They know what it is and they want it.
Before you put bit to disk, you need a governance plan. Before you can say you have a governance plan, you need executive backing. If you ignore it now, it will come back to bite you. Get it taken care of before you start and your job will be much easier.
Please feel free to include any governance stories you may have in the comments below. I would love to hear more of your experiences.
* I’ll credit that quote to Andrew Connell but I may be wrong.
SharePoint Quick Tip: Are you running MOSS 2007 Standard or Enterprise
Posted by Brian in SharePoint on July 8, 2009
John Ferringer replied to a post on the Technet forums that I felt would make a good quick tip. I have seen this question come up numerous times on the forums. How can I tell if I am running MOSS 2007 Standard or Enterprise? There are two ways to answer this. I’ll show you both below.
The first way is to simply see what you have installed on your server. There are several ways to do this. The easiest is to open the Operations tab in Central Administration. Then open Enable Enterprise Features. Your answer to your question should be selected there. Note that if you check Enterprise, you can not go back to Standard.
If for some reason you have an aversion to Central Admin, you can also find this in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0. Find OfficeServerPremium. A 0 means standard and a 1 means enterprise. I would strongly recommend against changing anything here.
Now the other way to approach this question has to do with licensing. There are many times when what you are licensed for is not equal to what you have installed. To find this answer, you will need to find your media or your software license info. If you have the official media from Microsoft, it should say it on there. Mine is labeled Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 For Enterprise. If you purchased it another way and don’t have the media, you should still have a license. It was either snail-mailed to you or you received it in an e-mail or download. If all else fails, talk with whoever handled the purchasing to see what they have. They should have records or, at the very least, know who to talk to to find out.
Again thanks to John Ferringer for part of the content of this post. You should all go out and buy his book: The SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide.
SharePoint Quick Tip: Remove Outlook Connection to SharePoint
Posted by Brian in SharePoint on June 26, 2009
The is the first in hopefully many Quick Tips. I would like to make this a weekly thing but we’ll have to wait and see how that goes.
One of the most asked questions I get from End Users about SharePoint is “How do I remove the connection from Outlook?” This is usually requested because they are receiving an excessive number of authentication prompts in Outlook due to not having their machine configured correctly or some other bug. In most cases, the prompting should end once they add the site to the Trusted Sites, allow IE to pass authentication, and setup the WebClient in the registry. Note: At my organization, we also have an installer that will do all of that for you. If that is too much and they just have to have it removed, here are the steps.
1. In Outlook, go to Tools and Account Settings
2. Click on SharePoint Lists
3. You could see multiple lists here if you have made more than one connection. Highlight one and then click Change.
4. If you have accessed SharePoint on multiple computers, it is possible that the others have a connection as well. To clear that up, you need to check the box “Don’t display this list on other computers I use.” If you don’t do that, it is possible the list will come back. Click OK and return to the List. You can repeat this process on any other lists you wish to remove.
5. Once you have checked that box for each list, click on Remove and then OK.
That’s all there is to it. One thing you can do in the future if you don’t want the list to show up on every instance of Outlook you touch is click that checkbox before you add the list. You’ll find it under Advanced when you try to add the list.