If the commands described on the first part of this post could not clean the orphan objects on your farm, means that your farm has “deep” orphan objects and you need to execute other series of steps before to execute the upgrade. The best way to detect the deep orphan objects is to run the … Continue reading MOSS 2007 and Orphan objects – Part II
Orphans are the objects in a SharePoint schema that live without a parent or child relationship in the database. This database inconsistencies can be created due to many different reasons, for example, if you are creating a new site and click back, or close the window in mid creation, or when you are deleting a … Continue reading MOSS 2007 and Orphan objects – Part I
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 has introduced many security-related updates and changes, some of them affect to Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) service. To open the configuration settings of the DTC service on a server you have to open the Component Services console (Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Component Services or you can type … Continue reading MS DTC Security Configuration
Today, Microsoft has announced that SharePoint Designer 2007 is available as a free download. On this way they want to put the tool in the hands of more people and promote the SharePoint 2007 customization. From this link you can see a letter to Designer customers and the link to download the software for free. … Continue reading SharePoint Designer for free
Sometimes when we are working in a new environment and we have to talk with application teams to define the requirements and explain them the components that we have to implement, it is difficult to explain what Shared Services Provider (SSP) is and why it is very important for a MOSS environment. Some customers confuse … Continue reading What is Shared Services Provider?
Angel Perez Palacios 