Monthly Archives: March 2010

SharePoint admin URL Quick List

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I thought this was a great reference from Heather Solomon’s site.

The following is a list of SharePoint URLs to get to commonly used administrative functions on a SharePoint site. The majority of the URLs require administrator permissions on the site and a few require administrator permissions on the SharePoint server. This is a quick list for speedy reference as compared to tracking down links through the admin screens.

All links in this list reference the English language directory (1033). For other languages replace 1033 with the appropriate LCID. Continue reading →

SharePoint Search not working

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Working in an environment where I maintain dedicated SharePoint environments ranging in size from one server to a hundred servers you can run into some odd issues. My latest happened when a customer noted that their search on a brand new SharePoint farm stopped working. After some investigation I found that they had migrated databases into their SharePoint farm. At the onset it seemed only content databases were migrated. This should not have prevented search service from working. At worst we could expect that search would not to be able to access the DBs. In this case the search just was not working and getting the following familiar message.

The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on Server page in SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress.

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Trouble Downloading large SharePoint files over Mapped Drives

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I recently ran into a problem where I have a SharePoint customer trying and downloading large files from mapped drive going to their shared documents.  I could download the file directly from their site using a browser but I couldn’t download the same file from the mapped drive location. The file in question was 1.2GB in size.

When trying to move/copy the file it would site for while on ‘calculating’ but in the end it would return:
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