I had an issue with crawling a site recently - the crawl would stop immediately it started with the message :-   The start address http://servername/default.aspx cannot be crawled. Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server' ...[Read more]

  I had an issue with a control that looked for pages and displayed them I did this by appending a querystring parameter ?id=1+2+3 (where 1 and 2 and 3 where the page numbers I wanted to display.  I kept getting weird results ie the page that was b ...[Read more]

I had the situation this week where I had developed a provisioning feature for a customer.  I had decided to try and use LINQ.   All went well until the feature was deployed to the production  servers.  At this point when the feature was activated ...[Read more]

I had strange problem recently with a customer site. A user could create pages but could not subsequently read them (published or not)   They were in an authoring group with the appropriate permissions.   This baffled me for a while but finally ...[Read more]

I have had a problem recently where there was a customer intranet which did not have access to the Internet.  This Intranet would takes up to 5 minutes to start up of a morning and then would "freeze" for up to 2 minutes during the day. ...[Read more]

I have installed the above KBs and after running the SharePoint Configuration Wizard I found that when I create a new site with a previously defined Site Template that the Page - -> page settings on the page editing menu had disappeared and any ...[Read more]

I was looking to add caching to a site which had been created back in the autumn of 2007. So I went site settings -> modify all site settings -> site administration -> site output cache   and I got "List does not exist" ...[Read more]

I have been creating some new dev envionments using Windows 2008 and Hyper-V and we came across a problem where the SharePoint Configuration Wizard could not connect to the SQL Server to create the Sharepoint Config database.   I finally tracked ...[Read more]

If you get this error message when you are calling SiteDataQuery it is a bug and Microsoft are hoping to have a fix ready for the end of June :-   Insert Error: Column Name or number of supplied values does not match table definition.    UPDAT ...[Read more]

I have been creating some VMs for ready to install SharePoint 2007.  So I needed something to run these VMs on so what better than to use Hyper-V.   I have found that Hyper-V will only install on a clean machine - I tried to install it on a se ...[Read more]