Dirk Van den Berghe SharePoint Admin Blog - All Comments

re: stsadm -o enumusers explained

casey — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:48:13 GMT

Thanks, I was wondering about enumusers. Microsoft says it returns a list of users, I notice it only returns the system account. I will read the article you pointed to.

re: What version of WSS/MOSS are you running?

Robert — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:37:48 GMT

I have the same issue as Eddie. updated my moss servers just as instructed but when I try to apply the infrastructure update for moss servers I get "The expected version of the product was not found on the system".

My servers also have the version number 12.0.0.6318 but I only applied the WSS infrastructure update.

My servers are x64 servers.

Anyone have an idea??

There have been a lot of problems with the servers I was hoping these updates would resolve most of them. Can you tell me how to get the MOSS infrastructure working??

thnx

robert.graauw at winvision dot nl

re: Find a memory leak application on SharePoint

Alex — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:18:41 GMT

Hi Dirk,

Thank for this post, however I'm not very clear on how you figure out which w3wp is leaking. I have made changes in the registry, readded all the counters (both Process/ID Process and .NET CLR Memory/Bytes in all Heaps but I still can't identify which is which). could you please elaborate a little on this point?

Thanks.

re: Simple SharePoint Warm Up Script (by Kirk Hofer)

Kirk Hofer — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:17:56 GMT

I have completely changed this to actually work. The original one wasn't working correctly, my new one does. kirkhofer.wordpress.com/.../sharepoint-warm-up-script

re: Forms Based Authentication ( FBA) in WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 (by MeySun)

Dirk — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:55:16 GMT

Hi Noel,

been there, done that :)

The error message is pointing you in the wrong direction. As a matter of fact the error is located in the line:

It means that the LDAP path that is specified is incorrect. The most common reason for that is when you are using another OU container instead of the Users container in your domain. This is because of the fact that the LDAP path for the Users container is slightly differnet as a normal OU container.

My suggestion to you is to look at the correct LDAP path for your container using ADSIEDIT (which is part of the support tools package)

The correct ldap path for you depends on how your Active Directory is set up.

E.g. let's say you have an Active Directory domain called contoso.com and you want to authenticate your FBA users that who are all located in the default Users conatiner in AD, then your LDAP path should be LDAP://contoso.com/CN=Users,DC=contoso,DC=com

If you have all your users in another OU that you have created yourself e.g. MyUsers then your LDAP path would be LDAP://contoso.com/OU=MyUsers,DC=contoso,DC=com

Notice that the name of your OU is now preceded by OU= instead of CN=. Which is exactly what I meant by the different LDAP path for the Users container.

I hope this helps you out and best of luck

re: Forms Based Authentication ( FBA) in WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 (by MeySun)

Noel — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:38:31 GMT

Hello Dirk,

How are you?

I tried the above steps and configured a site as per the instructions. It gives me an error as below:

The container specified in the connection string does not exist. (C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\testmercury.jumeirah.com80\web.config line 112)

testmercury.jumeirah.com is the name of the sharepoint web app.

My web.config around the above mentioned line numbers is as follows:

108: <membership defaultProvider="ADMembershipProvider">

109: <providers>

110: <add

111: name="ADMembershipProvider"

112: type="System.Web.Security.ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider,System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"

113: connectionStringName="ADConnectionString"

114: connectionUsername="domainname\username"

115: connectionPassword="password"

116: enableSearchMethods="true"

117: attributeMapUsername="sAMAccountName"/>

118: </providers>

119: </membership>

re: Display SQL Data on a SharePoint site

Dirk — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:48:51 GMT

Hi Cedric,

the link has been fixed :)

re: Display SQL Data on a SharePoint site

Cedric — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:16:36 GMT

I think there is a problem with the second link (mybt.bt.com...)

Thanks for the help anyway

re: Forms Based Authentication ( FBA) in WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 (by MeySun)

Dirk — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:29:16 GMT

Cedric,

nice catch :)

The worst part is that I have implemented this already twice and each time I had a xml web.config formatting error because of the missing double quote ....

re: Forms Based Authentication ( FBA) in WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 (by MeySun)

Cedric — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:21:22 GMT

Dirk,

A little remark. In your connection string part, you have forgotten the closing quote. It must be: <connectionStrings>

</connectionStrings>

I know it's a detail ! Still nice post.

re: Find a memory leak application on SharePoint

Cedric — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:09:38 GMT

You're too kind !!!

re: How to change the Alert Email notification message for Announcements

Dirk — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:43:55 GMT

Hi Carl,

my guess would be thet you will need to change the url in the SPAlertTemplateType.AssignedtoNotification

section. I cannot verify at this tim, because I am restaging my SharePoint farm at the moment and it will take a while to get it back online :). But I will check later for this.

best regards

Dirk

re: How to change the Alert Email notification message for Announcements

carl — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:36:18 GMT

Hello,

I created a custom workflow using visual studio. I have it set to send an email notification when a new task is created. This is working fine. I attached the workflow to a document library in which users will fill out an browser enabled infopath form. when the notification email is sent, it has a link to the item. when that link is selected, it is opening the file in the client application. What I have to do is to add &DefaultItemOpen=1 to the end of the url.

Do you know which template I have to modify?

I am guessing that I will have to modify the AssignedToNotification. Could you please verify this.

Thanks

re: What version of WSS/MOSS are you running?

Gerald — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:25:42 GMT

We installed the Infrastruce Update without first applying the 3 Post SP1 updates. What is mising without these 3 post SP1 updates ?

Thanks in advance.

re: What version of WSS/MOSS are you running?

Dirk — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:12:39 GMT

Hi Eddie,

kb951297 requires both the WSS 3.0 Infrastructure update kb951695 AND MOSS Service Pack 1. Did you install SP1 before applying the infrastructure update for both WSS and MOSS? Don't forget to run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard after applying SP1

best regards,

Dirk