12 September, 2011

No results matching your search were found

Problem Description:
When you try to perform search on your SharePoint site on your SharePoint server then you are getting the below mentioned error message:

No results matching your search were found.
Check your spelling. Are the words in your query spelled correctly?
Try using synonyms. Maybe what you’re looking for uses slightly different words.
Make your search more general. Try more general terms in place of specific ones.
Try your search in a different scope. Different scopes can have different results.


What to check first: Make sure the Windows SharePoint help search is working

Resolution:
Create a registry in the following location:
1.      HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
2.      Create a new DWORD key named “DisableLoopbackCheck” and modified the value  to 1
3.      Performed Full Crawl by using the stsadm command:
stsadm -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstart

That’s it-Your issue will be resolved and Search will start working without any problems.

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Event ID 8214: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”

Problem Description:
When you perform Check-Out documents from the Document Library where document check-out is required from the SharePoint site in your SharePoint farm, you are getting following error message
“Object reference not set to an instance of an object”
Impact: You are not able to open and edit any office documents
When you will not face the issue: You are not facing the issue on the document library where check-out is not required to edit the documents
Why the problem occurred: Issue started to occur when you installed WSS 3.0 SP2 on you SharePoint server
How you will cross checked: Event Viewer ApplicationàEvent ID 8214
Event Type:        Error
Event Source:    Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category:                Topology
Event ID:              8214
Date:                     5/12/2009
Time:                     3:21:14 PM
User:                     N/A
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 8214 ) in Source ( Windows SharePoint Services 3 ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: A request was made for a URL, http://novashare, which has not been configured in Alternate Access Mappings.  Some links may point to the Alternate Access URL for the default zone, http://spadmin.  Review the Alternate Access mappings for this Web application at http://spadmin/_admin/AlternateUrlCollections.aspx and consider adding http://spadmin as a Public Alternate Access URL if it will be used frequently.  Help on this error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=114854.
Resolution:
1.       Central Administration site
2.      Operations
3.      Alternate Access Mappings
4.      Show AllàChange Alternate Access Mapping Collection
5.      Select the Web Application which belongs to the problem site
6.      There is a URL that is reflecting in “Default” zone
7.      Now specify the URL which is giving you problem in the “Intranet” zone
8.     IISRESET
That’s it- Your issue will be resolved and you should be able to check-out and edit the office documents


08 September, 2011

Downloadable content for SharePoint Foundation 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 architecture and concepts.
ALL CREDIT GOES TO MICROSOFT TEAM 4 MAKING THIS VALUABLE DATA AND PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ALL OVER THE WORLD

Best practices SharePoint Server 2010

Delete a site collection SharePoint Server 2010

After you perform this procedure, the site collection and all of its content and user information will be permanently destroyed.


Please follow the below mentioned steps to delete the site collection:
1.     Verify that you have the following administrative credentials:
      To delete a site collection, the user account that is performing this procedure must be a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group.
2.     On the Central Administration Web site, on the Quick Launch, click Application Management
3.     On the Application Management page, in the Site Collections section, click Delete a site collection.
4.     On the Delete Site Collection page, in the Site Collection drop-down list, click the down arrow, and then click Change Site Collection.
The Select Site Collection dialog box appears.
5.     In the Web Application drop-down, click the down arrow, and then click Change Web Application.
The Select Web Application dialog box appears.
6.     Select the name of the Web application that contains the site collection that you want to delete. Relative URLs of sites in the site collections of the Web application that you have selected appear on the Select Site Collection dialog box.
7.     Click the relative URL of the site collection that you want to delete, and then click OK.
8.     Read the Warning and cross-check that the site collection information is correct.
9.     On the Delete Site Collection page, click Delete.