Alpesh Nakar – SharePoint Consultant's Blog

Early this week (Monday), I had tweeted that SharePoint 2010 Beta and Exchange 2010 Download was available for Microsoft Partners – SDPS. If you are following me on http://twitter.com/alpesh you know about it! This download has now been made available for everyone.

To quote from the download page:

Overview

This download contains a two Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software:

1. Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS  Read more... (624 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

Wow! What a conference it has been. I am was at Las Vegas airport, returning back to Brisbane from Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, when I started writing this post. It has taken me a while to get it done.

It has been a great conference with around 8000 people at the conference from over 43 countries! The main focus of this conference was the next version of SharePoint – 2010. It was finally showcased with the Beta2 build at the keynote and subsequent sessions. This post marks the beginning of a series of recap posts of my time at the conference, which far by was the best one I have attended till date.  Read more... (1123 words, 10 images, estimated 4:30 mins reading time)

Situation

• New SharePoint deployment.
• Outsourced IT operations.

Problem

SharePoint alerts not working for users.

Cause

Outgoing email address is configured to support@serviceproviders.email. This mailbox is not configured on local SMTP server (Exchange 2003). Hence SharePoint cannot send email via Exchange as open relay is turned off; as it should be.

Solution

Outgoing email address should be configured to local.user@mycompany.com -an active local mailbox. Test that you can access local.user mailbox either through Outlook Web Access or Outlook client.

James Milne of Myriad Technologies has just released this content type toolbar today. It is free and very easy to deploy.  Read more... (81 words, 1 image, estimated 19 secs reading time)

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3

Event Category: Database

Event ID: 5214

Date: 10/16/2008

Time: 8:43:58 AM

User: N/A

Computer: SHAREPOINTSERVER

Description:

Insufficient SQL database permissions for user ” in database

‘SharePoint_Config’ on SQL Server instance ‘SharePointDataBase’. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.

The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object

‘proc_putPendingDistributionList’, database ‘SharePoint_Config’, schema ‘dbo’.

This is a known issue and can be resolved with the August 2008 cumulative update.

1. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hot fix package  Read more... (104 words, 1 image, estimated 25 secs reading time)