I found a great post on how to troubleshoot the "503 Service Unavailable" error. http://blogs.iis.net/brian-... I'm putting this link up mostly so I can easily find it next time I have this issue. :) ......

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I've fixed this error so many times and have had to search the internet for the fix everytime that I've finally decided to log it into my own blog. Mainly so I can easily find it. Here's the problem. As a general rule, all https applications do not cache any pages for security reasons. This leaves the issue of downloading files from a https site. For ......

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I was banging my head against the wall over this one for a few days. There was a particular AD security group (over 1000 users) that sharepoint could not resolve. Nothing about it (so I thought) was different than any of the groups that sharepoint could resolve. Same setup, OU and everything. Finally, I realized that the Alias name was not the same ......

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Today my index server started to show this error in the event logs: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. More or less the same error in three separate events: Event ID 6398 Event ID 6482 Event ID 7076 I did a quick search on the web and found this fix: http://support.microsoft.co... ......

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I have been involved in a huge public folder migration project for my company. One particular folder I migrated had a hierarchy of 1500 subfolders. The migration tool was nice enough to migrate the permissions for me for each folder into sharepoint. Cool, right? Yes until my manager told me he just wanted to manage the parent folder in sharepoint and ......

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Here's the error from one of my users: The list is displayed in Standard view. It cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed, your browser does not support ActiveX controls, or support for ActiveX controls is disabled. This just started ......

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For those of us who want to start programming sharepoint but get intimidated by the extensive setup needed to begin with C# and visual studio, IronPython is for you. Frankly, I have been too lazy to take on the task of installing and configuring visual studio on a VM with MOSS. My background(many moons ago) is java development. I'm not a python expert. ......

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If you use: stsadm -o createsite [required fields] -sitetemplate STS#0 to create your site collections, the default groups are missing (Owners, Visitors, Members). If you create your site collections without the -sitetemplate option, when you first visit the site, you get a page to choose a site template followed by a page to to setup the default groups ......

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Environment: SIngle server farm - Windows 2003 - MOSS SP1 I found another server with the same "access denied" error in the crawl logs. So I applied the Loopback fix but then another error: The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070003) After searching the internet, I found the solution. You have to make sure the "gthrsvc" ......

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Got woken up this morning by frantic people in Amsterdam. Their document libraries stopped receiving emails! First thing I checked was to make sure emails were still making it to the sharepoint server. To the IIS drop box at least... So I sent a test email there. Yep, they were definitely getting there. And they were disappearing too so that means the ......

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