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Sure, you can find posts and articles out there with lists of character limitations and restrictions for List and Site names and URLs for SharePoint, but what about combinations of legal characters that will cause you problems? (more…)

In my latest project, we have installed MOSS 2007 in a client’s environment and are working on upgrading/migrating their old WSS 2003 content over. This is somewhere between a parallel and in-place upgrade. I’ve learned quite a bit along the way – mostly through trial and error. Lots of issues. Lots of quirks. Lots of workarounds.

This is a very long, and involved process – so far (it’s still in process) using nothing more than out of the box commands, and SharePoint Designer. (more…)

More “dreaded” errors in SharePoint. We started receiving the this fun error when loading one of our portals:

Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server.[...]

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A client called stating that they had lost access to the majority of their content. It looks like in the process of creating a new Doc Library at the root of their portal, either there was a hiccup, or they accidentally edited the root site’s permissions instead of just the Doc Library. Oops.

While walking through the portal to verify that all the access was fixed where it needed, they reported that one of their users could no longer start or edit a workflow. This started on the same day as the permissions issue, so I had initially assumed the workflow was trying to write somewhere that the user no longer had access to. The “Access denied” message is usually a giveaway. (more…)

Last week I installed WSS 2007 on a server for a client and ran into an odd issue with checkouts under certain circumstances. Kudos to my coworker for ultimately figuring it out. I was on the right track, but not quite there yet. I wanted to document it since the GoogleOracle didn’t find any results that quite met my criteria. It seems safe to assume that under these conditions, the resolution would have worked for both MOSS and WSS. (more…)