If you are using windows 2008 OR you are running solution installer to install a web part or other feature and its giving the timer services not running error, even though the timer services in services section is running.

 To get over with this problem, try running the installer using the app pool account or farm account OR run as administrator.

 Hope this helps.

Since last week i was experiencing random access denied messages on our sharepoint 2007 portal. the problem seems to be not appearing in any of our event log and sharepoint log. After some brainstorming and debugging i found out one site from microsoft.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953459

It says in your web.config, batchupdate is not supported at root level of your site config. If you have accidently opened it to have custom errors then you need to make it false. Else it will start behaving abnormally.

So make changes in your root web.config to: <compilation batch="false" debug="true">

Hope this helps !!!

(Article Taken from somewhere)

Lalit Modi has defended the non-selection of Pakistani players by calling the move an 'ego boost'. None of the players from the world champion Pakistan were given a contract by IPL. "One must understand our stance", said Modi to a swarm of journalists. "Why does a Pakistani get to hit the winning runs of an Indian tournament and be the highest wicket taker as well?".

Sohail Tanvir, the Pakistan allrounder, won the purple cap in the inaugural IPL and hit the winning run off the last ball of the final to give Rajasthan Royals the title. Another Pakistani Kamran Akmal was also a part of the victorious Rajasthan Royals as the wicketkeeper-batsman.

"They're the world champions. They have the best strikers, the best pacemen and the best spinners in this format.", continued Modi. "Thats not good for us. How will Indians win the orange, purple and pink caps then? Eliminating Pakistani players from IPL was our only hope. Their win/loss ratio in T20 internationals is so good its ridiculous. They're the world champions. And now we should allow them to own us in our own domestic tournament? I dont think so."

Modi felt not only Pakistanis were battering Indian cricketers, they were also becoming bigger crowd attractions even in India. "The way the Indian crowd cheered for Shoaib Akhtar during his long run-up of a spectacular spell in the first IPL, I've never ever seen Indian crowd cheer for any Indian bowler. Even though we've had some great expess bowlers like Zaheer, Pathan, Agarkar, Nehra and others. Ok I admit they're mediocre trundlers, but how can we let them feel inferior by allowing the real cricket talent that is Pakistan players to play with them and take the spotlight?"

But Modi's claim of inferiority complex didn't just stop with cricket; "We have applied tons of fairing creams, myself included, which is the most profitable product in India. But Pakistanis have been consistently better looking than us. In addition, they make fun of our sizes."

Shilpa Shetty, the owner of Rajasthan Royals and an underachieving Bollywood actress, echoed the inferior IPL commissioner. "Why should we bid for Afridi who did not even have to go through plastic surgeries like me to look that good. And what do I get for the money I spent? I still get laughed at in reality shows by average looking white women." Shilpa Shetty was pwned in a trashy British reality show nobody watches, by an equally trashy white woman. "Besides we have a good spinner in Irfan Pathan and hopefully he will spin the ball this time".

Shetty and Modi have further agreed to sing songs in the middle of the field, with a hundred backup dancers, after every 5 overs of the matches. The songs will feature lyrics describing the match situation of the last 5 overs, clearly naming the heroes and the villains in a given scenario. Famous Bollywood lyricists will work with expert cricket commentators such as Sir Arun Lal to come up with the lyrics on the spot.

One of the most famous sites wssdemos.com have been migrated on wss4.0. Try and see the new look and feel :-)

http://www.wssdemo.com/default.aspx

The things to do now before we can get our hands on SharePoint 2010 is to check our current platform.

If your current sharepoint have service pack 2 installed then you can use the following command to check your current deployment and see if its ready for the

upcoming sharepoint 2010. Use the following command at command line to check the readiness

stsadm -o preupgradecheck

In the end it will create a report for you to verify your deployment.

Few important ones are

Sharepoint 2010 DOES NOT support 32 bit platform!

Use *.wsp as much you can for your deployments

Read best practices for sharepoint and try using them as much as you can.

Are you using sharepoint 2003 or wss 2.0 or for some wierd reason your moss is not indexing office 2007 files then you SHOULD NOT install office 2007 on the server. This is a big NO.

Just install the IFilter pack released from Microsoft. Microsoft Ifilter pack

This will enhance following products:

Office SharePoint Server 2007

Search Server 2008

SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Windows SharePoint Services v3.0

-- Plus it will help you index visio and OneNote Files also :-).

Cheers

This is brief. Just would like to point out that if you are thinking to install SharePoint on Windows 2008 then heres something for a thought. Windows 2008 doesnt come with WSS 3.0 as default. Hence you need to install it yourselves. But the problem is when you want to do that - it will not allow you. It will ask for Service Pack 1 to be installed. The rational question to ask is, how can i install sp1 when i dont have the wss installed at first place. The answer is, you need to install WSS bundled with SP1. Heres the link to do that :-).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ef93e453-75f1-45df-8c6f-4565e8549c2a&DisplayLang=en

Enjoy!!

One of the Best tools for managing sharepoint. I thought i should share that with you all. The best part of it is that its FREE !!!

SharePoint will soon include Performance Point scorecarding and dashboarding capabilities. This will be available to those people who are on SharePoint SA and SharePoint Enterprise CAL.

Please visit Microsoft BI Site to get more information.