Servers
Distribution Groups, Exchange 2007, and SharePoint 2007
To Distro or not to distro…
Our customer needed distribution groups from their various SharePoint sites for creating alerts on shared lists and libraries. Until now, the site administrator was constantly having to add and manage these alerts all on an individual basis, and since each project the customer works with calls for a new SharePoint site, changes were plentiful.
Initially, when trying to create a group, specifically, mail enable a group from within SharePoint, the admin was receiving an error stating: “The group operation succeeded, but the distribution group could not be updated because of the following error: The Directory Management Service reported the following error: Access denied.”
SharePoint Search problems on Server 2008?
After installing WSS3 SP2 on a clean install of Server 2008 x86 SP2 STD, and using SQL 2008 SP1 as the backend, I could not get any search results. The setup is about as simple of a farm installation you can get, it is for a small number of users, and demonstration purposes, so everything is installed on a single machine virtualized on an HP server running VMware ESXi 3.5. There are two site collections using different application pools, one enabled for anonymous access, and the other not.
The search service is common to both, but the crawl account (data access) is unique.
SharePoint SP2 Bug
!IMPORTANT!
All installations of Microsoft Office Server 2007 that have installed SP2 for SharePoint Services are affected by the following bulletin. In short, it has reset your license key putting the product in trial mode, and it will expire in 180 days without notice. See the below article for the resolution, and more details.
WSUS 3.0 SP1 Computers with no status
The setup: Server 2003 R2 SP2, DC & DNS Roles, WSUS SP1 Fresh install, default website (80).
The issue: No status reported by clients (Servers and workstations), Event ID 13042 in the Application logs on the WSUS server Self-update is not working.
After researching, I came across these 2 forums:
The articles were close, but both addressed installing SP1 POST a typical WSUS 3 install, mine was a fresh install at the customer’s site. Continue reading →