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Been digging deeper into MOSS backup’s and came across the following error when trying to do a backup in MOSS central administration.
“Error: Object MOSSContent failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. SqlException: Cannot open backup device ‘c:\mossbu\spbr00040000018.bak’. Operating system error 3(error not found).”
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
Found quite a lot of articles relating to assigning security rights to the backup folder and sharing it out which I followed, but this still did not stop the errors. Then I came across this suggestion to use a UNC path for the location of the backup and voila – issue sorted.
I’ve finally switched over to IE7 and Vista and spent ages trying to figure out why I was being asked for a username and password when going into various sections of a MOSS 2007 portal – but never the homepage. With the proxy settings applied it worked fine, but when I removed them the security box appeared. It was nothing to do with security settings in the browser, it just needed a patch from MS. Just follow the details, apply for the hotfix and bingo. Appararently this hotfix will be part of Vista SP1.
I have recently been using one of the four Microsoft sample master pages as a starting point for customising a new corporate site. After many hours and days I finally picked apart the style sheets and got it to look right for the business. However this has all come crashing down because the base custom templates supplied seem not to allow printing of the main body of the page - only the top third will print. I’m no delveloper and so far have not been able to fathom out why this is happening. I have confirmed that this is also the case with all the templates except the Reverse one – which prints just fine.
I’ve had this more or less confirmed by MS and I’m awaiting confirmation if they will release any alterations. For now then it’s back to square one. If anyone else has come up against this then let me know. I could not find much talk about this at all.
Been doing some work involving lists, workflow and reminders and cam across this great article on setting up workflow reminders. I had an issue with the ‘Pause Until Date’ wokflow command and testing it out. It just paused and did not go onto the next step.
I got around this by using the ‘Wait for Field to change’ command instead and used a different methodology. If anyone’s had issues with using the ‘Pause Until Date’ I’d like to here about it!
I have since found that this is an actual fault and is fixed in SP1
My setup is as follows: MOSS 2007 & Exchange 2003 (Domain: MOSS07.co.uk)
Most of the documentation I found talks about setting this function up in a lab environment with simple email functionality and it took me a while to piece it all together and get it working with Exchange 2003.
I followed most of the settings found in this excellent article How to configure Email Enabled Lists in Moss2007 RTM using Exchange 2007 . I could not get it to work using the automatic configuration (see step 3), so had to go down the manual route as described in the article.
Under Management Service settings (Step 3B in the article) I put in ‘Active Directory container where new distribution groups and contacts will be created’ settings OU=Sharepointdl,DC=MOSS07,DC=co,DC=uk and Servermoss07.moss07.co.uk in the ‘SMTP mail server for incoming mail settings’.
The thing I had to change was getting Exchange to forward emails destined for email@Servermoss07.moss07.co.uk to the MOSS server (Servermoss07) – it does state this in the troubleshooting section of the article. I did this by creating a new SMTP connector and putting the server name (Servermoss07.moss07.co.uk) in the ‘Address Space’ tab. Once I had created this mail started being delivered into the drop folder on the MOSS server.
By default when a user creates their My site there is no link back to the main portal. Follow the instructions in this post to set up a global or individual site change enabling such a link.
I’ve been trying to dig into why my users keep getting US settings when a user creates their MY Site. I’ve set all the regional settings I can find to UK and it still keeps creating sites with US settings. The only way to seem to cure this is by changing the regional settings on the users site. Then I came across this post stating it was a a code change required by microsoft.
Unless anyone has any other solutions it’s a manual change for the user on their My Site.
Copying a workflow from one list to another is a pain even in the same site. If you have lots of steps and all you want to do is change fields in each of them then it might be quicker to do this than start from scratch.
I just opened the XOML in notepad and copied it’s contents into the XOML file of the new workflow (see step 3 in link). Then I copied across the *file*.xoml.wfconfig.xml and *file*.xoml.rules files and then went in an edited the workflow normally in SPD. Bit of a pain so if you don’t have a complicated workflow it might be easier to start from scratch.
