I have been studying SharePoint for sometime and thought of installing SharePoint 2007 on my Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine. Finally, it gave me something to write about . During the installation process, SharePoint 2007 SP2 setup failed with an error Careful look at the configuration tasks showed it actually failed in step 8 As always I thought of looking at the issue further and checked the diagnostics file Task evalprovision has failed with an unknown exception Exception: M... [More]

Have you joined the Sharepoint bandwagon yet? Well, I have… and if you have not, may be you should devote another hour or so, and that would be a time well spent. Start with this since this was one of the links that really got me started , and just for the records… I am not a sales guy! But I guess, even a technology guy is awestruck when he hears something like… 1 Billion USD in revenue! 75% of Fortune 100 adapting it!! Fastest growing server product in Microsoft history!!!  etc. et... [More]

One of the painful tasks for a MOSS Admin is to make a list of all site-collections, sub-sites and nested sites. If you have allowed your customers to create their own sub-sites off a site collection or root site, it can turn out to be a really tough trying to create a list of all those. Our production engineering team came across the exact same problem. Recently they were planning to migrate the production data to another Test server to do some testing. While planning this, we realized that the... [More]