Monday, September 29, 2008

Ambiguous name detected

Then a user try to open MS Word document from a SharePoint library, he has a message "Ambiguous name detected" TmpDDE. In this case you need or delete all macros from NORMAL.DOT or replace the NORMAL.DOT.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Usefull command line utilities

I decided to put some command line utilities what I use and always forgot here. I will update the list:
Terminal services
works on Vista
qwinsta - query terminal services connection
rwinsta - logoff terminal services connection or any local session

General:
Works on Vista and Windows 2008
query { PROCESS SESSION TERMSERVER USER }

Network:
netstat - Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections

* all utilities have help just add /? after the utility name or Google it.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Windows domain time synchronization

I had a problem with a Windows 2003 DC (PDC role), it refused to provide NTP for the domain (despite I did all advised configuration in Registry), so solution was to change GPO for "Default Domain Controller Policy":
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Windows Time Service\Time Providers\Enable Windows NTP Server to Enabled.
You need to use windows w32tm.exe utility with different option to diagnose NTP problems on the domain.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

SSP issues on MOSS2007 - Windows 2008

If you enable crawling for "Office SharePoint Server Search" on "Dedicated web front end ..." instead "Use all web front end..." it will be auto added lines in "HOSTS" file what will prevent MOSS2007 functioning properly, so do not do it. Blog about it: http://blogs.msdn.com/philirit/archive/2008/06/25/ssp-app-pool-failure-in-iis-7.aspx