Dealing with WSS_AdminService.log

This file can be found in

C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\Temp 

and it is annoying feature. the fact that it constantly grows and if anyone logs onto the system it will be copied into their profile makes for interesting times.

Never ending SharePoint search....

This one was fun, I had a search that would never stop... respond... anything....

Finally tracked it down to a SQL maintenance job which was playing with the index settings. Changed it to allow duplicates and stopped the maintenance job and all was good again.

Contacts in Outlook and SharePoint.

By default the contact content type in SharePoint does not have all the fields that the contact item in Outlook has, however the site columns by default have the majority of columns in existence.

I have made the assumption that they did not include them all as this would have made the contacts page massive for entry, but as I am using a contacts list on SharePoint as a family contact list (So I and my wife can share contacts) I needed to beef it up.

How Nerdy are you???

This is what I got...


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SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges for more power in SharePoint

I have been building a Web service which will create sites and configure them in SharePoint this action is tied to business actions in the company I work for. One fun thing I have encountered was the creation of Site Collections outside of the SharePoint WebApplication and from a Web Service running under different user credentials.

To resolve this I have used SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges to do the dirty work for me. Hopfully this will help others. This is also tied to the following error:

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