Comments for Ramblings of a Home Server User

Comment on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tech Edit Request by Ian

Ian — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:53:20 +0000

Following the steps to delete the website that was created during the install process, and after selecting yes to the to bubble options i hit delete, and nothing happens, it just sits there. Any ideas?

Comment on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tech Edit Request by Clint Tinsley

Clint Tinsley — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:25:50 +0000

1) You should probably add in the restarting of the default website to the procedure.

2) The move scripts are failing because it can’t find the referenced database in the script (copy seems to go okay). WSS 3.0 installed its own instance of SQL Embedded Edition but I can’t connect to it from either command line or using Management Suite (error -26) so I am unable to determine the database name. This may be a result of my already having SQL 2005 Express already installed. Any thoughts? Would like to get the move completed.

Thanks for all your work on this.

Comment on Help Wanted - Sharepoint Guide by Sean Cantellay

Sean Cantellay — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:23:07 +0000

-UPDATE-

Synchronizing a SharePoint Calendar with Outlook has been a problem not just for us, but for others as well. We have been connecting the calendars the recommended way Actions->Connect to Outlook. The calendar gets added and populated the first time but subsequent changes that are made to the SharePoint calendar are not updated to the Outlook calendar. When running a Send\Receive the following error is given:

Task ‘SharePoint’ reported error (0×8000FFFF) : ‘An error occurred either in
Outlook or SharePoint. Contact the SharePoint site administrator.’

I have check and rechecked the settings in both SharePoint and Outlook, nothing that I did seamed to fix the issue. So I opened a SharePoint site that I had installed on my local machine and connected the calendar from that site to my Outlook and was able to receive updated with no error. The only piece that was not the same in the two instances was that Exchange was out of the picture. After talking with a coworker we realized that a client of ours started seeing the same issues after doing a migration to Exchange 2007.

I am not a Exchange guy so I will be meeting with one of our network engineers to see what we can find.

Sean Cantellay

Comment on Help Wanted - Sharepoint Guide by Sean Cantellay

Sean Cantellay — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:55:59 +0000

Hi I am in the same boat with Tormod Seljenes as I have not been able to find a solution to this issue anywhere. All of the forums that I have read seam to end with no good conclusion.

Thanks,
Sean Cantellay

Comment on How-to Install Sharepoint on Windows Home Server by Denny

Denny — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:18:30 +0000

Thanks for the instruction. I can access the website internally but not internally. Can anyone shine a light for me?

Comment on How-to Install Sharepoint on Windows Home Server by BigE

BigE — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:33:55 +0000

I created a share (SP-Data) from the Home Server console to store the SP data. I chose the advanced installation and pointed it to d:\Shares\SP-Data.

Comment on How-to Install Firefly Media Server on Windows Home Server by Thomas Svensrud

Thomas Svensrud — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:59:15 +0000

Hi. I am trying to build a shared iTunes library on my WHS (HP Mediasmart with Firefly included)
But I also want to manage the library using Windows MediaPlayer and MediaMonkey. Have you tried this - and if so what directory structure are you using on the WHS and on you Clients?

Regards Thomas (Oslo - Norway)

Comment on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tech Edit Request by John Zajdler

John Zajdler — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:01:47 +0000

I got this all working on my MSS WHS, except for 1 thing.

Since I have to shut down Sharepoint on port 80 to allow the WHS web site to run, while my new Sharepoint site is on port 8085, when I click on the My SIte or My Links on the Sharepoint Web Page, I get an error. It looks like the URL it is trying to go to is the Sharepoint web page on port 80. Since Sharepoint on port 80 is disable to allow WHS web page to run using port 80, I get the error. How can I get this to work ?

Comment on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tech Edit Request by SharePoint How-To Guide for WHS « MS Windows Home Server

SharePoint How-To Guide for WHS « MS Windows Home Server — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:38:49 +0000

[...] The guide and scripts are available from here. [...]

Comment on How-to Install Sharepoint on Windows Home Server by eTroxx

eTroxx — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:10:29 +0000

First of all, thx Tom for the nice instruction. Worked fine for me.

Paul aksed about a form based sign on. I think it´s very interesting for a lot WHS_Users with SharePoint using…
Does anybody have a idea or solved this?!

thx Troxx