Archives | April 2009

Problem On a regular basis I have clients tell me that they don’t have rights to edit a list item.  On further investigation it is quite clear that they do have the necessary rights they just don’t see the edit menu on the view that you, or another administrator has made available to them. Explanation This usually happens in SharePoint implementations where sites are created off of a template.  This template has views that present data with the edit menu shown below. When users don’t see this menu they think they don’t have rights.  The user is confused simply because you are displaying...

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Problem You've lost, or you've accidentally deleted ,the Central Administration database from your MOSS or Windows SharePoint Services environment. Explanation Obviously corruptions happen, users get carried away with stsadm, or, in my case, you simply deleted the wrong database and you didn't have a backup. Luckily for me, I made this mistake in a test environment. Not to worry, there's any easy fix, see below! Solution It's actually quite simple to recover a central administration database if you have another central admin database that exists in the same domain. Simply backup the database...

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Problem You receive hundreds if not thousands of NT Authority\SYSTEM "Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM'. [CLIENT: <local machine>]" error messages Errors often occur every minute Explanation You've probably deleted your Shared Service Provider or created a new one. Unfortunately, some scheduled jobs will remain on your SQL server that reference the now defunct database. Solution Launch SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the server that houses your Shared Service Provider Within SSMS expand the SQL Server Agent and select...

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