Category | Stsadm

This is the second posting I’ve put together regarding OWSTimer.  In a previous post I had a client who simply pegged the timer by running a batch update against thousands of list items subsequently kicking off thousands of workflows.  In a more recent encounter, one of my clients called me with the OWSTimer again going mad, but for a completely different reason.  Problem OWSTimer.exe taking 100% CPU and/or creating Gigabyte sized log files. Solution Below  are the steps I used to troubleshoot the client’s environment with the actual screenshots.  In the end I believe...

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Often times you will want to back up a production SharePoint site collection and restore it to a server (or the same server) that already has one or more site collections defined.  This is very often the case when somebody has corrupted the original site collection but there’s still content you need accessible after you overwrite the original.  What you really need to know here is how to create a managed path then, with an empty managed path you can easily restore your site to that path.  Use the “-overwrite” switch if you want to overwrite a site collection that already...

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