Service Unavailable...

Just had a call from one of my customers, he's getting 'Service Unavailable' when he hits Central Administration and the SSP Site, but the portal site running on port 80 is fine.

I've seen this a number of times, and almost everytime its the AppPool Identity account. Either the AD password for AppPool identity account wasn't set to Do Not Expire or for some reason the password needs to be re-entered again in IIS.

Firstly, check AD, make sure the account password hasn't expired, if so, then reset the password and ensure that the password is set not to expire.

Next Steps, check IIS:

Expand the Application Pool sub tree, and check if the Application Pool your failed web application is running in, is actually running! If not, right Click and Start.

If it is running ok, right click the Application Pool for the Web Application which is showing the Service Unavailable error, click Properties Identity

In the identity tab, re-apply the correct password for the service account, reconfirm, press Apply OK

Recycle the App Pool, or run iisreset /noforce and you should be good to go!

Note: If for some reason, you are running the Application Pool as Network Service and not a configurable username and password, then see this post :

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/ab61994d-ec1f-4b06-976a-3327d11c9d68/


Cheers ;o)

Aj...

Performance Point part of MOSS!

Performance Point Server 2007 functionality will now included as part of SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL's. After Mid 2009, Microsoft will no longer provide support for the stand alone product. The BI functionality will be provided using MOSS, SQL & Excel.

Read more here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/01/23/microsoft-business-intelligence-strategy-update-and-sharepoint.aspx

SharePoint Video Solution

I've been looking for a decent Video solution for SharePoint for a long time...

Thanks to Bamboo Solutions, I've got one!

Check out : http://community.bamboosolutions.com/media/p/9225.aspx to download.

The download package comes wrapped up in a .msi package, and installs a Video Library feature. The video library features:

• Thumbnail view


• Custom Metadata


• Ability to upload WMV, AVI, MPEG & MPG

• Youtube video upload - coming soon

enjoy!

December Hotfix

Microsoft have released the December Hotfix package :

More info and download available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959644

It provides a number of fixes including the Picture Library View flyout menu disappearing.

Haven't tested it yet, but will report back if I find anything...

Funky SharePoint menu...

Check out the following video, Jan Tielens demos a cool way to navigate in MOSS...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX51_-BQTq8

nice...!

Aj..

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM)

Microsoft have recently announced the MCM programme for MOSS 2007

Check out the links below...

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/SharePoint/default.mspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/11/10/introducing-the-microsoft-certified-master-and-certified-architect-for-sharepoint.aspx

Aj..

Picture Library Flyout Menu - gone??

Recently, on site I had an end-user complain that the Views flyout menu shown below has disappeared. It appears, by default in a standard sharepoint picture library in both WSS and MOSS.

On investigation, it seems that the Infrastructure Update released by Microsoft in July somehow breaks it.


Theres currently no fix available so watch this space! I'll post back when I find out some more.