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Category: Service Accounts

DCOM 10016 errors

Because my systems admin reminded me while cleaning out the logs for our new load test environment, here’s how you can fix them on your WSS box. This is something an old colleague and I found out in October of last year, found on a blog entry from SÃ¸ren Nielsen from April of last year.…

October 14, 2008
A good guide to Configuring Incoming E-mail Settings for Office SharePoint Server

(though I didn’t get it entirely right, apparently) Link (Technet).

September 23, 2008
Dev VM Farm Notes

Had a similar problem to this one, wherein the SharePoint Timer service appeared to be screwing around with my app pool settings for my SSP web application. Not entirely sure what caused it (because I wasn’t taking notes – trying to set this one up quickly) but I found the problem while trying to set…

September 22, 2008
I have been negligent – bullet updates, but I’ll get around to the major stuff later

Since I fully expect next month to be a slow month, I should be able to catch up a little. Anyhow: I am installing the Release bits of Microsoft Office 2007. I don’t know if I’ve already plugged CCleaner but I’m doing so again. I needed it because Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh didn’t…

November 23, 2006
Server Accounts, Changing them, Permissions Issues – Followup

In my previous post (opens in new window), I said I’d let you know how it went. Turns out for various reasons we didn’t get around to testing my assertions until this morning. It went fine. I was right about what was broken and what needed fixing. The implementation of the fix and the continued…

October 6, 2006
Full Text Search and Account Permissions

This is a more extended writeup of running Windows SharePoint Services 2003 and SQL Full Text Search on a Database box where Local Administrators (BUILTIN\Administrators) don’t have System Admin access in SQL Server 2000. (I mentioned this briefly in the Changing SharePoint Service Accounts article.) Essentially, you’ll run up against this security policy requirement in…

October 5, 2006
Changing SharePoint Service Accounts, Permissions and Troubles Found and Conquered Therein

(Note: Links to KB Articles open in new windows) So I have a client who is security conscious enough to ask that we make SharePoint work even when the servers’ Local Administrators (members of BUILTIN\Administrators) are not members of the System Administrators Server Role in SQL Server. This is the default configuration for SQL Server…

October 2, 2006

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