Here are the in my opinion most interesting SharePoint 2007 resources in October 2009… with every link comes a short description of the content available. This month is about SharePoint 2007 administration, WCMS and some SharePoint 2010 resources. [More]

Michael Pertek and I have written a professional article Hart am Datenlimit - Externe Speicherung grosser Datenmengen in SharePoint 2007 for a German database magazine called database pro (sorry no English translation available). This article is based on a white paper I have written with Michael in September 2008. The first link includes the white paper and the last two links contain the English translation. [More]

This problem was another result because of a snapshot taken at the virtualized SQL Server. After stepping back to a state in the past using the snapshot I got the error The object SPPersistedFile Name=SOLUTIONNAME-SOMEGUID.bak Parent=SPSolutionLanguagePack Name=0 has been deleted by another user since it was last fetched and after that the COM exception. [More]

Using SharePoint 2007 in a virtualized environment can bring up new or different problems compared to a physical machine. With Hyper-V or VMware ESX you can take a snapshots of your SharePoint 2007 environment including SQL Server. Jumping back to a state in the past can be helpful if something is corrupted. Jumping back can also corrupt your SharePoint farm. In this case a snapshot of the SQL Server was taken and after some time used to go back to a state in the past resulting in the error. [More]

Sometimes things don’t work from one moment to the other if you do MOSS 2007 / WCMS development. Usually it’s due to a mistake I made and usually finding it is difficult since some error message aren’t really useful: This time I got a “List does not exist” error together with a COMException. [More]