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SharePoint 2007 / SharePoint 2010 resources – October 2009: Administration, WCMS and virtualization, Hyper-V

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]

External storage of huge amount of data with SharePoint 2007

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]

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {A8F03BE3-EDB7-4972-821F-AF6F8EA34884} failed due to the following error: 800703fa.

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]

The object SPPersistedFile Name=SOLUTIONNAME-SOMEGUID.bak Parent=SPSolutionLanguagePack Name=0 has been deleted by another user since it was last fetched.

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]