Restoring SharePoint Site.

I was getting below error while executing follow steps.

1. Executed command for restoring SharePoint site.

stsadm -o deletesite -url %SITE% -deleteadaccounts false
stsadm -o restore -url %SITE% -filename %BACKUPFILE LOCATION%

Error: The site collection could not be restored. If this problem persists, please make sure the content databases are available and have sufficient free space.

Solution: I delete any unnecessary sites and also truncate logs for SQL database, so after that there was enough free space.

After this, I was able to restore SharePoint site successfully.

2. I had created new farm envirorment and trying to restore sharepoint site.

Error : Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '12.0.0.6318' or later.

Solution : I need to install/run infrastructure updates into my new created farm server, The Infrastructure Update contains the new Enterprise Search features that were shipped in Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express that were are not already in SharePoint Server 2007; this includes Federated Search capability, a unified administration dashboard and several Search core platform performance updates.

you can download updates from below location.

• Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) - x86


• Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) - x64


• Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) - x86


• Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) - x64


• Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB951547) - x86

After doing installation, I was able to restore sharepoint site.

Installation of MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008

I have successfully installed MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008, but I found many blogs and material which says there are some features or things which will not work on Windows Server 2008.
Microsoft is also not giving any type of support call for Windows Server 2008 installation for SharePoint.

Pre-requisite for Installation of MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008

1. Install .NET framework 3.0

2. Install WSS 3.0 with SP1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EF93E453-75F1-45DF-8C6F-4565E8549C2A&displaylang=en&clcid=0x409

3. MOSS 2007 with SP1.

NOTE:

1. In Windows Server 2008, there are many inbuilt software and framework, we have to use "Role Management Tool - Server Manager" and install .NET framework 3.0 on Windows Server 2008.

2. I was getting red color error when I start my central administration site, because I didn’t configure SSP.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2334230&SiteID=1

3. While configuring SSP of office SharePoint search and WSS search - we have to give domain name\username into site, there are two type of admin user; one is for local system and one for domain admin user.

Many of my problems get resolved after using domain admin user credentials.

below are links which will be useful for installing MOSS 2007 on Window Server 2008.

http://www.pptspaces.com/sharepointreporterblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=7537e639%2Db4e5%2D48b6%2D97c0%2Da75e44ee9be3&ID=15&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Epptspaces%2Ecom%2Fsharepointreporterblog%2FLists%2FPosts%2FAllPosts%2Easpx

One of my good friend (Hemen) give me above link, it has all process step by step, we can easily install MOSS 2007 by referring above link.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287748.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EF93E453-75F1-45DF-8C6F-4565E8549C2A&displaylang=en&clcid=0x409

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/08/03/wss-3-0-on-windows-2008-is-hot.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/07/20/installing-windows-server-2008-with-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735844.aspx

Problems which I faced in projects

1. When I try to Import excel sheet data into custom list, at that time I was getting "'Method Post of object IOWSPostData failed' error and not able to import data.

Solution Steps : I thought its may be because of excel sheet size or any other problem, but its general error, so I have to make changes in one of the excel VB file as per below links, after that I am able to successfully import excel sheet into custom lis.

Solution Links :

https://msmvps.com/blogs/obts/archive/2006/12/05/384536.aspx

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1531102&SiteID=1

http://blog.sharepointhosting.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=399ed944%2D72d2%2D4932%2Dbc13%2Dde0586abf2d1&ID=64

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1330234&page=1

2. When I try to change Page Navigation by editing at that time, I was getting error "The page has been modified by another author".

Solution Steps : This error comes due to migration of pages from one server to other server, like development to staging or production server, so some page contains old reference URL, I have to go manually each pages and remove old master and content pages reference links, below links also has some automatted utility which will convert broken links, But I don't have trust on same/

Solution Links :

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=1691577&siteid=1&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=0

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1691577&SiteID=1&pageid=1

http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2006/05/31/SharePoint-2007-navigation-dissected-_1320_-part-1.aspx

Excel Services and Dashboard

http://www.google.com/bookmarks/url?url=http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/6/1/a61dd5df-f52c-42d5-a95c-7a7fb7a6a466/ExcelServices.wmv&ei=vsEjSOqaLqiO4wKd_5HBDw&sig2=hc4n2H1xJfCmRz535K9T0g&ct=b

http://www.google.com/bookmarks/url?url=http://channel9.msdn.com/Screencasts/214755_Dashboards.wmv&ei=vsEjSOqaLqiO4wKd_5HBDw&sig2=E1f0Z039F8a2ioP2pJkKag&ct=b

Forms Based Authentication Links

http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=CKS&ReleaseId=7675

http://www.devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/02/23/Office-SharePoint-Server-2007-Forms-Based-Authentication-FBA-Walkthrough-Part-1.aspx