First we need to use STSADM.exe to add the .wsp file to the SharePoint farm. To find STSADM.exe navigate to the bin folder in the 12 hive – here C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN Open a command window and drag stsadm.exe onto it and use the following command to add the solution to the solution store. stsadm -o addsolution -filename c:\solution.wsp You can also use stsadm to deploy the solution...

How to create a backup file with the date of today. Here is an example with STSADM from Sharepoint Services. stsadm -o backup -filename “\\gl-nas-01\backup$\Sharepoint\GL-SP-01\%date:~-10,3%%date:~-7,3%%date:~-4%.dat” -url http://intranet/sites/home

First, you need to download the Adobe PDF IFilter 6.0, which you can find at this URL.  You should also get hold of a suitable Icon to use with PDFs, so that when they are listed in a document library they are easily recognisable.  There is a 17 x 17 one available on the Adobe web site here. Once you’ve downloaded the IFilter, install it on your WSS 3.0 server, and then follow the instructions on registry settings in Microsoft KB...

By default, the search service is disabled in WSS 3.0. In order to enable it, goto your SharePoint Central Administration page and under the Operations tab, goto the “Services on the Server” list and click on WSS Search. Service Account – You cannot use any built in accounts when specifiying the Service Account, however you can use local accounts. One account you can choose to use is the default Administrator...

I tried to make a copy of one of our SharePoint sites. It took some help to figure out how to this. So for the future, lets put it here. The  thing you should check are the version numbers of the original and target SharePoint servers are the same. They MUST be the same. In my case the SharePoint Services 3.0 was updated with SP1. The version number is : 12.0.0.6219 You can check this at “Central Administration, Site Actions, Site...