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Root Cause:

This happend after you change URL for your site on SharePoint Portal.

How You Can Fix It?
1- Remove all lists from quick launch (from each list settings page).

2- Go to settings-> modify navigation and remove all (corrupted) lists and & folders from quick launch

3- Add lists back to quick launch again

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Characters that cannot to be use in sites, folders, and files in SPS 2003/ MOSS 2007

You cannot use the following characters anywhere in a site name, in a subsite name, or in a site or Active Directory group name:
tilde (~)
number sign (#)
percent (%)
ampersand (&)
asterisk (*)
braces ({ })
backslash (\)
colon (:)
angle brackets (< >)
question mark (?)
slash (/)
plus sign (+)
pipe ()
quotation mark (")

Site name cannot be start with an underscore (_) character or with the period character.

Folder names
You cannot use the following characters anywhere in a folder name or a server name:
tilde
number sign
percent
ampersand
asterisk
braces
backslash
colon
angle brackets
question mark
slash
pipe
quotation mark

You cannot use the period character consecutively in the middle/end of a folder name.
You cannot start a folder name with the period character.

File names
tilde
number sign
percent
ampersand
asterisk
braces
backslash
colon
angle brackets
question mark
slash
pipe
quotation mark

For ref click here

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An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: OSearch (Administrator)

While installation of MOSS 2007 on stand alone machine i got this error.

Error:
An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: OSearch (Administrator)

Cause:
You are using user name without domain or machine name

Solution:
Use user name like [Domain\UserName]
Even if you are using your local machine [MachineName\ServiceAccount]

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SharePoint HotShots - January Monthly Group Meeting

Event Info
Host:
SharePoint HotShots

Type:
Group Meeting

Time and Place
Date:
Friday, January 16, 2009

Time:
3:30pm - 5:00pm

Location:
Al-buanain, Near Gaint Store
City/Town:
Jubail, Saudi Arabia

Contact Info
Phone:
00966-50-633-2711
Email:
SharePointHotShots@yahoogroups.com

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10 Best Intranets of 2009

Intranets are getting more strategic, with increased collaboration support.

Team size is growing by 12% per year, and platforms are becoming integrated, with a strong showing for SharePoint. Improving usability increased use by 106% on average.
The winners of the award for 10 best-designed intranets for 2009 are:

• Altran, a large engineering and innovation consultancy (France)


• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a developer of computer and graphics processors (USA)


• BASF SE, the world's leading chemical manufacturing company (Germany)


• COWI Group A/S, a consulting group focusing on engineering, environmental science, and economics (Denmark)


• Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT), a global professional services network providing audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services (a Global member organization)


• Environmental Resources Management (ERM), one of the world's leading providers of environmental consulting services (Global)


• HSBC Bank Brazil (Brazil)


• Kaupthing Bank (Iceland)


• L.L.Bean, a vendor of apparel and outdoor equipment (USA)


• McKesson Corporation, a large provider of pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and health care information technologies (USA)

Learn more from here

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Announcement - User Group Renamed

Dear Friends,
With an overall increase in our user group activities in Microsoft SharePoint technologies, after discussion & olnine meeting with group members we decide to rename the group.

Old Name: dotnethotshots
New Name: SharePoint HotShots

Old Blog Link: http://dotnethotshots.blogspot.com/
New Blog Link: http://sharepointhotshots.blogspot.com/Groups Focus: Microsoft SharePoint Technologies


Thanks for your understanding.

Regards,
Tariq Younas
http://sharepointhotshots.blogspot.com/

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SharePoint Farm Migration Looop

Recently i have finished my SharePoint Farm Migration from 32 bit OS to 64 bit task.
There were lot of things to share.
Let me share you loop which i use as action plan for migration on Live Production Farm.
We had 20 Major Portals...mean 20 web applications.

So, what i did

For Portal=1 to 20
{
1- Plan a portal lock time (Read only ~ 3 hours)
2- Notify Power User & Account Admin
3- Send an interruption message to the affected site
4- On the planned time:
a. freeze the portal (Read Only)
b. Backup the portal from the current production farm
c. Restore it to the test farm
d. Check the design
e. Do a random test
f. Send a test link to the power user
g. If it is ok, do another restore to the new production farm
h. Do a test on the new production
i. If it is ok, update DNS record to the new IP
j. Check with power user for confirmation
k. Send a service back notification
l. Stop the old portal on Old Servers
loop
}

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