Free tool for item level restore

Hello

who of as that dont kwon, Docave is a company that develop a variety of sharepoint product like excellent backup system & content migration product and even anti virus for sharepont .

now thay release a nice free tool, that can help you to restore a single item in your farm.

The “FREE Tool for Item-level SharePoint Restores” can connect to your traditional backup method , like SQL backup (BAK files) and DPM and restore a single item with is metadata : data, author, etc…).

So give it a try

Thanks Yaniv

Explorer view is very slow

When opening explorer view in farm with two or more Web Fornd end server behind NLB,

you can wait same good time until the library is open , the reason for this behavior is :

By default, Windows Server 2003 does not respond to SMB queries that use a server name other than the server’s true NetBIOS name or FQDN. If this is attempted, the server will respond with a STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME error.

To fix this you need to add regestry key in both Frontend Server and then restart them .

this KB KB281308 have more detiles on this issue.

Same good article abot smb Webdev and explorer view
Whitepaper - Understanding and Troubleshooting the SharePoint Explorer View

Thanks Yaniv Shasha

VMWare VSPhere VS. Hyper-V R2

Hi all

In the last few months', I'm dealing (except sharepoint of course ) in the virtualization world, mostly in the VMware side.

so I want to share with you, same nice series of posts that comporting the two major player in this market

VSphare –( ESX4 ) the new version of VMware products

Hyper-v – the first hypervisor based Microsoft product

this is a three round battle

Here is the links
Hyper-V and VMware — Part 1: Usability
Hyper-V and VMware — Part 2: Features
Hyper-V and VMware — Part 3: Cost

enjoy
Yaniv shasha

the trial period for this product has expired

Hello

I want to share with you same issue that i had in customer farm,

every time that the Farm admin try to access the profile section in the SSP, or the end users tried to enter their My site or tried search something, They get a wired error "the trial period for this product has expired"

So like a educated boy i changed the CDKEY- but still this irritating error.
The next step is "Google diggings" I found same post that said to changed the DCOM security, its work only for 2 hours .

long story short, the one to blame in this never ending story is the MacAfee antivirus (with SharePoint agent)

it scanning and taking control on the CAL mechanism, and its consequence gave the license error.

Here is what Microsoft said about this issue

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;970778&sd=rss&spid=11373

Thanks yaniv

Troubleshoot content deployment

The content deployment feature in MOSS 2007 can be very tricky and sometime you need to be very patient to make it work.
Microsoft publish great article that can help as troubleshoot the process.
Another good source to look for solution is Stefan Goßner blog

I hope you find it helpful

Thanks yaniv shasha