Thursday, November 24, 2011

Choose backup and recovery tools - MOSS 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263427%28office.12%29.aspx

Backup script using STSADM

@echo off
echo ===============================================================
echo Back up the farm to C:\backup
echo ===============================================================
cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN
@echo off
stsadm.exe -o backup -directory "\backup" -backupmethod full
echo completed

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

The RSS Viewer web part is missing from the "Add Web Part" menu

To fix this -
In order to use the RSS Viewer on a publishing site, you need to go to your top level site, select "Site Actions"-->"Site Settings"-->"Modify All Site Settings".
1.
Under "Site Collection Administration", click "Site Collection Features" and enable "Office SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Collection features".
2.
If the issue persists then do the following-

1. In SharePoint Central Administration, go to Operations.

2. Under "Upgrade and Migration" select "Enable Features On Existing Sites".

3. Select the checkbox and click OK.