First of all here are the KB articles. It's a long list, but there's links in there to an introductory presentation/webcast on SharePoint 2003, what you can't install in the same server as SharePoint, lots on installation troubleshooting and backup and restore issues. MS has put a lot of crucial stuff up there, that's why I'm making sure I link directly to them.
SharePoint Portal Server Restore Logs Are Named 'Backup' Instead of 'Restore' (817946)
Cannot Restore or Re-create the Actions Control on the Default.aspx Page of a SharePoint Portal Server Web Site (823283)
Install With Database Engine Option Is Not Available When You Install SharePoint Portal Server on a Domain Controller (826791)
SharePoint Portal Server Default.aspx Web Page Appears Incorrectly After You Remove HTML Leading White Space (826801)
'Not Enough Disk Space' Err Message When You Back Up SharePoint Portal Server Data Even Though There Is Sufficient Hard Disk Space Available (827856)
There Is Not an Option to Restore Databases to the Original Server in the SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup and Restore Tool (823267)
'Cannot Generate SSPI Context' Error Message and Configuration Database Is Not Created When You Run SharePoint Portal Server Setup (822265)
HOW TO: Rename a Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Computer (830970)
'Error 502' Error Message When You Try to Access SharePoint Central Administration Pages After You Install SharePoint Portal Server and MSDE (827920)
'General Error Occurred' Error Message When You Create a Portal Site After You Reinstall SharePoint Portal Server (827391)
HOW T0: Make SharePoint Portal Server Help Files Searchable on the Portal Site (823207)
Database and Virtual Server Settings That You Must Specify When You Restore a Portal by Using SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration (823724)
You Receive a Dr. Watson Error Message When You Stop the SharePoint Portal Server Notification Service (826790)
Presence Icon Does Not Appear When You Browse an Internet-Hosted SharePoint Portal Server Site (823264)
Indexing Exchange 2000 or SharePoint Portal Server by Using Basic Authentication Does Not Work with Blank Password (284067)
You Cannot Access a SharePoint Portal Server Document Library After You Install Office 2003 (829873)
You Are Not Prompted to Confirm the Delete Operation When You Delete an Alternate Portal Site Setting in SharePoint Portal Server (823548)
HOW TO: Import User Profile Information of Enabled User Accounts from Active Directory to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (827754)
Support WebCast: New features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (831750)
Language Considerations in Server Farm Deployments of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (817945)
Programs That Cannot Coexist with Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (825505)
Overview of Custom Templates in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services (825217)
Information About Installing the Lotus Notes Protocol Handler for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (830971)
HOW TO: Configure Usage Analysis Processing on a Web Server by Using Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services (825541)
Error Message When You Try to Restore Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 from Backup (821520)
Configure Your SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Web Site to Identify the Server That Created a Web Page (823281)
'Successfully Imported... Error(s) Occurred During the Import' Error Message When You Import SharePoint Portal Server 2001 Data to SPS (827857)
Supported Upgrade Paths for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (821460)
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Does Not Index SPS Content Correctly and You Do Not Receive Any Error or Warning Messages (826797)
You Receive the 'Portal Creation Failed System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: User Owns Objects in the Database and Cannot Be Dropped' Error (826793)
Error Message When You Import the Results from a Survey Page from a Windows SharePoint Services Site into an Excel 2003 Workbook (828809)
Here's the 2 new SPS2003 Web Parts sent to me by Daniel McPherson, SPSFAQ090252 - 'I want to go' and search web parts for SharePoint 2003
The SharePoint Pricing can be downloaded in this zip file of the Word document.
Here's a script to delete all parts of a failed workspace creation on SPS2001, but it's useful for deleteing corrupt workspaces too. Download the ZIP here. Thanks to Graham Watkins for sending me that.
I'm sure a lot of people have heard of this bug that affects installations of WSS done after November 24th along with Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Standard and Premium editions) or upgrades of Windows Small Business Server 2003. The gist is you have to change the date on your sever to before November 24th but after May 24th to stop the DLLs messing up. There is more info here on this SBS site. Thanks to Adam Mucaulay for letting me know about this.
This is one to be careful of if you are making SharePoint accessable via the web, make sure you have a robots file to restrict certain paths from spiders crawling from search engines like google, your SharePoint security could be compromised by a hacker just searching for the following in Google: "/_layouts/settings.htm/" (with quotes). They can't do any real harm because none of the links work, but still...
There are changes that have to be made in your brower settings before you see what happens, read the following for more details:
bug in how the authentication mode works with the web-based administration page.
Microsoft SharePoint May Let Remote Users Access Protected Pages Without Authenticating.
Finally, want to try WSS free for 30 days? Go here: http://www.sharepointtrial.com/default.aspx for details.
Oh, and you can download the SPS2003 SDK from here and WSS from here.
posted by Stephen Cummins |



