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Many times in the last couple of years I have come across the message " The user does not exist or is not unique." It is usually on its own, with no other error messages or clues to deciphering its cryptic text. Generally I have had only limited success in getting past this error, usually getting...

One of my Sharepoint servers has been painfully slow after installation, even running stsadm would take about 10 seconds. Whats really infuriating about it is that during the time frame where STSADM is typed into the command prompt, and its response, the server is doing next to nothing. I've seen...

I thought I'd already covered this, but a quick look through my history shows I didn't. Locking down a Web Application's people picker to a specific OU is very easy, but not well known. stsadm -o setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath -url http://WEBAPPLICATIONURL -path "OU=OU,DC=DOMAIN,DC...

For a while I have had an open ticket with a client in regards to odd behavior while trying to create a new site collection. The odd behaviour follows : "In Central Administration - when trying to create a new site collection and using the people picker to select the Site Collection Administrator...

This might be truely obvious to anyone who is a web developer or an application developer, I'm neither of those. I recently created a set of custom web parts to administer user access on a hosted MOSS solution, and one of the challenges I have just come across was locking these pages down so that...