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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...

There is a lot of pain involved with removing an SSP thats having errors due to the database no longer existing. Of course trying to remove the database via Central Administration and even STSADM, I got alot of errors such as "Cannot open database." and "Failed to delete SSP". Fortunately...

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...

I've seen a bug a couple of times where you for no great reason just can't activate publishing features on your site collection. I click the button to activate the feature, and absolutely nothing happens, it stays deactivated. The error appears to be caused because the application pool that the...