My IT Experiences

I was trying to backup my WSS 3.0 farm when I encountered this error: Object SharePoint_Config failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. SqlException: Cannot open backup device '\\servername\backup\spbr0001\0000001.bak'. Operating system error 5(Access is denied) I guessed this would be because of permissions with the backup folder. I had created a shared folder in my server where WSS was installed. I had given Share and security permission "Change/Modify" for the Network Service user. But that did not work. I followed these steps and it solved my issue: 1. Set the SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) Windows service to run as a domain account and restarted the service and IIS. 2. Granted "change" Share permissions on the backup folder for the user that runs the Central Admin application pool, db SQL account, and WSS Timer service. 3. Granted "Modify" Security permission on the backup folder for the user

I installed WSS 3.0 on a server the other day. I googled to find the installer package and found out that there was a SP2 slip-streamed package of WSS 3.0. So I downloaded and installed it on the Windows 2003 Server. These are the screens of installation: Click Advance For detailed steps on installation, refer these Technet articles: Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a stand-alone computer Deploy in a simple server farm (Windows SharePoint Services)

Recently I had to remove MOSS 2007 Enterprise from a Server. All I did was remove it from Add/Remove Programs from Control Panel of the Server. These are the screen shots:

Ok, there were lots of hair pulling moments, but I did it finally. I completed my first e payment project, an online shopping application. It was sort of fun and I learned some new things. The bank that we had created Merchant account with supported only Mastercard Gateway Service and our client did not want to have paypal integration, so my task became difficult. I had never done such an application before, so it was a challenge. I was the only person working on this project. We had purchased a shopping cart product but it didn't support this payment gateway, it supported every other gateway available except this one. So I was in bit of trouble, I had to integrate this gateway with an application that didn't even had a technical manual. I was the one who recommended this product to the management and now I was stuck with this. I tried to contact their support requesting for a technical manual on their APIs and other classes. But they didn't provide me anything. So I starte

So I was trying to install DNn 4.9.4 on our test server on the port 8032. Idea was that I would install it and another guy from our team would work on the skins. Well, installation is supposed to be simple, but I din't know what was in store for me untill I tried! Ok I started by creating a database and I copied the files from install zip file. Then I created the new website in ISS on port 8032. I changed connection string values in the web.config and the site installed properly. Now I was happy, this was my first DNN installation, wow that felt nice :) Now I clicked on the "Click here to access your portal" link and duh, nothing. It initially gave me Page not available error, then I refreshed the page a couple of times and it gave me 403 error. It was almost 9 in the night and I was feeling hungry here. Ok I checked most of the articles that was available out here and did all what the experts suggested, but to no avail. I found that in the PortalAlias table, it inserted