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I was implementing a new SharePoint farm and I observed that web application that I create in Central Admin site was not getting created in the IIS of WFE servers. The sites would be created in the WFE if I restart the WSS web application service through stsadm command. But this was not an option. I ran the stsadm execadmsvcjobs and it thew this error: T he SharePoint Worker Process Group Update job failed with the following error. This job will be skipped. Failed to connect to an IPC Port: The system cannot find the file specified . It turned out that the service "Windows SharePoint Services Administration" was stopped on all my MOSS servers. Once I started this service the issue was solved.

We had this requirement the other day to make "This Site" as default search scope in the search dropdown list on our SharePoint sites. This setting is configured on a xml file "SearchArea" present in the features folder. Here are the steps to achieve this: 1. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\OSearchEnhancedFeature folder on the front end server(s) 2. Open the file "SearchArea.xml" in notepad 3. Add new property line just above closing control tag with Property Name as "DropDownMode" and value as "ShowDD_DefaultContextual" 4. Save and close the file. Do an IISRESET Perform the following steps on all the WFE servers in the farm.

Here is a brief on the services available in SharePoint 2010: 1. Access Database Service Enables the publishing of Access databases to SharePoint 2010 to share them with others and to use Access site templates. Requires Microsoft Office Access 2010 to create and publish databases. This SharePoint service has the related SharePoint Feature, Access Services Farm Feature. To start or stop this service: a. Navigate to Central Administration for the farm. b. On the Quick Launch, click System Settings. c. On the System Settings page, under Servers, click Manage services on server. To configure this service: a. Navigate to Central Administration for the farm. b. On the Quick Launch, click Application Management. c. On the Application Management page, under Service Applications, click Manage service applications. d. In the list of services, click Access Services. References: Access Services planning Access Services administration Build an Access database to share on the Web Video on publishing