Thursday, June 18, 2009

Additions to this Web site have been blocked

Last week I bump into new error after installing MOSS SP2 in one of our customer’s servers.

"Additions to this Web site have been blocked."

This is a Familiar problem in system with Quota templates.
I can log into the site but I can’t add or open documents and/or creating new sites and document library. The site collection was locked and unavailable for read or write access
The strange thing is that Quota was not enabled on this Site Collection, but it locks the databases anyway.


To repair this error all you need to do is go central administration -> Application Management -> Site Collection Quotas and locks
Change the setting on “Site lock Information” to “Not locked”.In my case it was on “Adding content prevented

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

PDF iFilter in MOSS Systems

How to install the PDF iFilter & Add to your system pdf files that are searchable with Icon.

Download the latest Adobe PDF IFilter from
adobe

Stop the IIS service.

Run the Adobe PDF IFilter Setup file on your MOSS server.
Download from the Web ICPDF.GIF icon and save it on your Server.

Copy the ICPDF.GIF file to: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images"

Open: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12 \Template\ Xml\ DOCICON.XML"

Add the following to syntax for the .pdf type:


Run iisreset


Add the .pdf file type in the following list:
Central Administration - Shared Services (SSP) - Search Settings - File Types
Add the new file type: pdf

Perform a full crawl of your SharePoint content source.