SharePoint Governance Resources

Governance is something that should be at the top of the list for any SharePoint implementation (no matter how small). The following are some checklists/whitepapers/etc. provided by Microsoft that can get you started.

This is of course only sampling of what’s available. Feel free to sound off in the comments with your go-to resources for SharePoint governance.

Event ID error messages 10016 and 10017 are logged in the System log after you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

More fun SharePoint errors in the system log. If you’re seeing 10016/17 errors in the Event Log and want to resolve them, perform the steps outlined in KB920783.

Note that these errors are more of a nuisance than anything. The existence of these errors is expected and will not impact the functionality of your farm. That being said, less errors being generated is a “good thing” in my mind.

SharePoint in Plain English

This one is a little old, but still relevant. If you’ve ever struggled with trying to convey what SharePoint is to your users, refer them to this video.

Users Not Found in People Pickers

Ah yes, the people picker again. I recently inherited an environment where the previous administrator was kind enough to not document anything, especially the items he/she had been playing with in development.

When trying to designate a user as a Primary Site Collection Administrator in Central Administration, I was unable to query for subsets of domain users on a single web application. After checking all of the usual suspects (Peoplepicker-searchadforests I’m looking at you) with no success, it was off to the not-so-usual suspects.

It turns out the previous admin was kind enough to set the Peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter property on the main portal site collection. After setting the property to null

stsadm -o setproperty -pn peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter -pv "" -url [URL]

all was once again right with the world.

Now where did I leave my sledgehammer?

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