New Year. New Life. New Projects.

Ladies and gentlemen,
I have decided to leave my cushy, predictable job as a sys admin, to pursue other sharepoint opportunities. Who here that reads this blog agrees that Sharepoint is the wave of the future? ME ME ME! I have built a reputation based on that mantra, and would like to explore new worlds and new civilizations, and boldly…wait, I heard that before somewhere.

MESSAGE TO THE SHAREPOINT WORLD: I AM HERE, I AM AVAILABLE, LET’S DO SOME SHAREPOINT PROJECTS!

Cannot sort KPI in sharepoint?

Can this be true? Microsoft, what is up with that?
Here is what i have found so far:
1. The KPI List (or any view other than “All Items” view) is a customized list view and can’t be sorted and will always be in the order in which the KPIs were added.
2. ‘Modify This View’ will let you change the sort order and that gets applied only to the ‘All Items’ View.

alerts not working….again…..damn

Out of the blue, sharepoint alerts stopped working.
The symptom was strange:
Subscriptions to alerts DID work but subsequent alerts did not.
I looked everywhere.
Finally I found something in the sql table called dbo.TimerLock. Timer lock by a front end server.
I rebooted the server and ran the following commands:
1.stsadm -o getproperty -pn search-alerts-enabled
2.stsadm -o getproperty -pn search-immediate-alerts
3.stsadm -o getproperty -pn search-daily-alerts
4.stsadm -o setproperty -pn search-alerts-enabled -pv “Yes”
5.stsadm -o setproperty -pn search-immediate-alerts -pv “Every 5 minutes between 0 and 59″
6.stsadm -o setproperty -pn search-daily-alerts -pv “Everyday between 00:00:00 and 05:00:00″