LDAP User Profile Connection Horror

Whenever you go to Edit Connection page while editing an import connection, make sure to re-enter the password of user again. MOSS for some reason changes the password and you will be prompted with error like--

The query is not valid based on the specified search base and search filter.

:-(

LDAP Connection in UserProfile

To create an import connection to LDAP, modify the web.config file of your SSP web site.
Under section add,



Make changes as per your enviornment.

Now, on Edit Connection page in MOSS, Enter provider name as LdapMembership and press ok

CustomWebPart Web Part: Cannot import CustomWebPart Web Part.

Check if the webpart class is declared public and any assembly referenced by project exists

People Crawl: Error in PortalCrawl Web Service

When I tried to crawl my content, I received following error:

sps3://SERVERNAME
Error in PortalCrawl Web Service

So people aren't crawled.


If I create an "root" site collection, so in http://SERVERNAME, the error disappears and people is crawled again.

Fix for Content type '0x01010007FF3E057FA8AB4AA42FCB67B453FFC100E214EEE741181F4E9F7ACC43278EE811' not found

While creating a new page in a collbartion portal, you might come with this error.

This ContentTypeID points to the "PublishingResources" feature.

You will need to activate this feature by running STSADM. The command is

STSADM -o activatefeature -name PublishingResources -url http://MOSS_URL