Each SharePoint site is based on one of the templates provided with the technology. The templates have specific options of SharePoint turned on or off by default. So, sometimes when you inherit a site it is nice to know which template you are using to determine what the site can and cannot do out of the box.

Note: To quickly get a list of SharePoint templates you can even use the Get-SPWebTemplate CMDLet.

Also few of the templates are marked as obsolete i.e the old Records Center template (OFFILE#0) I would suggest you to use the new template if possible when creating a Records center which is (OFFILE#1).

Check the table below for the list of Template & their respective Codes with a brief description.

Do you use the report wizard to help you create reports in Microsoft Access 2007? If you do, you are probably aware of the control layout. Many controls are automatically grouped into a layout when you use the wizard to create a report. These control layouts help you to arrange the controls, i.e. text boxes and labels, as a group. When you move or resize one control, the other controls will automatically adjust accordingly. While using layouts can save you time when manipulating controls, they can also be restricting. It is possible to remove a control layout. To remove a control layout, you need to view the report in the design or layout view. Once in the appropriate view, select the controls you want to remove from the layout. Then select the Arrange tab on the ribbon and click the Remove button located within the control layout section. With the control layout removed you will be able to independently move and resize the controls within your report.

I had this problem and the symptom was that the SharePoint Services Search Refresh timer job was in a failed state on one of the servers.  

I fixed it with the following steps:

1) Stop the Windows SharePoint Timer Service
2) Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config
3) Go into the single folder in there that has a GUID type name.
4) You see a whole bunch of XML files and a file cache.ini
5) Copy all the XML files to another folder somewhere (for backup), then delete them but do not delete cache.ini
6) Edit cache.ini to contain just the number "1" in the file - erase whatever is there and replace with "1"
7) Restart the Windows SharePoint Timer Service
8) You should see XML files being regenerated in the folder

Do these steps on all the front-end servers and index/query servers.  In our case on our index & query server the Windows SharePoint Timer Service was jammed in a "stopping" state so we rebooted the server and that cleared it and allowed the SharePoint Services Search Refresh timer job to succeeed. 

It also, as a bonus, finished off the deployment of a WSP solution that had got stuck in the "deploying" state when attempting to deploy.

Problem:

Recently our content source for the sharepoint sites no longer crawls and instead throws up the Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component

I had a look on the web and the only solution has been to change impersonation settings from false to true in the web config. Unfortunately ours was already set to true and I still have this error. Cannot get the crawl to work in sharepoint now.

Resolution:

Check the web application's website in IIS 7.

Under Authentication, make sure ASP.NET Impersonation is ENABLED. Mine was disabled and caused this error. If you have applications in SharePoint that need this disabled, you might want to extend the web application it another IIS website and Disable impersonation for users, keeping the default web application's zone enabled for search crawls on that URL.

Ensure this is set for each of the Web Applications that you wish to crawl.

Another common Crawl issue is using an AD service Account that has not been added to the SharePoint Managed Accounts.

Initial Blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sushrao/archive/2011/12/01/sharepoint-2010-exception-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-spupdatedconcurrencyexception.aspx

I just want to make sure I never lose this information!

After applying a cumulative update\ service pack on SharePoint Servers when we run psconfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b –wait -force it fails on step 3 with the error message

"Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SPUpgradeSession Name=Upgrade-20110604-023550-824 was updated by Topgear\administrator, in the PSCONFIG (4272) process, on machine SharePoint2010. View the tracing log for more information about the conflict"

Resolution:

Open command prompt on the SharePoint Server (Run as Administrator)

Navigate to following location

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Bin

Execute:

stsadm -o setproperty -pn command-line-upgrade-running -pv Yes

Note: Running the above command on the SharePoint server will reset the command-line-upgrade-running property where an upgrade process stopped responding. Also, this command needs to be executed on each SharePoint Servers in the farm after the upgrade completes successfully on first server

Later, execute following to initiate the upgrade process again.

psconfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b –wait –force

Note: If the upgrade fails with any errors re-view the upgrade.log file as it would contain detailed information to troubleshoot.

Replace Diameter with your own search.

SELECT t.name AS table_name,
SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS schema_name,
c.name AS column_name
FROM sys.tables AS t
INNER JOIN sys.columns c ON t.OBJECT_ID = c.OBJECT_ID
WHERE c.name LIKE '%Diameter%'
ORDER BY schema_name, table_name;

List ALL fields in a Database

SELECT t.name AS table_name,
SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS schema_name,
c.name AS column_name
FROM sys.tables AS t
INNER JOIN sys.columns c ON t.OBJECT_ID = c.OBJECT_ID 
ORDER BY schema_name, table_name;

Hope this helps.

JavaScript Date Object

Describes the JavaScript Date Object including properties, constructors, and methods.

Properties

• prototype - For creating more properties.

Constructors

• Date() - Use the current date and time to create an instance of the object date.
• Date(dateString) - Use the date specified by the string to create the instance of the date object. String format is "month day, year hours:minutes:seconds".
• Date(year, month, day) - Create an instance of date with the specified values. Year is 0 to 99.
• Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds) - Create an instance of date with the specified values.

Methods

• getDate() - Get the day of the month. It is returned as a value between 1 and 31.

  var curdate = new Date()
  var mday = curdate.getDate()
  document.write(mday + "<BR>")
  

  The above code prints the day of the month.

• getDay() - Get the day of the week as a value from 0 to 6

  var curdate = new Date()
  var wday = curdate.getDate()
  document.write(wday + "<BR>")
  

  The above code prints the day of the week.

• getHours() - The value returned is 0 through 23.

  var curdate = new Date()
  var hours = curdate.getHours()
  document.write(hours + "<BR>")
  

  The above code prints the hours since midnight.

• getMinutes() - The value returned is 0 through 59.

  var curdate = new Date()
  var minutes = curdate.getMinutes()
  document.write(minutes + "<BR>")
  

  The above code prints the minutes past the hour.

• getMonth() - Returns the month from the date object as a value from 0 through 11.

  var curdate = new Date()
  var month = curdate.getMonth()
  document.write(month + "<BR>")
  

  The above code prints the numeric value of the month.

• getSeconds() - The value returned is 0 through 59.

  var curdate = new Date()
  var seconds = curdate.getSeconds()
  document.write(seconds + "<BR>")
  

  The above code prints the seconds since the last minute.

• getTime() - The number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970. this function allows you to manipulate the date object based on a millisecond value then convert it back to the form you want. In the example below, it is used to set a future expiration time of a cookie.

  var futdate = new Date()
  var expdate = futdate.getTime()
  expdate += 3600*1000 //expires in 1 hour(milliseconds) 
  futdate.setTime(expdate)
  

• getTimeZoneOffset() - Time zone offset in hours which is the difference between GMT and local time.

  var curdate = new Date()
  var offset = curdate.getTimeZoneOffset()
  document.write(offset + "<BR>")
  

  The above code prints the number of hours different between your timezone and GMT. This value may change with daylight savings time..

• getYear() - Returns the numeric four digit value of the year.

  var curdate = new Date()
  var year = curdate.getYear()
  document.write(year + "<BR>")
  

  The above code prints the numeric value of the year which is currently 2000.

• parse() - The number of milliseconds after midnight January 1, 1970 till the given date espressed as a string in the example which is IETF format.

  var curdate = "Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:00:00 EST"
  var dt = Date.parse(curdate)
  document.write(dt + "<BR>")
  

• setDate(value) - Set the day of the month in the date object as a value from 1 to 31.
• setHours(value) - Set the hours in the date object with a value of 0 through 59.
• setMinutes(value) - Set the minutes in the date object with a value of 0 through 59.
• setMonth(value) - Set the month in the date object as a value of 0 through 11.
• setSeconds(value) - Set the seconds in the date object with a value of 0 through 59.
• setTime(value) - Sets time on the basis of number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970. The below example sets the date object to one hour in the future.

  var futdate = new Date()
  var expdate = futdate.getTime()
  expdate += 3600*1000 //expires in 1 hour(milliseconds) 
  futdate.setTime(expdate)
  

• setYear(value) - Set the year in the date instance as a 4 digit numeric value.
• toGMTString() - Convert date to GMT format in a form similar to "Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:23:54 GMT".

  var curdate = new Date()
  dstring = curdate.toGMTString()
  document.write(dstring + "<BR>" + curdate.toLocaleString() + "<BR>")
  

  The above example produces:

  Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:08:11 UTC
  10/18/2000 14:08:11
  

• toLocaleString() - Convert date to local time zone format. See the example, above.
• UTC() - Based on a comma delimited string, the number of milliseconds after midnight January 1, 1970 GMT is returned. The syntax of the string is "year, month, day [, hrs] [, min] [, sec]". An example is "2000, 9, 29, 5, 43, 0" for Sept 29, 2000 at 5:43:0. The string is considered to be GMT. The hours, minutes, and seconds are optional.

  document.write(Date.UTC(2000, 9, 29, 5, 43, 0) + "
  ")
  

  The above example produces:

  972798180000
  

"Attached the Script debugger to process '[1111] iexplore.exe' on machine 'MINE' failed. A debugger is already attached."

1. Close IE
2. In elevated cmd prompt run this command:

regsvr32.exe "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7Debug\msdbg2.dll

or %ProogramFiles% on a 32-bit OS.

Hope this helps!