The Stsadm command-line tool of SharePoint 2007 has the following limitations: As part of a farm backup, backs up, but cannot be used to restore the configuration database or Central Administration content database. For more information, see Recovering the configuration database and Central Administration content database. Site collection backups affect performance, and they can cause access errors. They should only be used when the site collection is locked. Site collection backups can be...

Be careful when you try to import sub-site to be your root site, especially when you have publishing sites. STSADM import/export doesn't work doesn’t work too well when you export a sub-site and import it to the top level site in a site collection. When you get you resulted root site you Template Settings page (Site Settings-> Page Layout), and Site Setting -> Create Page are corrupted. Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1. at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exce...

SharePoint 2008 Service Pack 2 provides new feature called "read-only" database - when a content database is marked as read-only via SQL Server, the user interface will be modified so users cannot perform tasks that require writing to the database. All SharePoint UI will be trimmed, taking away any new or edit functionality for all users, avoid confusion. This will help administrators to migrate farm to SharePoint 2010.   Source

Question: >>I have a new installation of Sharepoint.  Before we start using it, I would like the site to be more meaningful than http://server08/site. >>I would like to change the name so that is is something like http://mysite/site. Answer: There are several ways of how to rename Web Site. You can use stsadm -o renameweb command. More details are in MSDN article. But this command does't help you if you want to rename the site with the port. For example if you have http://se...

Working of migration of SPS to MOSS 2007 in these days and would like to share my experience about number of small tricks, which really annoy you if you don’t know them, and which could save hours during your next migration Make sure that you have latest SP installed for your SharePoint 2003 Run PRESCAN tool to find out potential issues Check that SharePoint 2003 doesn’t have Orphans. There are several ways for this Remove EXE, MSI, DLL extension from blocked types, because thes...