How to Change a User's My Site Profile Picture

Reference: http://www.dlocc.com/component/fireboard/?func=view&catid=15&id=9

Goto your MOSS Central Administration Site
Click on Shared Services Administrations: SharedService1 (yours may be named differently)
Click on User Profiles and Properties
Click View User Profiles
Locate the account name you wish to edit
Hover over the name and select Edit in the dropdown
Swap the Picture URL for the one pointing to the image you would like as the avatar.

Failure trying to synch site... Event ID 5553 & 7888

These two event errors showed up this morning. It was due to moving a site between web applications. It seems the site keeps record of its GUID, so if you move it to another web application that shoud have a seperate GUID it creates a conflict when it attempts to sync. I was lucky because I knew which application it had to be.

To fix it I did the following:
Detach Content Database. This will not delete your database only break the association.
stsadm -o preparetomove -contentdb SQLserver:DB_NAME -site http://websitestsadm -o deletecontentdb -url http://website -databaseserver SQLserver -databasename

DB_NAMEReattach Content Database.stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http://website -databasename DB_NAME -databaseserver SQLserver

Further info can be found at: http://monthlymoss.blogspot.com/2007/11/here-is-issue-that-i-came-across-that.html

Lesson learned: Never move a site between web applications on the same farm w/o doing a preparetomove command.

Login Failed for User 'SQL service account'.

An object of the type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplicationProvisioningJobDefinition named "Provisioning...

Fix: Go into Timer Job definitions, then find a job definition called Provisioning or Unprovisioning Web Application (it will have your web app name in brackets) and delete it. You should then be able to save the Authentication Provider settings.

Clearing MOSS Config Cache

This can be really helpful if you're having any isues with timer jobs stalling or services not starting. Do this at your own risk and during non-production hours. This is one of those procedures you don't do if you're having any issues with your timer service.

1. Reset timer service (This is just to make sure that it's working okay)

• Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Services.
  
• Right-click Windows SharePoint Services Timer, and then click Stop.
  
• Close the Services console.
  Everything ok?
  

2. Go to: Drive:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID

3. Open guid

4. Back up the Cache.ini file.

5. Open cache.ini with notepad

6. Set number to "1" then save

7. Then delete all xml files making sure to exclude cache.ini

8. Then reset windows sharepoint timer service.

You'll notice that soon after the service reset that the xml files will start to reappear and the number that was originally in the cache.ini file will return.