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Move site collections between content databases using Central Admin

We can use scripted commands to move site collections across the content databases that we all are aware of, Recently I came across an astonishing hidden feature in Sharepoint adminsitration toolkit. 

Batch Site Manager, is that tool which is a hyperlink you will see after installing the toolkit to the MOSS box. This feature should be capable of doing all bulk operartions such as moving, locking and deleting site collections across content databases in a single web application as per MSDN.

Open Central Administration

clicking over the link will open up a new screen as follows and probably you will not see any site collections in the list. You will need to start the statistics aggregation timer job by clicking over "Click here" hyperlink which will populate all your site collections in this page

provide the details such as Target content database, Temporary file location and the schedule to start the job etc.

Yes, it can even send an email upon completion/Failure. So fire and forget. you can see a sample mail 

I did not check this functionality with very huge site collection move activity, if any one carried out please let me know :)

for more information go here

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508982.aspx

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FIX :HTTP 404 returned Searchadministration.aspx after Infrastructure update

After installing Infrastructure update + Dec CU to local VM, my SSP got a lot of UI pages to administrate the search functionality. But unfortunately the /ssp/admin/searchadministration.aspx was not provisioned properly which results in a HTTP 404 error page whenever I click over the link from the quick launch.

After looking in to the \12 hive\Features\ folder this searchadministration.aspx file and a bunch of webpart definition files(ActiveCrawls.dwp, CompletedCrawls.dwp,SubSystems.dwp & SystemStatus.dwp) comes with a feature called S2SearchAdmin which required a forceful activation to bring up this search admin page in SSP.

Finally the following STSADM command did the trick
STSADM -o activatefeature -name S2SearchAdmin -url http://ssp-public/ssp/admin/ -force

Integrate SPDisposeCheck tool to Visual Studio 2005

SharePoint developers always used to take additional care to dispose SPWeb and SPSite object as their unmanaged memory footprint really large, failing in this will create serious performance issues.

Luckily Microsoft released a command line tool to inspect the assemblies to identify such issues.

Download SPDisposeCheck here

Find more info here : Roger Lamb's developer blog

Install the SPDisposeCheck.msi installer package and ensure that you have the executable in C:\Program Files\Microsoft\SharePoint Dispose Check\

In visual Studio Select Tools--- > External Tools
Click Add and fill the fields as follows

Now build your project first and run this tool to get the memory leak fix instructions in your output window.

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Developers need spell check in Visual Studio

Even Microsoft also needs this functionality, while debugging some issue just got this spelling mistake induced by the product team.