skater coder

 Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Resource Kit Tools

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499&displaylang=en

Did you customize your application master pages and get this error while trying to delete list columns?

Unable to validate data. at System.Web.Configuration.MachineKeySection.GetDecodedData(Byte[] buf, Byte[] modifier, Int32 start, Int32 length, Int32& dataLength)  
 
at System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter.Deserialize(String inputString)  

Ok that probably means you have a search box in the template which is messing things up, just remove it or hide it, and that will do the trick!

http://www.sharepoint-tools.de/en/BrowseCategory/10/Development.html

Information about the Maintenance Plan Wizard in SQL Server 2005 and about tasks that administrators can perform against SharePoint databases

How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases

Part 1
http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/04/23/configuring-kerberos-for-sharepoint-2007-part-1-base-configuration-for-sharepoint.aspx

Part 2
http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/04/27/configuring-kerberos-for-sharepoint-2007-part-2-excel-services-and-sql-analysis-services.aspx

Bob Fox’s
http://bobfox.net/spblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=55

Configuring Kerberos for SharePoint 2007: Part 1 – Base Configuration for SharePoint

Configuring Kerberos for SharePoint 2007: Part 2 – Excel Services and SQL Analysis Services

http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2007/08/set-available-site-templates.html

GLOBAL#0 = Global template (1033)
STS#0 = Team Site (1033)
STS#1 = Blank Site (1033)
STS#2 = Document Workspace (1033)
MPS#0 = Basic Meeting Workspace (1033)
MPS#1 = Blank Meeting Workspace (1033)
MPS#2 = Decision Meeting Workspace (1033)
MPS#3 = Social Meeting Workspace (1033)
MPS#4 = Multipage Meeting Workspace (1033)
CENTRALADMIN#0 = Central Admin Site (1033)
WIKI#0 = Wiki Site (1033)
BLOG#0 = Blog (1033)
BDR#0 = Document Center (1033)
OFFILE#0 = Records Center (1033)
OFFILE#1 = Records Center (1033)
OSRV#0 = Shared Services Administration Site (1033)
SPS#0 = SharePoint Portal Server Site (1033)
SPSPERS#0 = SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space (1033)
SPSMSITE#0 = Personalization Site (1033)
SPSTOC#0 = Contents area Template (1033)
SPSTOPIC#0 = Topic area template (1033)
SPSNEWS#0 = News Site (1033)
CMSPUBLISHING#0 = Publishing Site (1033)
BLANKINTERNET#0 = Publishing Site (1033)
BLANKINTERNET#1 = Press Releases Site (1033)
BLANKINTERNET#2 = Publishing Site with Workflow (1033)
SPSNHOME#0 = News Site (1033)
SPSSITES#0 = Site Directory (1033)
SPSCOMMU#0 = Community area template (1033)
SPSREPORTCENTER#0 = Report Center (1033)
SPSPORTAL#0 = Collaboration Portal (1033)
SRCHCEN#0 = Search Center with Tabs (1033)
PROFILES#0 = Profiles (1033)
BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER#0 = Publishing Portal (1033)
SPSMSITEHOST#0 = My Site Host (1033)
SRCHCENTERLITE#0 = Search Center (1033)
SRCHCENTERLITE#1 = Search Center (1033)
SPSBWEB#0 = SharePoint Portal Server BucketWeb Template (1033)

http://blogs.msdn.com/bgeoffro/archive/2007/11/12/branding-a-moss-corporate-intranet-portal-introduction.aspx

http://www.sharepointbuzz.com/index.php/2007/07/06/customizing-my-site-templates/

How I did it:

1. http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/22/customizing-moss-2007-my-sites-within-the-enterprise.aspx
2. Allows you to customize the masterpage for “My Home” and “My Profile”
3. Use ThemeChangerhttp://www.codeplex.com/features <FeatureSiteTemplateAssociation Id=”B8DED45F-E2D9-4a5f-BD7F-502B737BE901″ TemplateName=”SPSPERS#0″ />
4. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\ThemeChangerStaple\Elements.xmlAdd this line:

   <FeatureSiteTemplateAssociation Id=”B8DED45F-E2D9-4a5f-BD7F-502B737BE901″ TemplateName=”SPSMSITE#0 ” />

5. Unpin
   http://<portal>/_layouts/redirectpage.aspx?Target=http:// <portal>/pages/default.aspx

http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2007/10/18/please-install-the-sharepoint-updates-on-your-server.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/10/16/sharepoint-faq-on-dst-and-october-9th-public-update.aspx