If a SharePoint solution deployment fails, yet the timer job is created and not running, you will be unable to redeploy or retract the solution. The retract / deploy buttons will not be present in Central Admin and stsadm will declare that a "deployment or retraction is already under way for the solution". You can find yourself in this state if the “Windows SharePoint Services Administration” service is stopped when you first attempt to deploy, but even after you realise your mistake and start that service, the solution deployment is still stuck. The answer is hidden in that long list of stsadm operations: stsadm –o canceldeployment –id
Server admin templates are created as site definitions, providing tighter integration and enhanced functionality within the Windows SharePoint Services platform. They will require a server administrator to install. List of server admin templates · Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management · Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects · Bug Database · Call Center · Change Request Management · Compliance Process Support Site · Contacts Management · Document Library and Review · Event Planning · Expense Reimbursement and Approval · Help Desk · Inventory Tracking · IT Team Workspace · Job Requisition and Interview Management · Knowledge Base · Lending Library · Physical Asset Tracking and Management · Project Tracking Workspace · Room and Equipment Reservations · Sales Lead Pipeline
How to install Server Admin Templates for WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007
Download 20 server templates from here Create a folder in C:\drive eg. C:\ServerAdminTemplates\ Run ServerAdminTemplates.exe file to extract server templates files in C:\ServerAdminTemplates\ folder.
Copy the follwing command lines in a notepad file to create a batch file.
Run the batch file. Reset IIS. Now go to Site Action and click Create Site. You will see list of server admin templates inside "Application Templates" tab.
Excellent feature with a detailed How To: "By default, SharePoint Document Libraries enable a person to e-mail a link to a document in a document library. This makes sense, because from a security perspective, you want to make sure that whomever clicks on the link actually has access to view the document. SharePoint will take care of authentication, ensuring that person is allowed to view the document. However, someone on Microsoft's SharePoint discussion board presented an interesting scenario: their users don't have direct access to their SharePoint site over their network, so they wouldn't be able to open a link from an e-mail they sent to themselves, to get to that document, because they wouldn't have access to the SharePoint server URL. Intead, they wanted to be able to actually e-mail the document itself from the document library to themselves, so they could read it apart from being on the SharePoint site. "
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