.NET Questions and Solutions

Symptoms
When you use the Stsadm.exe command-line tool to try to restore aMicrosoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site on a computer that is runningWindows SharePoint Services 3.0, you receive the following error message:

The site collection could not be restored. If this problem persists, please make sure the content databases are available and have sufficient free space.
Resolution
This issue occurs if the computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services has insufficient free disk space that is available to host the restored Windows SharePoint Services Web site.This issue may also occur if the Windows SharePoint Services database has reached its maximum allowed size.

Symptoms
After you change the Task content type for a SharePoint site collection, you cannot synchronize task items on a newly created Task list. When you try to save the changes, you may receive the following error message:

Send/Receive error – Click here Even after you revert to the previous Task content type, synchronization still does not work.
Resolution
To resolve this issue, apply the following hotfix package:
968857?(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968857/) Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): April 28, 2009 Limitation After you apply the hotfix package, you cannot resolve the issue for the existing site collections. However, this issue will not occur for the new site collections.