A deployment or retraction is already under way for the solution, and only one deployment or retraction at a time is supported.

In SharePoint 2010, you may try deploying or upgrading a solution using stsadm and end up with the below error. A deployment or retraction is already under way for the solution "Solution Name", and only one deployment or retraction at a time is supported. This issue occurs if a SharePoint solution deployment fails, yet the...

People Picker to show only users from site collection permissions

Normally, the SharePoint People Picker shows all the users from the Active directory, local users etc whose profiles are imported. But in some case we need to restrict the users to select only a group of people. For example, what if i don't want the AD users to be displayed in the people picker. There...

The site collection could not be restored. Please make sure the content databases are available and have sufficient free space – Sharepoint Orphaned sites

When you try to restore a site collection backup using stsadm, you may encounter the error "The site collection could not be restored. If this problem persists, please make sure the content databases are available and have sufficient free space." Few of the times its true that you may not have sufficient space in DB...

The site collection could not be restored. Please make sure the content databases are available and have sufficient free space

Once you have done a successful back  up of your site collection you will try to restore the site collection using the following command. stsadm.exe -o restore -url http://server_name/sites/sitename  -filename  "c:\\backup.dat" -overwrite Unfortunately you may get this error. The site collection could not be restored. If this problem persists, please make sure the content databases...