The SharePoint Error Logs can be an indispensible tool when you are having problems. However, they can be located in many different places.

To Find Where SharePoint Logs are Being Stored

1. Go to Central Administration
2. Click on Monitoring
3. Under “Reporting” > Click on Configure Diagnostic Logging
4. In the Trace Logs section of the page > Path

1. The address here will tell you where on the server the logs are being kept but there is additional information available from the settings such as days of log storage, maximum storage space, etc. Changing the disk the logs are stored on assures your SharePoint application does not lose space to the logs and freeze up due to lack of space.
2. To view logs, you can now go to the SharePoint server and travel to the location specified in Path – once here, ordering by date will help you find the most recent log
3. If you have just received an error guide, search for it in the log – additional information about the error should be available here

Thanks to Emerson Bruce for this post.

The out of box setting is 50mb. This is for a single upload operation. That means – a single user performing an upload operation to SharePoint. The upload cannot exceed 50mb for that operation. This could be a single file of 50mb or 10 files of 5mb each. Again, this is per upload operation. Each user performing an upload is a seperate operation. The other part of this is the 2gb limit. This is for a single file. The largest single file that can be stored in SharePoint is 2bg, due to SQL Server limitations (at least in SQL 2005). A blob in SQL cannot be larger that 2gb. Each file is stored as a blob in the SQL Server content database for the site collection. This is changed, somewhat, with SQL 2008 and its ability to handle remote blob storage, thereby letting you handle files larger than 2gb.

So the maximum size of a single file upload is 50MB when using the default settings and the maximum size of a set of files is also 50MB when using the default settings.

These default settings can be amended. The hard limit is 2GB.

See http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=731 for where to change the setting.

WSS v3 – default limit of 50mb today.  I asked him to quickly tap it into google as I figured there would be hundreds of posts out there on how to do it, but sadly almost all of them seem to be for WSS v2.

Fortunately most of the principles are still the same, except there are far less steps to do :

1.  Increase the Web Applications Upload limit.
2.  Increase the HTTP Timeout.
3.  Increase the Execution Timeout and MaxRequestLength in web.config

Typically step 1 should only be necessary on an Intranet environment, but steps 2 and 3 should only be necessary if you are on a slow connection, or getting timeout errors when attempting to upload large files.

The instructions for each step are below :

1.  Open Central Administration. Go to “Application Management”, then “Web Application General Settings”.  Ensure you are on the correct web application and modify the “Maximum Upload Size” field.

2.  Open IIS, find the appropriate website and open its properties.  The timeout setting is on the Website tab and in the connections setting under “Http Connection Timeout”.  I’d probably consider adding 120 seconds per extra 50 mb, more or less depending on your connection.

3.  Edit C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb server extensions12TEMPLATELAYOUTSweb.config

From : 

  <location path=”upload.aspx”>
    <system.web>
      <httpRuntime maxRequestLength=”2097151″ />
    </system.web>
  </location>

To : 

  <location path=”upload.aspx”>
    <system.web>
      <httpRuntime maxRequestLength=”2097151″ executionTimeout=”999999″/>
    </system.web>
  </location>

Edit the web.config in the home directory of the IIS Site of your web application.

From :

<httpRuntime maxRequestLength=”51200″ />

To :

<httpRuntime maxRequestLength=”51200″ executionTimeout=”999999″ />

Ok, so the scenario is simple. You have a SharePoint page, a WIKI, a Blog, or a publishing page and you decided to add YouTube video links to it. Links are great, but you want to display embeds. You probably don’t want your users messing with the HTML to try getting the embed code right. Not only that, but on many SharePoint site templates, say blog template, SharePoint automatically strips any script tags from the post.

The easiest solution is to use jQuery in your masterpage which will parse all links according to a regular expression and convert YouTube links to embeds.

Here is how to do it quickly in SharePoint designer:
1. Open your site in SharePoint designer and get to the masterpage
2. Add the following code in to the <head> section of the page:


< script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.0/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
< script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('a').each(function() {

var yturl= /(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:youtube\.com|youtu\.be)\/(?:watch\?v=)?([\w\-]{10,12})(?:&feature=related)?(?:[\w\-]{0})?/g;
var ytplayer= ‘‘;

var url = $(this).attr(‘href’);
if (url != null)
{
var matches = url.match(yturl);
if (matches)
{
var embed = $(this).attr(‘href’).replace(yturl, ytplayer);
var iframe = $(embed);

iframe.insertAfter(this);
$(this).remove();
}
}
});
});
< /script>

If you like to change the dimensions of the embed, you can do so in the ytplayer variable above.

I have a link for you that discusses the Approval workflows in greater detail:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/all-about-approval-workflows-HA102280698.aspx#ReassignTask

As well as a link with information regarding three-state workflows:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-help/use-a-three-state-workflow-HA102771430.aspx?CTT=1