Corrupt WSS 3 Content Database Recovery
I had the pleasure of working with a client recently on an issue that was described to me only as "there was a problem with the Internet and then SharePoint stopped working." With such an in depth explanation to the problem I knew exactly where to start, the logs! After looking over SharePoint's logs and the event logs, I was seeing errors dealing with the Network Service account not having access to the database and database does not exist type errors. This gave an indication that it could be a corrupt database. Now the setup here for this client is a personal server running Windows 2003 R2 SP2 with WSS 3 SP1 and using Windows Internal Database SP2. The first thing I did was look for the backups. Unfortunately the person that did the install of SharePoint did not configure the backups to run. I went to my second option and asked the IT guy in charge of the network if he had backups scheduled on the server. No luck there either. The next thing I did was run thro...