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Sometimes when uploading to a document library in SharePoint, files will mysteriously time out or else give a cryptic error such as ‘Folder not found’ on Vista or Windows 7. These can occur despite the fact that you’ve changed the maximum upload sizes for SharePoint in Central Administration. The error messages aren’t particularly helpful, to say the least. There are a number of articles out there about changing the IIS connection timeout, etc but they didn’t work for one of our clients. After a bit of digging, we managed to resolve the issue for them – here’s how we fixed it.

Here’s a nice simple one – how to change the location of your log files under IIS version 7. This came about because a client had configured their SharePoint farm to have small system partitions, with a larger partition for logging purposes. They had configured the SharePoint logging themselves, but needed the settings for their sites changed in IIS. Although it isn’t a complicated change, it is different to the older versions of IIS and can be confusing. Here’s how we did it!