Can not add the user because a user with that name already exist

These is a very common error in sharepoint 2003, so I've decided to post it here for future references.

Symptoms: When you try to add a user to a Microsoft Office Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 portal site or to a Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services Web site that is hosted on the portal site, you receive the following error message:

Problem: "Can not add the user because a user with that name already exist"

Cause:
This issue may occur if the following conditions are true:
1. You create a user account in the Active Directory service.
2. You add the user to the portal site or to the windows sharepoint services web site.
3. You delete the user accoint from Active Directory. You then create a new user account that uses the same logon name as the user account that you deleted.
4. You try to add the new user account that you created in Active Directory.

Resolution:

To resolve this issue, connect to the Manage Site Collection Users page, and then remove the existing user account. After you do this, add the new user to the portal site or to the Windows SharePoint Services Web site. To do this, follow these steps:
1.
Use on of the following methods to connect to the Manage Site Collection Users page:
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To connect to the Manage Site Collection Users page of the portal site, type the following address in the address bar of your Web browser, and then press ENTER:
http://ServerName/_layouts/1033/Siteusrs.aspx Note The Manage Site Collection Users page is not revealed in the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 user interface. You have to manually connect to the page.
•
To connect to the Manage Site Collection Users page of a Windows SharePoint Services Web site that is hosted on the portal site, type the following address in the address bar of your Web browser, and then press ENTER:
http://ServerName/Sites/SiteName/_layouts/1033/Siteusrs.aspx
2.
Click to select the check box that is next to the name of the user who you want to remove, and then click Remove Selected Users. Note If more than 100 users are in the site collection, the user may not be listed on the current page. To view additional users, scroll to the bottom of the list of users, and then click Next.
3.
Click OK when you are prompted to confirm the removal.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=893696&FR=1

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Drop failed for Job Maintanenance

I just ran into an error prompting "Drop failed for job maintenance" and use the script below to remove this old maintenance plan for my db server.

Problem: Unable to delete the plan and the job always prompting error conflicting constraint.

Solution: run the sql script below on your query window.

USE [msdb]

declare @job_name varchar(100)
set @job_name = N'MaintenancePlan'


–First, delete the logs for the plan

delete sysmaintplan_log
FROM sysmaintplan_subplans AS subplans INNER JOIN
sysjobs_view AS syjobs ON subplans.job_id = syjobs.job_id INNER JOIN
sysmaintplan_log ON subplans.subplan_id = sysmaintplan_log.subplan_id
WHERE (syjobs.name = @job_name)


–delete the subplan

delete sysmaintplan_subplans
FROM sysmaintplan_subplans AS subplans INNER JOIN
sysjobs_view AS syjobs ON subplans.job_id = syjobs.job_id
WHERE (syjobs.name = @job_name)


–delete the actual job (You can do the same thing through Management Studio (Enterprise Manager)

delete
from msdb.dbo.sysjobs_view where name = @job_name


If you get this error:

Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 27
The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint “FK__sysjobsch__job_i__276EDEB3″. The conflict occurred in database “msdb”, table “dbo.sysjobschedules”, column ‘job_id’.

Open the Job and Delete the Schedules

How to display icons in a document library

You will notice that when uploading a file to a document library the default icon image is not displayed properly.

This procedure will guide you to display the image of your file to sharepoint file system.

I will use pdf file as an example.

1. obtain a pdf icon of your choice.
2. rename the image icpdf.gif
3. copy the image to this directory "c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\60\template\images" on each front-end web server.
4. edit the docicon.xml file located in "c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\60\template\xml" folder.
5. add this code to your docicon.xml "file
6. restart IIS

Browse to your document library with a pdf document and check if the icon is displayed properly. If you don't see the icon right away just click refresh(F5).