Symptom: Your account is the farm administrator and has been added to the policy for the SSP, as well as the site collection owner, but when you click on User Profiles and Properties (in the SSP under User Profiles and My Sites), you get "Access Denied" Problem: The account has not been added with permissions to manage My Sites. Solution: Click on Personalization Services Permissions (in the SSP under User Profiles and My Sites). Add the account and give Manage User Profiles permissions...
Symptom The stock ticker Web part found here: http://www.codeplex.com/svs... is properly installed and rendering. But instead of displying the stocks, this message appears: "Unable to contact the yahoo finance web site." You are able to navigate to the yahoo site just fine, so it is up and running, but just not able to connect through the Web part. Problem I found a clue to the answer from Scott Vintinner on one of his blogs. He said, "That message usually means that the web server is unable...