Monthly Archives: November 2007

The fix for: Method Post Error in Excel 2007 Import Spreadsheet to SharePoint

I was recently asked to investigate an issue with importing an Excel sheet into a new SharePoint List. After trying to duplicate the problem on my lab environment I got a different error caused by my Excel 2007. After searching … Continue reading

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Upgrade SQL Express to Standard or Enterprise

I mentionned this before in one of my previous posts: you can upgrade SQL express to Standard or Enterprise using the commandline setup.exe SKUUPGRADE=1. Now I was glad to see that Todd Klindt has published an article of the complete … Continue reading

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Site Template identifiers for use with STSADM

For those CLI geeks out there like me I really enjoy using stsadm for creating new site collections, etc. One of the things I always keep looking for are those identifiers for specifying the site template for the new site … Continue reading

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SharePoint and SQL Server: some tips

I was attending the TechEd session OFF310_Understanding SQL Server Database Options for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 presented by Todd Klindt where I picked up these tips regarding SQL Server used by SharePoint (MOSS). Set ContentDB’s offline: despite what many … Continue reading

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Outlook Tip: natural language dating

Found this oddly enough on a SharePoint blog:  One Outlook tip that a lot of people don’t know about Outlook – natural language dating – try typing “third Tuesday of August” into an Outlook date field and you’ll see what … Continue reading

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One document, multiple Document Libraries (by Todd Klindt)

This post was grabbed from the blog of Todd Klindt that is worth looking at. Here is the excerpt: Here’s another question I see a lot, “Is there a way to have one document in multiple libraries, but have there be … Continue reading

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Quickly deploy Application solutions in your WSS/MOSS environment

Tired of always being asked to install all those solutions from the Microsoft Download application Templates Pack onto your WSS or MOSS box? Here’s how I do it: First off all, if you have not yet installed the application core, you need … Continue reading

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Moving site collections between Content databases with a single command

When I first heard about it, I had to test the simplicity to do this with the new stsadm option that was inserted in the latest security hotfix for WSS of October 9th. This command is not very well documented … Continue reading

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MOSS Capacity planning -> some usefull tips

These bits and pieces come right out of the OFF305_Capacity and Performance Planning for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 session at TechEd. slides are attached.  Farms: do not split up WebFE servers across WAN’s. Keep all servers part of the … Continue reading

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Become a MOSS Guru

another one of the great sessions at TechEd presented by Joel Oleson, Shane Young and Todd Klindt. Again, the slides are attached to this post. What I remembered of this session and what you also should remember: Installation: never, never, … Continue reading

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