Monthly Archives: January 2008

Assigning more than 2 site collection administrators

I found this trivial tip on Itay Shakury’s blog and I must admit that I have been asked this question many times too and always have to think twice before I remember how to do it. So that’s way this is … Continue reading

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MOSS Search for emails and attachments context

found this article on: http://lirliron.blogspot.com/2008/01/moss-search-for-emails-and-attachments.html Some of our customers requested to have the ability to search context within email messages and within its attachments.Searching the web for a solution came with results that indicate that a third-party development is needed … Continue reading

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How to create a ‘Slipstream’ installation for MOSS with SP1 by Martin Kearn

Ha finally, I found it. Thanks to Martin Kearn I finally found a way to have a single installation source for installing MOSS with SP1 embedded (slipstreamed) Here is the original article of Martin posted @ http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2008/01/14/how-to-create-a-slipstream-installation-for-moss-with-sp1.aspx In order to … Continue reading

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Beware of the Default Logging in MOSS if you like your diskspace

 Source: http://www.sharepointplatform.com/teamblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=43 By default, SharePoint trace logging is enabled and the log files are stored at: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS on your front-end web server. Without changing the verbosity of logging via event throttling settings, or the number … Continue reading

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MOSS Planning worksheets provided by Microsoft

Hi all, I was scouting the internet for documents regarding planning for MOSS when I stumbled upon a collection of planning worksheets on Technet. These worksheets help you though a lot of aspects in planning. There are about 40 or … Continue reading

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How to change the Alert Email notification message for Announcements

Yes, you all know the kind of messages I mean. I was asked yesterday if there was a way to remove some data from those announcement messages that are sent out when you have enabled alerting on a announcement list. … Continue reading

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Are your alerts not sending email? Use these stsadm commands to verify your alert settings.

I recently had a colleague asking me to troubleshoot some workflows. Apparently the workflow should send emails, but nothing was coming thru. As part of my troubleshooting I came across 2 stsadm commands that may help you identify an issue … Continue reading

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User Comments and Ratings web parts are now Free!

hi all, I have been playing around with this small collection of webparts in its beta phase, but was not quite ready to install this on my production servers because I didn’t know what it would eventually cost. It’s always … Continue reading

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