Monthly Archives: February 2008

Full backup of Moss with Cleanup of older backups

I was facing an issue recently with one of my moss servers that was filling up my backup location disk space with the full backups of MOSS. Apparently you can use stsadm to create a full backup to a UNC … Continue reading

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TweakSP from CodePlex

Just wandering around my favorite blogs, when I came across an article describing this new tool at codeplex called TweakSP. I gave it a spin om my demo environment. Although the project is still in a start phase, the idea … Continue reading

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Rename Template "Custom" tab in SharePoint 2007

I was recently wondering if you could rename  that “Custom” tab when creating a new site that holds your custom site templates. Well, it turns out that you can. After searching a while on the net, i came across a … Continue reading

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Pulling site collections details via direct SQL query by Josef Nielsen

This article is a direct grab from the site http://www.sharepointblogs.com/echef/archive/2007/10/09/pulling-site-collections-via-direct-sql-query.aspx I certainly don’t recommend making changes to your content DBs directly in SQL, but there’s no harm to be had pulling data from the DB’s.  I found that this was … Continue reading

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SharePoint Manager 2007

You definitely need this tool if you are even serious about using SharePoint. You can find it @ http://www.codeplex.com/spm The SharePoint Manager 2007 is a SharePoint object model explorer. It enables you to browse every site on the local farm … Continue reading

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SharePoint Sushi

No, you cannot eat it and it does not come from the sea! When browsing through the projects on Codeplex, I stumbled upon this nice tool called SharePoint Sushi. I gave it a spin and it looks quite promising. You … Continue reading

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Rename your SharePoint_AdminContent_guid database with stsadm mergecontentdbs operation

Hi,  just a quick post to give you the commands to rename your Database on your SQL box of the Central Administration site. This is the only database that you cannot give a name yourself when setting up your MOSS … Continue reading

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