Monthly Archives: July 2008

What version of WSS/MOSS are you running?

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Dirk

I am preparing to install the new Infrastructure update that has been made available recently and wanted to find out what versions I am currently running. A post on the blog of Aaron Saikovski showed a nice table to determine … Continue reading →

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Warning: You are reading the blog of a MCTS on MOSS 2007!

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Dirk

Yep, you are reading this right, I finally found the time to take the exam MCTS: Micosoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring. And guess what, I passed with a perfect score of 1000. The exam had 51 (easy) questions and … Continue reading →

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Host Header based site collections

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Dirk

This post is all about being able to host multiple domains in one web application and separated on a site collection level. And all this without touching the IIS configuration in IIS Manager. A colleague of mine told me today … Continue reading →

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Modify the visible Groups in the quick launch on the People and Groups page

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Dirk

Learned something new today, hoeray [;)] Do the groups that you never use (Hierarchy Managers, Style Resource Reader, Designers etc)  and that show up on the quick launch on the People and Groups page bother you as well? Is it not much … Continue reading →

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Is your IIS Manager empty on your SharePoint servers?

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Dirk

Okay, this is maybe already known out there for quite a while, but I am putting this on my blog anyway. You may experience that the IIS Manager console is empty when opening it up. This is because IIS has … Continue reading →

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IIS management commandline tools

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Dirk

Hi all, One of my MOSS frontend servers, part of a multi-frontend server farm, faced a well-known issue that causes the IIS Manager console to open up empty. In case you have this issue you can temporarily workaround this by performing … Continue reading →

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Do your Web Parts need to access internet sites using a proxy?

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Dirk

I discovered today how to configure your web applications to use a proxy server for accessing internet sites. I had not thought about this until I deployed a site with a web part that retrieves information from the internet such … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Object Model by Martin Kearn

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Dirk

Martin Kearn put a nice image on his blog last Friday with a clear overview of the SharePoint object model and how these objects relate to each other. You can see the original post @ http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2008/07/04/sharepoint-object-hierarchy-how-it-all-fits-together.aspx Because this image is … Continue reading →

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New SharePoint Admin and Management Tools by Joel Oleson

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Dirk

For those of you that are not subscribed to Joel’s blog (shame on you [H]). This is one of a few Admin Tools that really help you batch changes.  This one appears to really be focused on batch changing site … Continue reading →

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stsadm -o enumusers explained – update

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Dirk

I came across some odd behaviour with the stsadm -o enumusers command. As it seems it does not enumerate the users of a site collection as expected. After doing some research I found a white paper from the guys of … Continue reading →

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