Monthly Archives: March 2009

How to Ghost back or uncustomize customized Page Layouts

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Dirk

In followup of my previous post, today my favourite Microsoft Premier Support Engineer was asked to provide a way to unghost customized page layouts. He came up with a little piece of code that does the trick in a C# Console … Continue reading →

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How to find all the customized master pages in a site collection

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Dirk

I got this question today from one of my collegues and needed to find the answer to it. Why did I get this question? Well one of our developper teqms provided a new solution to deploy that replaces the default … Continue reading →

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SWAT 2007

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Dirk

This is another one of those tools you should have on your SharePoint farm(s). Although the tool is aimed to designers of SharePoint solutions, I like to use it for deploying solutions to different or additional web applications without having to … Continue reading →

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SPS2003 Lock site using command line: SPSiteManager

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Dirk

yeah yeah, if you are used to working with MOSS, then you will probably tell me to use the command stsadm -o setsitelock -url <url> -lock readonly or something like that. Unfortunately back in the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and … Continue reading →

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Using SQL Aliases with SharePoint by Thomas Vochten

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Dirk

Thomas Vochten, a former colleague of mine, wrote about an interesting way to create and configure your SharePoint farm to take into account any possible changes in your backend SQL infrastructure by using SQL aliases on your MOSS servers and therefore … Continue reading →

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SPS2003 Add Link to Site not working

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Dirk

Why might this be relevant to a MOSS admin. Well, you might be busy upgarding a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 environment to MOSS using the gradual approach, like I am. Off course you would test thjis on a test farm … Continue reading →

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