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SharePoint 2010 Office Web Apps on a single server SharePoint Foundation --> Issues and Fixes
I finally found some time to get the Office Web Apps working on one of my servers running SharePoint Foundation 2010 beta This is the server that I had upgraded from WSS 3.0 etc. As you may recall, I had completely uninstalled my SharePoint 2010 Foundation...
Posted: 12-25-2009 14:12 by Dirk | with no comments
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Revert a SharePoint 2010 site to the WSS3.0/MOSS2007 Look after Visual Upgrade
This question came up in one of my comments recently and I wanted to find out if it was even possible to reveert the look back of a SharePoint 2010 site that has been upgraded from WSS 3.0 or MOSS2007 Thanks to Corey Roth and a comment on his post about...
Tip of the day: The best way for finding your downloads on microsoft.com/downloads --> USE GOOGLE !!
This is my frustration of the week! Don't you just hate it when you are on the nice Microsoft Download Center www.microsoft.com/downloads website, that when you search for a download, like Sharepoint Language Pack, that you get a blank page? Well I do...
Posted: 12-03-2009 11:24 by Dirk | with 2 comment(s)
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SQL Query to identify Kerberos or NTLM connection (by Marc Valk)
I found myself looking for this query for the second time now and finally decided to post it on my blog This query enables you to find out if your connections towards your SQL server are using Kerberos instead of NTLM. This may help in your troubleshooting...
Posted: 11-29-2009 14:17 by Dirk | with no comments
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Find out which language packs are installed and the build version
I was asked this question yesterday and I remember having tried to find out how to do it. Finally I took some time to search around on the net and found a post by Patrick Heyde. http://blogs.technet.com/patrick_heyde/archive/2009/09/30/sharepoint-blow...
Posted: 11-24-2009 8:04 by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
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Saving Document to SharePoint using Office 2003 resets choice metadata fields to default values
I was recently facing an issue as described in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/809179/saving-a-document-to-sharepoint-brings-up-web-file-properties-dialog-with-incor Recap from original post: Situation: A custom "Master Document" content type inherits...
Posted: 11-03-2009 10:58 by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
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Update a SharePoint farm with minimal site downtime
It was the time of the year again to do an upgrade of several SharePoint farms for my customer. This upgrade was for installing SP2 and the June cumulative update on an entire farm and the requirement was to avoid too many downtime by the installation...
Posted: 10-19-2009 19:20 by Dirk | with 7 comment(s)
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MOSS Auto-Install at Codeplex
I was once again installing a test machine from scratch with MOSS and while I was waiting for the setrup to complete, I wondered if anyone had come up yest with a fully automated install and configuration script. Well actually there is a set of scripts...
Posted: 09-04-2009 2:52 by Dirk | with no comments
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WSS and MOSS Language Pack Slipstreaming by Joe Rodgers
This question was wondering around in my head last week after having seen a slipstreamed distribution at one of my customers. Previously having been told it was not possible to slipstream language packs, I had my doubts and went hunting for some information...
Posted: 08-26-2009 0:46 by Dirk | with no comments
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List All Groups and All users of site collection on a single page
Yes, you have been asked this question before haven't you? "Dear Admin, can you send me a complete list of all the users in the Visitors group of my site collection, because there are so many in them and I am not able to export to Excel......" Well, I...
Posted: 07-01-2009 4:09 by Dirk | with 4 comment(s)
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Prevent indexing of lists with MOSS
If you ever need to prevent indexing your lists in your MOSS farm by your SSP indexer, then you can achieve this by defining a crawl rule in the SSP > Search Settings > Crawl rules. Use the following URL for your crawl rule to exclude lists: *:...
Posted: 06-29-2009 1:00 by Dirk | with no comments
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How To Recover Your SharePoint 2007 Product ID by Bert Johnson
On my post about the SP2 bug , I had a comment by Bert Johnson about a post of his explaining how to recover the SharePoint 2007 Product ID from your system. This is indeed very handy if you do not happen to have it or find it anymore and do not want...
Posted: 05-28-2009 22:27 by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
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How to Ghost back or uncustomize customized Page Layouts
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 application. It must be getting...
Posted: 03-24-2009 7:03 by Dirk | with 4 comment(s)
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How to find all the customized master pages in a site collection
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 master pages and the update did not show...
Posted: 03-24-2009 5:15 by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
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Using SQL Aliases with SharePoint by Thomas Vochten
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...
Posted: 03-23-2009 5:11 by Dirk | with 2 comment(s)
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