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Replace SQL 2000 database server hosting your SPS 2003 (and MCMS 2002) databases with SQL 2005
Hello again, It is been a while since I posted something, but hey, there's more to life than working I am currently working on a SharePoint migration project that requires migrating SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to MOSS 2007. Within this project there...
Posted: Nov 20 2008, 04:53 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Download zipped list items - codeplex project by Marijn Somers
My colleague Marijn Somers showed me this tool some while ago already and I thought I'd post this on my blog as well as it is quite usefull This is what Marijn posted originally on his blog and can also be found here : Mohamed Zaki has created a great...
Posted: Nov 20 2008, 04:42 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Display SQL Data on a SharePoint site
Had this question today from my good friend Cedric. He needed a way to display non-SharePoint SQL data on a SharePoint site. Well, looking around on the net I found these options: A. You can off course use the built-in Business Data catalog for this,...
Posted: Oct 13 2008, 07:32 AM by Dirk | with 2 comment(s)
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How to display Visio file in SharePoint web part by Elton
Just talked with my colleague Marijn Somers about viewing documents directly on SharePoint sites, when this came up. I remember having done this before for displaying infrastructure Visio drawings on the homesite of the Infrastructure Team SharePoint...
Posted: Oct 13 2008, 06:28 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Find a memory leak application on SharePoint
If you're going to look for memory leaks, you need Performance Monitor (perfmon). Here is a method you can use to detect memory leaks: First open Perfmon and select the .NET CLR Memory Performance object and the counter # Bytes in all Heaps for all your...
Posted: Sep 25 2008, 06:40 AM by Dirk | with 2 comment(s)
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How to find out which w3wp.exe is mapped to which Application pool
Looking at the processes of one of my servers, I notices a huge memory consumption on one of the w3wp.exe's running on the Moss server. Immediately I wanted to find out which SharePoint Webapp is causing this. And there I was..... Well you need to know...
Posted: Sep 25 2008, 04:24 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Error applying site theme: A theme with the name "Citrus 1011" and version already exists on the server.
Today, I had to create a site template of a specific site and create a new site based on that template on the same server and the same web application. Everything went ok creating the site template and creating the new site. However when I wanted to apply...
Posted: Sep 11 2008, 07:43 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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What version of WSS/MOSS are you running?
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 the versions: Remember that...
Posted: Aug 01 2008, 12:30 AM by Dirk | with 7 comment(s)
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Host Header based site collections
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 about the -hhurl parameter...
Posted: Jul 28 2008, 05:30 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Modify the visible Groups in the quick launch on the People and Groups page
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 nicer to only see the...
Posted: Jul 28 2008, 04:15 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Is your IIS Manager empty on your SharePoint servers?
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 too many threads connected to it. Usually these...
Posted: Jul 28 2008, 02:00 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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IIS management commandline tools
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 an iisreset on...
Posted: Jul 28 2008, 01:29 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Do your Web Parts need to access internet sites using a proxy?
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 as weather information...
Posted: Jul 25 2008, 08:04 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Determine which Site template was used to create a site collection
Received this question today from one of my colleagues and I knew that you could find out this information by accessing the dbo.Webs table in the Content Database of the site collection, but I was sure that there would be a better way to find this out...
Posted: Jun 05 2008, 01:06 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Recover Site collection to a Farm using only the SQL Content Database from a different farm
Hi all, first of all, it has been a while since I wrote something on my blog here. Well, here I am again. This time a had an issue that after I migrated a bunch of site collections (about 200 site collections) from farm1 to farm2, I realized that I had...
Posted: May 26 2008, 02:34 PM by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
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