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Changing a web application URL and dealing with requests for the old URL by Brendan Griffin
This post was found on the From the Field Blog and was posted by Brendan Griffin I recently had a discussion with a customer who was planning on changing the URL of their MOSS 2007 Intranet Web application. This is generally a straightforward procedure...
Posted: Jan 02 2009, 03:41 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Application version numbers by Andrew Connell
While I am at it Found this in this article on the blog of Andrew Connell: .NET Framework v 1.0 1.0.3705 v 1.1 1.1.4322 v 2.0 2.0.50727 SQL Server (v7-present) v 7 RTM 7.00.623 v 7 SP1 7.00.699 v 7 SP2 7.00.842 v 7 SP3 7.00.961 v 7 SP4 7.00.1063 v 2000...
Posted: Dec 22 2008, 12:53 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Moss version numbers
I'm always looking for this information..... Cumulative Update KB956056 & KB956057 12.0.0.6327 Infrastructure Update KB951695 & KB951297 12.0.0.6318 SP1 + KB948945 12.0.0.6303 SP1 + KB941274 12.0.0.6301 SP1 + KB941422 12.0.0.6300 SP1 12.0.0.6219...
Posted: Dec 22 2008, 12:50 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Change the Central admin port with stsadm
Hi all, just this little tip for today. My colleague configured a test farm a while ago and let the wizard choose the port to be used for the Central Admin webapplication. I don't know why, but every time I have seen this you get a hideous port from the...
Posted: Dec 21 2008, 11:16 PM by Dirk | with no comments
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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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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 8 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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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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