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My upgrade experience to SharePoint Foundation 2010
I thought I'd share with you guys what I had experienced during the upgrade from my WSS 3.0 server to SharePoint Foundation 2010 beta. First of all, my WSS 3.0 is quite small. There's only One site collection in there of any significance en some other...
Posted: 11-24-2009 7:23 by Dirk | with 3 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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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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How to upgrade to SharePoint 2007 SP2 - Step by Step by Chris Givens
I was reading trhough my blogroll today and noticed a very complete blog post for deploying SP2 in a large MOSS environment. It describes optimized steps for installing SP2 with lesser downtime as you would have by just installing it. Chris Givens is...
Posted: 05-28-2009 22:13 by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
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Codeplex SPIEFolder
Pfff, it's been a while again since my last post. I promise you guys that I will have some time soon to write more. Anyway... This post to write about a cool tool that my colleague Pascal Rocheteau found today: SPIEFolder from codeplex. Project Description...
Posted: 04-30-2009 4:15 by Dirk | with no comments
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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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SWAT 2007
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 retract...
Posted: 03-23-2009 7:28 by Dirk | with no comments
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SPS2003 Lock site using command line: SPSiteManager
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 WSS 2.0 days,...
Posted: 03-23-2009 6:45 by Dirk | with 4 comment(s)
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Short overview of MOSS new installation order with Language Packs
Just wanted to add this to my blog, because I have been asked this twice already last week. The order below is the one I use when I have to install Language Packs. Basically I prefer installing in the same order as the updates have been released. In Belgium...
Posted: 02-23-2009 0:49 by Dirk | with 2 comment(s)
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Change the default 10 MB limit for saving a site as template
I bumped upon this 10 MB limit today when trying to save a site as a template. Did some research on the net and found that you can change this limit through the following stsadm command: stsadm -o setproperty -pn max-template-document-size -pv 524288000...
Posted: 02-03-2009 7:09 by Dirk | with no comments
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Forms Based Authentication ( FBA) in WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 (by MeySun)
I had an issue this week that I was unable to sign in to my personal WSS site. for some reason the popup login screen never showed. I know that my company laptop is heavily secured as well as the network. So if it was a firewall blocking or my IE settings...
Posted: 10-02-2008 1:01 by Dirk | with 7 comment(s)
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Configure PDF IFilter in WSS 3.0 (found on Workerthread Blog)
I am playing with a pure WSS environment these last days for my family site and was trying to configure indexing of PDF files on it. Evidently I looked back at one of mu posts to configure this indexing on a MOSS server. When reading my post I noticed...
Posted: 09-01-2008 5:17 by Dirk | with no comments
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