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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 3 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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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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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 8 comment(s)
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