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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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Adobe PDF iFilter 64 bit finally released spotted by Brendan Griffin
Hi, I just came across a post by Brendan Griffin on the From the Field Blog ( great blog by the way!) about this long awaited release of a 64bit iFilter for pdf from Adobe. It is finally there. Read more about it on http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads...
Posted: Jan 02 2009, 03:24 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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SharePoint Price Calculator by Jeroen
I am currently on a project where the licence cost for MOSS is causing an issue in this time of financial crisis and all... So I was wondering, is there an easy way to calculate what MOSS costs for your organization in licenses. I found the answer through...
Posted: Dec 21 2008, 09:15 AM 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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Visio Stencils for SharePoint 2007 Site Structures documentation (by Maxime Bombardier and Mart Muller)
Please have a look at Maxime Bombardier's Blog on MSDN Blogs for his article on Visio Stencils for SharePoint 2007 . You can download them directly from his blog and is a great addition if you are busy documenting SharePoint sites and structures. His...
Posted: Oct 13 2008, 06:43 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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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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Save Adobe Acrobat documents to SharePoint using Save As... directly in Adobe
Ever wanted to save your documents directly into a SharePoint document library as you would for saving the document to a local folder or network share from within your Acrobat software? Well apparently, when you try to save a newly created pdf file, you...
Posted: Oct 09 2008, 01:20 AM 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: Oct 02 2008, 01:01 AM by Dirk | with 4 comment(s)
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How To backup and Restore your SSP (by Jonathan Martiat)
My colleague, Jonathan Martiat, was busy today investigating different ways to backup and/or restore your SSP. He has written a bullet-proof step-by-step article, that has been tested thoroughly on his blog . You can find the article here So please go...
Posted: Sep 25 2008, 07:16 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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