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Newly published SharePoint 2010 documents
Newly published SharePoint 2010 documents. I came across these through some of the tweets that I am following. Thanks to Andreas Glaser for tweeting about these documents Technical reference for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Brief Description: Technical...
SP2010 Create site without template
I often let my users decide which site template they want to use for their new site collection. In SharePoint 2007 i did this by creating a site collection using stsadm without specifying a site template. this caused the first user to have to select the...
Posted: 04-24-2010 10:54 by Dirk | with no comments
Unable to edit Document Library Column: Unknown Error
It has been a while since my last post and since then, I encountered some interesting issues, worth writing about. This one amazed me. One of our users complained that he was unable to edit a standard choice field that he just created in a document library...
Posted: 01-29-2010 11:04 by Dirk | with no comments
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Revert a SharePoint 2010 site to the WSS3.0/MOSS2007 Look after Visual Upgrade
This question came up in one of my comments recently and I wanted to find out if it was even possible to reveert the look back of a SharePoint 2010 site that has been upgraded from WSS 3.0 or MOSS2007 Thanks to Corey Roth and a comment on his post about...
SQL Query to identify Kerberos or NTLM connection (by Marc Valk)
I found myself looking for this query for the second time now and finally decided to post it on my blog This query enables you to find out if your connections towards your SQL server are using Kerberos instead of NTLM. This may help in your troubleshooting...
Posted: 11-29-2009 14:17 by Dirk | with no comments
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Find out which language packs are installed and the build version
I was asked this question yesterday and I remember having tried to find out how to do it. Finally I took some time to search around on the net and found a post by Patrick Heyde. http://blogs.technet.com/patrick_heyde/archive/2009/09/30/sharepoint-blow...
Posted: 11-24-2009 8:04 by Dirk | with 1 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 3 comment(s)
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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide
the following weeks you will be hearing or reading a lot of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, because of the MS SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas this week. I am not so fortunate to be there, but I am scavenging the blogs of those who are to try...
Posted: 10-20-2009 22:06 by Dirk | with no comments
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 Recover Your SharePoint 2007 Product ID by Bert Johnson
On my post about the SP2 bug , I had a comment by Bert Johnson about a post of his explaining how to recover the SharePoint 2007 Product ID from your system. This is indeed very handy if you do not happen to have it or find it anymore and do not want...
Posted: 05-28-2009 22:27 by Dirk | with 5 comment(s)
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Bug in SP2 - product expiration date is improperly activated.
I saw this note on a linkedin post this morning and I immediately checked my calendar to see if it was April 1st today. Guess what, it isn't....This bug will make SharePoint expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed....
Posted: 05-25-2009 3:58 by Dirk | with 2 comment(s)
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How to Ghost back or uncustomize customized Page Layouts
In followup of my previous post, today my favourite Microsoft Premier Support Engineer was asked to provide a way to unghost customized page layouts. He came up with a little piece of code that does the trick in a C# Console application. It must be getting...
Posted: 03-24-2009 7:03 by Dirk | with 5 comment(s)
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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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Using SQL Aliases with SharePoint by Thomas Vochten
Thomas Vochten, a former colleague of mine, wrote about an interesting way to create and configure your SharePoint farm to take into account any possible changes in your backend SQL infrastructure by using SQL aliases on your MOSS servers and therefore...
Posted: 03-23-2009 5:11 by Dirk | with 2 comment(s)
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SPS2003 Add Link to Site not working
Why might this be relevant to a MOSS admin. Well, you might be busy upgarding a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 environment to MOSS using the gradual approach, like I am. Off course you would test thjis on a test farm and reproduce your production environment...
Posted: 03-13-2009 3:16 by Dirk | with no comments
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