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MOSS Auto-Install at Codeplex
I was once again installing a test machine from scratch with MOSS and while I was waiting for the setrup to complete, I wondered if anyone had come up yest with a fully automated install and configuration script. Well actually there is a set of scripts...
Posted: 09-04-2009 2:52 by Dirk | with no comments
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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 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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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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Tim Dobrinski's SharePoint Space Monitor
While searching through the Technet SharePoint forum , I stumbled upon a post/question regarding how to find out how much data your subsites are using. I remember from the SPS 2003 days that there was a aspx page that would show this ( _layouts/storman...
Posted: 02-24-2009 6:46 by Dirk | with no comments
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Extract the installed solutions from the MOSS farm (updated)
I was looking today for a way to get all the original wsp and cab files that have been installed into a MOSS farm. Of course not everybody keeps track of where the original files are the same way. Certainly if there is a team that is managing the same...
Posted: 02-24-2009 5:19 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: 01-02-2009 3:24 by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
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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: 12-22-2008 0:53 by Dirk | with no comments
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Download zipped list items - codeplex project by Marijn Somers
My colleague Marijn Somers showed me this tool some while ago already and I thought I'd post this on my blog as well as it is quite usefull This is what Marijn posted originally on his blog and can also be found here : Mohamed Zaki has created a great...
Posted: 11-20-2008 4:42 by Dirk | with 1 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: 10-13-2008 6:43 by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
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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: 10-09-2008 1:20 by Dirk | with no comments
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New SharePoint Admin and Management Tools by Joel Oleson
For those of you that are not subscribed to Joel's blog (shame on you ). This is one of a few Admin Tools that really help you batch changes. This one appears to really be focused on batch changing site collections. LOVE IT. Thanks Zach, it's about time...
Posted: 07-06-2008 0:29 by Dirk | with no comments
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TweakSP from CodePlex
Just wandering around my favorite blogs, when I came across an article describing this new tool at codeplex called TweakSP. I gave it a spin om my demo environment. Although the project is still in a start phase, the idea seams promising. You can download...
Posted: 02-19-2008 1:34 by Dirk | with no comments
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SharePoint Manager 2007
You definitely need this tool if you are even serious about using SharePoint. You can find it @ http://www.codeplex.com/spm The SharePoint Manager 2007 is a SharePoint object model explorer. It enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view...
Posted: 02-05-2008 3:58 by Dirk | with no comments
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