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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: Nov 20 2008, 04:42 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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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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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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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: Jul 06 2008, 12:29 AM 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: Feb 19 2008, 01:34 AM 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: Feb 05 2008, 03:58 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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SharePoint Sushi
No, you cannot eat it and it does not come from the sea! When browsing through the projects on Codeplex, I stumbled upon this nice tool called SharePoint Sushi. I gave it a spin and it looks quite promising. You can find it @ http://www.codeplex.com/sushi...
Posted: Feb 05 2008, 03:53 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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User Comments and Ratings web parts are now Free!
hi all, I have been playing around with this small collection of webparts in its beta phase, but was not quite ready to install this on my production servers because I didn't know what it would eventually cost. It's always tricky to give your users some...
Posted: Jan 07 2008, 05:53 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Quickly deploy Application solutions in your WSS/MOSS environment
Tired of always being asked to install all those solutions from the Microsoft Download application Templates Pack onto your WSS or MOSS box? Here's how I do it: First off all, if you have not yet installed the application core, you need to deploy this...
Posted: Nov 20 2007, 02:07 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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Moving site collections between Content databases with a single command
When I first heard about it, I had to test the simplicity to do this with the new stsadm option that was inserted in the latest security hotfix for WSS of October 9th. This command is not very well documented anywhere. I herad about it by Todd Klindt...
Posted: Nov 17 2007, 03:47 PM by Dirk | with no comments
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Administering Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 Using STSADM
Finally, the last session of the day with Todd Klindt showing his magic with stsadm, the command-line administration tool for SharePoint. The slides? You guessed it, attached to this post as usual My notes during the session: Template picker: ever wanted...
Posted: Nov 14 2007, 07:36 PM by Dirk | with no comments
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HP ProLiant Sizer for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
HP has made a tool available to do some sizing for a MOSS environment. I have seen this tool in action on TechEd and I must say that it is a pretty neat piece of software. It asks you some questions about your environment (number of users, expected load...
Posted: Nov 14 2007, 07:03 PM by Dirk | with no comments
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Simple SharePoint Warm Up Script (by Kirk Hofer)
This handy litlle powershell script has been grabbed from Kirk Hofer's blog @ http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/khofer/ Finally, my first post is finally in a working state...here we go: For those of you who have to schedule those IISRESETs on your servers...
Posted: Nov 14 2007, 09:20 AM by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
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SharePoint Governance and Manageability Tools
There are a few tools that have been posted on codeplex, that are worth using or at least exploring: Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture 1.0 - Simply captures sites that are deleted by end users and backs them up to disk using the event model. You have a...
Posted: Nov 13 2007, 08:02 PM by Dirk | with no comments
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SharePoint Asset Inventory Toolkit
While attending TechEd's session OFF209_SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture Guidance by Joel Oleson and assisted by Shane Young there was a talk and demo for the SharePoint Asset Inventory Toolkit. This product was announced in Beta. Basically...
Posted: Nov 13 2007, 05:30 PM by Dirk | with no comments
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