Category Archives: MOSS

Change Locale of Site Variation Label in MOSS

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Dirk

This article gives you a script for modifying the locale of a Variations Label in MOSS once it has been created Continue reading →

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Saving Document to SharePoint using Office 2003 resets choice metadata fields to default values

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Dirk

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 from Document The “Master Document” content type has five additional choice fields There are five custom “Document Template” … Continue reading →

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Update a SharePoint farm with minimal site downtime

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Dirk

It was the time of the year again to do an upgrade of several SharePoint farms for my customer. This upgrade was for installing SP2 and the June cumulative update on an entire farm and the requirement was to avoid … Continue reading →

Posted in MOSS, STSADM, Tips, Upgrade | 9 Comments

MOSS Auto-Install at Codeplex

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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WSS and MOSS Language Pack Slipstreaming by Joe Rodgers

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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Prevent indexing of lists with MOSS

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Dirk

If you ever need to prevent indexing your lists in your MOSS farm by your SSP indexer, then you can achieve this by defining a crawl rule in the SSP > Search Settings > Crawl rules. Use the following URL … Continue reading →

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How To Recover Your SharePoint 2007 Product ID by Bert Johnson

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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How to upgrade to SharePoint 2007 SP2 – Step by Step by Chris Givens

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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Bug in SP2 – product expiration date is improperly activated.

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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lessons learned in my last sps to moss migration project using gradual approach

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Dirk

I have been doing a fun project for a customer, which asked to have his SharePoint Portal Server 2003 farms upgraded to MOSS 2007 using the gradual upgrade approach. I wanted to share some tips and things to consider when … Continue reading →

Posted in MOSS, Planning, SPS, Upgrade | 2 Comments