Category Archives: MOSS

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: … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Short overview of MOSS new installation order with Language Packs

Just wanted to add this to my blog, because I have been asked this twice already last week. The order below is the one I use when I have to install Language Packs. Basically I prefer installing in the same … Continue reading

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Change the default 10 MB limit for saving a site as template

I bumped upon this 10 MB limit today when trying to save a site as a template. Did some research on the net and found that you can change this limit through the following stsadm command: stsadm -o setproperty -pn max-template-document-size -pv … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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