Category Archives: SharePoint

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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Newly published SharePoint 2010 documents

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dirk

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 information about … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Planning, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 | 1 Comment

SP2010 Create site without template

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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Unable to edit Document Library Column: Unknown Error

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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Revert a SharePoint 2010 site to the WSS3.0/MOSS2007 Look after Visual Upgrade

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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SQL Query to identify Kerberos or NTLM connection (by Marc Valk)

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Dirk

 I found myself looking for this query for the second time now and finally decided to post it on my blog [8-|] This query enables you to find out if your connections towards your SQL server are using Kerberos instead … Continue reading →

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Find out which language packs are installed and the build version

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Dirk

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-up-in-daily-business-and-nobody-writes-important-stuff-to-the-farm-documentation.aspx   which says … 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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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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List All Groups and All users of site collection on a single page

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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