Category Archives: SharePoint

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 … Continue reading

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Bug in SP2 – product expiration date is improperly activated.

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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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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Using SQL Aliases with SharePoint by Thomas Vochten

Thomas Vochten, a former colleague of mine, wrote about an interesting way to create and configure your SharePoint farm to take into account any possible changes in your backend SQL infrastructure by using SQL aliases on your MOSS servers and therefore … Continue reading

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SPS2003 Add Link to Site not working

Why might this be relevant to a MOSS admin. Well, you might be busy upgarding a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 environment to MOSS using the gradual approach, like I am. Off course you would test thjis on a test farm … 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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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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Speed up SharePoint spin-up and stsadm execution time by Jeroen Ritmeijer

Here is the lifesaver of the month! Jeroen’s post was sent to me by Cedric Carrette (Thanks [:D]). Original post content; Ever since SharePoint 2007 was introduced I have been really disappointed with the 2 minute spin-up time of the … Continue reading

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