Category Archives: Tips

SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Cheat Sheet by Dmitry Sotnikov

Dmitry recently posted an interesting 3 page reference card describing how to get started with PowerShell for SharePoint. Not having taken the blue pill yet, I reealy need to get this information drilled down very soon. Go find the document … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 Office Web Apps on a single server SharePoint Foundation –> Issues and Fixes

I finally found some time to get the Office Web Apps working on one of my servers running SharePoint Foundation 2010 beta This is the server that I had upgraded from WSS 3.0 etc. As you may recall, I had … Continue reading

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

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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Tip of the day: The best way for finding your downloads on microsoft.com/downloads –> USE GOOGLE !!

This is my frustration of the week! Don’t you just hate it when you are on the nice Microsoft Download Center www.microsoft.com/downloads website, that when you search for a download, like Sharepoint Language Pack, that you get a blank page? Well I … Continue reading

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

 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

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

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

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

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MOSS Auto-Install at Codeplex

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

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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