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Attaching old Content Database to new Web Application in MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0

If you have recently re-attached your content database to the new web application in SharePoint 2007 (whether because you have moved your SharePoint install or simply because you had to re-create the web application on your current server), you might Read More...

Getting around the limitation on a number of controls on SharePoint page

Apparently there is a limit on a number of controls you can have on a SharePoint page. By default, no more than 200 controls are allowed on the SharePoint page. Not sure, why this limitation is there, but it is. To get around this problem, you need to Read More...

SharePoint public-facing website and Microsoft Office documents

When you have a public-facing site built using SharePoint technologies, opening Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.) stored on this website requires user to login. You can hit Cancel at the login prompt and still be able to Read More...

Enabling anonymous access on MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0 web applications

To enable anonymous access for a web application within SharePoint: 1. Go to Central Administration >> Application Management >> Authentication Providers. make sure to pick correct web application from the drop-down list at the top-right corner Read More...

Installing SQL Server 2005 on Windows Vista or Windows 2008: IIS 7.0 problem

Recently I tried to install SQL Server 2005 on Windows Vista and I have received a warning message for IIS Feature requirement on the System Configuration Check page of the SQL Server 2005 Setup program. This means that you won’t be able to install SQL Read More...

Fixing TFS reports after an upgrade/migration to TFS 2008

Microsoft has made quite a few changes to reports in TFS 2008. As you can see form the table below in TFS 2008 we do not only have 6 new reports, but some of the existing reports have been modified/removed (new reports are in red , removed reports are Read More...

Missing Timer job definitions after SharePoint move

If you have recently moved your SharePoint site (WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007) from one hardware to another using backup/restore procedure, you might have noticed a few missing timer jobs definitions: Scheduled Approval, Scheduled Page Review, Scheduled Unpublish, Read More...

SharePoint search and anonymous users

If you have a public Sharepoint site (MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0) that is accessible to anonymous users and you’re not using custom scopes, you probably already noticed that every time users try to search they get a user prompt. To get pass this prompt you Read More...

Installing Service Pack 1 on your WSS3/MOSS2007 server(s)

First of all, you must backup SharePoint. Upgrading to SP1 should not break your WSS3/MOSS2007 install, but it's always better to be safe than sorry. In my case we have 32-bit installation of SharePoint server, so these guidelines will refer to 32-bit Read More...

Fixing MSSQL Reporting Services add-in after the migration of SharePoint site to a new server (WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007)

If you're thinking about migrating WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 sites to a new server, you need to remember to reinstall any third-party webparts you have installed on the old Sharepoint server. So if your Sharepoint instance have Reporting Services webpart installed Read More...

TFS and Sharepoint

To install TFS you must have Sharepoint Services 2.0 installed on the same server. Even though there hacks that allow you to integrate TFS with Sharepoint 3.0 that could be installed on another server, there still certain restrictions in place. One of Read More...

Uploading large files to TFS

We used to get a timeout error every time we tried to upload files larger than 48Kb to TFS. The timeout error was caused by one of numerous IIS hidden settings, i.e. UploadReadAheadSize parameter in IIS. Because this parameter is not set by default, IIS Read More...

TFS authentication and time synchronization

Since, it's my first post I thought that I should start with something simple yet very frustrating. For about a week we had a problem with our TFS server. Occasionally users were not able to login to TFS server using Team Explorer for no apparent reason. Read More...

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