I recently discovered that piping can be used in conjunction with STSADM command. I always found it difficult to use that command. It has too many options and parameters that are not always obvious and often very difficult to use. Piping makes it easier
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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
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Today was my one year anniversary in my new job as an IT Manager at ObjectSharp. It's been an interesting year; a year full of new experiences and surprises, mostly good ones. One year ago I have traded a job at a public sector for one in a private sector.
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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
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Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 CTP (Community Technology Preview) and Work Item Web Access 2008 CTP are now available for download. Even though it's only CTP version at the moment, don't let it discourage from using it, because it seems to be working
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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
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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
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I have found a very interesting article on Technet on how open source community has influenced Windows Server 2008 . I think it is very encouraging that Microsoft is taking user’s feedback seriously and trying to integrating the improvements developed
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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
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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
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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,
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Users of Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 might have encountered an error "Unknown error trying to lock file" when they click Edit Document . This error however didn't occur for users of Microsoft XP with Office 2007. As far as I know the problem
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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
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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
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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
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