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If you plan to convert your physical domain controllers into virtual servers, you probably know there is a lot to consider prior to the move. But what you might not know is that Active Directory doesn't like being restored from the image, which what all physical-to-virtual conversion tools (Acronis, Ghost, etc.) are doing. It doesn't matter if you ...

To get more detailed messages in MOSS 2007 and WSS3.0 during development process, user can enable debugging in the web.config file for the SharePoint web ...

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 to use STSADM command, it can be used for search through STSADM keywords in the commands: For ...

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 have noticed a new error (Event ID: 5555; Event Source: Office SharePoint Server) occurring hourly ...

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 increase the MaxControls setting in your web.config file: ...

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 see the document, but having a login prompt displayed to the Internet users, sort of defeats the ...

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 of the page. select the Membership Provider (most likely it will be ''Default'') and ...

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 Server components, requiring IIS, such as Reporting Services. The problems occurs because IIS ...

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 in orange). TFS 2005 default reportsTFS 2008 default reportsActual Quality vs Planned ...

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, Variations Propagate Page Job Definition, and Variations Propagate Site Job Definition. In ...