Virtual Paths in Sharepoint
Great guide on how to get a virtual file share working in IIS with sharepoint. a little bit more difficult than a conventional web page to get up and running....
View ArticleSharepoint Powershell References
Useful reference and powershell scriptshttp://www.powershell.nu/2009/09/08/moss-2007-script-collection/
View ArticleIIS compression in MOSS
Great guide by Andrew Connell about performance enhancements gained by using IIS compression in your sharepoint environment.
View ArticleCreating a Site collection on a new DB.
Recently I just deployed a corporate intranet. As users started getting comfortable with MOSS, the questions about having their own sites emerged. I wanted to keep the same name for the site that they...
View ArticleGreat Resource on WSPBuilder files
great how to guide on wspbuilder. I wish I had seen this when I first started using it!
View ArticleCustomise Title of MOSS Page
I had a request to change the title which is displayed in IE from Pages - Home to something a bit more meaningful. Easy I thought! However it took a lot of googling to find the right answer for me....
View ArticleContent Query web part not returning all items in list
I created a CQWP which I used to display a publishing page content type which had a picture in it and a preview of the body of the page. This worked well but it seemed to keep reverting to showing only...
View ArticleGet user information out of your Active Directory
I needed to get user information out of some of our AD's.By using the following on the server:csvde -d "ou=allusers,dc=example,dc=com" -f c:\extract.csv -r...
View ArticleGreat guide for transparent overlays for your sharepoint site
http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2010/03/12/transparent-overlays-for-sharepoint-interface-enhancement/
View ArticleIncrease file size restriction in MOSS with IIS 7.0
Had some problems on an environment today that was running 2K8. There are some restrictions in IIS 7 which are outside of the normal we.config changes that have to be made to allow larger file...
View ArticleStore files externally from Sharepoint DB
I have often been asked about storing large files in MOSS (video's being the most common ) but as MOSS stores everything in SQL databases, this is often undesirable. I know that there are options in...
View ArticleSharePoint Products and Technologies Pre-Upgrade Check Feature Missing Issue
I thought I would run the pre upgrade checker to have a look at the health of the environment and to also see what is involved in upgrading to 2010. For those who don't know, the command is as...
View ArticleException from HRESULT: 0x80040E14
I was at a client site today and I was creating some views. I got half way through and had to make a slight modification to the existing ones. I tried to do this and nothing would change. I tried...
View ArticleThe required feature is not enabled for this column type.
I was trying to create some site columns using managed metadata columns and for whatever reason on this site collection I was getting the error “The required feature is not enabled for this column...
View ArticleSPD Workflow set to run automatically will not start in MOSS
This is a well known problem but I thought I would put it down anyway. I was trying to troubleshoot a workflow at a client site which was set to automatically start on a change or when a new item is...
View ArticleReporting Services 2008 R2 Integration with SharePoint 2010
Fantastic how to guide on getting integratin working. Much easier that integration with MOSS 2007!Click here for the post.
View ArticleMigrating site collection using PowerShell permissions issue
I was on site last week and had an issue where the site collection migrated successfully from dev to production using PS, but only the farm administrator account could access the root site.What was...
View ArticlePath for SharePoint 2010 Forefront Identify Manager
Often I have found the user profile service in SharePoint 2010 can have some problems. On many occasions I have had to look at the client on the SharePoint server to see what is going on as this client...
View ArticleSetting people picker scope error
I was doing some troubleshooting for a client and I needed to set the people picker scope as a means of filtering out user accounts. So I ran the following STSADM command. C:\Program Files\Common...
View ArticleOffice 365 and saving sites as a template.
I have been doing some work with Office 365 and thought I should share it as I could not find anything documented anywhere that details this. When saving a site as a template. If you want to use an...
View ArticleTerm Store Management option missing in Site Collection
I was messing around on my dev box and tried to access the term store management link in a site collection, but it was nowhere to be found. Turns out creating the root site using the blank template...
View ArticleUser Profile Service stuck on starting
This is very frustrating when this happens. I had to fix an environment where somebody had not assigned the correct permissions initially and had caused all sorts of issues.In this instance, the only...
View ArticleMove Office Web Apps site collection to a different database
I had a few issues with this, so I thought I would put the script I used which moved the OWA site collection to another content database. This is very important to do as it affects the overall size of...
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Migrate content database to new SharePoint 2010 environment
I recently had to bring across an existing SharePoint 2010 Foundation site collection that was being used into a new environment I was building for the client. As often is the case, a previous IT admin...
View ArticleExplorer View slow in SharePoint 2010
I was working on a client site and trying to copy content across using windows explorer and it was PAINFULLY slow. It was taking in some cases 10 minutes to copy some folders ( don't ask about having...
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