[I’ve been meaning to update this post for quite sometime. Please don’t do this procedure even though it was documented in MSDN. If you do this when you create a site from this site template a lot of the functionality…
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When to use the Portal Site Connection
In the Site Settings – Site Collection Administration, there is an option for configuring the Portal site connection. I have always wondered what this was for and the online documentation does not really cover what it does. A recent whitepaper…
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List of web parts for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007
Just found a post on a list for all of the out of the box web parts. The post “To MOSS or not to MOSS, Web Parts may be the answer” is by Ian Morrish.
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First exam done
So I sat the Microsoft 70-631 Configuring Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 exam this morning and passed with flying colours. I’d rate the exam as about a 3 out of 5 on the hardness scale. if you’ve been working with…
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Configuring Large File Support
The follow large snippet was blatantly taken from Joel Oleson’s post on File Name, Length, Size and Invalid Character Restrictions and Recommendations. I always forget these steps so I’m blogging it to my site so I don’t lose it again. Configuring Large…
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Sharepoint search crawl problem
Just found this post on Mike Hanley’s blog regarding the sharepoint search crawl not stopping due to a problem with the SQL database maintenance plan. Basically the plan will recreate the indexes without the ‘allow duplicate keys’ ticked. Microsoft have…
Just another sharepoint blog……………….
Well Joel Oleson threw down the challenge, that if you read sharepoint blogs, you should do your own sharepoint blog and after reading his post on “The Revolution” and his followup post on how to create a blog, I have…
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