Announcing the Microsoft iFilter Pack
For all you folks that have been waiting for Microsoft to release an iFilter pack for Office 2007 file formats, you wait is over. Not only do we search Office 2007 files, but we've included support...
View ArticleForms Authentication with WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007
Steve Peschka has released a great three-part article on Forms Authentication. If you are planning on hosting a multi-authentication environment, these article are a must read. Steve provides some...
View ArticleGrant Users Admin Access to all Site Collections per Web Application
In SharePoint 2003, we had an option in the central admin to add users and/or domain groups to a group called "SharePoint Administrators". This group was granted full control for all site collections...
View ArticleKeep Tabs on Newly published content for MOSS 2007
Wanna keep tabs on new MOSS 2007 TechNet articles being published? Check out this TechNet site under the Office SharePoint Server 2007 content...
View ArticleBlank IIS Manager on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Servers
If you are experiencing a opening a blank IIS 6.0 server manager snapin and/or seeing Event IDs 7076, 6398, and 6482 in the App Log, check out KB 946517 for a hotfix for a recent issue found with the...
View ArticleWindows SharePoint Services & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server hotfixes for...
The latest post SP1 global WSS and MOSS patches are: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: March 27, 2008http://support.microsoft.com/?id=950487 Description of the Windows...
View ArticleA SharePoint "Related" Patch
There's an IIS 6.0 update that recently came out that should be applied to all WSS/MOSS servers, as it often falls victim. JB has more on his blog at:...
View ArticleWSS and MOSS Infrastructure Updates Released
Today we released some very important updates for WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2007, Project Server 2007, Search Server 2008 (Full and Express) and Project Professional 2007. This updates includes fixes for...
View ArticleLastest WSS and MOSS Patches - 9/2008
For those of you that are building a new WSS and/or MOSS farm, I've assembled a list of the patches you will need to build a "lastest and greatest" farm. The list below is published for an RTM farm,...
View ArticleLastest WSS and MOSS Patches - 10/2008
Please refer to the newest updates, posted here:http://blogs.msdn.com/josrod/archive/2008/12/17/latest-wss-and-moss-patches.aspx UPDATED: 12/11/2008 - 957693 was relased with 957175 built in (they...
View ArticleCreate a New SharePoint Permission Level and Bind it to an Existing...
This example will create a new permission level, called Example_xxxxxxxxxxx. After creation, it binds the permission level to an existing SharePoint Group called Foo.using (SPSite site = new SPSite(...
View ArticleSharePoint Hotfix and SP Deployment
I seen a few instances of companies attempting to use HFNetChkPro to deploy WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 hotfixes to their farm environments. Hotfixes and service packs for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 do not...
View ArticleThe database on \Microsoft##SSEE is not accessible to missing Windows...
One of the more frequent issues we are seeing with the installation of our most recent WSS v3 hotfix, KB934525, is the error message "The database <databasename> on server\Microsoft##SSEE is not...
View ArticleWSS 2003 Assembly Types and Corresponding Type Ids
Posting this for reference for folks upgrading SharePoint 2003/2007/2010/2013. Some of these Type Ids may show up as “Unknown Type” in a Missing server file or server configuration issues in a MOSS...
View ArticleSharePoint 2007 Assembly Types and Corresponding Type Ids
Posting this for reference for folks upgrading SharePoint 2003/2007/2010/2013. Some of these Type Ids may show up as “Unknown Type” in a Missing server file or server configuration issues in a MOSS...
View ArticleSharePoint Portal Server 2003 Assembly Types and Corresponding Type Ids
Posting this for reference for folks upgrading SharePoint 2003/2007/2010/2013. Some of these Type Ids may show up as “Unknown Type” in a Missing server file or server configuration issues in a MOSS...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Maintenance Window Notifications
SharePoint 2013 introduced a new class called SPMaintenanceWindow. SPMaintenanceWindow encapsulates a maintenance window message you can post to end users at the content database level. The...
View ArticleWildcard Inclusion Used to Create Personal Sites Does Not Exist
If you are leveraging Personal Sites in SharePoint 2013 you may run into an error with the non-interactive timer job used to create Personal Sites as a background task. The timer job calls into the...
View ArticleThe spelling check cannot be completed because there is no dictionary...
If you are receiving the following error trying to use the spell check feature in SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013, chances are the issue is due to insufficient security permission on an...
View ArticleEnabled Forms Based Authentication in ADFS 3.0
Because I always forget where this setting is, and I see several of unanswered and incorrect forum posts on how to change the AuthN settings from Windows Authentication to Forms Based Authentication...
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