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Body: Last night I was setting up SharePoint Advanced Search Box in Enterprise Search and I was puzzled for a couple of seconds. For all text fields that I had in metadata mappings, I had no option "Contains" and "Does not contain"!!! But I had couple of technical documentation for...
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Body: If you are playing with enterprise features of Sharepoint 2010 you have probably noticed that Site Directory template is missing. Site directory has been intentionally hidden because of compatibility issues with upgrade process between 2007 and 2010. If you want to "enable it" simply...
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Body: If you run into problem during running of Sharepoint 2010 Configuration wizard that reports error: Failed to create sample data. An exception of type Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException was thrown. Additional exception information: Unrecognized attribute 'allowInsecureTransport'...
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Body: Page testing utilities are more and more popular. There even companies specialized in Site optimization. If you want to know how Microsoft managed to speed up their http://sharepoint.microsoft.com visit http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/09/28/how-we-did-it-speeding-up-sharepoint-microsoft...
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Scenario: Working on a client site recently, I have installed Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 in a stand-alone server mode. Everything worked fine until I've opened Central Administration Site and realized that the person who gave me access to the server logged me on as a local server administrator...
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Body: You've probably heard about BDC feature in MOSS 2007 Enterprise Edition, but you have never tried it in practice. There is good walkthrough that describes everything you need to setup the BDC example. http://dotnetdreamer.com/2008/09/26/business-data-catalog-in-moss-2007/ I have only couple...
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Body: If you have deployed SP2 to your SharePoint Farm then you should definitely read this. There is known bug that converts your farm into Trial Environment for 180 days. Luckily, there is easy solution, in a sense that you need to retype Product ID in Central Administration: What happened? http:/...
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Body: This article is sequel to Install & upgrade localized SharePoint farm to SP2 - part 1 article in which we prepared installation resources to most recent SP. Application role After you have prepared slipstreamed contents, we can proceed with installation. On application server start MOSS-2007...
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Body: Yesterday, I went in a SharePoint rampage in a Lab environment with localized SP2 environment. After couple of hours I've managed to install the all required SP2's on two servers. Scenario One DC and two member servers, all of them Windows 2008 x64 One member server has SQL 2008 x64, and...
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Body: Recently I've been asked to provide answer is there a solution that is able to store specific email messages or email conversations to Sharepoint. I've started some digging around and found that there is Out of the Box ability of Sharepoint and Outlook 2007 that provides solution. Probably...
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Body: For the first time in Europe, we had an opportunity to enjoy the gathering of SharePoint MVP's from around the world. Event called SharePoint Best Practices Conference took place in London, and it was a great place to be, especially if you are SharePoint guy. Lectures have been split into 4...
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Body: Hi to all, Just a brief tip for all sharepoint fans. If you ever want to save Customized site as a template with included content, and you have more then 10MB of data on site, do the following to increase the template size: stsadm -o setproperty -pn max-template-document-size -pv 40000000 Also...
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Body: I using Orca to edit the MSI using the following: Download Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3E1DCCCD-1CCA-433A-BB4D-97B96BF7AB63&displaylang=en Save the install file: C:\Temp\VSeWSSv11...
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Body: I found myself with login prompt on SharePoint website with Fully Qualified Host Name (FQDN) host header, even though workstation and user is member of Active Directory domain. FQDN host header is for example portal.mysite.com instead of single-name host header portal. In my case problem was that...
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Body: More and more people are asking about the differences between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. They are both powerful collaboration tools made built on .NET platform. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) ships bundled with the purchase of Windows Server 2003 or Microsoft Small Business Server 2003. Office...