SharePoint Administration Toolkit (version 3.0 and version 4.0): We released the fully supported toolkit twice this year. The 3.0 release contained the first version of the SPDiag tool. We published a How-To walkthrough video with the help of Hilton...

UPDATE: There was an issue with the originally posted download regarding the Batch Site Manager and Permission Reporting tools, this has been fixed. If you experienced a problem, simply uninstall, re-download the package, and reinstall. I'm not going...

If you haven't already seen this yet--please read this announcement from Jeff Teper, Corp VP of SharePoint: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx

On the SharePoint team blog, you can find a more detailed post announcing the release of the December CU and providing detail on a new package that we are shipping from this point forward: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/12/17/announcing...

Of course that is referring to Who moved my cheese? , but the reality behind the analogy is still the same. I no longer am working in Product Support (CSS) as a Senior EE. I am now working as a PM (Program Manager) within the MOSS Product Group in Redmond...

The SharePoint Product Group has provided us with some further guidance on what is currently needed to build a server up so that it is running the most up-to-date code. To get the details, read: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/09/29/announcing...

Some of you may have noticed that in August my title changed to Senior Escalation Engineer. As I look back over the past four years as an Escalation Engineer for SharePoint, I can't say that I disagree... I certainly am old enough in this product to start...

You may have noticed the post on the SharePoint Team blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/08/18/update-on-virtualization-support-for-sharepoint-products-and-technologies.aspx ) announcing support for Hyper-V based virtualization. There...

We got the video of my patching presentation posted from the SharePoint 2008 conference. There truely is a lot of great information here, and this download will be referenced from many Microsoft locations as a must see when it comes to patching SharePoint...

Please notice that the Infrastructure Update KB has been updated to include the following: Known issues discovered after release of this update Installing the Infrastructure Update in a SharePoint farm that uses Alternate Access Mapping with a reverse...

It was just announced over on the SharePoint Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/07/15/announcing-availability-of-infrastructure-updates.aspx This is an important update and is publically downloadable using the links on the SharePoint...

Note, this series starts at http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx Here is the full project from this effort: http://www.codeplex.com/WikiMigrator

Note, this series starts at http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx One of the final touches was to take care of the “but this data here is out of place”, or “this string still has the old server...

Note, this series starts at http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx So there are a lot of little things to think about here. Once you start playing with this—the next one that comes to mind is… what...

Note, this series starts at http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx Now let us consider the next potential problem in using copy.asmx. There were some instances where I found that the copy.asmx would...

Note, this series starts at http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx Now that that is done, it is time to consider some potential difficulties of this approach. First, when you use the copy.asmx, the...

Note, this series starts at http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx Once you have gotten the source data in memory, the next step is to get it into the destination server. This is where most folks...

Note, this series starts at http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx We just looked at using copy.asmx to get WikiField. Now let’s look at getting the field by using just lists.asmx. You may notice...

Note, this series starts at http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx I wrote before about how you could use lists.asmx to get the data out of a Wiki Library just like any other list type. There is...

Note, this series starts at http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx Before we can dig into the data itself, we need to know what is there. I built some simple functionality to enumerate the available...

I was doing some work recently where I needed to move a large volume (thousands) of Wiki Pages from one server to another. The problem was that while if I begged and pleaded, I probably could have gotten local admin access to the farms, I didn’t really...

I have gotten a few requests for the Patching presentation that was done at SPC2008. You can log in with your MySPC account if you were an attendee and get access to all of the powerpoint files, if you have need for them before the DVD. If you specifically...

I will be at the SharePoint Conference to present a session Tuesday morning (9am session) called: Microsoft Product Support's look at understanding and deploying hotfixes, public updates, and Service Packs for WSS and MOSS Here is the session abstract...

Steve is one of the lead Escalation Engineers on my team. This generally represents the highest technical level within Microsoft product support . He has joined the SharePoint blogging community with a series of posts on SharePoint v3 performance optimization...

After seeing the templateID detail ( http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2006/07/07/659613.aspx ) varkalav wanted to know since there is no SPSPORTAL folder in the 12\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates folder, how does it map... Here is my response: Just follow...