As an early step towards making FAST ESP search capabilities interoperable with SharePoint, a set of installable Web parts for integrating FAST ESP and SharePoint have been made available in Codeplex. With this package, SharePoint administrators can quickly...

Stsadm can be used to backup/ restore individual aspects of your sharepoint farm. You can backup the entire sharepoint farm, an individual site collection or even an individual site. For Backup: To export sites : Stsadm –o export –url <URL> -filename...

Recently I came across this great article in Todd’s blog on the different redirect options available in SharePoint. These are generally the most common requests from the clients. http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=48

If you wanted to copy a site from one place to another within the same site collection, you can use the copy feature of the sharepoint present in Content and Structure. In case if you have to copy the site from one webapplication to another, or to a different...

I’ve recently got a chance to recently use this real cool tool to check if my client’s MOSS environment/ topology is compliant to the Microsoft best practices. A must have for a MOSS Administrator. The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint...

I’ve recently tried exporting a site and importing it in a different location in the client’s place. I’ve noticed that after exporting the site, all the pages still have the reference to the page layout in the old server. After a bit of search, found...