My friend Yuri Diogenes, one of the security gurus here at Microsoft, in partnership with Jim Harrison, Mohit Saxena and having Tom Shinder as Technical Reviewer released last February the Microsoft Press Administrator’s Companion for Forefront...

I normally talk about SharePoint topics but this post is also important for non-SharePoint people. First let me explain what is the relationship between impersonation and SharePoint, or better, the relationship between SharePoint and the thread [security...

This problem was fixed in KB961175 . The patch will keep the problem from happening again in new lists/libraries you create after applying the patch. However if you have a backup before the patch the restored contents will continue to show the same error...

I had put together an application to perform Load Test in both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. The application as it is now is more “Load” than “Test”. The next step will be to save the results...

There are some occasions in the course of work as Support Escalation Engineer in Microsoft that we rely heavily in analyzing SharePoint metadata. Installing software in a production environment is a no-no for most companies (or at least it requires a...

There are scenarios on which you can access a unique site collection using different URLs even if these URLs are not listed in the Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) of the application. This normally does not cause any problem and even though you should not...

Let's face it, updating Sharepoint is not an easy task. It is true for both Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0. Let's highlight some points: MOST IMPORTANT: MOSS is built on top of WSS and you have to apply...

I had recently faced a problem which I believe other people will face at least once: how to get the context from a URL in a C# Console Application. I needed to use ProfileLoader which requires a context. You cannot get current context when you run an...

WSS and MOSS enable outgoing e-mail configuration and most of the time this configuration is straightforward. As of matter of fact you do not have much to configure as shown below: Figure 1 - Outgoing e-mail settings This same configuration is used for...

In this post we are going to explore User Profiles by extending the Organizational Hierarchy in MOSS. I've posted in Codeplex both installer and code for the Organizational Chart Hierarchy web part. This post will only discuss installation and configuration...

Whomever tried to populate a MOSS (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server) form field using Javascript noticed that it is far from being straightforward. The secret is in the undocumented core.js After a client's request I was able to come up with a not so...