Thinking about setting up Microsoft Office 2010 W eb A pplications in your environment? Curious about Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Word web applications? If the answer to any of the above questions is yes, you should consider attending one of the Office...

Search Server 2008 is the rebranded and updated version of “MOSSFS”. New features and improvements in Search Server 2008: Simplified Installation experience similar to MOSS installation Enhanced Administration interface part of Central Administration...

SharePoint (WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007) errors sometimes are not descriptive enough or through the generic error message "Unexpected Error occurred". It doesn't provide more information than this and it does not even log any thing to LOGS or event log...

This post is about how to create custom landing pages ( www.mysite.com/products or www.mysite.com/newsletter ) that directs the visitor through and easy to remember URL to any page  in your deep site hierarchy. It also contains the approach how to...

I have always loved the nice SharePoint error messages that are presented when something goes wrong. My most popular error message is "An unknown error occurred. Please contact your system administrator.". In order to see the real error messages...

Scenario: You have several SharePoint web-applications (only only site collections). Whenever a user opens one of those using just an entry-URL (such as http://intranet ) you want to redirect him/her to another site collection (not necessarily in the...

We use a SharePoint Document Library to the share Content with externals customers. Each Customer is added as a Reader. If we have a Word/PowerPoint file in the library the user can open it directly in Word/PowerPoint, which is okay. But there he is able...

+) Customizing the Search is Required for Wild Card Search and Complex Boolean Search which are not supported OOB in MOSS +) Customizing the Enterprise Search in Moss Can be Done using FullTextSQLQuery API +) Need to create an instance of FullTextSQLQuery...

Download tools, updates, documentation, trial software, and more for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Tools Search for tools on the download center Find the tools you need to help run Office SharePoint Server 2007 efficiently. Microsoft SharePoint...

Note: The steps mentioned below are as per suggested by Microsoft. Please refer to links below for appropriate Microsoft KB articles. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555209 1. Install Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms. http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter...

Updates to the SharePoint Products and Technologies become available periodically. To successfully plan for and deploy these updates, use the process outlined in the Deployment Roadmap for Updates and in the articles linked to from the roadmap. Deployment...

SP2 converts MOSS into trial version - known issue Not sure if you are already aware about this issue: a couple of clients just reported that installing SP2 will convert MOSS installations into trial versions. I have verified on our own machines and can...

Issue: On MOSS 2007 / Search server 2008 , when you do a search on the SharePoint site with the "All Site" scope, the first result is displayed as expected and the subsequent search on the search result page is getting delayed. But this search works...

Say you have WSS 3.0 with Embedded SQL edition and then you install the SQL server 2005 full blown version on the box. Now you want to connect to the instance of the SharePoint database to take a backup. How will you connect? Here is how we connect...

Links: Design extranet farm topology (Office SharePoint Server) Downloadable book: Planning an Extranet Environment for Office SharePoint Server Plan Alternate Access Mappings (Office SharePoint Server) Additional References: 1. What every SharePoint...