SharePoint Thinks, Links and Clinks

Thinks Ever had the good old System Account show up as your author or editor, oops I mean “Created By” and “Modified By” column in SharePoint lists? Come on, you know that you have. OK, if you have and wanted to modify these, it...

Thinks Permissions management tends to be one of the areas that SharePoint Users have issues with in terms of understanding and over-engineering. Challenges with these differences can be minimized by considering these principles of permission management...

Another one to remember when troubleshooting SharePoint pages. Allows you to get to the webparts on the page in a manner to see if one is crapping out the rest of the past. appending the ?contents=1 to your page url will open the “Web Part Page Maintenance...

A few links that may help you out if you are battling the challenges that can occur in an implementation of SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integration Mode. Most focusing on SQL 2005 as that is the current challenge I am helping someone with...

Anything with EI and EIO should be shared! Even if it is good old XCOPY flags. MOVING THE CONTENT: Once the configuration is changed you have to copy all content from your root drive to your new drive including ACLs and empty directories: Example:                    ...

Thinks There are many options available to you for backup, restore and DR of your WSS/MOSS Environment Nothing but a prayer too common of a scenario where best wishes and prayers are used to not need a backup SharePoint Designer Stsadm Utility – stsadm...

I have been away from the blog for a while. However, the release of the Fourth Release of the Microsoft Administration Toolkit is a good enough reason to come out of hiatus. I have been spending quite a bit of time lately digging into permission issues...

SQL Server Reporting Services (part of SQL Server 2005) is a very useful toolset to add to your tool kit as a SharePoint Developer, Engineer, Administrator, user, etc. SharePoint Web parts and the good old report center can leverage integration with SSRS...

I just love the main screen of this tool! Kerberos can be scary and misunderstood (kinda like referees!) “ Introduction DON'T RUSH!!! You are not so smart that you should skip over reading the following. I like to skip over documentation just as much...

  Another tool for your tool belt from SysInternals Mark Russinovich. Why would you need this in SharePoint land? Ever had a process spike and you would have liked to capture a memory dump for analysis and you just happened to miss the occurrence...

Another one to have in the links is a lovely diagram-full MSDN link of Server and Site Architecture with Objects! Server and Site Architecture: Object Model Overview   Server and Site Architecture: Object Model Overview

Quick Outline for more detailed items on STSADM, especially with PowerShell goodness TechNet Powerful Command Line Administration for SharePoint http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc162513.aspx Stsadm command-line tool (Office SharePoint Server...

I can not take credit for pulling this together, however, copy and paste can be a blogs best and worst tool. All of the information is publicly available. In summary, links to blogs of the various Microsoft product teams that will provide you insights...

Place holder so I remember to come back to this. Running into some fun for moving sites around on same server to new content databases.   STSADM Custom Extensions: Move a Site Collection How to move/migrate SharePoint list items/documents and preserve...

Thinks The trip is worth it for the figures alone. I find myself drawing this kind of things on pieces of paper when helping out customers and people that just ask me because I work with SharePoint. Hint, if you are planning to take the Microsoft Certified...

Came across this series and wanted to make sure I at least had a link added to the blog. Everything You Need to Know about BDC: Part 1 of 8 | SharePoint Magazine http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/administration/everything-you-need-to-know-about...

If you are new to developing SharePoint applications, or would like to have some examples available, head on over to http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SharePoint-2010-101-Code-da251182 and download the Sample Pack. “Each code sample is part of the SharePoint...

Thinks As with most good things in life there are some limitations in maximum permissible size of items in Windows SharePoint Services and related items. The table below is from Harsh’s blog ( SharePoint 2007 Maximum Limitations ) and does an excellent...

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From the Microsoft Download Center Overview This is the SharePoint developer tools for Visual Studio 2008. These tools are suitable for use with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It includes project and item templates...

Thinks I came across a post on the IIS.net forums ( http://forums.iis.net/p/1153101/1884922.aspx#1884922 ) that led to what looks to be a promising tool to add to your SharePoint toolbox.   From Gluegood Software “ LogParser.WSS30 - I recently published...

I was looking for a reference(s) for all the various ports and protocols in play with a SharePoint Implementation. I said to myself, “Hey, go BING it!". So, I did! http://www.bing.com/search?q=Sharepoint+Ports+and+Protocols+&form=QBLH  ...

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A Good Clink and a Link about a neat little open source SharePoint Utility out on CodePlex.com. I highly recommend you take a look at this FREE tool and even the source code to get a better understanding of SharePoint Innards. Run from your SharePoint...

A series of three posts regarding configuring and understanding one of the top reasons that SharePoint Engineers call product support, good old Alternate Access Mapping, AAM. Heck, I am still trying to wrap my head around this and make it stick. From...