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A Journal of My Technical Achievements and Challenges

January 2007 - Posts

SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in For WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007
Here is the link for the MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0 add-in for SQL Server Reporting Services. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4E50BE6E-3F92-4552-A78C-B3BE1D94D5DA&displaylang=en Read More...
Managing Virtual Server 2005 Through Terminal Services
When building a Virtual Server 2005 R2 installation on a remote machine through Terminal Services, you might run into difficulty visiting the actual administration website. If you turn off friendly error messages in IE, you get a HTTP 500 status which Read More...
Make Your Personal Appointments Private
For those of you on Exchange 2007 (and perhaps prior) use Outlook 2007 to make your appointments private so that when someone is scheduling an appointment they can't see your personal appointments (like Take Medicine, or Go to the Doctor). In the Appointment Read More...
The MOSS Fab 20 Out Of 40 Templates are Available
20 out of the 40 MOSS 2007 site template definitions are available. These templates are enterprise and consumer specific as opposed to the server admin templates which are more IT focused. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/wssapps/templates/default.mspx Read More...
Export and Import Managed MOSS 2007 Profile Properties
A colleague of mine just found this link for exporting and importing user profiles for MOSS 2007. This is great when you have to move between dev, test and prod. http://www.codeplex.com/SSSPPC Read More...
Restore Pre-Vista/Longhorn Backups
This utility restores compatability between backups made using pre-Vista/Longhorn builds of the OS. You can now restore Windows XP/2003 backups on Vista/Longhorn. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7da725e2-8b69-4c65-afa3-2a53107d54a7&DisplayLang=e Read More...
SPS2003 Upgrade Error When Upgrading to MOSS 2007: Not detaching landing page
When trying to do the upgrade from MOSS 2007 from SPS 2003 you may receive an error in the event log that resembles the following: [PortalSiteUpgradeAreaAndListingData] [12.0.1.0] [INFO] [1/10/2007 12:37:59 PM]: Upgrading pages for area at " http://servername/C5/SiteA Read More...
System.OutOfMemory Exception Thrown in MOSS 2007 In Place Upgrade
When upgrading a SPS2003 installation with an unusually large number of sites, the in place upgrade process may run into a condition where it runs out of memory. The following message will appear in the upgrade.log: [SPWebTemplateSequence] [ERROR] [1/15/2007 Read More...
How to Copy a Data Row from One DataTable to Another DataTable
The long story is in this KB article. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308909 The short story is to use the DataTable's ImportRow method as mentioned in the article. destinationDataTable.ImportRow(sourceDataTable.Rows[i]); Read More...
How to Configure a Server to Address 4GB of Memory or Greater
We were having trouble with a MOSS 2007 upgrade in that it was throwing out of memory exceptions that are common with ASP.NET applications that are running on a server with more than 2 GB of RAM, but the application consumes it all. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/820108 Read More...
Programmatically Retrieve an Image from an Assembly Resource File
As many times as I do this, invariably it slides from my brain and I have to gather all the information I can to do this again. So here it is for my sake as well as others that might have to do this. A good practice for Windows Forms development is to Read More...
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