January 2007 - Posts
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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]);
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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
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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
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