March 2007 - Posts
The following article does a fantastic job about listing string limitations on MOSS: SharePoint 2007 Maximum Limitations
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Check out my Office 2007 Recent documents sidebar gadget: I downloaded this from the MSWindowsLiveGallery Profile Author's page at http://gallery.live.com/Author.aspx?a=470e25d8-e8d0-4100-924b-abf9f4cf777d&l=1 Also, of note is the Live Search gadget.
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The MOSS OWSTimer.exe process controls and executes all timer definition jobs for SharePoint. The challenge encountered and detailed by the following KB Article indicates that a bug may cause the OWSTimer.exe to be one hour behind. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932563
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The /3GB switch is not compatible with WSS 2.0/3.0/MOSS 2007. This is due to the fact that an instability is introduced in IIS when there is large file support enabled (which WSS 3.0/MOSS does OOB and WSS 2.0 does with the addition of the latest service
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I recently created a Vista Virtual Machine but ran out of space when I tried to install the service pack. Dynamically expanding does not mean that the VHD will expand forever, but it will expand until the limit set for it at creation. This means that
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I'm writing an SSIS package to iterate over the MOSS logs directory to import the logs into a SQL Server table (eventually a data mart) where I can write queries to pull out the information I need. What I plan to do is loop over the logs directory structure
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For my future reference (and yours as well), here is how to configure your SQL Server 2005 maintenance plans so that they operate correctly with MOSS. A great post by Jingmei Li. http://blogs.msdn.com/jingmeili/archive/2007/02/26/sql-server-2005-maintenance-plans-and-moss-2007-databases.asp
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Below are the supported browsers and scenarios for MOSS:
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Ever get tired of trying to read and make sense of the MOSS 2007 Logs? Or any text-based logs for that matter? Use Excel 2007 to open and import the logs. You can then filter and browse the logs in a searchable Excel format. In fact You can refresh the
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If you are like me and just realized that March 11th is around the corner and you don't feel like reading a book to figure out if the software you run will be affected, browse to the following URL to run a wizard that will tell you. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/gp/cp_ds
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Here is a fantastic article on how to make the Content Query Web Part nicely display links. Everyone who has used this part is usually puzzled when it displays the (none) link for any list with links. This article discusses the method to create a new
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During a database migration to MOSS 2007 using a migration server for the upgrade with SPS2003 and MOSS 2007 installed, after conducting the upgrade on the migration server you may backup the SQL Databases and restore them to another server farm (ostensibly
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Here is a great article that shows the visual SharePoint Object Model map for MOSS: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms473633.aspx
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Ensure that sites and webs are closed by calling their close method whenever you complete OM operations against MOSS. Otherwise, you may see MOSS log the following: Potentially excessive number of SPRequest objects (number) created on thread number. Once
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Not only does nikhilk.net describe how to author gadgets using C#, but he also has extended a really awesome gadget for searching MSDN. http://www.nikhilk.net/SidebarGadgets.aspx
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