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Technical Weblog of Eric Charran

A Journal of My Technical Achievements and Challenges

Cool Sidebar Gadgets

Check out my Office 2007 Recent documents sidebar gadget: I downloaded this from the...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/20/2007

MOSS Timer Jobs May Run Late or Not At All

The MOSS OWSTimer.exe process controls and executes all timer definition jobs for SharePoint. The...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/19/2007

/3GB Switch and WSS 2.0/3.0/MOSS

The /3GB switch is not compatible with WSS 2.0/3.0/MOSS 2007. This is due to the fact that an...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/19/2007

Resizing a Virtual Hard Drive (VHD)

I recently created a Vista Virtual Machine but ran out of space when I tried to install the service...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/16/2007

Dynamic Flat File Connection Manager Connections

I'm writing an SSIS package to iterate over the MOSS logs directory to import the logs into a SQL...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/13/2007

MOSS 2007 and SQL Server 2005 Maintenance Plans

For my future reference (and yours as well), here is how to configure your SQL Server 2005...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/12/2007

MOSS 2007 Browser Matrix

Below are the supported browsers and scenarios for MOSS:

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/12/2007

Use Excel 2007 to Read and Parse SharePoint 2007 Logs

Ever get tired of trying to read and make sense of the MOSS 2007 Logs? Or any text-based logs for...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/09/2007

Daylight Savings Time Product Wizard

If you are like me and just realized that March 11th is around the corner and you don't feel like...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/09/2007

Here is a fantastic article on how to make the Content Query Web Part nicely display links. Everyone...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/08/2007

Office SharePoint Server EventID 7888

During a database migration to MOSS 2007 using a migration server for the upgrade with SPS2003 and...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/06/2007

SharePoint Object Model Map

Here is a great article that shows the visual SharePoint Object Model map for MOSS:...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/02/2007

Not only does nikhilk.net describe how to author gadgets using C#, but he also has extended a really...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/02/2007

Great TFS Article on Project Sizing

Good article outlining how to size TFS Servers for Projects...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/28/2007

Must Run Sidebar Gadget for a Media Center

Check out this fantastic gadget!...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/27/2007

Clustered Index Rebuilds Affecting Non-Clustered Indexes

Another nifty note about indexing. One of the more popular interview questions for technical folks...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/27/2007

Create a Time Dimension in SQL Server

Here is a great link on how to create a time dimension for a relational data warehouse in SQL...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/26/2007

SQL Server Feature Pack and SP2

The following URL goes to the SQL Server Feature Pack which consists of a listing of SQL Server 2005...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/25/2007

Best Practices Analyzer for MOSS and SPS V3

Just because I'll need this later, here is the link:...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/16/2007

New Site for MOSS Goodness

Here is a consolidated developer's accumulation of all things MSDN and MOSS....

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/15/2007

What do Prescan Errors Mean?

Here is a great post on what prescan.exe errors really mean when encountered during their run prior...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/13/2007

MOSS Performance Tests

The following URL goes to some recently released Performance Tests for MOSS that can be used in...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/13/2007

Outlook 2007 Error: The form cannot be displayed

If you ever receive this error message in Outlook 2007: "The form cannot be displayed. The form...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/12/2007

Vista Sidebar Gadget Published

My first Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget has been published to gallery.live.com. This gadget wraps the...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/08/2007

Configuring Team Foundation Server to use a Remote WSS/SPS Installation

Here is an article on how to use an existing or remote instance of SharePoint with Team Foundation...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/01/2007

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....

Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/31/2007

Managing Virtual Server 2005 Through Terminal Services

When building a Virtual Server 2005 R2 installation on a remote machine through Terminal Services,...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/31/2007

Make Your Personal Appointments Private

For those of you on Exchange 2007 (and perhaps prior) use Outlook 2007 to make your appointments...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/31/2007

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...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/30/2007

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....

Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/25/2007

Restore Pre-Vista/Longhorn Backups

This utility restores compatability between backups made using pre-Vista/Longhorn builds of the OS....

Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/25/2007

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...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/18/2007

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...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/16/2007

How to Copy a Data Row from One DataTable to Another DataTable

The long story is in this KB article. https://support.microsoft.com/kb/308909 The short story is to...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/09/2007

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...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/09/2007

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...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/08/2007

Enterprise Library 3.0 CTP Uses Now

The Enterprise Library 3.0 CTP is of significant use to developers even if you don't plan to write...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/29/2006

BizTalk Visual Studio Solution Management

Here is a great post on how to organize your BizTalk projects and how to manage and version BTS...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/20/2006

Might be late with this, but check out the AJAX auto complete search from MSDN....

Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/17/2006

How to Convert VMWare Machines to Microsoft Virtual Machines (VHD)

I was struggling with this for some time. Here is a great link on how to do it easily! Many...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/14/2006

ASP.NET Control Registration Simplicity

Scott Guthrie has done it again and talks to us about how to register controls for pages in a web...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/14/2006

Development Using Web Parts

Quick tip for anyone doing Web Part development with MOSS. Change the build path of the project for...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/11/2006

Great MOSS Governance Articles

An internal resource just shot this out and I thought it would help me and hopefully you in the...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/05/2006

Explolitation of the Easter Eggs in Vista

I wrote earlier about a cool new Vista Easter Egg which allows you to use a command line to supply a...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/05/2006

Return of the SmartPart

The smart part is back! This version of the smart part is compatible with MOSS and WSS 3.0. This is...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/03/2006

A Very Cool Vista Easter Egg

It's only a matter of time before the coolest easter eggs for Vista start hitting the net. Check out...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/02/2006

Transformers the Movie on DVD

Just because I am a nerdy geek from the 80's, here is a fun tool many of you will love that you...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/21/2006

Load Testing SQL Server Reporting Services using Visual Studio 2005

Here is a great article on how to leverage the unit testing engine built into Visual Studio to test...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/19/2006

The Kid is Running RTM Bits

I just upgraded my desktop and laptop to RTM bits of Office and Vista. The upgrade went smoothly...

Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/17/2006

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