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Office Web Service

Office Web Service The Office Services Web service is used by Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a communication channel between Web servers and application servers. This service uses the following ports: TCP 56737 TCP/SSL 56738 Access to the web service

My Site Recommendations

My Site Recommendations The following My Site recommendations are a composite of best practices taken from experiences at Microsoft and other large customers. Planning My Sites (even if they are as small as possible and only really used to store a profile

Vanity Site Collection URLs

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Vanity Site Collection URLs

v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Vanity Site Collection URLs A customer recently asked for “vanity” URLs for each of the major departments; HR,

Hidden SSP Timer Jobs

Not all timer jobs are visible in the Central Administration timer job definition page. There are MOSS 2007 timer jobs in the SSP application which don’t appear in the Central Administration page. It makes sense that these jobs are not visible, since

“Hidden” SSP Timer Jobs

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SharePoint Database Log File Cancer

SharePoint Database Log File Cancer The database log files can grow like cancer, consuming large amounts of disk storage and impacting performance if not properly managed. This can be a particular problem for smaller deployments without dedicated DBAs

ULS Log File Data Mining

ULS Log File Data Mining Finding meaningful information in SharePoint ULS logs is frustrating. It can be like finding a needle in a hay stack. Assume you want to find all the Exceptions thrown in the last 72 hours. You go to the LOGS folder (but due to

Deleting User Profiles

This post was published to Jimmie's Sharings at 9:42:27 AM 4/5/2008 Deleting User Profiles The out-of-the-box UI provides a means to manually remove user profiles. Navigate to SSP Admin > User Profile and Properties > View User Profiles . Search

How are SSP Associations Changed?

I recently heard a question, “How do you change SSP web application associations through the object model (OM)?” Searching the OM online help didn’t find any results. Any yet theoretically, it must be possible, since you can set the web application SSP

How are SSP Associations Changed?

I recently heard a question, “How do you change SSP web application associations through the object model (OM)?” Searching the OM online help didn’t find any results. Any yet theoretically, it must be possible, since you can set the web application SSP

DST and Timer Jobs

Now that daylight savings has arrived in the United States, have you noticed problems with timer jobs not running when expected? I recently encountered this trying to deploy solution packages using stsadm scripts. In the past, these scripts ran flawlessly.

User Profile Change Logging

Profile Change Logging There is a table in the SSP database named UserProfileEventLog . The table maintains a history of user profile property changes. By default, it retains 7 days of history. This table can cause problems in a couple of ways. First

SharePoint Database Log File Cancer

SharePoint Database Log File Cancer The database log files can grow like cancer, consuming large amounts of disk storage and impacting performance if not properly managed. This can be a particular problem for smaller deployments without dedicated DBAs

ULS Log File Data Mining

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