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Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:53 AM

interfacing SharePoint with Akamai

What is Akamai? Think of Akamai as a very intelligent, caching, reverse proxy server, which sits in front of your SharePoint farm. External user requests go to Akamai servers first. If Akamai has the content cached, it serves the content directly back
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Sunday, June 07, 2009 9:37 AM

IIS 6.0 Compression

Introduction Overview – What Problem Does IIS Compression Solve? Total response time is composed of 3 major components. This can be expressed as a formula: User response time = server processing time + network transmission time + client rendering time
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Saturday, June 06, 2009 4:50 PM

ACL Limitations

The Problem Before talking about SharePoint, it is necessary to talk about the Windows operating system. Security authorization is based on Access Control Lists, or ACLs. An ACL is a list of access control entries (ACE). Each ACE identifies a security
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 5:22 AM

Office Server Web Service Authorization

Office Server Web Service Authorization I recently encountered a mystery . I was testing a newly written utility that called the object model method Content.ContentSources to get a list of the search content sources. The utility functioned perfectly on
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Monday, February 16, 2009 4:15 PM

Content Deployment and CEWP Absolute URLs

Content Deployment and CEWP Absolute URLs The Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) has a Rich Text Editor. This allows non-technical authors to generate custom content using a web part. This is a great feature for team collaboration sites, but some customers
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:54 AM

Why Bring Down the Entire Farm for Patches?

Why Bring Down the Entire Farm for Patches? Many customers are surprised to learn they have to bring down their SharePoint farm just to apply a hotfix or service pack, and express frustration when told there is no other option. Why is it necessary to
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:46 PM

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
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 4:51 PM

Information Management Policies – Expiration

Information Management Policies – Expiration The question is, when an information management expiration policy is defined, is the expiration period applied immediately or at some future time? If the answer is, at some future time, exactly what is that
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:19 PM

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
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Sunday, June 01, 2008 9:05 AM

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,
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Sunday, June 01, 2008 9:01 AM

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,
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 3:44 PM

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
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:21 AM

“Hidden” SSP Timer Jobs

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Sunday, April 20, 2008 8:58 AM

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
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 8:50 AM

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
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