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Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:37 PM

One or more files in the restored site collection will exceed the maximum supported path length. Please select a shorter destination site address and try again.

I had a customer encounter an error while trying to restore a site collection using STSADM -O RESTORE.   They had backed up the site collection without error from the same farm, but when they tried to restore the site collection using a new URL to
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Friday, May 15, 2009 10:01 AM

Latest WSS & MOSS Patches and Service Pack 2 04/2009

Good news for those of you who like the “pleasure” of patching SharePoint, we have four new updates for you, WSS and MOSS Service Pack 2 and the WSS and MOSS April Cumulative Update packages.  If you have a multi-lingual farm, you will also need
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Monday, May 11, 2009 6:03 PM

How to Disable Property Promotion In WSS

I was working with a customer recently that has a business need to disable property promotion/demotion in WSS/MOSS.  If you don’t know what property promotion is, it’s the functionality in WSS that pulls the document metadata (e.g. Title, Subject,
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Friday, April 24, 2009 11:19 AM

Flush BlobCache on all Servers In the Farm

A colleague of mine was working on a BlobCache issue with a customer.  During troubleshooting, they wanted to flush the cache store on all the servers in the farm.  Under Site Settings, we provide site administrators the option to flush the
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:37 PM

WSS and MOSS Language Pack Slipstreaming

In case you didn’t know, you can slipstream server pack 1 (or the latest SP) of a language pack into the RTM service pack installation point, creating a single install point for each language pack include includes SP1.  You may think, big deal, I’m
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:00 AM

Latest WSS & MOSS Patches 02/2009

The WSS and MOSS server packages for the February Cumulative Update have been released.  These two packages are cumulative from SP1, so on new or existing farms you only need to install SP1 (use the pre-build the slipstreamed downloads ( x86 &
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:06 AM

Latest WSS and MOSS Patches

Update, see the latest update on the February CU packages here .   Great news for WSS and MOSS patching!   From this point forward each Cumulative Update will also consist of a package that contains the latest of every hotfix patch that we have
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Monday, November 03, 2008 3:11 PM

Lastest WSS and MOSS Patches - 10/2008

Please refer to the newest updates, posted here: http://blogs.msdn.com/josrod/archive/2008/12/17/latest-wss-and-moss-patches.aspx UPDATED: 12/11/2008 - 957693 was relased with 957175 built in (they are identical patches [complicated stort as to why this
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:13 PM

Lastest WSS and MOSS Patches - 9/2008

For those of you that are building a new WSS and/or MOSS farm, I've assembled a list of the patches you will need to build a "lastest and greatest" farm. The list below is published for an RTM farm, but if you have a farm in production already, you only
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:13 PM

WSS and MOSS Infrastructure Updates Released

Today we released some very important updates for WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2007, Project Server 2007, Search Server 2008 (Full and Express) and Project Professional 2007. This updates includes fixes for several areas of the product, including search, content
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:26 PM

A SharePoint "Related" Patch

There's an IIS 6.0 update that recently came out that should be applied to all WSS/MOSS servers, as it often falls victim. JB has more on his blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/jb/archive/2008/02/28/so-your-iis-manager-comes-up-blank-too.aspx You can get
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Monday, April 14, 2008 1:55 PM

Windows SharePoint Services & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server hotfixes for March 27, 2008

The latest post SP1 global WSS and MOSS patches are: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: March 27, 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/?id=950487 Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: March 27, 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/?id=950484
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Monday, March 17, 2008 6:52 PM

Lastest SharePoint 2003 Post SP3 Updates Released

Just in case anyone is looking, the WSS & SPS 2003 post SP3 rollup packages have been released. The links are below for quick reference. Windows SharePoint Services 2003 Windows SharePoint Services SP3 Download Site http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2BBFC89B-EB59-49FF-B58F-684693CB25A7&displaylang=en
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Sunday, February 03, 2008 4:38 PM

Install Zune 2.3 on Server 2008 x64

After a couple failed attempts and a bunch of swearing at the " The media for installation package couldn't be found. It might be incomplete or corrupt. " error message, I ended up going through the required components, finding that "Windows Format SDK"
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:47 PM

WSS 2003 Post SP3 Hotfix Package Released

Details are in KB941412 , but it's got a couple notable updates, one specifically for a New Zealand DST change. You'll have to contact MS to get the download or use our new hotfix request system linked in the KB. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/94141
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