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70-542 TS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Application Development and 70-631 TS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring
I just passed 70-542 and it's a short one, just 32 questions to challenge your knowledge; subjects I remember: BDC Search customization Audiences Membership Excel Services Policies I don't remember 70-631 details but it was not that difficult, I think Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:32 PM by Ricardo Loo | 0 Comments

You can’t create a SSP right?
Sometimes I find this error when I’m creating Shared Service Provider (SSP). Provisioning failed: User cannot be found. Yes, it happens a lot and there are some places to look at, usually I find myself updating user accounts for: Search and SSPs: I use Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:43 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

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SharePoint, Twitter and Hashtags
Well, there’s a lot of SharePoint information out there but how do I keep up with this ocean of information? Of course there are several ways but one that has worked for me is to use this technologies together. Ok, first you (and several other people) Read More...

Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 9:37 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

70-630 Configuring Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
I just passed this exam and I have to say that it’s not that difficult, I studied with self-test software (I’m not going to say which one) and I have to say that the questions in this self-test suck… While I was studying I found some questions that I Read More...

Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 11:06 AM by Ricardo Loo | 2 Comments

SharePoint Learning Kit 1.2 and Alternate Access Mappings
I am currently working with SLK and setup a basic site with Learning Features. I also configured this webapp to be available from the outside so I configured both default and external zones for this webapp. I could access the site from both the http://internal Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:49 AM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

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SharePoint Products and Technologies Open Protocols
Microsoft is implementing four new interoperability principles and actions across some high volume products: Ensuring Open Connections. Promoting Data Portability. Enhancing Support for Industry Standards. Fostering more open engagement with customers Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:11 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

Post SP1 Rollup Hotfix Package...
So it seems that there were some issues to watch after SP1... WSS Post SP 1 rollup - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422 MOSS Post SP 1 rollup - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941274 Regards Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:03 PM by Ricardo Loo | 2 Comments

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Teaching and Learning SharePoint Technologies
I get this request almost from every customer and some partners... hey teach me MOSS, teach me WSS. It's a good idea to begin with but there's a stopper... prerequisites. If you are teaching (or learning) SharePoint technologies you should be aware of Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:17 PM by Ricardo Loo | 3 Comments

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I have only one W3WP and many App Pools!!!
Ok, first of all I'm not that IIS guru, so I will only explain to the point that I understand. Yesterday I was trying to build some new Web Applications all in the 80 port (from Central Admin) for my MOSS farm and I found that if I put the same IIS header Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:27 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Now Available
Yesterday Microsoft released the Service Pack 1 for the Office 2007 suite, including servers like MOSS and Project Server 2007. For the Office 2007 suite you can go here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9EC51594-992C-4165-A997-25DA01F388F5&displaylang=en Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:38 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

MOSS Audience compilation doesn't return any members
Just a little note on setting audience rules. Early today I set up my audiences based on a property, when I compiled them the number of members was 0. I rechecked my audience rules, these were ok. When I checked the property it had the " Default Privacy Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:21 AM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

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MOSS' blobcache causing 404 errors
Yesterday I found myself with a problem with this MOSS feature. For some reason we had to delete our dev site collection. When we tried to recreate it the site was created succesfully but every resource needed for the main page was lost (404 error for Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:32 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

Install MOSS Language Pack
This is for the new ones... You'll find that MOSS' Language Packs are in .img format; you can load those to your server with Virtual CD-ROM. It works with Windos Server 2003. http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/b/6/7b6abd84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.ex Read More...

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 7:29 PM by Ricardo Loo | 0 Comments

Don't modify your MOSS files, even core.css, menu.css...
I recently have seen many partners modifying these files, just note that Microsoft support will ask you to restore these files in order to attend your case. A better approach is to create your own (css, aspx...) folders and files in the 12 "hive" to better Read More...

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 7:18 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

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