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Configuring inter-farm shared Services

When configuring Inter-Farm Shared Services, as per the following article , there is a slight variation. If you’re running MOSS Standard, in the child farm, you won’t see the option to select an SSP for the local Excel Services, since the farm cannot Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 21, 2009 12:29 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

SSO NOT WORKING AFTER CONFIGURING PARENT/CHILD FARM

I recently ran across a scenario where SSO stopped working in a parent/child SSP farm set up. In this instance, there was one farm. A new parent SSP farm was created. SSO was configured there. The child farm was connected to the new parent farm. All the Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 21, 2009 10:47 AM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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PSConfig/Content Database Attach Error - "Unknown server error number: d"

I recently ran into an issue when applying the MOSS August CU. This issue is not necessarily isolated to this patch. When the patch ran, the B2B upgrade process was failing in the site collection action upgrade sequence. The specific step was 12.1. 6301 Read More...
Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 9:03 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

Limiting the number of site collections in a content database

In my opinion, part of being a good SharePoint admin is to pay attention to the size of your content databases and try to keep them to a specified maximum size. (Usually for DR reasons) In order to do this, you should limit the number of site collections Read More...
Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 11:04 AM by ronalg | 0 Comments

Object Model exports bad audit log XML

I've recently been doing some work analyzing audit logs for a customer. Exporting the audit logs via the Site Collection's Administration pages reports fails due to the amount of data I'm pulling back, so I've turned to the Object Model to get the data Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:10 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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SharePoint Patching Story Improves! (a little bit)

If you haven't had the pleasure of patching WSS 3.0 or MOSS2007, you're missing a real fun experience. If you are one of the folks who've had to go through the pain, there's some good news for you. If you're particularly adept at reading KB articles, Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:40 AM by ronalg | 1 Comments

Using Team Foundation Server (TFS) for SharePoint Development

Here's a good read for all of you developers out there. We've finally published some guidance on how to use Team Foundation Server for your SharePoint development projects . This post is LONG overdue in my opinion, but we finally have it. The following Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:18 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

Setting up cross farm searches via Federated Search

In recent months I've seen significant issues with search crawl times at numerous customers who have deployed MOSS globally. The issues often are caused by the need to crawl other farms across the world, so "global" results will show up on one search Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:02 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

SQL Maintenance for SharePoint Databases

If you don't already know, you can't treat SharePoint databases like any other database in regards to SQL Server. Here's a listing of articles that talk to what you can do. Before doing any maintenance, PLEASE read these articles. Index fragmentation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:15 AM by ronalg | 2 Comments

MOSS Farms with Windows Server 2003 and 2008

Due to the confusion around running x86 and x64 in MOSS farms and it's supportability, I wanted to take a minute to talk about Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 machines in one farm. Some of the SharePoint PMs confirmed internally there are Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 2:09 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

ForeFront for SharePoint Issue

This post's goal is to serve as a word of warning when using ForeFront and SharePoint together. If you're going to disable ForeFront (or any of its services), please first disconnect SharePoint and ForeFront in Central Admin for SharePoint. If you don't, Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 1:52 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

Advanced Search "Contains" Option

In some of the more recent builds of MOSS, the "contains" and "does not contain" options for advanced searches have been removed. This was done because of query performance concerns expressed by a significant number of customers. If you are not worried Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:04 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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Comparing Dates in a custom SharePoint "Tasks" List

I had a customer question recently that required a bit of thought. They were building what essentially amounted to a glorified tasks list. They had set up numerous fields to collect details, but the two of concern are Due Date and Completion Date. By Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:41 AM by ronalg | 1 Comments

SharePoint PDF iFilters

I often work with customers who are running the 64 bit version of MOSS, and they always want to know what the story with PDF support is. Yes, you can hack the Adobe 32 bit iFilter to work on your 64 bit farm, but it's probably not a good idea, as it's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:58 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

New SharePoint Developer Site

A couple of weeks ago we released a new website for SharePoint that caters to devleopers. If you're a developing on SharePoint, or thinking about it, check this site out. http://www.mssharepointdeveloper.com/ Read More...
Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 11:53 AM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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