August 2008 - Posts

Just released - Best practices for MOSS
Prescriptive guidance around the best "design and operational practices" for SharePoint environments is now at Technet . The guidance is based on real-world experience of SharePoint consultants across various customer engagements. Read More...
Posted 31 August 08 07:29 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 1 Comments   
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Provision Central Admin into another machine in the same Farm
Recently, I came across a scenario where in the "Central Admin" site had become unresponsive. The server might have developed a temporary snag which could have resulted in this. If you would know, during any farm setup, the Central Admin web site is created Read More...
Posted 29 August 08 06:32 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 1 Comments   
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Source code for the Silverlight blueprints for SharePoint is now available at CodePlex
Source code for the Silverlight blueprints for SharePoint which works with Silverlight beta 2 release is now available at CodePlex. Developers can now easily learn to integrate silverlight applications with SharePoint. Refer the following link for more Read More...
Posted 19 August 08 07:23 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 0 Comments   
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SharePoint Training
Let's spread the word of "SharePoint" . There is a whole set of trainings targetted for all kinds of audiences on the various features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Thought of providing a consolidated list for the benefit of one and all Read More...
Posted 12 August 08 07:03 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 0 Comments   
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Document Property Promotion and Demotion
Ever wondered why the custom properties (such as author, title, subject, etc) associated with a file are automatically picked up during the upload process? This is due to the "Document Property Promotion and Demotion" feature available in SharePoint. Read More...
Posted 12 August 08 01:08 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 0 Comments   
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How To: Construct absolute url for any item using the SPSite object
In the case when we need to get the absolute url for any item, we can make use of the instance method SPSite.MakeFullUrl. Example use,- using(SPSite site = new SPSite(mysiteurl)) { using(SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) { //.. Other lines of code string absoluteURL Read More...
Posted 09 August 08 09:37 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 0 Comments   
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SharePoint Database Schema Information
Lot of us might be interested to know the schema information for SharePoint configuration and content databases. Read the documentation here . Warning! Do not modify any of the tables in the database directly. It is strictly not supported by Microsoft Read More...
Posted 09 August 08 09:29 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 2 Comments   
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SharePoint Backup and Restore: Same amount of free space required for initiating full or incremental backups
Just observed that during initiation of SharePoint Disater Recovery Backups (via STSADM or Central Admin), it expects the same amount of free space to be available on the UNC path irrespective of whether you are taking a full or incremental backups. This Read More...
Posted 09 August 08 09:11 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 0 Comments   
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