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Tip: The untold story of Audit Logs in SharePoint
Auditing events is an important feature of SharePoint. Read this article to understand more around the list of events that can be audited when audit logging is enabled. Audit settings can be configured at the site collection level only. The logs are maintained Read More...
Posted 20 May 09 09:11 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 1 Comments   
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Interesting Read: SharePoint "Farm Communications"
A SharePoint farm is an extremely "chatty" environment. A lot of inter server communications keeps on happening all the time. I had been looking for a consolidated list of such things, when I came across this blog of the MCS (U.K) SharePoint Team. This Read More...
Posted 20 April 09 01:30 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 1 Comments   
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Tip: Avoid "bloating" of log files for large content databases during a MOSS upgrade
While upgrading a SharePoint farm to the December Cumulative update, there was an unprecendented growth of the databse log file for a large content database (size ~200GB) during the upgrade process. The database upgrade was failing as there was no space Read More...
Posted 16 March 09 10:34 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 0 Comments   
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Just Released: 10 Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions
The March 09 issue of MSDN magazine contains a very interesting article on " SharePoint: 10 Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions ". This is a must read for all SharePoint developers. It contains a summary of key practices that should be followed Read More...
Posted 03 March 09 06:32 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 0 Comments   
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How To: Delete corruption/orphaned records from the content databases
Orphaned records can cause a lot of trouble. The content databses should be inspected on a periodic basis to check for orphaned records. The following STSADM command may be used to check for corruption,- stsadm -o databaserepair -url { http://servername Read More...
Posted 14 September 08 07:02 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 0 Comments   
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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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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 Best Practices Analyzer 2.0
SharePoint best practices analyzer (available for download from here ) is an interesting tool that provides a quick preview of which of the best practices have not been followed in the MOSS environment. It typically executes a set of rules to check the Read More...
Posted 17 July 08 11:38 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 0 Comments   
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Optimized Object model API code for uploading large files to a SharePoint document library
The following code block contains an optimized code for uploading large files (>500 MB) to a SharePoint document library. This code may be used to circumvent Out of Memory exceptions when the process loads the entire file in memory for uploading. //Get Read More...
Posted 29 April 08 01:53 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 1 Comments   
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Hide "Upload Multiple" toolbar menu item
Came across a requirement where we needed to hide the "Upload Multiple" toolbar menu item from the default view of document libraries. Observed that using the "HideCustomAction" section in a custom feature file doesn't work for this. Workaround - Edit Read More...
Posted 04 April 08 03:43 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 0 Comments   
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Avoid enumerating SPListItemCollection object
Enumerating a SPListItemCollection object should be avoided for data querying purposes. for e.g. in the following code is not optimal, using(SPSite site = new SPSite(siteURL)) { using(SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) { SPList tasksList = web.Lists["Tasks"]; Read More...
Posted 28 March 08 05:42 by Subhajit.Chatterjee | 3 Comments   
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