Bobby Habib SharePoint & MOSS Blogging Space

iFilter 32-bit for MOSS performance test Adobe PDF v FOXIT

I think one of the most common tasks any new born MOSS environment gets as a christening, is a installation of a i-filter, to allow for adobe .pdf files to be indexed in there MOSS environments. So the likely hood of the adobe pdf ifilter is should be...

Published 12-10-2008 12:36 AM by bobbyhabib

Max Degree of Parrallelism for MOSS

I have had a few people recently ask me questions on what is the "Max Degree of Parrallelism" on a SQL database and when this setting should be changed in a MOSS environment. So I have done a little bit of digging around to try and understand...

Published 12-08-2008 5:26 PM by bobbyhabib

Leveraging the Object Cache, but there are considerations from a development perspective

One of the most simplest and effective ways to speed up your portal page loads is to leverage the Object Cache for MOSS, which comes as part of the product Out of the box. This settings can be modified in the SharePoint site : Site Actions > Modify...

Published 10-10-2008 1:39 AM by bobbyhabib

Applying Version 2 patch for MOSS PortalSheild for WSS 3.0

ISSUE: After applying Version 2 patch of Portalshield for WSS 3.0, you my see the following error: Event ID 3351 - SQL database login failed. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below. Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS...

Published 07-08-2008 6:25 AM by bobbyhabib

Using the Outlook Web Part and User Credentials

How do we get the OWA Web Part to work without prompting you to add user credentials and to autodetect the user without prompting for a password? Hmmm...Interesting. The best workaround I have seen for this so far is to set up x2 web sites on your OWA...

Published 07-08-2008 5:57 AM by bobbyhabib

Different type of MOSS caching mechanisms ?

SharePoint 2007 has a caching features built into itself to speed up the performance of site rendering, but does not do content synching or content replication. MOSS 2007 uses ASP.NET 2.0 caching options as well as caching functionality that the Office...

Published 07-02-2008 5:59 PM by bobbyhabib

What does Inter-Farm means in SharePoint ?

A sharepoint Inter-Farm means that a SharePoint Farm with its own SSP [Shared Service Provider] will share the SSP to other Farms. The other farm will consume the shared SSP, which allows the reduction of duplicate services. Please refer to the following...

Published 06-20-2008 12:48 PM by bobbyhabib

MOSS build 12.0000.6315.5000 Prime Update will be available publicly in June

Hey Community, Just to make you all aware that the Prime Rollup update is now available on request for Premier customers if required now, taking you to build 12.0000.6315.5000 and publicly available in June 2008. This hotfix come in the standard way of...

Published 05-27-2008 12:51 PM by bobbyhabib

Getting the correct MOSS / WSS version for each server in the farm

I have seen a few blogs recently talking about how to get the correct version of MOSS from your server's in your server farm. Sound easy enough. What I have seen; are articles telling you to go to the web sites properties of your site collection in...

Published 05-16-2008 6:01 PM by bobbyhabib

Troubleshooting SPSite/SPWeb leaks in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007

Just wanted to make the community aware of a new blog just written by Stefan Gobner (EE Engineer at Microsoft and also a colleague of mine). He explain very well the steps that can be taken by SharePoint Administrators to isolate if a site that contains...

Published 05-15-2008 2:41 AM by bobbyhabib

MOSS AntiVirus Guidelines

I find that a lot of companies implementing MOSS into their organisations are not really thinking about Antivirus software that is running at the Operating System level. There are a number of products out there talking about MOSS Antivirus plug in etc...

Published 04-22-2008 10:45 AM by bobbyhabib

MOSS - Error : Unable to find an entry point named 'OshFGetSafeHtmLAllocForManaged3' in DLL 'osafehtm.dll'

This is not a pretty error and can make you run around the house's trying to figure out what the hell is going on. The exception tend to occurs when you try to publish changes on a site page within MOSS. You normally see the following error stack...

Published 04-03-2008 11:09 PM by bobbyhabib

Create a Google Map Web Part for Free

So you are looking at creating a google map web part for your MOSS web site and for FREE and done in minutes. Well this can be achieved in minutes and you could surprise yourself! There is no special development required to achieve this, just a little...

Published 12-05-2007 11:13 AM by bobbyhabib

Closing of the SPWeb or SPSite Object within Web Part Development

I wrote a base class for one of my clients and started to gather some web part information within my base class inheritted from my Web Part. I started to use the base class and it worked well, until I wanted to edit the web part and tried to change some...

Published 11-28-2007 1:07 PM by bobbyhabib

Broken SharePoint Site Page

If you ever find that one of your web parts are erroring on a particular site because some custom web part is throwing an exception and stops the site page from loading then one of the first thing you should do is try adding contents=1 to the end of the...

Published 11-23-2007 11:42 AM by bobbyhabib

SharePoint End User Training Kit - Available Now - No Cost

Information Provided by Microsoft SharePoint Product & Technologies Team : The SharePoint End User Training Kit is Microsoft ShairePoint Product & Technologies offering for End User Material and it's available at no cost! The initial release...

Published 10-16-2007 1:25 AM by bobbyhabib

Creating your own custom Base Class with your own MOSS Web Part

I had a requirement that required me to create a custom base for web parts to provide a common library for web part development within MOSS. I started to research on how this could be done and found very little information that explained the whole process...

Published 10-16-2007 12:10 AM by bobbyhabib

List Types & List Internal ID available within MOSS 2007

The following lists the default lists types and their internal sharepoint ID available in MOSS 2007. This references list can prove to be handy when creating your own Site Definitions, List Definitions and for Event Handlers: Value Description 100 Generic...

Published 09-26-2007 5:39 PM by bobbyhabib

New MOSS implementation gives ACCESS DENIED error when using AD Form Based Authentication

After installing MOSS onto a Virtual Machine and trying to connect to the Portal not using the SharePoint service account initially you may find that you will recieve a "ACCESS DENIED" error. All of the users and permission that I have set up...

Published 09-18-2007 4:20 PM by bobbyhabib

MOSS Database Server Options

Backend Servers / SQL Server Principally, MOSS and Windows SharePoint Services v3 use a SQL Server database to store all of its documents, web pages, and metadata. Another database is used to store the configuration detail of the portal. In fact, almost...

Published 09-17-2007 3:08 PM by bobbyhabib

How to install SharePoint Server 2007 on a single machine

How to install SharePoint Server 2007 on a single machine How to do a simple installation of SharePoint (with SQL 2005) on a single machine to be used for a stand-alone development, demonstration or simple 'play-pen' server (normally on a virtual...

Published 09-17-2007 2:50 PM by bobbyhabib

Performance Guidelines for MOSS

Good Performance Guidelines for MOSS; They are guidelines for designing a server that has good overall performance. Site collections (Database scope) 50,000 ... Total throughput degrades as the number of site collections increases. Web sites (Web site...

Published 09-17-2007 2:46 PM by bobbyhabib

SharePoint 2007 Entity Hard / Maximum Limitations

SharePoint 2007 Maximum Limitation Following is a list of names and other parameters with the maximum allowable size on each. Entity Max Permissible Size Site Name 128 characters Site URL 255 characters Display name 128 characters Connection string 384...

Published 09-17-2007 2:36 PM by bobbyhabib

MOSS Out of the Box Web Parts

Web Parts Form Web Part Use to connect simple form controls to other Web Parts. Image Web Part Use to display pictures and photos. Members Use the Members Web Part to see a list of the site members and their online status. Page Viewer Web Part Use to...

Published 09-17-2007 12:12 PM by bobbyhabib

Types of MOSS Server Farms

Server farm environments can encompass a wide range of topologies, and can include many servers or as few as two servers commercially. To deploy a high-availability solution, you must deploy a server farm. By using a server farm, you mitigate against...

Published 09-17-2007 11:54 AM by bobbyhabib

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