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• Using a Site Template (STP File) to create a site collection

  Site templates can be very useful for an easy custom starting point for common site usage. Site templates can be saved from any site (except publishing sites for some reason... ). These site templates are stored into the site collections site template... Posted Apr 21 2008, 09:37 AM by dwollerman with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, WSS, Site Collection, stsadm, Administration, Command Window, Template

• Remote Debugging GAC'd Assemblies in SharePoint

  Like alot of people in the SharePoint development community I have been using a VPC to do debugging of code through SharePoint. I don't really like this because for one, running an enterprise level application plus visual studio with a laptop and... Posted Apr 10 2008, 03:48 PM by dwollerman with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Remote, Debugging, Visual Studio

• Navigation in SharePoint Team Site w/ Publishing Infrastructure Activated

  I recently was looking into programmatically setting up navigation in publishing sites and came across a scenario I felt I should share with the community so everyone is aware of it, and to see if there is any help with a workaround. The scenario is that... Posted Apr 08 2008, 08:24 AM by dwollerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, WSS, Programming, Navigation, Publishing

• Corporate Intranet - Not just a web site anymore!

  The biggest issue related to the single site colleciton vs. multiple is the ability to drill down and find information manually. Every companies biggest hurdle is understanding that SharePoint is not just a single web site. It is a complete environment... Posted Mar 26 2008, 09:29 PM by dwollerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, Intranet, internet

• Managed Paths: What are you using?

  I know this is probably not the best place to conduct a survey, but I am curious on how people are using managed paths to organize their environment and architect their taxonomy. If you are using managed paths in a SharePoint environment, please offer... Posted Mar 04 2008, 09:46 AM by dwollerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, WSS, Managed Paths, survey

• My Sites and Memberships

  Memberships located in a users personal site are managed for the user automatically by 2 timer jobs that run. Profile Synchronization (default interval is every 1 hour) Quick Profile Synchronization (default interval is every 5 minutes) These schedules... Posted Feb 29 2008, 08:30 AM by dwollerman with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: User Profile, MOSS, SSP, Memberships

• Search Core Results Web Part and XSL Link Property

  I was customizing a search core results web part display recently and I wanted to have a sinle instance of the XSL used to translate the results since I will have multiple instances of the same search core results on many different site collections. I... Posted Feb 25 2008, 08:40 AM by dwollerman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, search, xsl, web parts

• Workaround for creating timer jobs after a restore in SharePoint

  *** UPDATE *** I was made aware of a fix in SP1 that should cover this issue. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422 I have recently done a restore of a SharePoint farm without first creating the web applications as Microsoft suggests. (read previous... Posted Feb 18 2008, 03:44 PM by dwollerman with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, WSS, Administration, Timer Jobs, Workaround

• Web Application Timer Jobs not automatically created when restoring from SharePoint backups

  *** UPDATE *** I was made aware of a fix in SP1 that should cover this issue. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422 SharePoint administrator beware!!! You must manually recreate your web applications (with the exact naming as compared to what was backed... Posted Jan 25 2008, 03:18 PM by dwollerman with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, errors, restore, KB

• Moving to a new database server (or instance)

  Updated on 1/28/2008 to include link to post related to web application timer jobs and SharePoint restore. There comes a time when SharePoint databases will have to be moved to another database server. The problem is that it is not that easy to just move... Posted Jan 02 2008, 02:42 PM by dwollerman with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Configuration, MOSS, SharePoint, sql, backup, restore, Moving Databases

• Site Collection Taxonomy Thoughts

  This post is inspired by a comment I recently recieved from someone asking about when to use site collections vs sub sites and what things are shared within a site collection and what things are not. Since I don't really see this type of foundation... Posted Nov 09 2007, 02:09 PM by dwollerman with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Site Collection, taxonomy

• Antivirus Products for SharePoint 2007

  Below I am starting a list of antivirus products available for SharePoint 2007. I have alot of people ask me about AV for sharepoint, but there is no real understand on who develops products for it. There are a few more vendors for SharePoint 2003 (McAffee... Posted Oct 09 2007, 10:32 AM by dwollerman with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, antivirus, products

• Huge MOSS Workflow Issue... What is Microsoft Thinking!!!!

  There is a problem with the workflow in MOSS. For some reason Microsoft decided that they need to purge the workflow associations after they are 60 days old. This means that when you looks at the workflow history for an item you will not see workflow... Posted Sep 21 2007, 10:13 AM by dwollerman with | with 33 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Workflow, Microsoft, Issue

• InfoPath 2007 Rich Client / Form Services / Document Information Panels

  This will become my list where I log some of the issues between running a form with an InfoPath rich client versus inside of SharePoint Form Services, outside of the warnings given within the designer. Please be welcome to share yours as well. I am sure... Posted Jul 01 2007, 07:03 PM by dwollerman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Forms Services, InfoPath

• Site Collection Logical Architecture

  This post is probably not relevant to most people, but I keep running into the same discussions with companies that are setting up SharePoint for the first time or have already set it up and are asking a lot of questions about why their environment is... Posted Jun 25 2007, 08:50 AM by dwollerman with | with 84 comment(s) Filed under: Configuration, MOSS, SharePoint, WSS, Database, Site Collection, Managed Paths, Architecture

• SharePoint 2007 Single Sign-On Setup

  I went through and ran through setting up SSO for a test environment to see what all the hype was about. I can't believe that the administration accounts are that confusing to setup. Here are the steps that I took to get the SSO configured and the... Posted Jun 25 2007, 08:49 AM by dwollerman with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Setup, SSO

• SharePoint Database Growth Rates

  I am not sure about everyone else, but I have seen SharePoint databases grow out of control. This happens especially when you have people install SharePoint that don't maintain or even understand SQL Server 2005. I have seen configuration databases... Posted Jun 25 2007, 08:47 AM by dwollerman with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Configuration, MOSS, SharePoint, WSS, Database

• Caution: User Profile Image

  I came across a weird thing the other day and wanted to share it. I was working with a my site and uploaded a large image for my user profile image. When it updated my profile, it did what I expected it to do. It put the image into a picture library and... Posted Jun 25 2007, 08:44 AM by dwollerman with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Weird Things, Configuration, User Profile, MOSS, SharePoint