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• Assigning SharePoint Groups to Tasks in SharePoint Designer Workflows

  I recently had an interesting issue crop up for me. I created a SharePoint Designer (SPD) workflow that acts somewhat as a state machine workflow using the "collect data from user" option. This option creates a task, assigns a user, and returns... Posted Jun 05 2008, 11:59 AM by dwollerman with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, Workflow, Security, SharePoint Groups, SharePoint Designer

• 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

• Logging exceptions to the SharePoint Trace Log (Diagnostic Logging)

  Microsoft has a great piece of example code that you can copy and paste into your solution and start using on how to write to the SharePoint trace log. these are the log files that get created from setting up "Diagnostic Logging" under Central... Posted Apr 11 2008, 02:10 PM by dwollerman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, WSS, Logging, Diagnostics

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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