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  • Where does Groove fit in?

    When Groove was aquired by Microsoft way back I was curious about how the had planned to integrate it into their existing information management infrastructure. After reading one of the latest articles on how to integrate Groove 2007 with SharePoint I'm...

  • Adding extra content to a list form

    In my current organisation we're going to implement a new issue tracking system when our users needs help with IT-related issues. The idea is that the end users are going to fill out the SharePoint forms themselves instead of calling or e-mailing...

  • One way to present media with SharePoint

    Mark Miller answered a question over at End User SharePoint on how to manage media files in SharePoint . The gist of the answer is "Don't use SharePoint to store them, just to present them and manage their metadata" - something I agree with...

  • A quick note about moving databases in SharePoint

    If you need to move databases from one server to another and not just from one disk to another on the same server there are some pretty good documentation to be found. The thing they neglect to mention - or at least the documentation I used (Microsoft...

  • One application to rule them all?

    The company I work for use a number of applications besides SharePoint and we're not sure how to leverage them all. At the moment we're concentrating on how to handle tasks and in this particular case we also have Microsoft CRM 4, Outlook 2007...

  • Troubleshooting "Faulting application w3wp.exe", pt 2

    Hello again. Let us jump right into where we left off, shall we? When logging on to the SharePoint server this morning I was greeted by a couple of error messages, stating that the IIS worker process had gone nutty. This was actually a source of joy as...

  • Troubleshooting "Faulting application w3wp.exe", pt 1

    I guess most of you have seen an error reporting dialog for the IIS Worker Process from time to time when you log on to your SharePoint (or IIS) server - I know I have and far too often. There is not a lot of information on how to properly troubleshoot...

  • How do I change the default field in a list?

    Hi all. There has been very little SharePoint consulting for me the past six months which means that this blog was left untouched and abandonded. I'm ashamed to say that I only update it now because I need help. :( When creating a custom list there's...

  • Deciphering the User Properties "move" javascript controls

    Ok, one of the worst subject lines ever, I know, but I'm not sure what to put there. Anyhow, the controls I'm talking about are the ones you use in the MOSS managment web site (this one I'm sure isn't in WSS as it's part of the SSP...

  • Why Alternate Access Mappings will give you a headache

    I love the new Alternate Access Mappings feature in WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 but it can be a major pain in the behind. One of the things you probably will stumble upon when installing MOSS is the need to expose some or all of the content to the outside. So far...

  • How to modify the Search Options dialog for the advanced people search

    While fooling around with the search result page I decided that it would be useful if my employees would be able to search explicit on these custom properties. I found a couple of tutorials on how to modify the "normal" advanced search page...

  • Why your modified search result doesn't include your custom properties

    I've been trying to get my modified people search result web part to behave for some time. My problem was that my custom properties wouldn't show up no matter what i did. I followed Henry Ong's guide to the T without success. After some searching...

  • Can I do this with a solution file?

    I have created a number of templates for various types of sites for our internal MOSS. One of these are a customer site that - among other things - has a subsite for all our projects related to this customer. When I save this site as a template I include...

  • How to elevate permissions?

    From time to time I need to elevate the permissions of a group of users. A recent example was when I created a FAQ discussion forum on our top level site in MOSS. Normally all our employees are visitors to the main site as we have special content managers for this site (it's a publishing site) but for this list they needed to be able to add content (contributor rights)....

  • Japanese != English

    While searching for information about web services in WSS 3.0 I noticed that MSDN didn't have a certain page in English so I got the Japanese one instead. I'm not sure how they figure that it was a good replacement as my knowledge of the Japanese...

  • Quick tip about adding new columns to a list

    I'm currently creating a rather extensive list for a customer. Extensive as in "contains a lot of columns". We could've created a list based on a spreadsheet but that didn't feel as organic as creating the columns as we go along so I'm doing it one by one. There are two minor gripes with this approach and the problem with minor gripes is that they become major gripes when encountered often enough. ...

  • A quick note about backup locations in WSS 3.0

    As I needed to tamper with a customer site in a virtual lab environment I decided to do a one-off backup of it via the admin GUI. After selecting the farm I decided to back this up to \\sharepointtest\c$\backup - a directory that I as administrator has full access to. To my frustration I got numerous errors that in ways indicated that the SQL databases was broken....

  • Top link tab not properly highlighted when selected

    I've been struggling with the top link tabs for a customers WSS 3.0 site for some time now. Some of the tabs would be highlighted properly when selected and some would not - reverting to highlighting the first tab in the list when selected....
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