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• SharePoint 2007 Forms Authentication with Sql Server

  Dan Attis has two great articles about configuring forms authentication against SQL Server with MOSS. Part one - Configuring Forms Authentication with SharePoint http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/02/23/Office_SharePoint_Server_2007_Forms_Based_Authentication_FBA_Walkthrough_Part_1... Posted Aug 03 2007, 07:33 AM by Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's blog Filed under: SharePoint 2007, Sticky

• Tip - Quickly find out an assembly's public key

  When working with MOSS / WSS you need to find out the Public Key Token of your assembly for a feature, manifest or the web.config file. One of the ways to retrieve the Public Key Token is to build the project (making sure the assembly is signed) and drop... Posted Jul 30 2007, 06:57 AM by Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's blog Filed under: SharePoint 2007, WSS V3, Sticky

• Get a hotfix without calling MS

  You can now request hotfixes via the web. This saves time phoning up a MS customer service operator, explaining the problem, hot fix number and product the hot fix relates to. Hotfixes that haven't been made public are also available. Screen shot... Posted Jul 30 2007, 06:56 AM by Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's blog Filed under: Sticky

• SharePoint 2007 SQL Server Failure Audits in Event Log

  Q. Are your event log's getting full of SQL Server Failure Audits for a service account or database access account you have created for MOSS? Q. Have you also re-installed MOSS? If you have answered yes to both of the above questions then you will... Posted Jul 24 2007, 11:29 AM by Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's blog Filed under: SharePoint 2007, Sticky

• SharePoint 2007 Running SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges

  In SharePoint Portal Server 2003 you may have needed to impersonate a user with higher priveledges than the current user executing the code. You did this using WindowsIdentity.Impersonate() method. In SharePoint 2007 and WSS V3 you have SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges... Posted Jul 18 2007, 06:38 AM by Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's blog Filed under: SharePoint 2007, WSS V3, Sticky

• SPS Site Template - Is it really obsolete?

  Venkat Varkala discusses in his post whether the SPS site template is infact obsolete. In the webtempsps.xml you have the following: Posted Jul 18 2007, 02:47 AM by Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's blog Filed under: SharePoint 2007, Sticky

• Adding web.config settings to you WSS or MOSS site

  This article describes how to add web.config settings automatically to your new web applications under WSS V3 and SharePoint 2007. You need to create a file in the format of webconfig.[name].xml, copy the file to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft... Posted Jul 18 2007, 02:45 AM by Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's blog Filed under: SharePoint 2007, WSS V3, Sticky

• Blog tools - Colour code you C#, HTML or XML code

  I found this great tool for formatting your code ready for your blog. http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/. Turns this: Posted Jul 18 2007, 02:27 AM by Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's blog Filed under: Sticky, Misc

• Hosting UserControls vs Delegate Control

  There are two main approaches for adding user controls to your site: Deploying them to the "wpresources" folderUsing the DelegateControlMany people have blogged about each technique, but which is the best or the recommended approach?Tony Rahbun... Posted Jul 13 2007, 07:39 AM by Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's blog Filed under: SharePoint 2007, WSS V3, Sticky

• SharePoint 2007 Virtual Labs

  Here's a list of SharePoint 2007 Virtual Labs Building InfoPath Forms that Run as Both Rich Client and Browser Applications Virtual Lab - become familiar with browser-based scenarios for Office InfoPath 2007 forms.Creating Workflows for Microsoft... Posted Jul 10 2007, 11:22 AM by Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's blog Filed under: SharePoint 2007, WSS V3, Sticky, Labs

• SharePoint 2007 Backup Failed - Cannot open backup device

  You may have seen this error Error: Object SharePoint_Config failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. SqlException: Cannot open backup device '\\servername\backup\spbr0001\0000001.bak'... Posted Jul 10 2007, 11:18 AM by Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's blog Filed under: SharePoint 2007, Sticky, Backup, Cannot open backup device