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Welcome to my first post in a series of "Must Knows" for SharePoint 2010. Since you cannot install SharePoint 2010 without a SQL Server, this fist part is about what people should know about SQL Server before installing SharePoint 2010. And of course before installing the SQL Server. This post...
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Last week I was visiting a client to troubleshoot the SharePoint environment. A strange error they were experiencing was that when they were trying to add users in SharePoint, they received an Access Denied page. However, the user(s) were actually added succesfully. The same happened when removing users...
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I had a very annoying problem last week trying to add a user as Farm Administrator in SharePoint Server 2007. When accessing Central Administration, the user got an 401 Unauthorized page when pressing on the Operations or Application Management tabs. In the Eventviewer on the server I saw the following...
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SharePoint and IIS users in general, beware! One of the latest Windows Updates initiates a shutdown of all IIS 6.0 application pools. The following hotfix is the culprit: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973917 It is not possible to start the application pools again after the installation. You will probably...
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This week I discovered the new Update Center for Office products like SharePoint: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx It seems a great site that especially system administrators should bookmark. All the most recent updates are listed there which makes it easy to track the latest versions...
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So, I was thinking about writing some general posts concerning daily life in IT. Not about the technical aspect (you know: this problem, that solution), but more about the other stuff. Things that happen at customers, the way I see IT or at least the way I look at the things I do. And especially, the...
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Since Service Pack 2, it's not possible anymore to crawl a MOSS 2007 Web Application, without the presence of a root Site Collection. And if you use IIS 7.0 HTTP Redirection to redirect the root to a different URL, MOSS 2007 can't see there is actually a root Site Collection. If that sentence...
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And now for something completely different , me for once not talking about problems or screwed up stuff in Sharepoint, BUT about something I actually like. Well, I really like Search Server 2008 Express . When customers nowadays want to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 I always recommend SS 2008...
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So, it's here, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 2. For all information, downloads, instructions, check THIS LINK . Have fun Tom
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As you all know, in SQL Server (any version actually) you have the options "Auto Create Statistics" and "Auto Update Statistics". By default this is enabled (these parameters are set to true on the model database and thus to all newly create databases). So, what happened? At a customer...
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Aren't logon popup boxes annoying? Especially when you're browsing on your intranet MOSS 2007 sites? Oh common, I'm connected to the corporate network, I'm logged in to the corporate Active Directory and still I'm getting logon boxes... Basically, this is Internet Explorer security...
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So, what about it? First the basics: For each Web Application in MOSS 2007 you have at least 1 database. In that database you can put your Site Collections. (How to dedicate databases for Site Collections, that you can read here .) And now in Fight Club style: The first rule of MOSS 2007 is: you do not...
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Nowadays, for all new installations, we use Windows Server 2008. Of course this is the new OS server platform you really want to use. (I won't get started on the benefits of Windows Server 2008, I bet you can find that on the Microsoft site). There was only one problem though. When installing MOSS...
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This week we had a huge performance issue with SharePoint at a customer. The w3wp process took a huge amount of memory for itself (1,4 - 1,5 gigabyte) without any user activity. Another symptom was that while performing a full / incremental crawl, the server suffered from very high CPU usage. Since I...
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Hello there, Before ranting about IT, a proper introduction seems fit. My name is Gert Lievens and I'm here to share some of my experiences related to SharePoint and SQL Server ... stuff :) Besides IT, I spend a lot of time: - Watching movies - Playing games - Going out - Listening to music - Reading...