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Chad's Eclectic Tips and Tricks
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Tip 1: The right way to upgrade to a SharePoint Service Pack or Update
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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Tip 2: Updating Big Content Farms
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Tip 3: Better Upgrade Troubleshooting
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Tip 4: No Mouse, No Problem
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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Tip 5: Use a SQL Connection Alias
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over 5 years ago
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Tip 6: Browsing to a Document Library
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over 5 years ago
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Tip 9: Adding Accounts to a Site
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. The reason I didn’t say in the title of this post “Adding...
Tip 10: Recycling is good for SharePoint’s Environment Too
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. Did you know that there are 2 recycle bins in SharePoint?...
Tip 11: Troubleshooting SharePoint Events Log Entries with EventTriggers.exe
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Foundation 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and really any Windows computer, XP and up which is writing an Event Log entry...
Tip 12: Hide in plain view with SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. To celebrate my watching of a classic ninja movie...
Tip 13: What’s Old is New
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. Here is a tip for those of you who want to interface...
Tip 14: Virtual SharePoint
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. With data center consolidation, green data centers...
Tip 15: An unspecified Error Has Occurred
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. Did you know that administrators can enable more...
Tip 16: Moving the Default Logging Location
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. SharePoint logs are a great source to find in-depth...
Tip 17: That’s A Lot of Commands
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Did you know that in WSS 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 there are > 200 stsadm.exe commands? Please see the following link for a complete...
Tip 26: Separation of Authentication
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. Take the following example. You have a SharePoint web application with both NTLM and anonymous...
Tip 27: Workflow Overflow
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 , Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 . There is a hidden list in SharePoint called Workflow History . This list is hidden from...
Tip 28: Keep Slim and Trim
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 , SharePoint Portal Server 2003 , Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 , Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 , SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 . To reduce update surface and reduce...
Tip 29: X-Header Marks the Spot
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 , Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 . Although it is a good practice to manage the RFC 2822 header fields, or X-Headers in...
Tip 30: Better Logs = Better Troubleshooting
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip pertains to all versions of SharePoint and no versions of SharePoint. It is really more of an IIS troubleshooting tip. But we’ll let it slide for today. :) The extended logging options in IIS can help in troubleshooting issues in SharePoint...
Tip 31: The 411 on 401s
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over 4 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip pertains to all versions of SharePoint and no versions of SharePoint. Again, it is really more of an IIS troubleshooting tip. Since you have gone through Tip 30 and enabled all of the extended logging options in IIS you will not doubt have...
Tip 32: Are My Servers Offloading?
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over 4 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 , SharePoint Portal Server 2003 , Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 , Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 , SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 when running on Windows 2003 SP1 w/ Scalable...
New SharePoint Foundation 2010 Update Out - KB2032588
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
If your SharePoint 2010 servers are running Automatic Updates you may see a new SharePoint Foundation 2010 update listed. Update 2032588 was released yesterday, July 13, 2010. For more information on what this update contains see the following KB; http...
Tip 36: SharePoint Search Server Name Mappings
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over 4 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 , Search Server 2008 , SharePoint Server 2010 and Search Server 2010 Express . Need to return search results with a different URL than the URL that was crawled by SharePoint? You can do this using...
Tip 19: Keep Track of That Application Pool
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010; when running on IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0/7.5 with the IIS...
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