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Tip 20: “Papers Please!”, or SharePoint Extranet Authentication
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over 5 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Did you know that you have many options available for account storage and authentication in extranet scenarios in SharePoint by using Forms Based Authentication...
Tip 19: Keep Track of That Application Pool
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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...
Tip 18: Trust in Thy SharePoint
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over 5 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
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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 entering an account to a securable SharePoint...
Tip 17: That’s A Lot of Commands
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over 5 years ago
by
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 16: Moving the Default Logging Location
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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. SharePoint logs are a great source to find in-depth...
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 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 13: What’s Old is New
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. Here is a tip for those of you who want to interface...
Tip 12: Hide in plain view with SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl
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over 5 years ago
by
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 11: Troubleshooting SharePoint Events Log Entries with EventTriggers.exe
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
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 10: Recycling is good for SharePoint’s Environment Too
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
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 9: Adding Accounts to a Site
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
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 8: What Is a Configuration Cache and Why Do I Care About It?
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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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. Many times when troubleshooting an issue with Microsoft the engineer will have a customer...
Tip 7: Set Diagnostic Logging Back to Defaults
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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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. One great way to troubleshoot any SharePoint issue is to set the SharePoint diagnostics...
Tip 6: Browsing to a Document Library
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over 5 years ago
by
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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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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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 3: Better Upgrade Troubleshooting
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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Tip 2: Updating Big Content Farms
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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Tip 1: The right way to upgrade to a SharePoint Service Pack or Update
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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Introducing SharePoint Tip of the Day
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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In the spirit of Sara Ford's Visual Studio 2008 Tip of the Day ( http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/07/21/introducing-visual-studio-2008-tip-of-the-day.aspx ); I am going to attempt to put out a SharePoint Tip of the Day. I will not be version...
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