Date: 9/14/10 Time: 1 pm PST Title: Search Your Way to Success: Leveraging SharePoint's Search Capabilities in Public Web Sites Partner : Ironworks Consulting Abstract: Learning Objectives & Key Takeaways: Objective 1: Understand the key principles...

Yesterday the product group released the August 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process)...

In case you are waiting for August CU for WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007: be aware that this update will not install if SP2 is not installed. Support for SP1 was retired on 13th July: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&p1=12200&x=12&y=12

Yesterday the first cumulative update for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released as a delayed June 2010 CU. Unlike the WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 cumulative updates this first cumulative update is not available as server package but has been...

In MOSS 2007 we often had support calls where content deployment failed due to event handlers firing and updating content during import.

Event handlers or feature activation code which modifies site content on the target system can cause all kind of issues:

1. Can cause deadlocks with conflicting with the import operation
2. Might create new items which will are also included in the package being imported causing import to fail later with GUID conflicts.

To overcome this problem developers had the challenge to either detect that the event handler was fired in context of an import operation (which was not trivial) or a different version of the event handler code had to be installed on the target system to avoid performing the operations.

With SharePoint 2010 there is now a new class available....

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This article discusses functionality changes in SharePoint 2010:

• Export from Database Snapshots 
• New Export Settings
• New Import Settings
• Functionality removed from the Export part
• Write content deployment aware event handlers and feature activation code

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Just a couple of minutes ago all MSDN and Technet Blogs were migrated to a new blogging platform.

New Platform: new URL. From now on you can reach my blog using http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner
No worries: the old URLs bookmarked will still work as redirects have been added to ensure that you can still reach the bookmarked content.

New Platform: new Design. Per default the same design has been assigned to all Technet blogs. As I liked the general Idea of the Techent design I only adjusted it slightly to personalize it.

I hope you like the new look and feel.

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SharePoint 2010 has a new feature which recycles the OWSTIMER.EXE process every night – similar to the application pool functionality in IIS – to avoid memory problems inside the timer service. The recycling is controlled by a new timer job which has...

With Powershell we now got a new very powerful scripting language and many products like SharePoint provide their own extensions in form of CmdLets for administration purposes. Customer like scripting languages as it allows them to write custom code without a need to run a compiler or to copy new executables to their production machines which usually requires a more complex approval process than deploying a script file or even to execute the commands within a command shell. But on the other hand writing Powershell scripts requires to learn a new scripting language and to to use different tools than many of us are used to. As a developer I like the power of C# and IntelliSense in Visual Studio. In addition in the last couple of years I wrote many different tools in C# - and I don't want to reinvent the wheel by porting them to Powershell. So it would be great if the existing C# code could be reused inside Powershell without a need to implement it as Cmdlet. And indeed the Powershell Version 2 provides a way to achieve this. ...

With SharePoint 2007 the DLLs in the 12-hive\ISAPI directory (e.g. Microsoft.SharePoint.dll) showed up on the .NET tab in Visual Studio which allowed easy adding of these references to your projects. If you install SharePoint 2010 you will notice that these DLLs are no longer listed on the .NET tab which means that you have to use the Browse option and have to navigate manually to the directory holding these DLLs which can be time consuming. This article explains how to solve this problem....

As discussed by the Office Sustained Engineering group cumulative updates for all Office Products including WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 will be released every second month. Yesterday we released the so called April 2010 Cumulative Update. It is highly...

Since today you are able to download WSS 4.0 / Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 from Microsoft Download Center. Overview SharePoint Foundation 2010 is the new version of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. It is the essential solution for organizations...

The following topics are covered in this article: - relationship between content deployment job and the timer job - how to execute content deployment jobs outside of OWSTIMER - how to perform an incremental deployment deploying content that has changed after a given date in the past - how to recover stuck content deployment timer jobs...

Microsoft has communicated an update on the retirement date for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. The official retirement date is July 13th. That means roughly 3 additional months compared to the normal retirement timeframe of "Next Service Pack release date plus...

Arpan Shah officially anounced the launch date for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on the SharePoint Team blog : Announced Launch date is May 12th, 2010 , RTM date (Release to Manufacturing) will be in April

As discussed by the Office Sustained Engineering group cumulative updates for all Office Products including WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 will be released every second month. Yesterday we released the so called February 2010 Cumulative Update. It is highly...

Here is some information from the Microsoft lifecycle page for WSS 3.0: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 11/12/2007 Support ends 12 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes...

As discussed in an earlier article SPRequest allocation callstack logging in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 could be enabled by adding a registry key. The caveat with the registry key was that it required a restart of the process to take effect. In WSS 4.0 / SP2010...

As discussed by the Office Sustained Engineering group cumulative updates for all Office Products including WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 will be released every second month. Yesterday we released the so called December Cumulative Update. It is highly recommended...

In an earlier article I discussed the possibilities to monitor a system for SPSite/SPWeb leaks using the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\HeapSettings SPRequestStackTrace = 1 Although this...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Part 6 - Logging Part 7 - Change Token Basics Part 8 - Job and Change Token Part 9 - Job and Timerjob Part 10 - coming soon... Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Part 6 - Logging Part 7 - Change Token Basics Part 8 - Job and Change Token Part 9 - Job and Timerjob Part 10 - coming soon... Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Part 6 - Logging Part 7 - Change Token Basics Part 8 - Job and Change Token Part 9 - Job and Timerjob Part 10 - coming soon... Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Part 6 - Logging Part 7 - Change Token Basics Part 8 - Job and Change Token Part 9 - Job and Timerjob Part 10 - coming soon... Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Part 6 - Logging Part 7 - Change Token Basics Part 8 - Job and Change Token Part 9 - Job and Timerjob Part 10 - coming soon... Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Part 6 - Logging Part 7 - Change Token Basics Part 8 - Job and Change Token Part 9 - Job and Timerjob Part 10 - coming soon... Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Part 6 - Logging Part 7 - Change Token Basics Part 8 - Job and Change Token Part 9 - Job and Timerjob Part 10 - coming soon... Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Part 6 - Logging Part 7 - Change Token Basics Part 8 - Job and Change Token Part 9 - Job and Timerjob Part 10 - coming soon... Part...

After a long beta period the 64-bit version of Debug Diag 1.1 was made available for public download from Microsoft download center. The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance...

The October cumulative update for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday here are the KB article links for these fixes: KB 974989 - WSS 3.0 October 2009 CU KB 974988 - MOSS 2007 October 2009 CU The fixes can be downloaded using the following...

We frequently get questions from customers if it is possible to modify the data sent in the RSS feed to the client. SharePoint itself allows to specify the columns which can be included in the Description field, the number of items to return as a maximum...

Last week we discovered a problem with the WSS August CU. Due to schema and stored procedure changes coming with the August CU databases with a patch level older than the August CU cannot be upgraded to August CU through database attach method. That means...

ASP.NET webservices use XML 1.0 which restricts the character set allowed to the following chars: [2] Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] /* any Unicode character, excluding the surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF...

A colleague ( Patrick Heyde ) recently contacted me on an interesting content deployment issue he had. His customer configured a content deployment job that only should deploy only the public part of his site collection. E.g. consider this setup: root...

As discussed earlier the original SP2 release reverted the MOSS license to trial during installation. Microsoft now released an updated version of SP2 which does not have this problem. More details can be found on the SharePoint Team blog . For those...

Microsoft has just made a Sneak Peek of SharePoint 2010 available on http://sharepoint.microsoft.com : 2010 Sneak Peek Home: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx 2010 Sneak Peek Overview Video: http://sharepoint.microsoft...

As discussed by the Office Sustained Engineering group cumulative updates for all Office Products including WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 will be released every second month. Yesterday we released the so called June Cumulative Update. The so called "Uber...

Microsoft has released a fix for the SP2 problem that reverts the license into a Trial version after installing Service Pack 2. More details can be found in the following KB article: 971620 - When you install the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service...

Technet now hosts a technical reference for the available STSADM commands based on Silverlight. Beside a view that shows all the commands you can choose a view that only displays commands new in SP1 or SP2 or commands that offer operations which are not...

STSADM -o export/import is often used to split site collections into multiple pieces when they reached a certain limit. Or to do the vice versa and consolidate multiple site collections into one larger one. Both of these actions work fine as long as the...

We recently received a couple of questions regarding support for SPS 2003 and IE 8. The supported browsers for SPS 2003 are listed on the following page: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/techcenter/HA011605151033.aspx?pid=CH011719821033 As mainstream...

We recently had a couple of SharePoint support cases where customers reported hangs. When we analyzed user dumps of the affected processes we noticed that the application pool was in the process of recycling due to an exception that has caused the application...

We have recently discovered a bug with Service Pack 2 (SP2) that affects all customers that have deployed it for SharePoint Server 2007. During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire...

Finally also the Uber package for MOSS has been released which simplifies the patching process for MOSS 2007 to April CU. More details on the SharePoint Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/13/april-cumulative-update-packages-ready...

Many of our customers have questions on the relationship between the set of hotfixes released in the Cumulative Updates (CU) for April 2009 and Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Microsoft Office servers. This post from the...

We often receive questions about how to install Service Packs or patches, about which patches are available, what they include and so on. Microsoft has a central page available that covers all kind of Updates topics: Updates Resource Center for SharePoint...

Many of you might know the Content Deployment - Best Practices article I have written a while ago. Together with the product group I have been working on releasing the troubleshooting tips I have given in this blog article on Technet. I'm proud to anounce...

The Variations feature uses one specific list to link items in the different labels together: the Relationships List . The caveat is that as soon as an inconsistency exists in this list Variations will no longer work correctly. The problems that can occur...

A really nice new feature coming with MOSS 2007 is blob caching. A similar feature existed in MCMS 2002 was a predecessor of the WCM layer in MOSS 2007. Blob caching allows caching of binary objects like images, style sheets and documents on the MOSS...

As I discussed in an earlier article backup/restore between farms for publishing sites was unsupported due to the fact that MOSS often stores absolute URLs to the Page Layout in the properties of a Publishing Page. Workarounds had to be used to adjust...