As I received this question a couple of times in the past here a short summary of the different update types used with SharePoint: Service Pack What is it: A service pack is a combination of previously released fixes, fixes which have only been released in context of the service pack and potentially...

Microsoft has published a whitepaper with an official guidance on modifying pre-defined content types. You can find the white paper here: Word Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=260922 PDF Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=260923 The whitepaper includes...

Microsoft released a security update for SharePoint 2007 and 2010. You can find more details about the security update in the following articles: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-050 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2596911 (2007) http://support.microsoft.com/kb...

We sometimes see customers running into problems when using the "Sign in as Different User" feature in SharePoint. Common problems are Documents opened in external applications are saved with an unexpected user account because the external application runs under the windows account logged in...

In the last couple of years I received several cases related to problems when using "stsadm -o restore" or "Restore-SPSite" commands. The users received an error message similar to the following: Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a...

The first update for SharePoint Online has been rolled out recently which introduced various different improvements in areas like: Business Connectivity Services External Sharing Enhanced Browser Support Recycle Bin Fixes to various different problem Read more about the changes...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things which I would like to share with you on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here are the picks for this week: How to change the Spell Checker Language Ever had a need to force the spell checker in SharePoint...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things - which are not worth a separate post to talk about. To still share them with you I have decided to publish such articles as a link list on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here are the picks for this...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things - which are not worth a separate post to talk about. To still share them with you I have decided to publish such articles as a link list on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here are the picks for this...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things - which are not worth a separate post to talk about. To still share them with you I have decided to publish such articles as a link list on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here is the third edition: ...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things - which are not worth a separate post to talk about. To still share them with you I have decided to publish such articles as a link list on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here is the second edition:...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things - which are not worth a separate post to talk about. To still share them with you I have decided to publish such articles as a link list on my blog in a new Picks of the week category. Here is the first edition...

Finally after a long beta phase the final version of DebugDiag 1.2 has been released. The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in any user-mode process. The tool includes additional...

We just had a support case where a customer was trying to use Client Certificate authentication with SharePoint 2010. Client Certificate authentication was a supported authentication method in SharePoint 2007 but with SharePoint 2010 client certificate authentication it is not supported and there...

We are happy to announce the release of a new version of SPDisposeCheck! SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators check custom SharePoint solutions that use the SharePoint Object Model helping measure against known Microsoft dispose best practices. This tool may not show all...

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...

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 support for SPS 2003 has already ended it is...

Recently I came across another very interesting coding pattern which is very similar to the interesting SPSite leak I showed a couple of days ago. public void workOnArea(Area area) { if ( area.Web != null) { string url = area.Web .Url; area.Web .Dispose(); } } On a first look the code look ok,...

The Office Service Pack team officially anounced the upcoming Service Pack 2 for the Office 2007 suite including MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0. The expected release date will be between February and April of 2009. Here are some of the expected highlights for the SharePoint Area provided by the SharePoint...

On March 3rd, the first day of the sold out SharePoint Conference in Seattle, Bill Gates will announce, during his keynote session at 9AM PST, Microsoft's Exchange Online and SharePoint Online services being available on a per user subscription basis to organizations of all sizes. Bill will also announce...

This download will install and register IFilters with the Microsoft Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the contents of specific document formats. This Filter Pack includes IFilters for the following formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm...

In the last couple of weeks I have seen several issues related to memory pressure situations in MOSS or WSS application pools so I think it is a good idea to discuss some aspects of this type of problem in a separate article. What is a memory pressure situation? First of all: what do we understand...

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 3 Description of the Service Pack Download location of the service pack Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Service Pack 3 Description of the Service Pack Download location of the service pack

In the past I have heard lots of complaints that it is required to open a support case just to receive a hotfix from Microsoft. A colleague just pointed me to a new webform which allows customers to request a hotfix without calling Microsoft support: https://support.microsoft.com/contactus2/emailcontact...

The following KB article gives important information regarding supportabilitly modifications to a MCMS or SharePoint database: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;841057