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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 Content Deployment Phases...

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 A while ago I created...

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...

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. ...

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...

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: ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Cumulative Update. The so called...

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 including the service packs for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 has just been released. Be sure to read the KB articles below as they contain important information about SP2 including known issues with these service packs. KB...

The Office Sustained Engineering Team officially announced the release date for SP2 of the Office 2007 Suite. SP2 will be released on April 28th, 2009. Further details about new features provided in SP2 have been announced as follows: Windows SharePoint...

Today I learned that not everyone seems to be aware about the fact that subfolders in a Pages library of a site based on the Publishing feature are not supported with MOSS 2007. The correct solution to implement a hierarchy in a publishing site is to...

Often it is necessary to ensure that updates to files on the server get populated to the client asap. Especially when it comes to dependencies to custom javascript of CSS files and server controls. SharePoint itself does this by adding a query string...

SharePoint Designer is now available as a free download. More details are available on the SharePoint Team blog.

An important KB article has been released today discussing a problem in WSS which can lead to database inconsistencies when using STSADM -o MergeContentDB. It is highly recommended to backup as well the source and the destination databases before performing...

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 Cumulative Update. Currently the...

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...

Today I have updated my Content Deployment - Best Practices article with additional common problems.

[via Paul Andrew's blog] SPDisposeCheck is a tool to help SharePoint Developers follow memory management best practices when using the SharePoint API with IDisposable objects including SPSite and SPWeb. This tool is not supported by Microsoft and is...

[Updated on February 22nd, 2010 - adding additional values for WSS 4.0] Today I have been working on a support case where customer experienced exceptions in sharepoint when passing in specific query string parameters which are evaluated by his web...

Today I came across a very interesting coding pattern: public void enumSiteCollection(SPSiteCollection spSites, int min, int max) { for (int i = min; i<max; i++) { if ( spSites[i] != null) { DoSomething( spSites[i] ); spSites[i...

In the past I have released several blogs about the various problems that can occur with Content Deployment. As it is often hard to find the right resource I have now decided to compile the different known issues into one large article: Content...

Lots of articles have been written in the past which outline the importance of proper dispose for SharePoint SPSite and SPWeb objects in custom code. One important topic which hasn't been discussed very often till now is how to avoid missing a dispose...

A common error I often see is that customers are mixing incremental and full deployment when deploying a site collection. E.g. use incremental deployment every day and full deployment once a week - just to be sure (maybe because they do not trust incremental...

The Content Editor Web Part as we ship it in WSS and MOSS always stores URLs as absolute Links. That will cause problems as soon as you are extending a web application to multiple IIS websites or when using Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) to support multiple...

I just noticed that we have published a couple of KB article about a new tool named Pre-Upgrade Checker which will ship with WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2. Based on the information in the KB articles this tool will allow you to verify if your current WSS 3.0...

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. There is...

Microsoft has released documentation describing how to integrate MOSS 2007 with SQL 2008 to enable the usage of SQL 2008 features like Database backup compression Log stream compression TDE (transparent data encryption) Integration of SQL...

This white paper provides information and guidelines for building scripts that can automate the installation of Office SharePoint Server 2007, the configuration of servers, and the creation and joining of farms. Code samples that you can copy and customize...

Microsoft has released a security bulletin regarding a security fix for MOSS 2007 and Search Server 2008. This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker bypasses...