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On the subject of the Central Admin website
I've been rooting round in SharePoint internals today, mostly out of curiosity, after a fellow engineer here at the GTSC mentioned changing the port number on which Central Admin is published. We have a supported way, and some unsupported ways, and some Read More...
Blogging catchup and mailbox spring clean
Having recently spent some time in India attending training on Microsoft Search Server 2008 , and having been quite sick as a result, I've got a bit of a backlog of SharePoint blogging to catch up with. First of all, to comment on Search Server: This Read More...
I love Sushi
No, I really, really love sushi. Quite often you'll find me dining out at Hamachi-Ya, Sushi Train, Sapporo or Sushi Club, four of my favourite japanese restaurants in Sydney. So imagine my joy when I found SharePoint Sushi , a neat UI utility to carry Read More...
EventID 5566 Troubleshooting in InfoPath Form Services
This post has been snatched from the headlines of Premier Support. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Now read on... Imagine for a moment you're creating a new InfoPath form t recieve user input. Imagine furthermore that you're pre-populating Read More...
PSA: Are your customised site definitions supported?
We (Microsoft) have lots published guidance on customising SharePoint for your own specific needs. We provide lots of built-in site definitions for various purposes, but sometimes you need to tweak those to suit your own scenario. But are your tweaks Read More...
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges()
The subject of today's post: running code in sharepoint with elevated rights, an operation sometimes required, sometimes abused and often misunderstood. The WSS Object Model provides a huge number of classes, some of which can carry-out potentially dodgy Read More...
Quickie blog post: SharePoint SDK available, quick note on discusson lists
The Sharepoint SDK (officially, the "SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit and Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit") is downloadable from microsoft.com . If you develop .NET applications for SharePoint, or support said applications, Read More...
Quickie: Broken web part page? We can help!
I'm called upon to troubleshoot numerous errors with SharePoint on a day-to-day basis, and some of the most frustrating are "Unexpected Error" messages which occasionally crop up on web-part pages. This is worst for administrators when they occur on hitting Read More...
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