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If you are performing a greenfield or clean install of SharePoint, it is a good idea to install the latest version (which as of today would be Service Pack 2 with the April Cumulative Update). The latest install media for SharePoint, however, only
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I just finished installing Service Pack 2 on my team’s SharePoint server, and the process went absolutely flawlessly (which is very different from some of my past upgrades). What made the difference? Reading the instructions (something we
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Todd Klindt has already covered the new stsadm commands that were added in Service Pack 2 (SP2) of SharePoint here ( Top 6 new STSADM operations in SharePoint 2007 SP2 ), but it looks like we slipped in a few more in the April Cumulative Update: Job-gradual-site-deletion
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If you have been tasked with securing SharePoint, there are a lot of considerations to take into account. How do users authenticate? Does part of your farm live in an extranet or DMZ? How do you secure user-to-server communications? How do
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If you want SharePoint to, well, not look like SharePoint… we just released 10 themes that look awesome! Download them here . They are packaged as SharePoint Solutions so you don’t have to do the messy work of going to all of your front end web servers
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I ran into an interesting issue with the People Search functionality of SharePoint today (which is the opposite of a problem I ran into sometime back, and which is also covered here ) The problem today: People results are duplicated. The problem earlier:
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When SharePoint 2007 creates new Content Databases, by default it adds a GUID to the end of the database name. While you can rename it during the creation process, maybe you forgot to and you now you have a Content Database that looks like the one
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Good news! The SharePoint 2007 February Cumulative Update (CU) has been released. And there was much rejoicing. In case you were wondering (I see these questions every once in a while): Q. Does it include the Infrastructure Update? A. Yes.
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I ended up having to do quite a bit of cleanup on the profiles associated with a team SharePoint server, and learned a bit in the process that doesn’t seem to be on the Internet in one place, so I thought I’d share. Note: I will touch on several related
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Within SharePoint, you can create new Site Collections or Sub Sites, which can look exactly the same to the end user, but which have some significant differences to the administrator. I won’t cover the differences here, but you can read more here
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SharePoint and Office go together like peanut butter and chocolate, like Captain & Tennille, like bees and honey. Despite using SharePoint to hold and version my documents for the last year or so, I have somehow completely overlooked an AWESOME
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After mentioning the new SharePoint Best Practices Resource Center, I see that they have also put up a Performance and Capacity Planning Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007 . I am loving this Resource Center concept!
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Great concept! I hope that the other product groups follow suit and put their best practices all in one place… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx
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WOW. This is an AWESOME resource. So much so that I capitalized, bolded, italicized, AND underlined AWESOME. I just found a page on Technet with TONS of Visio diagrams for every type of SharePoint Deployment/Topology/Project. Head on over
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It looks like we have posted nearly 17 hours of training videos for enterprise search on TechNet. The presentations provide details about key enterprise search capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Module 1: Workshop Overview Module
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