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May 2009 - Posts

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:15 AM

Limitations of STSADM -o export/import related to publishing sites

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
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 9 Comments
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:40 PM

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS 2003) and IE 8

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
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:09 AM

SharePoint application pool hang on servers where Visual Studio has been installed in the past (last updated: May 27th, 2009)

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
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 3 Comments
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Friday, May 22, 2009 8:36 AM

Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

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
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 12:39 PM

Uber packages for April CU for MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday

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-for-download.asp
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 1 Comments
Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:46 PM

FAQ concerning WSS 3.0 and MOSS SP2 and the April 2009 Cumulative Updates

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
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:52 AM

Where to look for information about Updates for SharePoint?

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
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 1 Comments
Sunday, May 03, 2009 6:36 PM

Technet article on how to troubleshoot Content Deployment has been released

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
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 2 Comments
Sunday, May 03, 2009 6:04 PM

MOSS 2007 SP2 - a must have for everyone who uses Variations on his site

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
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 1 Comments
Saturday, May 02, 2009 6:53 PM

MOSS 2007 Blob caching and it's limitations

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
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Friday, May 01, 2009 9:59 AM

Red is Green, Up is Down and the Unsupported suddenly becomes Supported!

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
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 12 Comments
Friday, May 01, 2009 9:51 AM

The April cumulative update for WSS V3 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday

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 "Uber"
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 5 Comments
 
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