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Move one site collection from one web application to another
15 April 09 06:24 PM

I know that reading the above you will say : backup and restore  or export and import . Perfectly true. What if the procedure involves moving one BIIIIIIG Site > 15 Gb? If you have the time to do it, that’s perfect. Just schedule the operations Read More...

Postedby Victor Butuza | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Administration, How To, database maintenance

How to enable workflow tracing (debug)
26 February 09 08:38 AM

This might come in handy whenever you (like myself and I am sure thousands of others) see some error in the execution of one workflow and found the completely useless messages like “Error Occurred” Dig deep and find nothing first troubleshooting step Read More...

Postedby Victor Butuza | 1 Comments    

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Sharepoint Designer 2007 workflow error occurred on Update List Item when field is Person/Group
20 January 09 06:58 PM

This is concerning an error found encountered in Sharepoint Designer based workflows after installing the October Cumulative updates. The behavior you will encounter is the following: Create a simple list with two fields: Title (default) User type Person/Group Read More...

Postedby Victor Butuza | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Workflows, Sharepoint Designer, People, How To

Workflow Error: "An error has occured in Approval"
19 November 08 06:31 PM

What we have here is not actually a how to , nor does it point to a known issue, it's more of a logical reason behind writing the entry. As a starting point, we have the SharepPoint standard Approval workflow which can, through the UI, easily be attached Read More...

Postedby Victor Butuza | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Administration, Workflows, Customization, How To

How to properly move (Detach/Attach) a content database.
28 October 08 07:32 PM

The idea to write this entry came as a result of many failed Profile sync operations I've seen lately, so, here it is: As a scenario, let's assume that you have a webapplication you want to move on a different port. I stress the word move , because otherwise Read More...

Postedby Victor Butuza | 2 Comments    

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How to remove something (the port) from the URL as returned in the search results (searchresults.aspx):
20 October 08 06:18 PM

How to remove something (the port) from the URL as returned in the search results (searchresults.aspx): UPDATE : the behavior depicted below should not happen after installing October 2009 Cumulative Update package: Download October 2009 Server-Package Read More...

Postedby Victor Butuza | 7 Comments    

Filed under: People, Customization, Search, How To