As we get ready for SharePoint Conference 2009 I am starting a new series called “SharePoint Street Talk” where I sit down and talk SharePoint with someone who spends the better part of their day working with the product. In this first installment I sat down with Shane Young of SharePoint911.com fame. Shane is a [...]
vNext of SharePoint officially announced.
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What could be better – chocolate and SharePoint!
So, I may not have the entire story together here but can you answer the following question: Question: What does the WSS (or MOSS) Search box have to do with Alternate Access Mappings? Answer: Everything I received a call stating that the search box had “disappeared” from my the individual’s SharePoint site. I had assumed [...]
I have to increase the upload size of files for SharePoint all the time for my customers. I recently found the following article that presents a very good description of the process. Since there is no use in re-writing it, I though I would just direct you to it: http://blogs.msdn.com/bgeoffro/archive/2008/03/19/list-attachments-over-50mb-need-more-than-an-increase-in-maximum-upload-size.aspx Have a great SharePoint day….
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I am presenting at the “Image” event in NYC today. The conference is hosted by Impact Management (http://www.impactmgmt.com), a Rackspace Partner. These guys are good a developing solutions on SharePoint. If you are in the Tri-State area and have some SharePoint development/customization needs, give them a call. Part of my presentation speaks to “SharePoint End-User [...]
This one actually hurt. I still don’t know why I had this error –but after installing Infrastructure Update on a fresh install I went to the SSP to ensure search was configured and happy. To my amazement, I was presented with the error: The resource object with key ‘S2SearchAdminDashboard_Title’ was not found” There wasn’t a [...]
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Do not use the Network Service account in a farm that has been installed using Least Privilege access – you will receive strange errors when approval workflows are executed. To change the identity of a SharePoint application pool to a specific account, use Central Admin, Operations tab, Service Accounts. Don’t try to do it by hand.
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In my current role with Rackspace (SharePoint Architect), I am building several “core offering” SharePoint configurations. As the size has been growing in complexity I’ve started experimenting with using virtual servers (VMware ESX) for the application servers. My testing has shown that I can increase the server density without having to add additional boxes. Today, [...]
