2008

As we often get support cases on this topic, here is a whitepaper link which gives background info and self guidance for troubleshooting: Brief DescriptionThis whitepaper provides general as well as troubleshooting information on using the Explorer View of Windows SharePoint Services. OverviewThe Explorer View feature that is included with Windows SharePoint Services and is […]

A couple of weeks ago a whitepaper containing a support statement for using MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 in Hyper V has been released:Using SharePoint Products and Technologies in a Hyper-V virtual environment Important Points covered in this paper: Support statementSharePoint Products and Technologies is supported in a Hyper-V environment. Extensive testing was done to […]

Performance and Capacity Planning Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007This page contains resources to help you with performance and capacity planning for your SharePoint Server deployment—map your solution design to a farm size and set of hardware that supports your business goals. Organized By: Planning  Recommendations  Estimate performance based on test results  Demos  Tools from […]

Yesterday a colleague (Patrick Heyde) solved an interesting problem with MOSS 2007 and IIS 7 related to content deployment.  Some background infos: Content Deployment in MOSS 2007 first exports all content to the file system as XML and binary files and afterwards packages these files into cab files which then get uploaded through http to the […]

Nintex Workflow 2007 enables organisations to build complex workflow processes quickly and easily using a web browser interface.Recently Nintex released an update for their workflow solution which solves a problem that shows up after installing the WSS/MOSS infrastructure update. See here for more details:http://connect.nintex.com/forums/thread/886.aspx

The last couple of month the Office product group has worked on an important infrastructure update for the SharePoint and Project. This update is now available for all customers as public download from the Microsoft Download center. The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers contains the new Enterprise Search features that were shipped in Search […]

As a follow up to my article series about the content deployment and migration API here are some tips on how you can “fine-tune” the out of the box content deployment jobs. This will include information about how adjust settings in Content Deployment Paths and Jobs and also about how to adjust content deployment global […]

In an earlier article I have discussed that all SPSite and SPWeb (and potentially also PublishingWeb) objects need to be properly disposed to avoid memory pressure situations. Roger Lamb has a nice summary of coding patterns which will actually cause such leaking objects and also provides information about how such code would have to be […]

The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0. This toolkit contains two new functions – the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and a Stsadm operation to update alert emails after a Web application has changed URLs.More details […]