Just a couple of minutes ago all MSDN and Technet Blogs were migrated to a new blogging platform. New Platform: new URL. From now on you can reach my blog using http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossnerNo worries: the old URLs bookmarked will still work as redirects have been added to ensure that you can still reach the bookmarked content. […]
SharePoint 2010 has a new feature which recycles the OWSTIMER.EXE process every night – similar to the application pool functionality in IIS – to avoid memory problems inside the timer service. The recycling is controlled by a new timer job which has been added in SharePoint 2010: the “Timer Service Recycle” job which per default […]
With Powershell we now got a new very powerful scripting language and many products like SharePoint provide their own extensions in form of CmdLets for administration purposes. Customer like scripting languages as it allows them to write custom code without a need to run a compiler or to copy new executables to their production machines […]
With SharePoint 2007 the DLLs in the 12-hive\ISAPI directory (e.g. Microsoft.SharePoint.dll) showed up on the .NET tab in Visual Studio which allowed easy adding of these references to your projects. If you install SharePoint 2010 you will notice that these DLLs are no longer listed on the .NET tab which means that you have to […]
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 2010 Cumulative Update. It is highly recommended to install Service Pack 2 before installing this cumulative Update. Details and download locations can […]
Since today you are able to download WSS 4.0 / Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 from Microsoft Download Center. Overview SharePoint Foundation 2010 is the new version of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. It is the essential solution for organizations that need a secure, manageable, web-based collaboration platform. SharePoint helps teams stay connected and productive by providing […]
Part 1 – The BasicsPart 2 – The Basics continuedPart 3 – ConfigurationPart 4 – CommunicationPart 5 – Quick DeploymentPart 6 – LoggingPart 7 – Change Token BasicsPart 8 – Job and Change TokenPart 9 – Job and Timerjob Relationship between Job and Timerjob How many Timerjobs per Job? Each content deployment job (class ContentDeploymentJob) […]
Microsoft has communicated an update on the retirement date for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. The official retirement date is July 13th. That means roughly 3 additional months compared to the normal retirement timeframe of “Next Service Pack release date plus 12 months”. Official information can be found on the Microsoft lifecycle page.
Arpan Shah officially anounced the launch date for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on the SharePoint Team blog: Announced Launch date is May 12th, 2010, RTM date (Release to Manufacturing) will be in April
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 February 2010 Cumulative Update. It is highly recommended to install Service Pack 2 before installing this cumulative Update Details and download locations can […]
Here is some information from the Microsoft lifecycle page for WSS 3.0: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 11/12/2007 Support ends 12 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product’s support lifecycle, whichever comes first. For more information, please see the service pack policy at https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/#ServicePackSupport. WSS 3.0 […]
As discussed in an earlier article SPRequest allocation callstack logging in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 could be enabled by adding a registry key. The caveat with the registry key was that it required a restart of the process to take effect. In WSS 4.0 / SP2010 the design has been changed to a more […]
