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 that this has now been completed. You can now find official […]
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 can vary. Sometimes it is no longer possible to create a new variation […]
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 front end server machine which heavily reduces the traffic to […]
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 the incorrect URL after a restore to ensure that no exceptions occurred. […]
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” packages for MOSS will be released in a couple of days. Currently you can download the […]
Office 2007 Service Pack 2 including the service packs for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 has just been released. Be sure to read the KB articles below as they contain important information about SP2 including known issues with these service packs. KB Article Links Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and of Windows […]
The Office Sustained Engineering Team officially announced the release date for SP2 of the Office 2007 Suite. SP2 will be released on April 28th, 2009. Further details about new features provided in SP2 have been announced as follows: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve […]
Today I learned that not everyone seems to be aware about the fact that subfolders in a Pages library of a site based on the Publishing feature are not supported with MOSS 2007. The correct solution to implement a hierarchy in a publishing site is to use sub sites and not folders in the Pages […]
Often it is necessary to ensure that updates to files on the server get populated to the client asap. Especially when it comes to dependencies to custom javascript of CSS files and server controls. SharePoint itself does this by adding a query string to some of its vital Javascript files. E.g.: /_layouts/1033/core.js?rev=PQia%2B0EyudqxiQyTfOSR%2Fw%3D%3D Whenever the core.js […]
SharePoint Designer is now available as a free download. More details are available on the SharePoint Team blog.
An important KB article has been released today discussing a problem in WSS which can lead to database inconsistencies when using STSADM -o MergeContentDB. It is highly recommended to backup as well the source and the destination databases before performing this operation to be able to rollback to a consistent state in case that a […]
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 Cumulative Update. Currently the separate packages for the core products and for the language packs are available. Details and download locations can […]
