The following KB article gives important information regarding supportabilitly modifications to a MCMS or SharePoint database: https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;841057
INTRODUCTION This article describes how to change the password of service accounts in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Use the procedure in the “More Information” section to update the password if the password of service accounts expires. https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;934838
In several countries that have Day Light Saving (DST) Time MOSS 2007 started to delay timer jobs (as used in e.g. content deployment jobs or backup and restore jobs) by one hour. A hotfix for this issue is currently being developed. As a workaround you can configure your system for a timezone that shows the […]
Some of our field controls shipped with MOSS show a quite ugly behaviour as they add an extra entry after the field. Means an extra space. This is especially ugly for the RichImageField control as it prevents two images to show up right beside each other. This article shows that this is actually a […]
William Cornwill has published an article on how to modify the MCMS AdRotator control to work with MOSS 2007.
Yesterday I received an interesting question: a customer had the need to import several hundred keywords and related best bets programmatically to a couple of site collections. And for sure he did not want to do this manually using the web UI. I found the following solution for this problem: SPSite spsite = new SPSite(“http://localhost:4007”); SearchContext searchContext = SearchContext.GetContext(spsite); Keywords keywords = new Keywords(searchContext, new Uri(“http://localhost:4007”)); // loop begin Keyword myKeyword = keywords.AllKeywords.Create(“myKeyword”, DateTime.Now); […]
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) delivers on the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing initiative and illustrates Microsoft’s commitment to continually create software products with enhanced security, increased reliability, and simplified administration. The SP2 update can be applied to all Windows Server 2003 products and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. […]
This important KB article has been released yesterday: 933560 The Windows Server 2003 /3GB switch is not supported in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or in later versions or in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP2 or in later versionshttps://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;933560
Two articles have been released to discuss the daylight saving time change and the impact on WSS: 933738 – An update is available that addresses an issue in which items that use the Date field and the Time field are off by one hour in Windows SharePoint Serviceshttps://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;933738 933853 – How to manually update the TIMEZONE.XML file […]
I have seen many different list of links to SharePoint resources. Here is my personal one which I will continue to update in the future: http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/pages/SharePoint-resources.aspx
Overview The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories such as MS SQL, registry, metabase and performance monitor. Once collected, a set of comprehensive ‘best practice’ rules are applied to the topology. Administrators running this tool […]
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