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 A while ago I created a deep dive article series covering the WSS content deployment and […]
The October cumulative update for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday here are the KB article links for these fixes: KB 974989 – WSS 3.0 October 2009 CU KB 974988 – MOSS 2007 October 2009 CU The fixes can be downloaded using the following links: Download WSS 3.0 October 2009 CU (full […]
We frequently get questions from customers if it is possible to modify the data sent in the RSS feed to the client. SharePoint itself allows to specify the columns which can be included in the Description field, the number of items to return as a maximum and the maximum days to include in the RSS feed. A feature which […]
Last week we discovered a problem with the WSS August CU. Due to schema and stored procedure changes coming with the August CU databases with a patch level older than the August CU cannot be upgraded to August CU through database attach method. That means that you need to be careful when upgrading your WSS […]
ASP.NET webservices use XML 1.0 which restricts the character set allowed to the following chars: [2] Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] /* any Unicode character, excluding the surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF. */ (Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets) As you can see several characters below 0x20 are not allowed with […]
A colleague (Patrick Heyde) recently contacted me on an interesting content deployment issue he had. His customer configured a content deployment job that only should deploy only the public part of his site collection. E.g. consider this setup: root +– private +– subsites +– public +– subsites The job was configured to export the root site (you […]
As discussed earlier the original SP2 release reverted the MOSS license to trial during installation. Microsoft now released an updated version of SP2 which does not have this problem. More details can be found on the SharePoint Team blog. For those of you who already installed SP2 and would like to get the separate fix […]
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 June Cumulative Update. The so called “Uber” packages for MOSS will be released in a couple of days. Currently you can download the […]
Microsoft has released a fix for the SP2 problem that reverts the license into a Trial version after installing Service Pack 2. More details can be found in the following KB article: 971620 – When you install the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2, the product expiration date is activated incorrectly For your convenience […]
Technet now hosts a technical reference for the available STSADM commands based on Silverlight. Beside a view that shows all the commands you can choose a view that only displays commands new in SP1 or SP2 or commands that offer operations which are not available in the UI. You can also change the view between […]
STSADM -o export/import is often used to split site collections into multiple pieces when they reached a certain limit. Or to do the vice versa and consolidate multiple site collections into one larger one. Both of these actions work fine as long as the migrated content does not use the publishing feature. For site collections […]
We recently received a couple of questions regarding support for SPS 2003 and IE 8. The supported browsers for SPS 2003 are listed on the following page:http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/techcenter/HA011605151033.aspx?pid=CH011719821033 As mainstream support for SPS 2003 has already ended it is unlikely that support for additional browsers will be added to the product. If support for IE 8 […]
