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Was just reading the new downloadable book: Administering Enterprise Search for Office SharePoint Server and ran across some metrics that I was unaware of before today. When you setup your SSP SharePoint asks you about the indexer performance settings, which are Reduced, Partially Reduced and Maximum...
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After Service Pack 1 and the inherent security improvements that had been implemented you may find yourself having issues with SharePoint Designer workflows kicking off automatically. One way that we have found around that issue is setting workflows in a list / library that you know will have that issue...
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Finally, Adobe has released an official IFilter to support a 64-bit platform which can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 I have yet to implement this in a production environment, but it’s got to be better than the hack to make the 32-bit install work in...
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Just the other day I was looking into an interesting SharePoint issue where the user was experiencing a generic 404 error when trying to upload a document that was over 30MB, but their SharePoint settings on the web application was set to over 100MB. Also, if they were trying to upload documents (over...
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Over the last few months I have had to configure various Content Query Web Parts (CQWP) to provide portal rollups that can be pre-packaged and re-configured in the SharePoint UI instead of having to use SharePoint Designer when using Data View Web Parts. I could go into the basics of setting up a CQWP...
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If you have ever needed to deal with Site Columns and Content Types you probably have come across the dreaded "Title" column and maybe felt creative and changed it to a different name, and figured if I need to change it back, I can change it back... right? I've come across many clients...
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I was helping a co-worker of mine today determine why the Site Directory site definition was not showing up as an option underneath a Publishing Portal and found a nice property for site definitions I never knew existed. By the way, it turns out that in order for the Site Directory to show up as an option...
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Even though this news is a little more than a month old, the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard, created by Chris O'Brien has finally reached Release 1.0 and can be found on CodePlex . I have recommended, and used, this tool for various migrations where we have needed to re-organize content within...
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I arrived in Orlando, FL this afternoon to attend Tech Ed 2008 for IT Professionals. During this time I am planning on networking with many individuals of the SharePoint Community along with attending various sessions to increase my SharePoint base knowledge. My other main goal for the week is to obtain...
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The Timecard Management template is a part of the site admin templates provided directly from Microsoft here . This template is based off of a site template (.stp file) which can be installed by a SharePoint administrator by either uploading it into the Site Templates gallery or installing it globally...
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It's been a while since I've been able to continue my Application Templates series, but we move on to the Help Desk template which has some neat customizations that you can take onto your own projects. The Help Desk template is a part of the server admin templates provided directly from Microsoft here...
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Now we have a completely custom page but what we really want is a page that matches the look and feel for our site as defined by the Master Page. To accomplish this, open the page in SharePoint Designer and choose "Attach Master Page" from the Format --> Master Page menu: Select the...
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So we have a new page , we've added a link to the Quick Launch so we can easily find it... but the page is still pretty ugly: Well, the first thing we can do is apply the SharePoint styles to the page. This will work if you want a completely custom layout for your page but still want to have a...
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Now that you have your custom page , you'll probably want to make it more accessible. To do that, let's add a link to the Quick Launch. Now, we talked about how to do this from the web interface before , today we're going to make the change from within SharePoint Designer. With the...
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Earlier we took a look at how to add Custom Web Part Pages to your SharePoint sites. You can also create custom pages within SharePoint Designer. To get started, open your SharePoint site in SPD and choose to create a new ASPX page: An ASPX page is an ASP.NET page. When the page loads...