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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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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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The Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture tool located on the CodePlex is a highly recommended tool for SharePoint Administrators by the IT Pro community, however we have noticed a few caveats with the default installation, and would also like to clarify some common misunderstandings. When you install the...
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The Board of Directors 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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The Absence and Vacation Schedule template is a part of the server admin templates provided directly from Microsoft here . This template is based off of a site definition which needs to be installed by a SharePoint server administrator using stsadm. The Absence and Vacation Schedule template was designed...
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You have probably heard of the “Fabulous 40” site templates when looking for easy ways to deliver a SharePoint environment to your end users. In the coming months I plan to post a series on all of these application templates to provide you with a better understanding of what they are. I will try to provide...
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As I was testing out some workflows in a development environment earlier today, that has SP1 applied to it, I was running across some weird issues with some SharePoint Designer workflows. If I had a SharePoint Designer workflow attached to any list or library that was set to automatically start (either...
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For the developers that create custom web parts for SharePoint you will come to the time when you want to allow end users to enter extra information to customize the web parts you have created. Most of the blog posts that I have seen online reference how to create custom properties for v2 (.dwp) web...