Oct 07 2009

So you want Short Vanity URL’s for your Intranet SharePoint 2007 Sites on Windows Server 2008?

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Much has been written on these… I will try and save you some pain by giving some best of breed links here along with what I believe to be the best methodology for quickly and efficiently solving this dilemma. If you want good background reading on URL re-direction in general go here. ... [More]

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Jul 30 2009

Follow up to SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU3 SSRS RB2ClickOnce.msi x64 Installation

by JFerguson | 0 Comments
Well… After working through this one with MS 24x7 Support… they admitted that there still is a bug in the works that prevents you from being able to install RB2ClickOnce.msi directly…. SO… CU3 for SQL 2k8 is still a valuable hotfix with several SSRS tie-ins… (Be ... [More]

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Jul 27 2009

SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU3 released…

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SQL 2008 SP1 CU3 released on July 21st… Of note this aims to fix many issues related to SSRS client side and the Click Once functionality of MOSS integrated Report Builder 2.0 (i.e. the issue of it not installing on a x64 SQL 2008/MOSS 2007 environment…http://support.microsoft.com/kb... [More]

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May 28 2008

Managed Paths and SharePoint 2007 (Transferred Post)

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I had an interesting question from a client today. They wanted to be able to hang multiple site collections off of their root url (let's just use http:\\litwareinc.com\) for this discussion.  Or to put this another way, they did NOT want to use the Sites default Managed path for addit... [More]

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May 22 2008

New SharePoint Admin tool from MS helps with migration...(Transferred Post)

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Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit Released... This newly released toolset from MS contains two very useful tools:  1) Batch Site Manager (for the Central Administration site) and 2) UpdateAlerts STSADM cmd line tool. Batch site manager adds a new section "to the Ap... [More]

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May 21 2008

How to Correctly Configure pdf i-Filter for SharePoint 2007 (Transferred Post)

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There is a large amount of mis-information out there on this i-Filter. First some background:     Adobe has not created a stand alone i-filter for the pdf file type since Acrobat and Reader 7.0.5. Adobe states that, "iFilter functionality is now bundled within the Acro... [More]

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Apr 30 2008

Migration from SharePoint 2003 to 2007 & Moving Sites Alerts (Transferred Post)

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In working with a client the other week we came across a bit of odd functionality... Namely that after you upgrade a SharePoint implementation to MOSS 2007 existing alerts do not seem to function correctly. KB#936759 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936759/en-us E-mail notifications for alert... [More]

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