admin on October 17th, 2008

We didn’t do a stsadm export import (see previous post), but used the backup and restore commands instead. This has some consequences which I shall list here. After I had restored my backup file with command ”stsadm -o restore -url http://<destination-url> -filename backup.dat -overwrite” (the overwrite option is very important) I had to reset some settings [...]

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admin on October 15th, 2008

Yesterday I told you I was going to do a export of my test farm with “stsadm -o export”. Here is how I did it.
First of all I have to say that the farm is installed with kerberos authentication. Don’t know if it is important but that is one of the “special” things about the [...]

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Yesterday Microsoft launched release 2 of Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 for European companies at the VoiceCon event in Amsterdam.
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 builds on the huge success of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, which drew 12,000 people to launch events in Western Europe and has seen access license growth that exceeds 100 percent. [...]

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admin on October 14th, 2008

Some very interesting posts appeared on the Microsoft SharePoint en ForeFront TMG Team Blogs.
On the SharePoint Team Blog you can find some links to interesting Technet articles about this subject. Go here.
The ISA Server (ForeFront TMG) Team Blog is discussing some issues that can arise when having a extranet deployment. Read about this issues here.

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admin on October 14th, 2008

At the moment I’m planning to do a export and import from my test SharePoint farm to the customers test farm. On previous projects I was always able to build the complete SharePoint farm directly at the customer site, now that was not possible. First I thought that this could be done with stsadm backup [...]

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admin on October 14th, 2008

Microsoft announced yesterday the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of applications and media experiences through a Web browser. Silverlight 2 delivers a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more [...]

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admin on October 10th, 2008

SharePoint Magazine is going to post 6 blogposts about the SharePoint interface. Why is it designed like it is and how do you customize it? You can read it in their blog.
The first post you can find here.

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admin on October 9th, 2008

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admin on October 7th, 2008

Microsoft started its second annual Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Conference 2008 yesterday by announcing groundbreaking new technologies that will enable enterprises to bring the power of BI to information workers organizationwide.
The company introduced new managed self-service analysis capabilities code-named “Project Gemini,” and self-service reporting upcoming in the next release of Microsoft SQL Server focused on BI [...]

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admin on October 4th, 2008

Microsoft Consulting Services has collected some SharePoint Best Practices on this website. The “Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007″.

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