The next release of SharePoint hotfix packages is ready for download here.
Sometimes I’m working on SharePoint sites I end up with some masterpages I don’t need anymore and want to delete these pages. Recently I also tried to delete a master page file from the “Master Page and Page Layout Gallery” in SharePoint 2007 and got the following error message: ”This item cannot be deleted because it is still [...]
In order to turn off or disable the MySite or MyLinks functionality you need to be an Sharepoint administrator.
Go to the Central Administration Web Page
Click on the link for Shared Services Administration
Under “User Profiles and My Sites” click Personalization Services Permissions
Select the group you want to limit the functionality for. This might be NTAuthority\Authenticated Users.
In the next screen you [...]
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I stumbled upon a post in twitter regarding this. BDC Meta Man in a browser looks promising and I am excited to work with this one as well.
The source at Lightning tools.
For many people working in the business for a long time, like me, it is well known that Pre windows 2000 accounts can not exceed 20 characters. I just thought lets blog about this one time because at the past two customers I installed MOSS farms with I asked the system admins to make to [...]
And another interesting article from Joel Oleson here about small SharePoint farms.
There is so much unnecessary confusion over server roles in SharePoint. SharePoint roles are really a description of what services are running on the server, and because of the past we’ve overcomplicated the way we think about servers roles, app servers, tiers, topologies, and farms.
In this post Joel Oleson takes the opportunity to simplify these roles, [...]
This paper guides new administrators of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services to the most common issues encountered when getting started with SharePoint Products and Technologies, including server administration, governance, branding, and development. It presents high priority information consisely to help new administrators get up and running quickly.
Download: sharepointadminconsiderations.docx
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Found this whitepaper on Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog. It contains detailed information about how to gain statistics about the usage of your SharePoint farm. One product, Log Parser, is discussed. Which commands to use and how the data can be shown in Microsoft Excel.
Useful to show the admins (and maybe also the Management Team) what [...]
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Go to Neowin.net for the screenshots.
