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I’m starting to construct a list of SharePoint Performance resources and links I’ve discovered. This blog post is my list of favourites to refer to:   http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2008/10/21/things-to-consider-for-sharepoint-performance.aspx (Things to Consider for SharePoint Performance, by Arpan Shah) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850694.aspx (Best practices for team collaboration sites, by Microsoft) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx (Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007, by …

Although you can search your file system for all of the web.config files, when you need to modify something specific, low-level in SharePoint, it’s best to find the right one, first. 🙂   So, because I’ve asked this several times before, I figured I’d show the quickest way to locate your SharePoint sites web.config file …

When you create a new item in SharePoint, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, the “!New” icon appears (in green), like this:     The default is that this icon appears for 48 hours (2 days).  However, if you aren’t happy with the duration, you can change it.   To get the current duration of the …

Apologies to the original author, I’ve found this post a 1/2 dozen times, all with the same text, so I guess I’m copying an existing copy and paste.  But, this was worthy of placement here as I ran into this again today…   By default, SharePoint Search Services can crawl and filter a file with …

While this post got me on the right track, it was the combination of the post and the other readers comments that gave me everything I needed to post this for you (and myself).   When you create a web part library and create new webpart pages in it, the Quick Launch Bar is disabled …

I hear this all the time.  Folks are tired of having to repeatedly enter their usernames and passwords, when connecting to their SharePoint site, or opening/saving Word and other documents in SharePoint document libraries. The simple fact is, if this is your YOUR SharePoint site, you should TRUST it. And you tell your browser you …

I’m getting asked this a lot, of whether you can have a choice column in a SharePoint list provide a list of values and based on the selection in that list, have another choice column display relevant choices.  For example, if you choose Canada as a country from a ‘countries’ list, you would then be …

Cool, achieved ‘Master’ status today in the category of MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server).  Experts Exchange is very helpful folks, so if you haven’t tried it, you should consider it.  www.experts-exchange.com.  (my online profile is “itgroove”).   New Master Certification Congratulations itgroove , You have achieved Master Certification in MOSS-Sharepoint by earning 50,746 points! To …

Note, this is an exerpt from an email I got, that was regarding Michael Sampson’s new book ‘Seamless Teamwork’.  So, although it echoes my own thoughts on the subject, I didn’t write this, but thought it was worthy of a quick blog post.   Industry analysts have identified SharePoint as a key technology to help …

Getting this, when performing an IISRESET? Restart attempt failed. Restarting of Internet Services has been disabled. Basically, IISRESET got disabled.  Don’t know how that happened?  I’ve seen lots of discussions online about some patches that do not finish correctly and leave IISRESET in a ‘disabled’ state. So, when/if that happens, here’s how you correct the …