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As always, test before deploying. But February 2010 Cumulative Updates (CU) are here. Note, if you are planning to upgrade to SharePoint 2010, you will want to have Service Pack 2 and at least the October Cumulatives. Once applied, your build number will be: 12.0.0.6529 (12.0.6529.5000)   February Cumulative Update (CU) – LATESTReleased February 23, …

Reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx   Today Microsoft officially announced that May 12th, 2010 is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. RTM is April 2010.   Batten down the hatches, we’re gonna be busy.

Ok, stumbled across this today.  And I think I understand what happened…     I have a SP2010 Server that I’ve been exploring.  The related controls/components are in my IE client (IE8).     Since then, when I visit my production MOSS 2007 Server where my real data is, if I choose “Upload Multiple Documents”, …

Someone asked and I lifted the content from the source (reference, this isn’t original content – http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101541481033.aspx?mode=print) but after taking a moment to bring the key bit to their attention and making it pretty, I might as well cut and paste it here as well…   SharePoint IRM Can and Cannot’s…   IRM = Information …

Ok, this is something that comes along once in a while. Problem Site placed in a location the client doesn’t like. While there are better ways (that preserve timestamps, etc.), they are complicated (STSADM) and time consuming (see here for more on STSADM Export/Import – http://brainlitter.com/archive/2009/05/11/how-to-backup-and-restore-migrate-a-single-sub-site-of-a-sharepoint-site-collection-using-stsadm-%e2%80%93o-export-and-import.aspx) Solution But if the site is small enough, you …

Ok, this will be a short blog post as there really is nothing else here I need to add, besides directing folks to Easy Tabs as the fella there (Christophe) has covered all the bases. Great, free tool for SharePoint that allows you to have all web parts in a Web Part Zone appear together …

If you get this… 5.7.1 smtp;550 5.7.1 RESOLVER.RST.AuthRequired; authentication required   It is likely because you haven’t allowed an Exchange (2007 or 2010) Distribution Group to receive email from recipients outside of the Organization (Exchange Organization/Active Directory). The default is Distribution Groups DO NOT ACCEPT Internet emails.   Here’s how the email NDR will look… …

Thanks to Gerry for pointing out that the SharePoint 2010 diagrams have now arrived, for planning, migrating and scaling SharePoint 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199(office.14).aspx   And if you didn’t know they existed for MOSS 2007, well then, now you do: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199.aspx  

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Louis in our office ran into an issue lately where I was trying to push out Trend clients to workstations and was receiving a security prompt saying the account does not have administrator privileges” when in actually does. To fix this issue I went into “Computer Management” and connected to each computer via the “Connect …