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The Requirement A customer had quite the mess of a SharePoint farm. Efforts are being made to clean it up … but in the meantime, they required a backup of a SharePoint Content Database (from 5 days ago) to be restored into a new (temporary) Web Application to retrieve some old data. Typically, this would …

I had a weird error today to address on a client SharePoint (WSS) Server. CAPI2 errors, indicating it couldn’t get trusted root cert’s from Microsoft for an application. In the end, it was a corrupt WSS search Index (go figure?) but digging into Windows Server 2008 Event Logging capabilities opened my eyes to some tools …

Had an interesting scenario/question today. A customer asked how to disable a users account and incoming email/mailbox. Normally, if the account was going to be destroyed we would disconnect the mailbox and let it die. However, our scenario is different. Someone is going away on sick leave (undetermined time frame) and the customer doesn’t want …

This comes up all the time and while I’ve blogged it before, I’ve never created a video of the fix. So if you are getting those Pesky 10016 Event ID’s in your System Event Logs on your SharePoint Servers, here’s how you resolve them (this video demonstrates in Windows Server 2008).       Enjoy. …

I do this all the time (I’m all about keeping my Inbox tidy). If I have received an email (in Outlook) that specifies a date/time for a meeting or appointment, I simply drag that email onto my calendar and voila – it creates a new appointment with the body containing the contents of the email …

A customer asked tonight, how to take an existing Content Editor Web Part on a dashboard and repeat it elsewhere with minimal effort. It was a simple web part. A logo, linked to a website. While you might avoid the need by creating sites based on templates, the sub sites had already been created. So, …

As a result of the Document Library Deep Dive presentation I did at the vSharePoint (Victoria SharePoint User’s Group) on Thursday, the following question came up (how do you map SharePoint list data to a Word document, generated as a report). The query: http://www.meetup.com/vSharePoint/messages/boards/thread/7787717   My response to that query can be found here (more …

Does anyone care? We’ve been talking about this for ages… Windows Vista, 7, and Server 2008 have come with baked in support (but more pain than good so far). But really, it is all the ISP management that has to occur yet. And I don’t see anyone making any noise about it, with less than …

No, clicking on the checkbox won’t cut it… 🙂 But I see that often…   I see lots of posts and links but none that seem to spell it out clearly. It’s simple though and involves: A Registry Change A Reboot Reference: Reference KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929852 Note: Don’t just disable IPv6. Do it when necessary only. …

Bummed out that when you perform a search result in SharePoint, your only option is to open files (in Read Only)?   Well, here’s a great little CodePlex project that provides a simple install (WSP) and then a simple stepped through modification of your core results search web part – to give you the following …