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I was looking for a comprehensive list of limitations to using FBA tonight (Forms Based Authentication) and I stumbled across a few good resources that I’m bookmarking for myself here (and if they’ve just helped you, then great). Links Extranet Collaboration toolkit for SharePoint – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc268155.aspx Yet to use it but looks promising for ‘next …

First off, don’t forget to check the good ole recycle bin and the 2nd stage recycle bin, when attempting to restore some list data, that may be all you need. But if that data is gone, and you aren’t using 3rd party tools like AvePoint, Idera, etc. that give you *granular* restore capabilities, you may …

As this is a frequently asked SharePoint question I get, I’m going to try and answer it as succinctly as possible. And as I’m a fan of screenshots (a picture is worth a 1000 words as they say), I’m going to use them as much as possible, to limit how much I have to type. …

Someone asked this tonight on www.experts-exchange.com and I figured I’d take me post/comment and blog it here as it’s come up before…   Title: Importing and linking a common contacts Outlook list to SharePoint   Question: We have a custom contacts folder underneath the public folders in Outlook that we use rather than the regular …

Nice to be the boss. I gave my man Dougie my requirements and the skeleton for a script and he produced the rest. Note: update, November 15, 2009, added support for Windows Server 2008 (now.exe replaced with date/t) for backing up the WID   Download the (updated) script hereNOTE: you use this at your own …

I got asked the following today and after some thought, I provided the following response. Perhaps this will help someone else, and/or solicit some other ideas (please leave comments/share!). The Business Problem/Requirement We are having a problem with the automatic versioning in SharePoint. We are transferring files from our old Document Management System (DMS) to …

At the end of the day, you really shouldn’t have anything in your Outlook Inbox and here is why: Stress: Emails in your inbox mean something is left undone. Every email should have one of the following five actions, thus meaning it shouldn’t be in your inbox at the end of the day 1. Discard …

This was a strange one today. Not sure what the brainstorm behind why the change in IIS (sigh, so much has changed in Windows Server 2008 IIS). I wanted to bind a SharePoint Web Application to a second (additional IP) address I added to my Windows 2008 Server. In Windows Server 2003, once this has …

While there are many resources on the subject out there, I find I’m always looking/trying to remember the right syntax for restoring (as often a client blows up their Exchange Servers or do not have proper backups in place and need me to bring them ‘back from the dead’). So, you may get different mileage …

These instructions were prepared for QuoVadis (great place to get your SSL and Unified UCC SAN Certs from – www.quovadis.bm Document Deliverables Microsoft Exchange 2007 requires SSL certificates to be configured/installed in a particular manner, to ensure support of the various ‘Subject Alternative Names’ the server might be found on, depending on the service one …