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Planning for Search and Profile Crawl Schedules

Stuff that could make a difference: For Incremental crawls (of regular SharePoint content) Farm architecture Is the indexer (and/or the target server) host separated or doing other tasks?  If it’s doing other tasks, you must take into account the kind … Continue reading

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Take this job and…

I know a very talented and successful developer who definitely makes six figures in annual salary.  But every now and again, he’ll have a really tough day and he’ll turn to me and say, “I think I’ll quit my job … Continue reading

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Blue Nirvana drink recipe

With my in-law siblings, we all decided that it was no good buying Christmas gifts for each other.  Mainly because there are enough children and old people to buy gifts for.  Also, if any of us really want something, we … Continue reading

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IIS WAMREG DCOM permissions for Server 2008 R2

Here’s an interesting nugget.  If you use a “least privileges approach” in setting up MOSS with the full array of service accounts (and you should), there are several permission changes that you need to make to DCOM config in order … Continue reading

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“The list is too large to save as a template.”

If you’re working with a SharePoint 2007 environment with multiple site collections but do not have access to cool tools to manage moving content around, then you may have had this problem:  Someone needed to move a Document Library from … Continue reading

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Troubleshoot MOSS Profile Sync Issues

There was a problem at a client site where user profiles were not getting synced on certain content databases while others were getting synced. Out of the box, MOSS is set to run the profile sync timer job once every … Continue reading

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What release does my SharePoint version number mean?

A coworker ranted for a while about people blogging information and not updating it or simply pointing to authoritative sources. His ire was kindled recently because he was looking for documentation on what MOSS version numbers correlate to what updates. … Continue reading

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Firm saves 1.8 mil/year by using MOSS Search

Here’s a case study that describes an architecture firm who used MOSS to provide search for it’s 10 TB of data. That’s a freaky huge amount of data to crawl and I’m here to tell you that it’s no small … Continue reading

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Now that SP2 for SharePoint 2007 is out…

This is a great chance to clean up all of those annoying bugs and errors that you have in your SharePoint deployment. You can get the packs here: SP2 for WSS v3 SP2 for MOSS 2007 What’s really important is … Continue reading

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Dr. Horrible will stop the world with his Freeze Ray

Like any good writer would, Joss Whedon got a little bored and frustrated during the writers strike.  So, intentionally relying on the Internet as it’s medium and conduit, he has created a supervillain musical called “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog“  With … Continue reading

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