Category Archives: SharePoint

All things STS, SPS, WSS, and MOSS related.

Firm saves 1.8 mil/year by using MOSS Search

Posted on June 30, 2009 by PlateSpinner

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…

Posted on April 28, 2009 by PlateSpinner

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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I’m excited about the new Office Server Infrastructure Update

Posted on July 16, 2008 by PlateSpinner

Yesterday, Microsoft published an “Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297)“.  As I look through the list of fixes and read the post from the SharePoint Team Blog, I’m pretty psyched to see what they’ve put in this update. New … Continue reading →

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Set up local SMTP service to relay e-mail to a mail server

Posted on July 7, 2008 by PlateSpinner

Let’s say you’re using a virtual machine to develop SharePoint on and you need to test some mail alerts.  These instructions will show you how to set up the built-in SMTP on Windows Server 2003 so that it will accept … Continue reading →

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How to delete a MOSS farm and start over

Posted on July 3, 2008 by PlateSpinner

Use this procedure to completely blow away a Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 (MOSS), or Windows SharePoint Services v3 (WSS 3.0) farm in 4 easy steps. Purpose: The reason this is important is that some people are convinced that they … Continue reading →

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Hotfix Rollup on Content Deployment Released for MOSS and WSS

Posted on July 2, 2008 by PlateSpinner

Well I hope everyone had a nice Microsoft Tuesday… As noted in Mike Watson’s blog, Microsoft has released a rollup of fixes for Content Deployment in the form of the May 2008 package.  I’m going to say this is pretty … Continue reading →

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MOSS Backup and Recovery Whitepaper is now updated

Posted on June 12, 2008 by PlateSpinner

Microsoft just released an update to the whitepaper “Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server” on TechNet. (direct link to the doc download) The original version was geared for small or medium farms but the update includes information that … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2007 admin toolkit released

Posted on May 1, 2008 by PlateSpinner

Well it looks like the new “Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit” is now out.  It’s got just two peices of funtionality that is added.  But they look pretty good. 1.  “Batch Site Manager”:  This thing adds a new link in the … Continue reading →

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PDF iFilter for MOSS

Posted on April 29, 2008 by PlateSpinner

This is something that tripped me up on a client-site recently.  I installed Adobe’s PDFs IFilter onto a MOSS farm so that PDFs could be crawled.  A week later I came back to check on it and there were consistently … Continue reading →

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