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SharePoint 2008 Service Pack 2 provides new feature called "read-only" database - when a content database is marked as read-only via SQL Server, the user interface will be modified so users cannot...
Thursday, 16 July 2009 | 331 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Administration
Office SharePoint Server 2007 does not support crawling content on sites that have logon pages that contains a series of forms that span multiple pages (wizard-based forms), or forms that use dynamic...
Thursday, 16 July 2009 | 498 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Administration
SharePoint crawling options provide the "Crawl complex URL" option, that applicable on the site with URL that contain a query parameter specified with a question mark (for example,...
Wednesday, 15 July 2009 | 823 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Development
When you create public internet-faced SharePoint site you need to pay attention on how you secure Application pages (_layout folder), to avoid security breach. SharePoint doesn't secure your...
Tuesday, 14 July 2009 | 658 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Customization
SharePoint content crawling is limited by the number of sources and repositories you are crawling. Sources If you have multiple kinds of content repositories that you want to crawl, or you want...
Tuesday, 14 July 2009 | 483 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Development
SharePoint comes with the list of proprietary controls that you can use in your applications. Controls are splitted between: User Controls that locates in 12-hive\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES folder...
Monday, 13 July 2009 | 435 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/General Information
When you administrate SharePoint or develop new application one of the most frequently used console command is STSADM. This command provide you specifc access to the SharePoint functionality via...
Monday, 13 July 2009 | 553 hits | 3 comments | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Development
SharePoint provides Auditing functionality to track what happening with sites, collections and farms via audit settings and policies . Unfortunately, there are no OOTB features, providing detailed...
Friday, 10 July 2009 | 773 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Performance
When a list or library has a large number of items, you must carefully plan its organization and how users need to access the data to help preventing adverse effects on performance. For best...
Thursday, 09 July 2009 | 549 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Administration
SharePoint provides you "Export to Spreadsheet" feature across almost all list, allowing you to export your list content to Excel. But not all lists have such functionality. For example, this option...
Wednesday, 08 July 2009 | 1522 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Customization
SharePoint security model is officially called as "Three-tier administrative model". Such model allows to centralize configuration and management tasks, and differentiate administrative roles to be...
Wednesday, 08 July 2009 | 480 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Development
SharePoint provides you OOTB features to run something on regular basis using "timer jobs". You can create you own custom job and SharePoint will handle it using OWSTIMER.exe. There are several...
Wednesday, 08 July 2009 | 787 hits | Read more
Practices/Q&A
Question: >> How to find out the content DB name for one site collection when there are multi content DBs under one application Answer: The easiest way to find the content DB for a site...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009 | 294 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Development
Sometimes you have a already created site but wanted to know the site definition of that site, or gets the name of the site definition from which the site template that was used to create the site is...
Monday, 29 June 2009 | 812 hits | 6 comments | Read more
Practices/Q&A
Question: >> How can I copy groups and permissions across sites? Answer: SharePoint doesn't provide OOTB features to copy groups and permissions across groups and sites. But there are...
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 | 355 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Administration
Almost all changes that developers and administrators introduce to SharePoint are completed via “jobs” mechanism of SharePoint (Central Administration –> Operations --> Timer Job...
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 | 690 hits | Read more
Tips and Tricks/Performance
Virtualizied environment is very common for SharePoint farm. One of the most important factor of such farms is optimization that differs slightly from optimization of the physical environment . But...
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 | 273 hits | Read more
Practices/Recommendations
Intro Ken Zheng posted a good overview of how to create a Site Collection in new Content Database http://littletalk.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/creating-a-site-collection-in-a-new-content-database/...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009 | 2677 hits | 2 comments | Read more


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