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Practical Tweaks: creating a Social Security Number column
Many people find SharePoint to be somewhat limiting in its out-of-the-box functionality, but really, a creative approach can take you pretty far. Say, for example, you need to create a column to hold Social Security numbers (assuming you've worked out...
Backup horror stories: Rendering error in the global navigation tab
Chances are that if you're restoring a site collection from backup, something has gone seriously wrong. Naturally, at this point, you've had just about enough of unexpected glitches, and you REALLY don't want anything to look weird once you restore and...
Posted: Oct 06 2009, 12:58 AM by PeterBrunone | with no comments
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Why my MOSS search doesn't work today (Reason #316)
Earlier this week a client called. Our beautiful MOSS installation had been running beautifully, and then several days after a reboot... their Search completely stopped working. Naturally, I hopped on the VPN, logged on to the server via RDP, and checked...
The Great Divorce: Separating site hierarchy from navigation
(apologies to Clive Lewis) It's a simple concept, really. Create your SharePoint site structure to accommodate permission inheritance, not navigation. You can always alter the content and appearance of Global Nav or Quick Launch, so why constrain your...
My favorite new quick fix: MS Office Diagnostics
Rebooting cures a multitude of ills. Over the past two years I've come to realize that the SharePoint server equivalent is to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard (what a mouthful that is). However, my latest discovery is...
Hiding the Recycle Bin
The SharePoint Recycle Bin is a very useful feature, but due to the lack of a separate permission structure, sometimes product owners want to hide it from their users. This can be done in a variety of ways, but I've found that the simplest is to create...
SPTraceView: One step closer to unscrewing the inscrutable
We still don't have good SharePoint debugging, but today I came across a tool that gets us closer. Essentially it works off of the SP logging mechanism, and alerts you when messages come up that meet your predefined filters. This has the advantage of...
PSConfig Part III: Confessions and assumptions
It's happened to everyone. You're supposed to be an expert in your field, and then you go and get tripped up by something insignificant. If you're like me, you think you've already eliminated the offending possibility, and it's only after the client ...
SharePoint Migration from 2003 to 2007: Leave the clutter behind.
This has come up several times recently, and I think it's another case of the "Microsoft offers it so we should use it" mentality. There are indeed tools and utilities for migrating your existing farm -- or content database(s), or site collection(s) from...
PSConfig revisited: character analysis
After yesterday's brush with covert crazy hyphens, a related tip seems in order. This isn't the first time I've been burned by non-standard characters. Several years back I created a small classic ASP utility (yes, it's THAT old) that analyzes a string...
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