Tag: SharePoint

Complete reference of all STSADM operations (with parameters) in MOSS 2007

This post is obsolete. Please check the SP1 version of it at:http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/03/15/complete-reference-of-all-stsadm-operations-with-parameters-in-moss-2007-sp1.aspx I was looking for a specific action under "STSADM -o spsearch" and I noticed that there is no way to get those details unless you're in front of a MOSS 2007 server. So I decided to do a little scripting to get the … Continue reading Complete reference of all STSADM operations (with parameters) in MOSS 2007 →

Crawling SharePoint sites using the SPS3 protocol handler

When you setup your content sources in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007), you have a few options to choose from: SharePoint Sites, Web Sites, File Shares, Exchange Public Folders and Business Data. When you use the SharePoint Sites option, you're instructing the indexer to crawl a WSS web front end and you will use sps3:// as the … Continue reading Crawling SharePoint sites using the SPS3 protocol handler →

Packaging, Deploying and Instantiating SharePoint Applications

There are tools and methods to package, deploy and instantiate SharePoint applications (I made a case for these SharePoint applications as opposed to ASP.NET applications in a previous blog post here). If you are deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) in a farm environment at an enterprise, there pros and cons of using each one: … Continue reading Packaging, Deploying and Instantiating SharePoint Applications →

The risks around SharePoint application deployment

SharePoint is growing in popularity, partially due to its great model for describing and deploying packaged applications. This is especially true in the latest v3 or 2007 release, with the introduction of the "solution" deployment. However, if you're deploying those applications, you should be aware of the risks involved, particularly if you are hosting a … Continue reading The risks around SharePoint application deployment →

Enabling and Disabling SharePoint Integration in Outlook 2007

Outlook 2007 improves the SharePoint integration, which was already there in Outlook 2003. In a SharePoint list, you will find the "Connect to Outlook" option in the "Actions" menu in a list or library. In Outlook 2003, we had the option to use a registry setting or Group Policy Object (GPO) option to disable that … Continue reading Enabling and Disabling SharePoint Integration in Outlook 2007 →

Unique Document URLs in MOSS 2007

P.S.: There's now a feature in SharePoint 2010 to address this: See http://blogs.technet.com/blairb/archive/2009/10/20/new-document-id-feature-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx I'm currently working on a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation at a large customer that uses LiveLink. They need a feature not currently available out-of-the-box in SharePoint, so these are some ideas on how we're planning to do it. Most of the concepts were … Continue reading Unique Document URLs in MOSS 2007 →

Moving a content database from MOSS 2007 Beta 2 TR to RTM

If you're upgrading your MOSS 2007 (Microsof Office SharePoint Server 2007) from Beta 2 TR to the final RTM release, you probably know you should be following the steps described at http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/3df597d0-bad0-4c73-9c26-a10bb80449881033.mspx?mfr=true However, if you just want to move just MOSS 2007 Beta 2 TR content, there is a simpler way. You can simply move … Continue reading Moving a content database from MOSS 2007 Beta 2 TR to RTM →

Steps to Configure a basic MOSS 2007 Farm (RTM)

I have finally gathered all the required resources to build my test server for MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) RTM.This includes hardware (an HP notebook with 2GB of RAM), software (Windows Server 2003 SP1, SQL Server 2005 SP1 and the RTM release of MOSS 2007) and time :-). My goal is to set up a … Continue reading Steps to Configure a basic MOSS 2007 Farm (RTM) →