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In my daily work I come across many customers that have implemented MOSS themselves and are having problems in one form or another. Some sites are better than others, but they all seem to have one thing in common. None of them have implemented "Search" in any form in their deployments. The... (more)
There are quite a number of databases generated during a Sharepoint install and depending on the "Farm" configuration there might be more or less. A lot of SQL DBA's get quite annoyed when all these databases suddenly appear in their system and they have no idea what each database does or... (more)
After a long delay and some initial problems, Microsoft has final fix and released the new version of SQL Server 2008 previously called "Katmai". This is quite important out of a Sharepoint perspective as well as the new features in SQL Server can only enhance the performance of MOSS and W... (more)
One of the main problems that users have with Sharepoint is the ability to synchronize their documents on Sharepoint with offline copies on their PC's. There are a number of ways in which to solve this problem ranging from Outlook 2007 to Groove 2007, but all of them cost additional money in the for... (more)
Which topics would you like covered on SharePoint Magazine? We now have a nice database of authors on SharePoint Magazine, and we would like to know which topics you would like covered next? What are your current pain points? Which topic have little documentation? What interests you? Please a... (more)
One of the most frustrating things in Sharepoint for developers or even administrators, is implementing a new change and then nothing seems to happen. This is caused by the fact that Sharepoint implements almost all changes as jobs that run behind the scenes. The only way to speed things up is to fi... (more)
Just trying to read the title of this article is quite a mouth full, so I will start by explaining where this idea came from and why I am not using the acronyms as most IT people do. I have just recently moved from Johannesburg to Cape Town and joined a very dynamic consulting company that also hap... (more)
Starting Point One has a set of Web Tests in Visual Studio and has just done a run of all the tests.  We want to now figure out where something went wrong. Steps Run all the tests. We will now be able to see the state of the system with the click of a button.  In the pic below I can see t... (more)
Goal To enable a team of mixed skills to record webtests. These users must not be restricted to having an installation of Visual Studio 2008. It must be quick and easy to record a test. The tests need to be ported into Visual Studio 2008 for web testing. Resolution Users crea... (more)
The more SharePoint opportunities I visit, the more concerned I become about the way in which people are treating SharePoint implementations in their organisations. In most cases I see the IT department driving the project, which is not all together a bad thing, if it were not for the fact that ... (more)
Yesterday, the SharePoint product team announced the release of important rollup updates for SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Project Server 2007, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express and Project Professional 2007. I strongly recommend reading their release announc... (more)
Thought I would post some general issues that I have encountered during SPS 2003 upgrades and MOSS 2007 migrations as well as their solutions: User ID does not exist When importing a site from a recently upgraded SPS 2003 server into a new MOSS 2007 environment (done to split the content DBs), and... (more)
In the past few weeks I have been doing some consulting and giving advice to development teams starting SharePoint development. In this process I have found it a common problem that several developers misunderstand what are site pages, applications pages...(read more)... (more)
Last month has also featured one of the important national government events for Open Document Standards, namely: XML Standards in Government Workshop (http://www.dst.gov.za/invite/)   South African Department of Science and Technology have organised this workshop on June 17th to 20th 2008 at Tshw... (more)
Once again, I’m glad to be back at blogging after another period of intense work. For those of you that might not know, and are huge/diehard fans of OpenXML last month hailed a new release of the OpenXML SDK (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD0B72FB-4A1D-4C52-BDB5-7DD7E816... (more)
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