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WFE vs. Complete installation

Today I had a really interesting (and horrible but useful) experience. One of our customers has installed a brand new MOSS 2007 Enterprise farm with one server (and one other for SQL 2005), and my task was to migrate some content databases to here from...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 10:28 PM by aghy

Filed under: administration, SharePoint 2007, search, installation

SharePoint Virtual Conference

The SharePoint Virtual Conference is going to happen tomorrow: " Our goal is to inform as many SharePoint users as we can of the great SharePoint content that can be found without going to an in-person conference. " So if you are interested...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 9:27 AM by aghy

Filed under: SharePoint 2007, event

MOSS 2007 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

At one of our customers we had to faced with a very-very sneaky trouble. The environment: Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64, with MOSS 2007 Enterprise, and of course .NET framework 2.0 and 3.0. The SQL Server 2005 is installed to a separated hardware. The farm...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 12:55 PM by aghy

Filed under: SharePoint 2007, LINQ4SP, development, .NET Framework

MOSS Search: Custom Search pages and Property mappings

After a basic introduction let's see, how you can build a custom search page, and Property mappings. This post will built on traditional method without Infrastructure Updates , but in the next part we'll see the Updates details as well. Step 0...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 11:06 AM by aghy

Filed under: administration, SharePoint 2007, search

Clock adjustment

One of our customers called me doubtfully: he was testing a custom SharePoint Designer workflow on their MOSS production server, and he would need some fire fighting: he set the server's time forward with 24 hours, then back. That was OK, but some...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 10:54 PM by aghy

Filed under: administration, SharePoint 2007

Web Applications and Content Databases

In SharePoint 2007, every Web Application has its own content database(s). Yes, the WebApps can contain more than one Content Database - moreover, we can change the default content DB. Why is it important for us? Just for fun? - No, of course. It can...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 4:59 PM by aghy

Filed under: administration, SharePoint 2007, WebApplication, database

MOSS Search - Base search functions

The MOSS Search Engine gives a lot of really powerful features for us. Let's see a few options, how can we set very useful search pages. First of all, we can define several types of content sources: SharePoint site web site (everywhere in the world...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 5:37 PM by aghy

Filed under: administration, SharePoint 2007, search

SQL Server Data Services

Mashup applications, Software+Services... Nowadays these are really interesting and fashionable words, but what's the truth? Are they really so important? What is the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS), and what kind of relationship are between SSDS...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 12:16 AM by aghy

Filed under: SharePoint 2007, SSDS, mashup

LINQ4SP: Query Evaluation

One of my colleagues, Daniel Leiszen is the lead developer of LINQ4SP project. He started to write a developer series about LINQ4SP. His first article is brand new, published a few minutes ago: LINQ4SP - Query Evaluation : "The evaluation of a Linq...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 3:30 PM by aghy

Filed under: SharePoint 2007, LINQ4SP, development

SharePoint Infrastructure Updates

SharePoint Infrastructure Updates has been published a few hours ago. These are more than a simple hotfix or SP1, they bring a lot of functional additions as well. For example, we have a brand new search UI and administration page: Similarly, we can find...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 11:28 PM by aghy

Filed under: administration, SharePoint 2007

SharePoint Best Practices Conference

The SharePoint Best Practices Conference will be organized in Washington D.C., 15-17 September, 2008. I'm really proud to say: I'm one of the presenters! This morning I've received a mail to my Inbox: " Your Session has been Selected...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 11:07 AM by aghy

Filed under: SharePoint 2007, conference

SharePoint Magazine - Coming soon!

I can't say any details, but here are some useful URLs: SharePoint Magazine Site SharePoint Magazine RSS feed FaceBook Fan Page Twitter Updates FriendFeed Room LinkedIn Group

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 10:10 AM by aghy

Filed under: SharePoint 2007, publication

VSeWSS 2008 1.2

VSeWSS 1.2 is here! The new version is avaliable for VS 2008, so let's start to use! Visual Studio 2008 Project Templates Web Part Team Site Definition Blank Site Definition List Definition Empty SharePoint Project Visual Studio 2008 Item Templates...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2008 10:43 PM by aghy

Filed under: SharePoint 2007, development, VS 2008

LINQ4SP - Delete a list item

OK, let's play with LINQ4SP again. You can download Beta1 , write a simple query , create a new list item and lookup fields . In the next part I'll show you how to delete an item from a list : [TestMethod] public void DeleteCreatedItems() { using...

Published Sun, May 05 2008 10:53 PM by aghy

Filed under: SharePoint 2007, LINQ4SP, development, demo

LINQ4SP Beta1 is here!

I'm really happy to announce: beta1 release of LINQ4SP is available , and can be downloaded . If you are interested, you can find the install kit and Release Notes on this URL .. If you have tried it or just generally have some thougths please feel...

Published Thu, May 05 2008 12:39 AM by aghy