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If you have a SharePoint 2010, and you have a Managed Metadata service application, you have to associate this service application before using it. Sometimes it looks like if it would be associated but something might go wrong, and you get the following error when trying to create a new managed metadata...
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Lately, I’ve been installing a brand new SharePoint 2010 farm. The installation went smoothly, but the Configuration Wizard gave me a “Configuration Failed” message, with a TimeOut error in the 2nd step. Next try – the same result in the 5th step. After some trying I gave up to try again with the visual...
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In case of you have to install SharePoint 2010 to a machine with no Internet access, here are some useful URLs where you can download these required components (and copy them manually to your offline machine): Geneva Framework, Microsoft.IdentityModel.dll 1.0.0.0: http://download.microsoft.com/download...
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Slovenian SharePoint Conference 2009 is around the corner, it's going to be here in 3 weeks! I'm very excited about this conference as I'll have a workshop as well as a session. The topic of my workshop at the SharePoint Days, Nov 26 2009 is Understanding SharePoint 2010 Administration. I'll...
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The SharePoint 2007 SP2 bugfix is ready: “ The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation. If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied...
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Here you are! SP2s are here. You can find the announcement at the Product Group’s blog . Additional information and reasons to install are in Joel’s post : Performance Reliability/Stability Fixes 2. Browser support for IE 8 and improvements in tier 2 browsers (Firefox) 3. Reliability improvements in...
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It’s just announced: the SP2 is coming on April 28 . The details and the full list of updates can be found here . Technorati Tags: SharePoint 2007 , MOSS , WSS , MOSS 2007 , WSS 3.0 , SP , Service Pack , administration , development
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I've had an article about our .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 issue , where the Records Center went wrong after the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installation. Well, that story comes back to my life again and again, so I had to search forward the issues. Well, Anders mentioned the loopback check in his comment as...
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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 another MOSS 2007 Enterprise. It seemed to be really...
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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: Set the basic search See my previous post and practice...
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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 things went wrong immediately: the main page gave...
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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 be important, for example, if we have to move a full...
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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) File Share Exchange Public Folder Business Data...
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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 Content Deployment updates, performance upgrades...
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One of our customers had WSS 3.0, and just decided to upgrade it to MOSS 2007. The installation was successfully finished by their own operational team, and they was waiting for us to migrate the sites and other contents. OK, it's a really average task, but here is the trick: we had to keep the GUID...