This is one of those posts where the main target is myself. Today a coworker of mine ran into some trouble getting SC DPM to install properly. The problem turned out to be a permissions issue which is detailed on a TechNet page that seems to be a bit disconnected from the rest of the directions. Matt...
I love it when tools work exactly right. This was so simple to do once I had the tool installed correctly I just had to blog about it. I was faced with the requirement of migrating SOME but not all of the lists and document libraries from one SharePoint 2007 farm to another SharePoint 2007 farm...
Did you know that if you start the DNS client service on a Windows Server 2003 box, that it will ignore entries in a hosts file and proceed out to the Internet to resolve the name? THAT was fun during a demo. http://publishing.sample.com takes you to Viagra sales! Nice.
If you are adding web front ends to a farm, be sure your app server and web front ends are at the same code base or you may experience failures trying to run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard. Our farm had hotfixes 313243 and 316200 applied to the application server. After some significant testing...
You tell them to do things and they partly do it. My gripe with MakeCab is that the files in the CBA archive (or wsp) don't use the same date stamp as what Windows Explorer uses. Building a DLL and as part of a post-build step you're putting the new DLL into the CAB file? Wouldn't it surprise...
I've been working recently on a lot of code which needed debugging inside of SharePoint. One of the frustrating aspects of SharePoint development is the annoying debugging story. Click Debug, click Attach to Process, click your desired process(es), click Attach, click OK on each process popup......
If you are creating an externally accessible portal or extranet with SharePoint which uses Forms based authentication, business requirements such as Search and ECM Publishing might require you to create an intranet portal which uses NTLM or Kerberos authentication. To do this, you'd first create a Web...
I've finally finished (almost) with the project that has been keeping me up late at night. I want to thank Doug Ware , Brendon Schwartz , Dan Attis , and Adam Buenz for all the help they gave me over the past several months while I struggled to bring this beast to its knees. I did some cool work so I...
OK - so I'm a bit irritated, but this is a great case of Microsoft's dev teams doing something which contradicts documentation and expected behavior. Here is the story, including the business case which this bug stomps all over. Doug Ware (formerly of Magenic fame and now an independent SharePoint consultant...
It's well understood that you shouldn't have your MDF and LDF files on the same spindles if you want to maximize IO performance. Unfortunately, you can only specify a default location for the SQL Server "data files", which includes both the MDF and the LDF. Is there a way to separate these so that the...
Jim Wooley posted about how he informed me that this great HTTP analyzer tool called Fiddler existed. This let me look into my code's exceptions to figure out what was happening. He posted about the existance of the tool and how it's a great thing. I thought I should post my specific example, what it...