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SharePoint 2007 SP2 - Update

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:17:14 GMT

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...(read more)

Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 SP2

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:24:38 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePoint 2007 SP2

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:24:40 GMT

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 Read More......(read more)

MOSS 2007 and .NET framework 3.5 SP1 – Second part

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:51:59 GMT

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...(read more)

WFE vs. Complete installation

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:28:09 GMT

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...(read more)

MOSS Search: Custom Search pages and Property mappings

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:06:01 GMT

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...(read more)

Clock adjustment

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:54:47 GMT

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...(read more)

Web Applications and Content Databases

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePoint Infrastructure Updates

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy [MVP] — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:28:00 GMT

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...(read more)

WSS 3.0 --> MOSS 2007 migration

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy [MVP] — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Backup / Restore

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy [MVP] — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:54:00 GMT

We can need backup/restore our SharePoint for security reasons, or sometimes when we deploy some contents from one server to other one. In SharePoint 2007 we have several choices to save and restore the content. On the Central Administration site we can...(read more)