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My Christmas gift to you! I don't know why I didn't do this years ago. I guess you can thank the fine folks at Rackspace for this. Today I did a 1.5 hour webinar on installing and configuring SharePoint 2013. And in a totally unexpected twist...
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One of the things that comes up in my SharePoint Administrator classes a lot is people who are looking for an easy guide to just get SQL Server up and running so they can deploy SharePoint. They aren't looking for best practices or optimal configurations...
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It is like your typical battle of good vs. evil. SharePoint 2010 has a secret plot to run the world out of GUIDs and between you and me I think it has a good shot of accomplishing its goal. Well, me and boy wonder (aka Todd ) have seen the pain and suffering...
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Service Pack 2 was released today (as I am guessing the whole world knows by now). Instead of making that profound announcement I would recommend you check out this post on the SharePoint Team blog for the official announcement. I will spare you the crazy...
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Whoops... because i am a big dummy I screwed up this post. Sorry, hope you weren't using it. :) Install SharePoint SP2 now instead. Sorry Shane SharePoint Consulting
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Service Pack 1 for SharePoint is here. The SharePoint Team blog has a great full length article on all of fixes and tweaks. You can read it here Announcing the Release of WSS 3.0 SP1 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 . This post is just meant to give...
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Seriously, you should install the updates before you have to set those clocks back an hour. Heck, if I am having to remind you this then I should also remind you to check the batteries in your smoke detectors. J This is a security update! Yes, I know...
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If you are keeping with best practices and doing any type of install where security is important (shouldn't it always be) then you have probably done a least privileged install. Probably using these instructions Least-privilege administration requirements...
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I have been meaning to post this forever and keep forgetting. A very common issue I am seeing people have when setting up and configuring SharePoint is the way they are specifying account names. You must always specify domain\username. Even though SharePoint...
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So after really beating my head on the table for a while my conclusion is you cannot install MOSS 2007 or WSS v3 in an NT 4.0 domain as anything but a single server. If you choose multiserver you will get the error below. I got this error while trying...
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Tomorrow sometime Microsoft will release Office SharePoint Server 2007 for download at the Microsoft Download Center. Check out this post to find all of the details on downloading. In anticipation of the flood of demand for help on migrating away from...
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