The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: SharePoint

  • STSADM Extensions for WCM and beyond…

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    Further diving into the realm of STSADM extensions, I came across Andrew Connell‘s stsadm extensions for MOSS Web Content Management, providing the ability to quickly generate site columns, generate site content types or publish all items that are currently in queue of a web content site. If you’re interested in going above and beyond what…

  • STSADM Extensions… explored

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    First off, for those of you not familiar with Gary LaPointe’s STSADM Extensions, I would recommend checking out his blog over at http://stsadm.blogspot.com and investigate what he’s got to offer. For those of you that are familiar with stsadm for WSS and MOSS then you’re familiar with the likes of Ben Curry‘s Microsoft SharePoint Products…

  • MOSS 2007 SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices – First Thoughts

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    So I met Ben Curry at TechEd IT Pro Week 2008 and I must say that he’s a decent fellow that’s quite knowledgeable about SharePoint administration and provided some of the gotchas during his presentations.  But what’s better than an hour with Ben Curry?  767 pages of Ben Curry (and Bill English) goodness. http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=u015-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0735625387&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrRecently their…

  • TechEd 2008 – Day 1

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    Day 1 of TechEd 2008 was a long first day to open up the conference.  Starting off with breakfast at 7:30, heading to the keynote at 8:30 and then onward to breakout sessions, hands on labs and interactive sessions through 6:30 in the evening was quite a lot to digest – but the day didn’t…

  • Making Sense of Troubleshooting and Preventive Medicine…

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    If you’ve ever had to troubleshoot a SharePoint issue within the realm of the third iteration of SharePoint’s platform, then you know that there’s more than just what you’ll find in Central Admin that sometimes requires tinkering to resolve problems. I’ve dealt with everything from timer jobs not firing off due to daylight savings time…

  • Interesting Search Results…

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    If you’ve ever wondered how the SharePoint Search Crawler crawls, what it’s crawling (whether it be major versions or minor versions or the associated meta data with either), I would highly recommend checking out Bill English’s article "What Does the Crawler Crawl and When?" For those that are search aficionados, it’s a nice review.  For…

  • WSS v3 to MOSS 2007 Upgrade "Fun"

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    A few days ago I was allowed to participate in the fun of upgrading from the Windows SharePoint Services version 3 platform to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard Edition during an overnight weekend time period so as to limit the exposure of any problems that could crop up during operational hours.  This should be…

  • Troubleshooting Tip of the Day… Network Configuration – Wrong Gateway

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    For those of you that have ever setup a server with two NICs, you probably know that it’s usually best to either a) team the NICs to have greater performance, or b) have them on completely separate LANs and only have one that is registered in DNS with the domain name that you are hosting…

  • Things not to do when figuring MOSS out…

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    So I decided that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to really get at the guts of MOSS and figure out just how PSConfig works and what the different application pools are useful for. So the first lesson learned of the day is that the web application for Office Server really should never be toyed…

  • 70-630… and check…

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    So after inadvertently forgetting to move the 70-630 exam so that I might be able to get some study time in, I decided to suck it up and go take the exam at the time I’d originally scheduled it for… The exam went by pretty quickly as I completed it in about 35 minutes –…