Creating custom SharePoint MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0 themes
I was looking around for some reading today and I thought of collecting information on whats out there on SharePoint skinning, SharePoint customisation of themes and master pages. There are a few...
View ArticleMOSS SharePoint 2007 on Server 2008 R2 – Microsoft KB 962935
When you are installing MOSS SharePoint 2007 on a Windows 2008 R2 server, you may receive an error to look up Microsoft KB 962935 The possible cause is because you are installing MOSS2007 with SP 1 on...
View ArticleSharePoint disable loopback check (DisableLoopbackCheck dword in registry)
Ive found this very handy.. recently, I was working on a server and we were trying to access the local SharePoint site http://127.0.0.1 or http://nameoflocalserver/pages/default.aspx and I was...
View ArticleMicrosoft SharePoint reporting services SSRS or CRM ASSERT: Assertion failed!...
You may receive these errors when generating reports (often large reports) through Microsoft Sharepoint Reporting Services SRSS or Microsoft CRM. This error appears in the report server log: ASSERT:...
View ArticleSharePoint MOSS 2007: mixing 32bit and 64bit
You may come across environments which have 32bit servers running SharePoint 2007 which would need to be upgraded to SharePoint 2010. Since SharePoint 2010 does not run on 32bit, an ‘in place upgrade’...
View ArticleSharePoint Solution Deploy, retract, upgrade – What causes your SharePoint...
You may have had questions or have had others ask you: Does a WSP deploy perform an IISRESET? We are upgrading a solution, will it cause an outage? What causes an outage when working with SharePoint...
View ArticleMicrosoft File Transfer Manager location
If you are an MSDN (or Technet) downloader like me, you would agree that manually starting and resuming your paused or suspended downloads aren’t that easy! I struggle to remember the path to the...
View ArticleHow to create a SQL Alias 32 bit and 64 bit
When installing SharePoint, a good practice is to use SQL Aliases for your installation. To manage and create a SQL Alias via a gui tool, go to start > run > cliconfg and Enter. Then go to the...
View ArticleExport migrate all solutions from your SharePoint farm
A few recent migrations I worked on required me to export and import all Farm Solutions from one SharePoint farm to another SharePoint farm. There are a few blogs and tools available to get this done....
View ArticleConfigure IP forwarding for NLB PowerShell
There are advantages of having two Network Interface Cards – NICs on webservers – specially with SharePoint, since I work with SharePoint most of the time (some other open source products too!). When...
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