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  • Database Migration breaks WSS/SQL Server Full Text Search

    So here’s a little-known issue with SharePoint and Full Text Search: On Joel Oleson’s blog (if you don’t know who this guy is and you’re in SharePoint Operations, find out quickly. Aside from Bill English [the man, his blog], he’s the other Man in SharePoint Managment/Operations – both of these guys regularly present at TechEd…

  • Full Text Search and Account Permissions

    This is a more extended writeup of running Windows SharePoint Services 2003 and SQL Full Text Search on a Database box where Local Administrators (BUILTIN\Administrators) don’t have System Admin access in SQL Server 2000. (I mentioned this briefly in the Changing SharePoint Service Accounts article.) Essentially, you’ll run up against this security policy requirement in…

  • Old Security Articles

    It’s on my professional site (where my resume would be if I were looking hard for another job), but I wrote a bunch of articles (Security notes, Best Practices, etc.) for Adobe, back before it was Adobe, and before even it was Macromedia, but when it was Allaire, and I was Product Security Manager/Security Response…

  • Making Office document open in Office App instead of in an Office ActiveX Control in IE

    I just wrote up this little Frequently Asked Question at work: Assumptions: You have Microsoft Office 2003 installed. You are working with Windows XP Professional as your Operating System. This is a setting that needs to be made/verified in your Windows settings. To set the documents to open in their appropriate application: Open My Computer…

  • KB Article: How to manually remove SharePoint Portal Server 2003

    Looks like this also nabs WSS 2003 on the same server. KB Article 830326

  • MOSS 2007 and Search

    Reading the 7 Development Projects with the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows SharePoint Services 2007 eBook (Microsoft Press) yesterday, I was pleased to read that we’re moving off of the sometimes wildly inaccurate results-giving Full Text Search technology that SQL Server provides for Windows SharePoint Services 2003 and using the same technology the Portal…

  • Changing SharePoint Service Accounts, Permissions and Troubles Found and Conquered Therein

    (Note: Links to KB Articles open in new windows) So I have a client who is security conscious enough to ask that we make SharePoint work even when the servers’ Local Administrators (members of BUILTIN\Administrators) are not members of the System Administrators Server Role in SQL Server. This is the default configuration for SQL Server…

  • Introductory Post

    Hi folks! I already have a Livejournal, where posts of a more personal, less technical nature, will go. My current work cycle is very focused on System Engineering/Architecture/Maintenance with SharePoint in mind, and may be devoid of .NET tips for quite some time. I also don’t wish to create posts just to post. So when…