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Speculation – Further attempted fixes to WSS 2.0 Full Text Search

So the current situation is that despite my past posts about fixes to WSS 2.0/2003 Full Text Search, both my QA and Production environments have Full Text Search enabled, but are/were only returning results for content that pre-existed the fixes. The Full Text Index actually existed in the SQL Server Content Database (for WSS content),…

October 25, 2006
Using UNC Paths to access the “directory structure” in SharePoint 2003 – Requires WebClient service running on your client computer

So for the longest time I couldn’t figure out why on some computers I could use a UNC path to get to SharePoint sites’ resources, and on others I could. Now I think I finally have the answer. The mechanism is that if you have a WSS site (and Admin privs on that site) at…

October 20, 2006
Laptop/Notebook Hotfixes for MS Virtual PC 2004 SP1

So as you may know, Microsoft and many SharePoint dev houses swear by doing development on Virtual PCs/Virtual Servers. The reason for this boils down to the fact that when you are debugging a SharePoint Web Part with Visual Studio 2003, you have to connect to the active w3wp.exe process that IIS is using and…

October 16, 2006
Server Accounts, Changing them, Permissions Issues – Followup

In my previous post (opens in new window), I said I’d let you know how it went. Turns out for various reasons we didn’t get around to testing my assertions until this morning. It went fine. I was right about what was broken and what needed fixing. The implementation of the fix and the continued…

October 6, 2006
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…

October 5, 2006
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…

October 5, 2006
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…

October 3, 2006
KB Article: How to manually remove SharePoint Portal Server 2003

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

October 3, 2006
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…

October 3, 2006
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…

October 2, 2006

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