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Web Part Packager – Link Salad
I went looking for a Web Part Packager install walkthrough with screenshots that a co-worker might find useful, but was unsuccessful. I did however find a bunch of links I wanted to save for myself. So if you don’t know about the Web Part Packager and you’re running SharePoint 2003 and developing/deploying web parts, learn…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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KB Article: How to manually remove SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Looks like this also nabs WSS 2003 on the same server. KB Article 830326
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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…