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Dev VM Farm Notes
Had a similar problem to this one, wherein the SharePoint Timer service appeared to be screwing around with my app pool settings for my SSP web application. Not entirely sure what caused it (because I wasn’t taking notes – trying to set this one up quickly) but I found the problem while trying to set…
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Wrangling interesting InfoPath 2003 vs 2007 issues with arcane XPath statements
We have a form at work where the XPath current() function isn’t working properly. It’s supposed to be essentially a pointer to your current execution context, so in InfoPath in general it’s great for finding your way sort of recursively up and out of your current context to sibling controls (for harvesting lookup values, etc.).…
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Creating and Administering Site Themes in SPS2003/WSS 2.0
This is probably more for posterity than anything else, as most folks should have been using SharePoint 2003 technologies for almost a year. But my work site uses 2003 still, with an upgrade coming up in the next few months. Recently I had to fix some site-wide site templates that had some issues with unghosted…
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MediaWiki RSS feed on Recent Changes page error
If you get an error like: XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity Location: http://10.2.48.69/hdwiki//index.php?…anges&feed=rss Line Number 1, Column 2: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> -^ When clicking the rss or atom link in your toolbox from the Recent Changes page, you probably have an extra blank line, either before the <? php…
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Various
NOTE: Apparently I wrote this around early-August, but never posted it, so I posted it today after finding the draft in my WordPress. – Updated to WordPress 2.3.1. Apparently some security fixes as well as normal feature updates. Requires a DB upgrade, so be sure to hit that admin link to do the DB upgrade.…
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Coupla Things – PowerShell and MD5 sums for MS’s MOSS 2007 VPC files
1) PowerShell If you are involved in Systems Maintenance and the systems are Windows-based (pref. OS: Windows Server 2003+), you owe it to yourself to check out Microsoft Windows PowerShell. This is a .NET 2.0 shell, yes, but architected from the ground up to enable automation, and it enables all sorts of WMI-interfaces and reflection…
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Internet Literacy 301: NAVTEQ and you
I decided that since I’m not solely a SharePoint Guy anymore, I’d add other geeky articles I write (usually for private audiences) here as well. Here’s one about the mapping data source that provides most of the mapping data you see on Google Maps and GPSes and so on: NAVTEQ is the mapping data company…
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Alternate Access Mapping 2007 Research Links
We must migrated from 2003 to 2007 this past weekend (Friday, actually), and now the mapping is causing problems for our MAC users, who can’t use UNC hostnames, but have to use full hostnames. So I’m doing some background research on the issue. Links: – http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=521109&SiteID=17 – http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/be9d31d2-b9cb-4442-bfc6-2adcdbff8fae1033.mspx – http://blogs.officezealot.com/mauro/archive/2007/03/02/20178.aspx – http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/MS-SharePoint/Q_22117646.html – http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms771995.aspx –…