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Getting Partial and Complete Full Farm backups to restore properly on 2007
This is my research today/this week, until I get it working and properly documented, at least on our configuation traking Wiki. Links: ITPRODSK-106: Microsoft Office SharePoint Disaster Recovery (recommend IE only): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/events/moss2007/dsk-106.mspx Colleagues have alluded to “The GUID Problem” wherein if you don’t take a site collection’s content database offline before restoring a copy of…
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SharePoint Developer Environments (Esp. 2007)
About a year and a half ago, our petition at my current work site to create/use developer environments for SharePoint (then 2003) was punted, mostly because the requirements for dev environments are almost completely diametrically opposed to the various security and systems policies at this site. The detente when finally reached was that we could…
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Interesting tidbit for getting your VPC-borne development environments to run properly
This tip from Kevin Kelly (not of kevinkelly.org, btw, but my co-worker – Hi Kev!). Anyhow, if, like us, you need to do your development in a single-server installation that’s network-isolated (either SPS2003 or MOSS2007), you may have found that there are some issues when you install and try to use some SharePoint/Visual Studio features.…
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Workflow dev in MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0
I’m doing research into developing “simple” workflows in MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0. This is mostly a linkdump post, but I wanted to say that the “simple” workflow I have to work with (publishing documents from a private workspace/subsite to a public parent site, seemingly cannot be accomplished with SharePoint Designer 2007, which seems to be limited…
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Site Definition and Themes Customization Research Links
I’m doing some research into Site Definitions and Themes in MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0. My goal: Determine how similar or different the mechanisms are from SPS 2003/WSS 2.0. Answer: looks pretty similar! Develop new custom site definitions and create upgrade definition files (Office SharePoint Server) Deploy upgrade definition files and new site definitions [Office SharePoint Server]…
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MOSS 2007 server farm architecture links
All in all, it looks like MOSS 2007 server farms consist of: Front End Web Servers – (low storage, hosting IIS, SharePoint and any custom web parts/custom site definitions/templates – this is a guess) Application Servers – (high storage, hosing IIS, SharePoint and indexes for search – again a guess) Database Server – (hosting the…