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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),…
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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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IE7 Running Fine
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 is out as of some time this week. It’s kinda slick. I don’t know if it’s necc’ly better than Firefox 1.5.0.7 (and I haven’t tried out Firefox’s 2.0 betas), but it seems to work pretty well and seems a bit more secure (esp. about expired/unverified SSL certs) with respect to explicitly…
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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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Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) and the “The file is not available.” error.
After I applied the Technical Refresh updates to my Office 2007 Beta 2 installs, I started getting this error whenever I tried to open a file with an Office 2007 application (either by double-clicking within the Windows Explorer file list, or by opening the file from within the application): The file Testing.docx is not available.…
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Office 2007 Beta 2 Reinstall Troubles
Somehow, while uninstalling and reinstalling various bits of Office 2003 and Office 2007 (license/product key management – I am now entirely converted over to my workplace’s Office 2003 Enterprise licenses – this enables me to run my workplace’s Infopath), I have managed to screw up my ability to install Office 2007 Beta 2 and Office…
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What is wrong with you Microsoft Only people? – Checksum utilities for verifying large files
So today I am downloading the 2007 Office Beta 2 installs (and whoever heard of paying $1.50 for 5 download tries? I sort of understand, but if it were really just covering bandwidth fees, I should think it would be a lot lower). I note that the download listings/product key e-mails do not come with…
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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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Robocopy
Copying large files or large collections of files across a balky network or VPN connection? Robocopy is your friend.
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Product Testimony – Acronis TrueImage 9.x
I don’t do Product plugs/testimonies for kickback, but only because/when products seem to truly deserve accolades. Anyway, the version of Acronis TrueImage that I own is the Home version, but based on that, I’d definitely consider it for enterprise use too. TrueImage is a disk imaging tool, and item-by-item recovery tool as well. You can…