A couple of patching issues have come up recently that are worth sharing. Security Update for WSS 3.0 Patch, July 2012 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2596911 We saw this coming through a customers WSUS system, and almost approved it but I decided to Read More...
One of the SharePoint configuration items that I tend to asked about is getting external RSS feeds to work, there are quite a few articles and blogs on the web that talk through specific problems, but I thought I would share my experiences with SharePoint Read More...
In this post, I share a PowerShell script that I recently wrote to help out a friend. The script allows you to search and identify content items in SharePoint site collections by object ID (GUID). The script isn't something you'd probably use every day, but it might be handy to keep in the script...
SharePoint – why is nothing ever quick ? Recently I had to help out a client who was trying to restore a single piece of content from a backup. We had a backup copy of the content-db and the client also had a recovery farm we could use, so this Read More...
The SharePoint BLOB Cache can be a very powerful tool for use in improving farm performance and scalability, but some planning should take place before the BLOB Cache is enabled. In this post, I explain how end users can suffer if BLOB Cache planning isn't performed. I also make some recommendations...
I was recently asked about the best way to manage large numbers of content types in a document library. The most simple way that I know of is to just add more document libraries and spread the content types among them, but what if your requirement is Read More...
Recently I was asked to look at SharePoint 2007 install that was throwing 6641 “Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer” errors every few minutes and filling up the Application log. We went through Read More...