A few days ago I started setting up an internal development environment for SharePoint. This environment needed to exist of a Domain server, Database server and of course a SharePoint Server. The R2 of Windows Server 2008 was just released so I thought lets install everything on the R2 version. All went fine until I…
Yesterday Service Pack 2 was released for SharePoint. In my post “Office Service Pack will be available on 28 April” you can read about some changes that are included in the service pack. More information about the Service Pack can be found in the KB articles: Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and of…
In my post a week ago I announced that the February Cumulative update was available for download but it could only be used by users who had the December Cumulative update applied. Microsoft said that they would create an uber package and it is available know: February Cumulative Update Uber Package for Windows SharePoint Services…
The new cumulative update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services is available for you to apply to you server farm. The Microsoft SharePoint Team blog states: “However, unless customers are affected by the problem described in the KB articles, and already have Dec CU applied, we do not suggest them to…
A while ago I posted a SharePoint Backup script so that it is possible to schedule a SharePoint Backup. I had to make some adjustments to the script because it contains small errors. The adjustments I had to make were: When you perform multiple differential backups in a week you will receive multiple e-mails for…
It is possible to integrate SQL Reporting Services with SharePoint 2007, but know the question is how you integrate it with SharePoint. The easiest why is to install the SharePoint Reporting Web Parts on your server. This is also called the Integration in Native Mode. It isn’t more than installing the webpart and connect those…
Update:Version 2.0 available of the script here For one of our clients we had to schedule the SharePoint Backup what isn’t possible trough the interface, so we went looking for some possible solutions. The solutions we came across are: Performing the backup every time by hand (isn’t scheduling after all). Creating a batch file to…
This is a walkthrough for the configuration of SharePoint Search. Central Administration Navigate to Central Administration Shared Service Provider Select you ‘Shared Service Provider’. They are listed at the left side of you screen in the middle. Search Settings In the main window of the Shared Service Provider select ‘Search Settings’ Content Sources and Crawl…
At the SharePoint Conference 2008, Bill Gates announced that it is possible to display applications that are developed in Silverlight in SharePoint 2007. Employees of U2U developed a blueprint for displaying these applications. At the following site: SharePoint Blueprint you will find different samples and the explanation to get Silverlight working in you MOSS environment.