RE: [SPAM] RE: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Culmsee
Ages ago I read the blog of a former MS employee who was on the team that did STSADM backup and restore stuff and he stated that the reason site level backup/restore was not supported was that it was too buggy and the feature was removed (because I used to use site level methods with the previous v

RE: [OzMOSS] Storing Documents on FileSystem rather than database

2008-11-16 Thread Paul Culmsee
I wrote about this some time back and had some good responses in the comments too http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2008/03/25/sharepoint-external-storage-api- crushing-my-dream/ regards Paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Bizannes Sent: Monday, 17

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: "Link to a Document" content type

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Culmsee
Agreed - I'm surprised no-one was done a freebie WSS version of a publishing style page using this sort of approach.. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2008 7:00 AM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] RE: "Link to a Do

RE: [OzMOSS] Using ISA Server with WSS 3.0 - not caching

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Culmsee
Hey mate ISA is not the way forward here. My recommendation is to buy a WAN optimiser such as a riverbed steelhead box to solve this issue. http://www.riverbed.com/products/appliances/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Scalley Sent: Wednesday

RE: [OzMOSS] MOSS 2007 Application Development Exam

2008-10-13 Thread Paul Culmsee
share my experiences. After that there is the Microsoft Certified Architect - Sharepoint (MCA) but that is about $12,000USD and has a 70% failure rate. hth. cheers, Aaron _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Culmsee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 13

RE: [OzMOSS] MOSS 2007 Application Development Exam

2008-10-13 Thread Paul Culmsee
I agree with you Bill - Microsoft need an advanced level SharePoint certification. But here’s the thing. Microsoft do get tough when they want to. I was a Cisco CCNP from 2003-2006, but the CCNP exams were actually not as hard the one-off NT4 MCSE to Win2k MCSE exam. For those that were arou

RE: [OzMOSS] Repeated authentication requests

2008-10-08 Thread Paul Culmsee
Gday Paul This nailed me months ago - might be relevant? http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/11/15/darn-iis-and-service-packs/ regards paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2008 6:19 AM To: listserver@ozMOSS.co

RE: [SPAM] RE: [OzMOSS] Document Information Panel and Custom Fields

2008-10-05 Thread Paul Culmsee
As in asp.net code behind? Why would it behave differently whether in a browser or a browser that's embedded within the DIP? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Porter Sent: Sunday, 5 October 2008 8:41 PM To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: [SPAM] RE: [OzMOSS] Do

RE: [OzMOSS] Document Information Panel and Custom Fields

2008-10-05 Thread Paul Culmsee
I always wondered why Microsoft didn't consider using embedded IE for the DIP rather than infopath. Taking zones and all that sort of crap out of the equation, would have meant the DIP should work with custom fields. This tends to be a showstopper for many of the 3rd part solutions that are gre

RE: [OzMOSS] Setting Library View Programmatically

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Culmsee
Hi This is probably best done with powershell perhaps, as these sorts of coding efforts tend to be quick and dirty and the whole overhead of compiled app in visual studio is a little overkill. I find powershell really useful for 'smallish' little batch operations like this that are typical

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: How to change the URL of a sharepoint site

2008-08-26 Thread Paul Culmsee
In this case (site collection to site collection via export/import), it should work as Jeremy suggests. But for the record, restoring a sub site to a root site is problematic in subtle, nasty ways, but Gary Lapointe has an STSADM custom extension to correct all errors http://www.cleverworkarounds.

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: Site Templates!!!

2008-08-25 Thread Paul Culmsee
You still can save them as templates via the method below, but I recall the reason that the admin link for "saving a template" was disabled for publishing pages was something to do with a dependency on site columns or site content types that do not come across with a template. Sorry can't recall th

RE: [OzMOSS] 32bit WFE server and 64bit database server

2008-08-12 Thread Paul Culmsee
Back in the day I was forced to do a 5 server farm this way because of Adobe's lack of a PDF filter (and no 3rd party one at the time either). It works perfectly fine and is still in production to this day From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zakir Azeez Sent: Wednesda

RE: [OzMOSS] Dynamic columns

2008-07-28 Thread Paul Culmsee
Also Datacogs released a freebie one as well for those not aware.. http://datacogs.com/datablogs/archive/2007/08/26/641.aspx regards Paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 6:55 AM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject:

RE: [OzMOSS] Infrastructure update for WSS and MOSS

2008-07-25 Thread Paul Culmsee
Yes, after reading them I have started getting into the habit.. this technique should also be used when upgrading from standard to enterprise edition too http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2008/07/19/good-advice-hidden-in-the-infras tructure-update/ regards paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: MOSS Search

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Culmsee
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RE: [OzMOSS] RE: MOSS Search

2008-07-22 Thread Paul Culmsee
Make sure that your search account has full rights under "personalisation services permissions" in your shared service provider From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trent Allday Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2008 9:18 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] RE: MOS

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: MOSS Search

2008-07-21 Thread Paul Culmsee
Sorry guys I haven't been following this thread until now, but as soon as saw "stuck on crawling" it made me think of a recent problem I had with SQLSP1, maintenance plans and corrupt indexes http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2008/07/09/office-server-search-memory-leak -and-stuck-on-crawling/

RE: [OzMOSS] Permissions - at a loss

2008-07-15 Thread Paul Culmsee
Web application policy? (Also in central admin under app mgmt) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Wednesday, 16 July 2008 7:20 AM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Permissions - at a loss Update: I added myself as the primary site c

RE: [OzMOSS] Permissions - at a loss

2008-07-15 Thread Paul Culmsee
Hi Paul What about site collection administrators for that site collection? That can also be done via Central Admin in application management. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Wednesday, 16 July 2008 6:47 AM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [

RE: [OzMOSS] Windows Live authentication + sharepoint licensing = how many CAL's?

2008-07-10 Thread Paul Culmsee
Call me a cynical old sod, but I think you will find Microsoft lawyers have some find print somewhere that makes most of these type of circumstances require that license.. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Lynch Sent: Friday, 11 July 2008 9:25 AM To: listserver

RE: [OzMOSS] Custom Menu text appearing in search results

2008-07-03 Thread Paul Culmsee
Nice work Sezai. I find WGET excellent for this purpose also (for what it's worth many sites abuse google crawls using UserAgent methods like this) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sezai KOMUR Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2008 3:22 PM To: listserv

RE: [OzMOSS] SharePoint Groups and Permission Levels

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Culmsee
ds.com <http://www.eversheds.com/> _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Culmsee Sent: 02 July 2008 07:11 To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] SharePoint Groups and Permission Levels I used scriptlogic's other security-expl

RE: [OzMOSS] SharePoint Groups and Permission Levels

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Culmsee
I used scriptlogic's other security-explorer products for a large AD redesign a couple of years ago and had a bug they could not repro which rendered the product unusable in my case. While the product would have been ideal if it had worked for me, as a potential client their end-user support I foun

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: SharePoint designer crashes

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Culmsee
This is a hunch thats all (and I never followed this email thread sorry mate), but when a problem looks to be something "odd" with WSS, especially after a restore, try and to a STSADM export and even grab Gary Lapointe's STSADM extensions as well. If something is indeed corrupted or simply gott

RE: [OzMOSS] Moving site content

2008-04-22 Thread Paul Culmsee
I second that. In my opinionated world, I judge SharePoint developers by their appreciation (or lack thereof) of solutions :-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Saikovski Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 3:08 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: RE: [OzMOSS]

RE: [OzMOSS] Obfuscated URLs and SharePoint

2008-02-28 Thread Paul Culmsee
Hehe, I only read a interesting blog post about this last night. http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=282 You might want to read this post from an ex Microsoftie SharePoint team member From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trevor And

RE: [OzMOSS] Extranet Scenario Best Practice Advice Please

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Culmsee
Hiya Rather than provide a login on the external side, can they not just click a menu option like “customer logon” on the anonymous site, that links straight to the (likely ISA2006) published intranet web app (using different dns alias)? That might seem innocuous, but that alone means no a

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: Adding user properties

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Culmsee
Hi There are valid reasons to do this sort of thing. Not for audiences as mentioned, but for example, I set up a unique ID for each user which represented their identifier in a non Active Directory database. Using SharePoint integrated reporting services, I created a report definition that used th

RE: [SPAM] [OzMOSS] IIS Application Pools Policy

2008-02-01 Thread Paul Culmsee
The only thing I can think of that would require web app accounts to have common group based permissions is for DCOM. Usually when a feature (like publishing – grr) requires additional permissions to activate, I’ll temporarily grant the web app the rights it needs and then revoke it again. But

RE: [OzMOSS] Developer help!

2008-02-01 Thread Paul Culmsee
Much more suitably qualified people on this list that me to answer this, as app-dev isn’t my main focus, but event handlers are a pretty good place to start with SharePoint dev IMO as they tend to be relatively simple codewise (and therefore within my reach :-). I use Brian Wilsons’s feature/so

RE: [OzMOSS] Recovering data from a dead site

2007-11-15 Thread Paul Culmsee
Matt, if your still having issues with it, I have documented how to do this type of recovery with pretty screenshots and recently it got a guy (from a different mailing list) out of jail.. come to think of it I was promised a carton of beer in return and I don't have it yet :-O Anyway, rather t