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Update URL After cloning Server in SharePoint

This would be very common scenario most of us bump into. You may need to clone your Web Front End to host it in different environment. After restoring the cloned instance you may find your new server refers to the old server name. Quick and easy way to…

Solution: Compiling MOSS Audience Adds No New Members

Bottom line: if you want to use a profile property in a rule for creating audiences, the property must be visible to “everyone.” I was working with a co-worker yesterday and he was building out a MOSS audience based on a custom user profile proper…

Fun SharePoint SSO Fact of the Day

I’ve been working with SharePoint SSO and learning as I go. One way in which this works is that you tell SharePoint about external applications. Users log into that application via some SharePoint function (e.g. iView web part). The first time …

Adventures With iView Web Parts

I needed to do some minimal proving today that iView web parts can work in my client’s environment. I’ve never worked with this slice of SharePoint before. Microsoft has created a very high quality white paper on this subject. The first obstacl…

VPN Strikes Again, Slowing Me Down and Ruining My Beer

Tonight, I’m doing some hobby work with a virtual machine running on my desktop. I’m connecting via IE on my laptop and I’m noticing horrible performance. IE keeps freezing, especially when I access anything in the upper right han…

SharePoint Performance — Quick (But Unusual) Tip

We’ve been working in a user acceptance testing (UAT) environment which, as compared to development, is dead slow. It’s a complicated environment using FBA, SQL 2008, SSRS and extended web applications accessible over the internet using htt…

Have You Performed Your Monthly Search Analysis?

It’s a good practice, probably even a Best Practice, to review your search reports once a month and look for opportunities to add best bets, tune your thesaurus and maybe even uncover some business intelligence that is otherwise hidden to managem…

Data Protection Manager: Seems Like a Great SharePoint Backup/Restore Solution

At the New Jersey SharePoint User Group meeting last night, Microsoft Sr. product specialist DuWayne Harrison presented Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007. DuWayne was great (and he was supported by one or two colleagues from the audience whose n…

Quick Impression: System Center Capacity Planner for SharePoint

I just fired up the capacity planning tool that’s all the rage these days. I found it easy to use and quickly modeled a client environment I worked on this past summer. With some trepidation, I pressed the final OK button and it recommended so…

Yet Another Network Credentials Multi-Challenge Issue and Solution

My client recently installed a magic device from Juniper that apparently replaced their old Cisco network load balancer (NLB). At about the same time, we installed a hotfix to address a workflow problem. A day or two later, we noticed a problem when…