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Invoking SSRS Web Services From WSS / MOSS in FBA Environment

We needed to invoke the "CreateSubscription" method on an SSRS web service that is hosted in an FBA managed MOSS environment from a custom web part. We kept getting variations of: 401: Not authorized Object Moved The "object moved&#34…

Exploring the 40 Application Templates of WSS 3.0

IntroductionMicrosoft had launched 40 application templates that can be used in Windows SharePoint Services to implement Custom Scenarios tailored to address the needs or requirements of specific business processes or sets of tasks. Microsoft states …

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…

Faceted Search Fence Sitter No More

I had reason today to play about with the codeplex faceted search project today. It’s been around for a while, but I hesitated to download and use it for the usual reasons (mainly lack of time), plus outright fear If you’re looking to…

Saving Older MS Office Files to SharePoint Using WebDAV — Problems and Fixes

During the past week, my colleague and I were doing some work for a client in NYC. We were testing a different aspects of a MOSS implementation using their "standard" workstation build (as opposed to our laptops). While doing that, we ran i…

SharePoint Migration Tip: Use “untagged data” Views For Incremental Migration

In one or my very first blog posts, I described the overall process we followed to migrate a customer from SPS 2003 to MOSS. A reader left a comment asking for more detail and here it is. For that migration project, we had to find a good way to move …

SharePoint Wildcard Search: “Pro” Is Not a Stem of “Programming”

On the MSDN search forum, people often ask a question like this: "I have a document named ‘Programming Guide’ but when I search for ‘Pro’ search does not find it." It may not feel like it, but that amounts to a wildcar…

Logging Workflow Activity in SharePoint Designer

Last week, I was working out how to loop and implement a state machine using SharePoint Designer and mentioned, as an aside, that I would probably write a blog post about better workflow logging. Well, Sanjeev Rajput beat me to it. Have a look. Sa…

The Trouble With Tribbles … err .. KPIs

This past week I finished off a proof of concept project for a client in Manhattan. While implementing the solution, I ran into another shortcoming of MOSS KPIs (see here for a previous KPI issue and my workaround). Background: We used SharePoint Des…

MOSS Small Farm Installation and Configuration War Story

This week, I’ve struggled a bit with my team to get MOSS installed in a simple two-server farm. Having gone through it, I have a greater appreciation for the kinds of problems people report on the MSDN forums and elsewhere. The final farm confi…