Category Archives: SharePoint

Role Purpose Fault Tolerance Typical Servers notes WFE serves HTML and routing requests YES, can exist on multiple servers 2 or more servers in a farm NLB for load balancing & host headers Query Server role executes search queries against … Continue reading →

FARM (Top) SERVERS (WFE, AT, DT) WEB APPLICATIONS (CA, SSP Admin, Content) DATABASES (Config, Content, SSP, Search) SITE COLLECTIONS (Portals, Team Sites, Blogs) SITES (Blogs, Wikis, Team) LISTS (Doc Libraries, Events, Pages, Discussions, Surveys) ITEMS (Files, Items, contacts, images)   … Continue reading →

Situation: customer would like to have the ability to set default values for any metadata site columns (lookup or choice) automatically. If Department 1 is uploading documents and they have to select their department name from the metadata columns (content … Continue reading →

When you are hosting a public facing SharePoint Web application through a ISA server, you would notice that some of the web pages are displayed as "Page cannot be displayed" though the same pages work find locally. In most cases, … Continue reading →

  Search Server 2008 is the rebranded and updated version of “MOSSFS”. New features and improvements in Search Server 2008: Simplified Installation experience similar to MOSS installation Enhanced Administration interface part of Central Administration New Federation Capabilities Performance and Stability … Continue reading →

Windows SharePoint 3.0 tools for Visual Studio (extensions) is released. You can download it from here. Now you can use Visual Studio 2008 to create SharePoint projects.   Version 1.2 of the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services … Continue reading →

Recently at one of my previous clients, MOSS environment was messed up after they performed the SP1 upgrade. Lessons learned was follow the instructions very closely when performing the SP1 upgrade as it could pretty much bring down your MOSS … Continue reading →

If you are planning to customize a SharePoint site using Master Pages, you can do it by using the default.master or one of the sample master pages provided in the _catalogs/masterpage/. Always remember to make a copy of any out … Continue reading →

Recently one of my clients asked us to provide them best practices in setting up security around collaboration sites that may contain confidential data. SharePoint 2007 Best Practices book provides very good overview of how to implement information security in … Continue reading →