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• Client Certificate authentication and SharePoint 2010

  We just had a support case where a customer was trying to use Client Certificate authentication with SharePoint 2010. Client Certificate authentication was a supported authentication method in SharePoint 2007 but with SharePoint 2010 client certificate... Posted Apr 15 2011, 08:43 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2010

• Site Master Page vs. System Master Page

  I recently received a question regarding site and system master pages in SharePoint. It seems that the purpose of these two master pages is not clear to everyone so here is a short summary: By default the following rule applies: Site Master Pages: used... Posted Apr 13 2011, 08:25 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2010

• Delayed February 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 is now available

  Finally also the February 2011 CU for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released. The MOSS 2007 fixes have been released rougly two weeks ago. Some of the KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these... Posted Mar 04 2011, 12:52 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• February 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 has been released today

  Yesterday the product group released the February 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The Februray 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 will be released in a couple of days. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take... Posted Feb 23 2011, 06:43 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• Common Problem: NullReferenceException when using the VariationDataSource on a SharePoint master page

  A common scenario with Variations is to customize the variation label menu which allows to switch between different labels by using (e.g.) a Repeater or DataList control which is bound to a VariationDataSource . You can achieve this easily by either writing... Posted Feb 04 2011, 03:32 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Variation Feature, SharePoint 2010

• December 2010 CU for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 has been released on Friday

  Yesterday the product group released the December 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process... Posted Jan 03 2011, 03:48 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• Interesting ChangeToken problem when mixing complete and selective deployment

  Just today I noticed a new flavor of the frequent Change Token problem: "The changeToken refers to a time before the start of the current change log." As discussed each content deployment job is responsible to update the change tokens for the... Posted Dec 29 2010, 07:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Content Deployment, SharePoint 2010

• First issue with SPDisposeCheck has been identified by the community

  One day out and we already have received feedback about a problem with SPDisposeCheck. ;-) Here are the details: Code like the one below is not recommended as it disposes the RootWeb - that is correctly identified by SPDisposeCheck! public void DND_RootWeb... Posted Dec 15 2010, 09:42 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Visual Studio, Coding Tips, SharePoint 2010

• New version of SPDisposeCheck has been released

  We are happy to announce the release of a new version of SPDisposeCheck! SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators check custom SharePoint solutions that use the SharePoint Object Model helping measure against known Microsoft dispose... Posted Dec 14 2010, 01:02 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Visual Studio, Coding Tips, SharePoint 2010

• Application to check cascade access rights for a particular user or anonymous user in SharePoint

  My colleague Rodney Viana has created a nice tool which simplifies troubleshooting of permission issues in SharePoint. The tool tests various different settings in IIS and SharePoint and decrypts the permission masks involved when accessing a specific... Posted Nov 12 2010, 12:51 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2010

• October 2010 CU for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 has been released yesterday

  Yesterday the product group released the October 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process... Posted Oct 27 2010, 01:03 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• Blob Caching - be careful when flushing the cache!

  In the past I have written a post about Blob Caching and some of the limitations when using this method: MOSS 2007 Blob caching and it's limitations In a recent service request my collegue Gyorgy Homolya worked on a performance problem which affected... Posted Oct 08 2010, 02:36 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2010, Blob Caching

• Important Out-of-band security update to address ASP.NET issue will be released today

  Cross posting info about an important update for ASP.NET which will address an issue that affects all ASP.NET applications including SharePoint and MCMS. [cross post from Microsoft Security Response Center blog ] Today we provided advance notification... Posted Sep 28 2010, 04:06 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: .NET, MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, MCMS, Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• August 2010 Cumulative Update for SharePoint has been released

  Yesterday the product group released the August 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process)... Posted Sep 02 2010, 12:50 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• Waiting for August cumulative Update for WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 - do you have SP2 installed?

  In case you are waiting for August CU for WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007: be aware that this update will not install if SP2 is not installed. Support for SP1 was retired on 13th July: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&p1=12200&x=12&y=12... Posted Aug 26 2010, 08:02 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 9 – Timerjobs

  Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Part 6 - Logging Part 7 - Change Token Basics Part 8 - Job and Change Token Part 9 - Job and Timerjob Part 10 - coming soon... Part... Posted Apr 08 2010, 08:06 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Content Deployment

• Updated retirement date for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SP1

  Microsoft has communicated an update on the retirement date for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. The official retirement date is July 13th. That means roughly 3 additional months compared to the normal retirement timeframe of "Next Service Pack release date... Posted Mar 23 2010, 05:35 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• Launch date for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 has been announced

  Arpan Shah officially anounced the launch date for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on the SharePoint Team blog : Announced Launch date is May 12th, 2010 , RTM date (Release to Manufacturing) will be in April...( read more ) Share this post: Read More... Posted Mar 06 2010, 06:29 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2010

• December cumulative update for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday

  As discussed by the Office Sustained Engineering group cumulative updates for all Office Products including WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 will be released every second month. Yesterday we released the so called December Cumulative Update. It is highly recommended... Posted Dec 16 2009, 02:18 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• Caveats when monitoring a system for SPSite/SPWeb leaks

  In an earlier article I discussed the possibilities to monitor a system for SPSite/SPWeb leaks using the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\HeapSettings SPRequestStackTrace = 1 Although this... Posted Dec 15 2009, 04:54 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 5 – Quick Deployment

  Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Quick Deployment Concepts Quick deployment enables authors to select specific items to be quick deployed as soon as possible. The... Posted Nov 04 2009, 08:51 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Content Deployment

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 4 – Communication

  Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Content Deployment uses the http (or https) protocol for communication between source and target farm. Most of the communication is performed through Web service... Posted Nov 03 2009, 08:25 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Content Deployment

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 3 – Configuration

  Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Content Deployment General Settings The content deployment configuration in MOSS 2007 differentiates between settings that are unique for each content deployment path or job and... Posted Nov 02 2009, 10:04 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Content Deployment

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 2 – The Basics continued

  Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Content Deployment Phases The content deployment process is divided into several different phases which are partly performed on the source and partly on the target server. Preparing This phase is unique... Posted Nov 02 2009, 02:43 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Content Deployment

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 1 – The Basics

  Part 1 A while ago I created a deep dive article series covering the WSS content deployment and migration API which helped many people to develop their own applications to do export and import in a customized manner. Today I will start a new article series... Posted Oct 30 2009, 04:42 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Content Deployment