Ok, none of this surprised me but it was interesting to discover finally (I always wondered what I'd do if I had a corrupted VM and last night until 4am I got to find out)... So, our old system was on VMware Server v1.0.6. It worked okay, suc ...[Read More]

SharePoint slow to load in the AM? That first user, after the work processes gets recycled, gets to have that long ASP.NET compile pause. Joel Oleson has written a script to alleviate that pause (though isn't that when you get your first cup of c ...[Read More]

Ok, so we just went through an exercise of moving off of VMWare Server 1.0.6 and onto VMware ESXi. Some pain during this exercise but mostly due to a corrupted VMDK (by the way, chkdsk /R, yes "R", not /F, did the trick on that one). Ho ...[Read More]

That title sure read lame (or geeky)... So, need to use PSConfig to attach to a different Configuration Database for SharePoint? Using WID (Windows Internet Database) and not full SQL? Don't forget you need to specify the Instance with your confi ...[Read More]

Ran into a very frustrating issue tonight, where my Web Part Connections were breaking, with very little logging/diagnostic info returned. In fact, depending on the scenario, the most informative information SharePoint (well, ASP.NET really) gave ...[Read More]

Ok, got tired of getting "An unexpected error has occurred" messages. Maybe friendly to some, but useless to those of us trying to get some SharePoint development done. The solution is to change a single entry in web.config, by modifyin ...[Read More]

Mark Wagner wrote a hugely valuable post on how to apply a theme across all subsites, without having to muck about with the master page stuff (and frankly, most of my clients just want it to look a little different and don't need mass customizatio ...[Read More]

I found this very valuable, so I've bookmarked it for myself. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/11/17/431555.aspx ...[Read More]

Ok, I promised Zak I would do this and I finally got around to taking my jibberish notes and pasting them in here (sorry, this won't be an ellaborate HOWTO with diagrams, the intended audience here is someone that is familiar with WSS already). H ...[Read More]

This is a keeper, so I'm bookmarking it. http://blogs.msdn.com/modonovan/archive/2005/06/14/428862.aspx Don't mind me. ...[Read More]