Archive for July, 2008
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SharePoint Pod Show
by Andy on July 31st, 2008
Nick Swan, Brett and Rob have launched a new SharePoint Pod Show. After listening to the first pod show on my way home last night, I can say that I’m really looking forward to the future content.
Head over to http://www.sharepointpodshow.com/ and check it out for yourself
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SharePoint Manager 2007
by Andy on July 31st, 2008
Who doesn’t just love free SharePoint Tools? Here’s one of my favourites - SharePoint Manager 2007.
SharePoint Manager 2007 is a SharePoint object model explorer by Carsten Keutmann.
This tool enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property. It also enables you to change the properties (at your own risk). This is a very powerful tool for developers and admins who want to understand more!
Grab it here http://www.codeplex.com/spm
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Adobe PDF iFilter - How to Install
by Andy on July 29th, 2008
1. Download Adobe PDF iFilter v.6.0 (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611)
2. Stop the IIS Admin service: Start -> Run -> services.msc -> IIS Admin Service -> Stop
3. Run the Adobe PDF IFilter v.6.0 Setup program to install the filter on the server
4. Place the pdf16.gif icon (
) file into “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images” (Don’t forgot to repeat this action for each of your Web Front End Servers)
5. Edit the file “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\60\Template\Xml\DOCICON.XML”
6. Add a mapping key for the .pdf extension:
<Mapping Key=”pdf” Value=”pdf16.gif”/>
7. Perform an iisreset
8. Add the .pdf file type to the index list:
i) Central Administration > Shared Services Administration Web of the current SSP > Search Settings and next to File Type
ii) Add the new file type “pdf”
9. Perform a Full Update on the Search content indexes
See my other related blog on iFilters here
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SharePoint 2007 Alerts – ‘cannot open this item’
by Andy on July 29th, 2008
Received an alert or task notification from your SharePoint 2007 Portal and receive ‘cannot open this item’ upon attempt to open? KB 930807 (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930807) describes this issue and hotfix if you cannot open a SharePoint Server 2007 notification message in Outlook 2007 when your mailbox is on an Exchange 2003 server.
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SharePoint User Group UK Meeting
by Andy on July 3rd, 2008
On July 10th 2008 the SharePoint User Group UK is meeting in Ullesthorpe Leicestershire.
There are 6 events, including presentations from Bill English and Tod Bleeker. If you attended last year’s event at Ullesthorpe then you’ll know how good this event was. However this year’s is even bigger!
For more details or to sign up to this free event visit http://suguk.org/forums/thread/11915.aspx
See you there?