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It sounds like there might be a problem with the in place upgrade from the Beta 2 TR version of MOSS 2007 to the RTM version of MOSS 2007 when it comes to My Site creation. The error that we are seeing looks like this when you try and click on the "My Site" link […]

I created a pretty simple webpart recently that used the BDC to access a back-end database. Getting the data I needed involved a few round-trips from the webpart to the BDC. Early testing indicated that I was leaking connections from my connection pool. I looked back at my data access code, and realized with a […]

If you came here directly, read this first, then c’mon back! It’s been over 10 years since the launch of Windows 95. That was a great launch. I doubt I’ll ever forget it. The Windows 95 launch came late in the summer of 1995. It was a sunny, warm day in Chicago. I was at […]

In an earlier blog I discussed setting up Variations, Variation Labels, the Variation Source and the related hierarchy. In this blog I will discuss some limitations you should be aware of and how the variation "engine" works. Variations, you will recall are a MOSS feature, not a WSS feature. The bottom line is that variations […]

How does MOSS handle the searching of related words? It uses technology known as Search Stemming. Search stemming – as opposed to wild card searching – is a form of morphological processing. Word stemming is a more intelligent process that helps avoid the return of irrelevant documents. If one were to set up a wild […]

What you need to do to make sure that your Search content is up and running. Also I describe how to setup a shared folder search content. Setup/Config PDF

I attended ToorCon 8 in San Diego, which is a hacker/security conference. The conference was spread over four days, although two days had the majority of the sessions. I’ve always had an interest in security, and attended other hacking/security conferences before. This was, however, my first ToorCon. ToorCon is held annually in San Diego and […]

The Unified Messaging Server Role The Exchange 2007 UM Role combines e-mail, fax and voice messaging into one inbox for each user supported in the Exchange 2007 organization. This allows the user to access all communication from one inbox. The user can access the items via a computer browser, an Outlook client on a computer, […]

The classic naming convention of SharePoint 2003 (PortalName_Prof, PortalName_Serv and PortalName_Site) is no longer applicable to SharePoint 2007. What used to reside under “_PROF” and “_SERV” databases now resides under Shared Services Database in SharePoint 2007. All content of “_Site” database is moved to content database in SharePoint 2007. In my test install of MOSS, […]

If your Exchange 2007 OWA is failing for a user after the mailbox is migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, the user account should be checked on the security tab under advanced to see if it has "Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to this object and all child objects. Include these […]

“Extraction, Transformation, and Loading” also known as ETL is among one of the key steps in data warehouse life cycle. Generally source data structures in operational data store are not similar to target data structures. To solve the issue of incompatible data structures ETL acquires data from operational data stores and transform it into information […]

Using Business Data Catalog to WebService, replacing the automatically generated proxy server (using “WebServiceProxyType” property). Business Data Catalog (BDC) is the new feature of SharePoint 2007 . Here is an example of using one of the features that allows the replacement of the automatically generated proxy with any custom build assembly (“WebServiceProxyType” property). The Webservice […]