Tech-Motive

In 64 bit Windows 2003, you may need to change the emulation mode of IIS depending upon the cases and conditions. To change the IIS emulation mode to 32 bit to 64 bit and vice versa, do the followings: Open command promp and run the following command cd C:\Inetpub\Adminscripts (I am assuming that C is your windows drive) cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1 (to make it 32 bit) cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 0 (to make it 64 bit) iisreset

I recieved the following error which I never experienced before in our Sharepoint portal which has SSRS configured in MOSS integrated mode: The resource object with classname "ReportServer" and key "SharedDataSource" was not found. After searching for a while, I found that the ReportServer.resx file was not there inside the App_GlobalResources folder in the virtual directory of the respective portal. I just copied the ReportServer.resx from App_GlobalResources folder under wwwroot and finally pasted it inside the portal's virtual directory. Problem suddenly vanished.

For a fresh MOSS Administrator like me, it's very important to know the maximum capacity of sharepoint objects like lists, libraries, pages, sites, users etc and to get the optimum performance benefit upto these limits. Limits that are used over here are can be used to design a portal or a farm to get the best out of MOSS 2007 and crossing this limit may cause MOSS 2007 to create performance bottlenecks: Site collections (Database scope) : 50000 Web sites (Web site scope)  : 2000 Web sites (Site collection) : 250000 (Nested Subsites) Documents (Folder scope) : 2000 Documents (Library scope) : 2 million (Nested Folders) Users ( Web site scope) : 2 million Items (List scope) : 2000 Web Parts (Page scope)  : 100 Web Part personalization (Page scope) : 10000 Document size (File scope) : 50 MB  (2 GB if WSS SP1 is applied) Checkout this link:  http://blogs.msdn.com/bgeoffro/archive/2008/03/19/list-attachments-over-50mb-need-more-than-an-increase-in-maximum-upload-si

Recently I had a requirement to delete a user's mysite as the user had left the organisation. The simplest way I found was to directly go to the sharepoint mysite by using the following url: http://(mysite_url)/personal/(user_name)/_layouts/settings.aspx The username should not include the domain id. Clicked on "Delete this site" option in the highlighted oval and the job was done.

There is a good news friends. Few days ago, I got a newsletter from Microsoft and I came to know that much waited Sharepoint 2010 beta version is available to downloaded. You need to get registered yourself first if you don't have the Windows Live ID. There are true trial versions to be downloaded. One is Intranet and CAL Version and the other one is Internet Version. Well the Internet Version may cost you around 561 MB. I have downloaded and it is the time for me to try it. Meanwhile, you can check the following link to download brand new Sharepoint 2010 beta: http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

By following Lee Richardson's blog , I came to know about few good and few shocking news about Sharepoint 2010. Lets start with some good news: (i) Sharepoint 2010 will have inline list editing with AJAX Support. (ii) Workflows created using Sharepoint designer can be resued by the same way what Visual Studio does (iii) Sharepoint 2010 will support ASP.NET Data Services API. (iv) BDC will also insert or update the data. (v) You can edit Sharepoint Solutions without touching XML! Whooo!!! To me, shocking news is related to the requirement part: (i) Windows Server 2008 will be needed. So what will happen to me if I have Windows 2003? (ii) 64 bit SQL Server 2005/2008 is needed. (iii) There will be no support for Sharepoint 2010 in IE6. I am not sure whether it is because of AJAX or not.