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SharePoint Migration Tip: Use “untagged data” Views For Incremental Migration

In one or my very first blog posts, I described the overall process we followed to migrate a customer from SPS 2003 to MOSS. A reader left a comment asking for more detail and here it is. For that migration project, we had to find a good way to move …

SharePoint Wildcard Search: “Pro” Is Not a Stem of “Programming”

On the MSDN search forum, people often ask a question like this: "I have a document named ‘Programming Guide’ but when I search for ‘Pro’ search does not find it." It may not feel like it, but that amounts to a wildcar…

Logging Workflow Activity in SharePoint Designer

Last week, I was working out how to loop and implement a state machine using SharePoint Designer and mentioned, as an aside, that I would probably write a blog post about better workflow logging. Well, Sanjeev Rajput beat me to it. Have a look. Sa…

The Trouble With Tribbles … err .. KPIs

This past week I finished off a proof of concept project for a client in Manhattan. While implementing the solution, I ran into another shortcoming of MOSS KPIs (see here for a previous KPI issue and my workaround). Background: We used SharePoint Des…

MOSS Small Farm Installation and Configuration War Story

This week, I’ve struggled a bit with my team to get MOSS installed in a simple two-server farm. Having gone through it, I have a greater appreciation for the kinds of problems people report on the MSDN forums and elsewhere. The final farm confi…

Mea Culpa — SharePoint Designer *CAN* Create State Machine Workflows

I’ve recently learned that it’s possible and even fairly easy to create a state machine workflow using SharePoint Designer. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that good stuff and I had a need this week that looked for an inventi…

Learning the Hard Way — DMZ WFE Must be in a Domain

Although it’s not literally true, as a practical matter, an internet-facing web front end in a DMZ must be in a domain (i.e. not some standalone server in its own little workgroup). It doesn’t need to be in the same domain as the internal…

If You Haven’t Tried Twitter …

Twitter is a very odd duck. I’ve been using Twitter for a little over a month and in some indefinable way, it’s almost as important to me as email. I find myself vaguely unsettled if I wait too long before looking over what others are t…