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I don't really go in for New Year's Resolutions, but I had promised myself to blog more often in 2009. It looks like I've already gotten to a bad start this year as it is already 11 days in and this is only my second post. I really couldn't find anything interesting to talk about and...

Audit Log Reporting seems to be one of those topics within SharePoint that is still a little misunderstood. I have blogged on it before here , and suggest that if you are not familiar with Audit Logs that you view that post quickly before reading on. There is also an overview which can be read here on...

If you have tried to install the recently released December Cumulative Update for SharePoint you may have noticed that the original release actually fails during the post-installation configuration. Jeremy Thake came across the same issue at and has more detail on it here http://wss.made4the.net/archive...

If you have content deployment running you have probably seen this error before : 10/30/2008 1:01 AM You cannot perform this action on a checked out document . at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.SetRequiredInfoForUpdateItem(Boolean bDocLib, Boolean bAdd, Boolean bMigrate) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem...

A new colleague here asked me today how to configure WSS v3 for files larger than the default limit of 50mb today. I asked him to quickly tap it into google as I figured there would be hundreds of posts out there on how to do it, but sadly almost all of them seem to be for WSS v2. Fortunately most of...

If you have been regularly installing Sharepoint farms you might notice that in the last 12 months there has been a large amount of time consuming hotfixes to deploy with each server installation of both WSS and MOSS. With MOSS you've got all the WSS ones as well as the copious amount of MOSS hotfixes...

I spent a little time today trying to figure out why I could not grant anonymous access to a list in Sharepoint. I tried just about everything I could trying to track down why I was continually being prompted for authentication each time I connected. My first guess would have been an IIS issue, however...

I've seen a bug a couple of times where you for no great reason just can't activate publishing features on your site collection. I click the button to activate the feature, and absolutely nothing happens, it stays deactivated. The error appears to be caused because the application pool that the...

Stsadm will let you list the groups on your sharepoint site. It will also let you list the users on your sharepoint site. It just wont let you enumerate the group memberships of the users on your site. This really simple SQL query will list all active users on the site and the groups they are members...

I'm sure this has been covered elsewhere, but its been a while since I put anything here. Every now and again you might find an annoying error popping up in the event logs like the following : The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server...