Of Ones and Zeros

Global Navigation Error After Creating Site from Site Template

Posted on 28. Sep, 2007 by bryan.

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Create a new site template from SharePoint Designer.  Doesn’t really matter what the site template is for or what options you choose (based on my experience).
Go into SharePoint and create a new site based on the new custom Site Template.
Note that your top navigation bar (the global navigation) should now have a “Home” tab, [...]

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Unable to login to SharePoint Portal from SharePoint Server

Posted on 27. Sep, 2007 by bryan.

One of our SharePoint servers at work was updated with the most recent round of security patches the other day.  Unfortunately, the result of this update was the inability to login to the SharePoint Portal from the server, and the search crawler not being able to access the site.
After some significant research on the matter [...]

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Bluetooth Headset and Google Talk

Posted on 12. Sep, 2007 by bryan.

Just to see if it would work, I decided the other day to pair my Motorola HS3 Bluetooth Headset with my Lenovo Thinkpad T60.

I have to admit that I am really digging using my headset with Google Talk and Messenger. I like having the option to switch into a voice chat from IM but maintain [...]

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SQL 2005 Maintenance Plans and SharePoint

Posted on 11. Sep, 2007 by bryan.

If you are using SPS 2003 or MOSS 2007 with a SQL Server 2005 box that does not have SP2 installed, you may discover that your crawls never complete.  There is a bug in SQL 2005 that if you have a Reindex Maintenance Plan it clears some attributes of the SharePoint indexes when it reindexes [...]

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