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Remove SharePoint 2010 Social Tags Ribbon Control

In recent weeks, SharePoint 2010 deployments have kicked off and I am collecting as much information as possible and will be sharing them here as time permits. Just saw this on the MSDN Forums today and I think this one

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How To: Change the MOSS Site Port to Port 80

My solution on Social TechNet Forum.   Scenario MOSS 2007 site setup using port 2000, so the URL looked like http://justsharepoint.com:2000 Having such a URL is not a great idea, especially when you have to type in the port number

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Tip: Recycle IIS Application Pool

As a developer, quite often you may have to recycle the application pool. IISReset is an option, alternatively you can just recycle a particular application pool. Denny has a tip to just get this done! cscript c:windowssystem32iisapp.vbs /a “[App_Pool_Name]” /r

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HowTo: Set Permissions for Comments on SharePoint Blog

If you want to allow your blog visitors to comment on blog posts you will need to explicitly allow them to do so.

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MOSS 2007 Infrastructure Updates

Microsoft have released Infrastructure Update for MOSS 2007. The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) includes several new Enterprise Search features for SharePoint Server 2007 and the latest performance updates and fixes for the Microsoft Office Servers listed in the

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Howto configure client alias for SQL Server

This post will show you how to configure client aliases for SQL Server. One of the security hardening measures is configuring non-standard port for SQL Server instances. A default instance of SQL Server listens for connections on TCP port 1433.

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Scripts to backup and restore SharePoint 2007

I can add this to my arsenal of SharePoint Scripts. Just perfect. FULL_BACKUP.BAT – Use Control Panel – Scheduler to run once a week. Don’t forget the ‘Run As’ account also needs write access to the backup location, in addition

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