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Team Foundation Server 2010 Installation Experiences and Lessons Learned

Do it right the first time!
There’s quite a few posts on Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) and how to install and configure it, as well as a really good CHM file from Microsoft on the same topics, so I won’t go through duplicating what everyone else has done and will link to one [...]

MOSS: An Unexpected Error Has Occurred

If you’ve worked with MOSS long enough, I’m sure you’ve seen this error.  The reasons that it occurs are numerous, and may even be blamed on poor error handling / reporting by the programmers.
If you’ve come across this error, and turned <customErrors /> off in your MOSS site’s web.config and it still occurs, you may [...]

SharePoint Virtualized = Excellent For Production

Though it goes against my better nature, as it is not like me to go against what some really big brains say, I’m tired of hearing from many people as well as ‘company lines’ that SharePoint and SQL Server are not good candidates for virtualization.  It’s easy to sell it that way, but it’s just [...]

CKS EBE and Automatic Detection of Trackbacks… no no… you get SPAM hell.

If you’re using CKS EBE and have a solution to this, please feel free to let me know.
The automatic detection of blogs that post to your site is a pretty nice feature of CKS EBE, however, from what I see, there is no error checking.  So if sites point to yours, you’ll eventually detect it [...]

Run MOSS Against Multiple Active Directories

One of the great new features that MOSS introduced, was an easy way to have the same information shared between multiple portals/sites.  By extending your web applications, you can have separate authentication providers utilized to reach the same information using Forms Based Authentication (FBA).  FBA is usually associated with a custom SQL server database, or [...]

Tutorial: Creating A MOSS Development Environment Part IV – Configuring MOSS

Ok, this is the last entry in this series of tutorials for setting up a MOSS development environment.  In the prior posts, we installed SQL Server, installed MOSS, installed VS.NET and some other supporting products, and in this post, we’ll configure MOSS.  The plan for this configuration is to go through the basic farm configuration [...]

Tutorial: Creating A MOSS Development Environment Part II – MOSS Installation

Ok, here we go with part 2 of this tutorial.  The part where we actually do the MOSS installation.  If you missed part 1, you can find it here: Tutorial: Creating A MOSS Development Environment Part I – SQL Installation.  If you’re back after doing part 1 and are ready for part 2, "Welcome back!"  [...]