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Microsoft has played a major role in the development of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS) that is currently in the hands of the OASIS working group. Committed as the team has been, they (including Microsoft) have not provided much information or examples of how CMIS will work with Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Until [...]

 
Great tip if you ave issues removing WSP solution packages and web parts from third parties and find they don’t install or uninstall properly.  You may also have trouble activating or deactivating features in site settings when these invalid features crop up.
Errors that could be shown in SharePoint when installing or activating a feature "An [...]

 
At Last! Finally, we have released the SharePoint Action Framework (SAF) on CodePlex!! Please take a look at : http://saf.codeplex.com .
Now that I can take a minute, I just wanted to spend a bit of time detailing why we have spent the best part of 18 months (with lots of late nights building it!) [...]

I ran into an issue where we had some problems with our Shared Services provider, so per Microsoft we created a new one and associated all of the sites with it and made it the default SSP. So when we went to delete the SSP, it could not be deleted because it was still the [...]

If you have a custom .aspx page that you have added through Sharepoint designer, you may get an error when you try to add attributes to the beginning of the file, like the EnableSessionState attribute. The error will appear similar to the one below:

Server Error in ‘/’ Application.

Parser Error
Description: An error occurred during the parsing [...]

Thanks to Chandima for this tip on how to avoid having GUIDs in your database names. I have a post here that details how to change the database name after the fact, but Chandima tells us how to avoid this to begin with.
Avoid those GUID database names
My installs are always done using the PSCONFIG [...]

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You may have been waiting anxiously for the uber packages because of your scheduled patch time window. Yeah, we heard from you.  Now here they are:

Download Information
February Cumulative Update Uber Package for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Version: 12.0.6341.5000)
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961755
February Cumulative Update Uber Package for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Version: 12.0.6341.5002)
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961756
Can’t see the version you want [...]

Unknown Error has occurred is often found nested in a typical SharePoint page when something with your configuration has gone wrong. Could be a SQL connection, Web.Config setting, SharePoint setting, could be a UFO passing over you – could be anything right.

Here’s how to get rid of it and see an unfriendly error message [...]

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Quickly check what objects within a Sharepoint site hierarchy a user has access to.
The Access Checker Web Part is a Windows Sharepoint Services Web Part, for use within Windows Sharepoint Services v3 and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007, that displays a tree view showing permissions on objects for a user scoped to a Site hierarchy. [...]