This is an old conversation, but I find that many people still do not know about it. From Office 97 to 2003 Microsoft used the .doc file extension.  These files were binary files.  When Office 2007 was introduced, Microsoft change the file extension to .docx.  These files are stored in an open XML format.  One [...]

The story begins with me needing more drive space on my backup drive.  I allocated the extra space from our SAN.  Then I went into the server and told it to expand the drive with the extra space. This is where it gets weird.  I could see the new space everywhere except in explore and [...]

This story will include a lot of suspense and intrigue.  It will have plot twists and turns.  It will best anything that Tom Clancy even thought about. Maybe not, but it might make your life as a Microsoft SharePoint admin a little easier. To begin, SharePoint would run a search just fine when you searched [...]

Last weekend, I moved SharePoint from a 32 bit server to a 64 bit server.  SharePoint was installed on one machine but not as a standalone so that it will be easy to expand in the future.  It is fairly easy to do this once I figured it all out.  Stefan Keir Gordan has a [...]