By sirslur, on May 21st, 2010%
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 part of . . . → Read More: Microsoft Word Document Size
By sirslur, on February 6th, 2010%
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 chkdsk. . . . → Read More: Windows Server 2008 – Missing Drive Space
By sirslur, on June 23rd, 2009%
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 ‘All Sites’. If you tried to do a search on ‘This site’ or ‘This list’, it would not return any results. I tried numerous things to get it to work right, but it came down to one easy solution, setting the URL in the Alternate Access Mappings. Continue reading SharePoint’s ‘This Site’ Search Broken and Fixed
By sirslur, on June 3rd, 2009%
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 great . . . → Read More: Moving SharePoint Server to 64 bit