I had a problem recently where customers were complaining that they could not create folders within a MOSS 2007 document library and get them approved when the folder was created from Microsoft Word 2003 or Word 2007.  However, when I created the fo ...[Read more]

I had an issue recently when I needed to know whether a particular menu item (from asp:menu) was a site or a page.  Finding the answer was not very easy as blogging for this did not seem to turn up many answers.  Some people created a publishing web ...[Read more]

I had a bit of a disaster the other week.  My file server of 12 years vintage finally died, taking the RAIDed disks with it.   So I took the plunge and decided to go Virtual.  I purchased a server with an AMD Phenom 9650 quad core processor and 8G ...[Read more]

I was working on a document library project recently and we hit a bit of a performance problem. A 4 quad core processor, 16GB, SQL Server 2005 box was grinding to a halt.  Investigation showed that this happened when either a folder or a file in the ...[Read more]

I have a site going live soon and we had just done the final upload of the content from the staging server and we hit a few problems.  I dont know why they happened but they did.  I did the usual and created an empty site as per Stefan’s blog (How t ...[Read more]

I had an issue with crawling a site recently - the crawl would stop immediately it started with the message :-   The start address http://servername/default.aspx cannot be crawled. Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server' ...[Read more]

  I had an issue with a control that looked for pages and displayed them I did this by appending a querystring parameter ?id=1+2+3 (where 1 and 2 and 3 where the page numbers I wanted to display.  I kept getting weird results ie the page that was b ...[Read more]

I had the situation this week where I had developed a provisioning feature for a customer.  I had decided to try and use LINQ.   All went well until the feature was deployed to the production  servers.  At this point when the feature was activated ...[Read more]

I had strange problem recently with a customer site. A user could create pages but could not subsequently read them (published or not)   They were in an authoring group with the appropriate permissions.   This baffled me for a while but finally ...[Read more]

I have had a problem recently where there was a customer intranet which did not have access to the Internet.  This Intranet would takes up to 5 minutes to start up of a morning and then would "freeze" for up to 2 minutes during the day. ...[Read more]