By default the SharePoint 2007 Search indexes only the meta data of a PDF document. By installing and configuring a PDF IFilter the Search will also index the contents of the PDF document. This allows users to find documents based on text inside the document. This process is called full text indexing. 
[Indexing Server]: the [...]

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I have come across several situations where I received a notification about an alert being created for a SharePoint List but receive no actual alerts after that, or that all of the sudden the alerts just simply stopped working. Luckily I have found several solutions as well.  Alerts not being received can be caused by so [...]

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I’ve received numerous questions from clients lately regarding the Check In and Check Out status of documents. It is a relatively new concept to most end users, but should be very familiar to most developers. So, here’s a quick overview.
Check out means you are locking the file for your own use. Anyone trying to [...]

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The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories including Microsoft SQL Server, Registry, and Performance Monitor. Once the data is collected it is  processed and a set of comprehensive best practice rules are applied to the topology.  Server farm administrators benefit from a detailed report listing of recommendations that can be [...]

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I was recently reading what I considered to be a very easy book on SharePoint, the SharePoint 2007 User’s Guide. Recognizing that the book is designed mostly for business users and not us admin types there are a few things that were a little challenging to work through. For example, the section on Using Site [...]

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If you have any experience customizing templates in MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 then you are probably familiar with the template directory in the “12 hive”. Basically this is where all the templates for SharePoint are located. The problem is that the sub directory names are rather cryptic and when you are trying to modify [...]

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In my quest for learning I’ve been bombarded with information regarding SharePoint from an Administrative point of view, but I haven’t found much information from an end user perspective. Until now that is. I found some training written by the Office Online User Assistance group, which includes a video, interactive tutorials, and articles. It is [...]

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I have had several clients call me regarding issues they are having with uploading large files in SharePoint. Although the upload multiple files options seems to help with some of these issues, there are still other settings you may have to configure to reach optimal performance for your uploads.  Here are some suggestions I found [...]

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SharePoint Version 3.0, otherwise known as MOSS 2007, is really a big improvement over the previous versions in many ways.  What do they say?  V3 is where we get it right?

So lately one of my clients has had several issues trying to upload large files. Sometimes when you are uploading files it has to [...]

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To upgrade or not to upgrade, that is the question. Well for some people, like me it really isn’t within my ability to decide. I’m currently working on a project for a client that has graciously outfitted me with a killer new laptop complete with all their fully licensed software so that I can work on [...]

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