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SharePoint Designer is unable to open site or page.

Article ID: KB101848
When attempting to open a WSS/MOSS site, or web page in Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer do you receive the following error:
“The server could not complete your request. Contact your internet service provider or Web server administrator to make sure that the server has the Frontpage Server Extensions or SharePoint Services installed.”

Redirect default.apsx to another page

On our site we wanted to have all of our pages under version control including the root default.aspx page so that required us to do a redirect from from the root to the /pages/default.aspx.
There are a few ways to do this.

The easiest is to add a content web part and add a

<script> location.href = ‘/pages/default.aspx’; [...]

SharePoint 2007 Path Exclusions

Ok this is crap and drove me nutts for a while.  During the migration from SP2003 to SP2007 we had to address where we had some managed path exclusions.
In SP2003 you would have to provide the exclusions for the paths that you do not want SharePoint to manage.  In Sharepoint 2007 all you need to [...]

Map sharepoint document folder to a network drive

I want to expose Sharepoint content through mapped network drives. for example, I have my sharepoint document library:
http://Server/sites/mysite/Shared%20Documents/
then I mapped the \\Server\sites\mysite\Shared Documents\ as a network drive, it works fine in my Windows XP box. but it didn’t work in my Windows 2003 Server box, what seems to be the problem?
Second, if my Sharepoint server [...]

SharePoint 2007 Performance over 2003

I am in the middle of deployment of SharePoint 2007 and the perfromance sucks.  [more on this later]