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MySite Clean Up

http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,1cef79c3-bfeb-4eee-99ac-1c8b6050cf2b.aspx

Display the Item ID Number in SharePoint Lists

http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/item-id-in-display-and-edit-forms/

Where does a SharePoint Server Store the Name of the Config Database

WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003:      HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\Secure\ConfigDb
WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007:   HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Secure\ConfigDb

More on moving SharePoint Databases

Check the instructions in the lower section of the page:
 
http://blogs.technet.com/corybu/archive/2007/06/01/detaching-databases-in-moss-2007-environments.aspx
 
Basically:
 
First we need to find out which databases are currently not in sync, this can be done from a simple stsadm command on your SSP web front end.
 
stsadm -o sync -listolddatabases 5
 
This command will list all databases that have not synced up correctly with the SSP [...]

Moving SharePoint Content Databases

- External SQL Server Database Move

 Log Shipping Method(low impact)

To migrate your content database from 1 SQL Server to another there are a few choices, your choice will depend on how much downtime you are willing to take.  First option being you can setup SQL Log shipping, Once your 2 databases are in sync you would [...]

Enabling Drop Down Menu for Multi Level Nav

This link has some good info about the problem I am having.
http://vivekthangaswamy.blogspot.com/2007/12/enabling-drop-down-menu-for-multi-level.html

SPDisposeCheck

SPDisposeCheck is a tool to help SharePoint Developers follow memory management best practices when using the SharePoint API with IDisposable objects including SPSite and SPWeb. This tool is not supported by Microsoft and is recommended to be used on Developer workstations and not on production SharePoint Server installations.
It was released yesterday at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck
The tool reviews [...]

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 [...]