One piece of the Service Pack 2 for 2007 Microsoft Office System due April 28th announcement from the Microsoft Update Blog is the information on the STSADM upgrade scanning tool. The Office Sustained Engineering Team Blog preannounced this Service Pack back in October. That post and this update are a part of their effort “to increase transparency ...[Read More]

Microsoft Update Product Team Blog has just announced that the 2007 Microsoft Office System Service Pack 2 will be released April 28, 2009 Besides announcing the formal date and better documentation we can expect a some noteable areas: Ability to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel, and P ...[Read More]

Here is your reading material for Friday The SharePoint IT Pro documentation team blog posts on user profile replication engine which is a good read for those SharePoint deployment that have offices around the world While we wait impatiently for the PDC (Watch PDC notes live online), Microsoft TechNet has released new SharePoint 2007 articles: ...[Read More]

It is possible to manually change the SharePoint Timer Service account: From a command prompt change to the directory where the SharePoint Timer Service is running C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN Run the command stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -identitytype configurableid -userlogin domain\account - ...[Read More]

Just installing the Application Templates that were released last month on a new server farm. Installing these application templates is pretty straight forward. Let me walk you through the installation as there are steps to do, I have broken down the installation into sections: Application Template Core Installation Walkthrough Application Te ...[Read More]