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Scenario

MOSS 2007 site setup using port 2000, so the URL looked like http://justsharepoint.com:2000  Read more... (562 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Having such a URL is not a great idea, especially when you have to type in the port number 2000! Why can’t we simply type in http://justsharepoint.com and be done with!!

I have written a how to post over at Just SharePoint blog on using XSL to trim the blog post content on SharePoint Home Page. Basically it’s modifying the web part and converting it to XSLT view and adding some code to achieve the results.

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Situation

• Configuration of multiple web applications using host headers for extranet.
• Configure for extranet on port 443 (SSL)
• Configure using Wild Card Certificate

Error

When I tried to configure the second web application, the web site stopped with the error

Cannot create a file when that file already exists

Resolution

In the given situation, multiple host headers are to be configured to use port 443. Since we are using multiple web applications on the same secure port you will need to use the ADSUtil to configure the “SecureBindings”  Read more... (213 words, estimated 51 secs reading time)

Installation Requirements

· Download Adobe Reader v.8

· Download Adobe PDF IFilters 6.0

· Download the pdf icon image of size 17X17 from here and save it as "icpdf.gif" somewhere to the local hard disk

Installation Steps

· Start –>Run–>> Services.msc and stop the IIS Admin service.

· Run the IFilters installer on the Indexing Server.

· Copy the icpdf.gif to the following location "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images" (Web front end servers)

· Edit the DOCICON.XML, in the following location “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Template\Xml\” (Web front end servers)  Read more... (212 words, 1 image, estimated 51 secs reading time)

As a developer, quite often you may have to recycle the application pool. IISReset is an option, alternatively you can just recycle a particular application pool.

Denny has a tip to just get this done!

cscript c:windowssystem32iisapp.vbs /a “[App_Pool_Name]” /r

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