How To: Change the MOSS Site Port to Port 80

24 Sep, 2009  1 Comment

My solution on Social TechNet Forum.

 

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!!

Tip: Recycle IIS Application Pool

11 Oct, 2008  1 Comment

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

Source

HowTo: Set Permissions for Comments on SharePoint Blog

7 Oct, 2008  2 Comments

If you want to allow your blog visitors to comment on blog posts you will need to explicitly allow them to do so. To achieve this, you will need to setup unique permissions on your blog.
Here is the procedure:
1. Open http://your_blog_url/Lists/Comments/AllComments.aspx
2. Select Settings > List settings
3. Select Permissions and Management > Permissions for this list
4. Open Actions >Edit permissions (confirm this action when dialog pops-up)

Now you can setup unique permissions for this list. From this step forward you can add permissions for a specific user. The best approach is to give the Visitors group “Contribute” rights for this entire list.  Read more... (151 words, estimated 36 secs reading time)

MOSS 2007 Infrastructure Updates

16 Jul, 2008  No Comment

Microsoft have released Infrastructure Update for MOSS 2007.
The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) includes several new Enterprise Search features for SharePoint Server 2007 and the latest performance updates and fixes for the Microsoft Office Servers listed in the system requirements section below.

Key updates for SharePoint Server 2007 include:

  • New Search features such as federated search and a unified search administration dashboard.
  • Several core fixes to Search to improve performance and scale.
  • Platform performance improvements and fixes.
  • Several core fixes to the publishing Content Deployment features to improve reliability.
Download 32 bit version | 64 bit version

The update will install properly if either of the following are true:  Read more... (199 words, estimated 48 secs reading time)

Howto configure client alias for SQL Server

25 Apr, 2008  No Comment

This post will show you how to configure client aliases for SQL Server. One of the security hardening measures is configuring non-standard port for SQL Server instances.

A default instance of SQL Server listens for connections on TCP port 1433. If a client computer is unable to connect to the database on TCP port 1433, it queries the SQL Server Resolution Service on UDP port 1434.

To protect the database server, you can block the standard ports used by SQL Server and configure your SQL Server instances to listen on a nonstandard port.

Configuring client aliases for SQL Server  Read more... (218 words, 3 images, estimated 52 secs reading time)

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