Author Archives: Michael Blumenthal

This last Wednesday didn’t go as planned. I was hoping to attend both Rocky Lhotka’s talk at the Chicago Technology Executives Club and the CNUG VS2008 loadfest meeting. I didn’t end up going to either, for various reasons that aren’t Continue reading Looking forward to VS2008!→

I’m working with a medium MOSS farm for an extranet. I’ve got two web front ends and a SQL Server. The web front ends host several Web Applications, including Central Admin (on Server A), SSP Admin (on Server B), the Continue reading SSL and Host Headers: Configuring them + Undocumented, Known, and Safely Ignorable Bug→

This is a follow up to my earlier post on creating a Change Password page on a MOSS farm that uses AD for the membership provider. Although I didn’t get the ASP.NET login control approach working, I did build a Continue reading Quick Update on Changing AD Password for a MOSS extranet site→

I am lightly branding an extranet site. I’m making just two changes to the appearance – adding the word “Extranet” so it appears in the top center of the blue bar at the top of the page, and putting a Continue reading Branding and the Master Pages→

Goal: Add a Change Password capability to an extranet MOSS site so that users can change their password. Assumptions: Environment uses Windows authentication not Forms Based Authentication. Active Directory is the Membership Provider. Since this is an extranet, users will Continue reading Adding a Change Password ASPX page to MOSS for AD-authenticated extranet users→

Situation: You are installing the PDF Ifilter on a MOSS server, and you want to follow Deb Haldar’s instructions, but you are installing Acrobat Reader v 8.1.1, not 8.0. Fear not! Once you have installed Reader 8.1.1 on your MOSS Continue reading I’m using the IFilter from Adobe Reader 8.1.1, will these instructions still work?→

So you are trying to automate the install of MOSS 2007, and you need to look at the reference for the syntax for config.xml . You do a search on microsoft.com for config.xml, and find this document: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/2211ed65-a4f3-4a55-9d51-f7842bf386121033.mspx?mfr=true . You’ve Continue reading Automating the install of MOSS 2007 – looking at the right config.xml reference→

Well, this sounds cool: Microsoft just announced Search Server Express 2008, based on MOSS Search. The Release Candidate (RC) is free! And only 221 MB (32-bit)/235 MB (64-bit). Although I am sure the production recommendation is to run the 64 Continue reading MOSS Search – Repackaged – Standalone – FREE!→

I wanted to make a view that shows only the list items that had a date within the current week. I was figuring that I could do this by creating a calculated column for the week number and the year, Continue reading What, no WEEKNUM()?→