Technical Weblog of Eric Charran
A Journal of My Technical Achievements and Challenges
Cool Sidebar Gadgets
Check out my Office 2007 Recent documents sidebar gadget: I downloaded this from the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/20/2007
MOSS Timer Jobs May Run Late or Not At All
The MOSS OWSTimer.exe process controls and executes all timer definition jobs for SharePoint. The...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/19/2007
/3GB Switch and WSS 2.0/3.0/MOSS
The /3GB switch is not compatible with WSS 2.0/3.0/MOSS 2007. This is due to the fact that an...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/19/2007
Resizing a Virtual Hard Drive (VHD)
I recently created a Vista Virtual Machine but ran out of space when I tried to install the service...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/16/2007
Dynamic Flat File Connection Manager Connections
I'm writing an SSIS package to iterate over the MOSS logs directory to import the logs into a SQL...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/13/2007
MOSS 2007 and SQL Server 2005 Maintenance Plans
For my future reference (and yours as well), here is how to configure your SQL Server 2005...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/12/2007
MOSS 2007 Browser Matrix
Below are the supported browsers and scenarios for MOSS:
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/12/2007
Use Excel 2007 to Read and Parse SharePoint 2007 Logs
Ever get tired of trying to read and make sense of the MOSS 2007 Logs? Or any text-based logs for...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/09/2007
Daylight Savings Time Product Wizard
If you are like me and just realized that March 11th is around the corner and you don't feel like...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/09/2007
How to Make the Content Query Web Part Cooperate with Links
Here is a fantastic article on how to make the Content Query Web Part nicely display links. Everyone...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/08/2007
Office SharePoint Server EventID 7888
During a database migration to MOSS 2007 using a migration server for the upgrade with SPS2003 and...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/06/2007
SharePoint Object Model Map
Here is a great article that shows the visual SharePoint Object Model map for MOSS:...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/02/2007
Sidebar Gadget Authoring in C#
Not only does nikhilk.net describe how to author gadgets using C#, but he also has extended a really...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/02/2007
Great TFS Article on Project Sizing
Good article outlining how to size TFS Servers for Projects...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/28/2007
Must Run Sidebar Gadget for a Media Center
Check out this fantastic gadget!...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/27/2007
Clustered Index Rebuilds Affecting Non-Clustered Indexes
Another nifty note about indexing. One of the more popular interview questions for technical folks...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/27/2007
Create a Time Dimension in SQL Server
Here is a great link on how to create a time dimension for a relational data warehouse in SQL...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/26/2007
SQL Server Feature Pack and SP2
The following URL goes to the SQL Server Feature Pack which consists of a listing of SQL Server 2005...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/25/2007
Best Practices Analyzer for MOSS and SPS V3
Just because I'll need this later, here is the link:...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/16/2007
New Site for MOSS Goodness
Here is a consolidated developer's accumulation of all things MSDN and MOSS....
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/15/2007
What do Prescan Errors Mean?
Here is a great post on what prescan.exe errors really mean when encountered during their run prior...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/13/2007
MOSS Performance Tests
The following URL goes to some recently released Performance Tests for MOSS that can be used in...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/13/2007
Outlook 2007 Error: The form cannot be displayed
If you ever receive this error message in Outlook 2007: "The form cannot be displayed. The form...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/12/2007
Vista Sidebar Gadget Published
My first Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget has been published to gallery.live.com. This gadget wraps the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/08/2007
Configuring Team Foundation Server to use a Remote WSS/SPS Installation
Here is an article on how to use an existing or remote instance of SharePoint with Team Foundation...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/01/2007
SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in For WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007
Here is the link for the MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0 add-in for SQL Server Reporting Services....
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/31/2007
Managing Virtual Server 2005 Through Terminal Services
When building a Virtual Server 2005 R2 installation on a remote machine through Terminal Services,...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/31/2007
Make Your Personal Appointments Private
For those of you on Exchange 2007 (and perhaps prior) use Outlook 2007 to make your appointments...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/31/2007
The MOSS Fab 20 Out Of 40 Templates are Available
20 out of the 40 MOSS 2007 site template definitions are available. These templates are enterprise...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/30/2007
Export and Import Managed MOSS 2007 Profile Properties
A colleague of mine just found this link for exporting and importing user profiles for MOSS 2007....
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/25/2007
Restore Pre-Vista/Longhorn Backups
This utility restores compatability between backups made using pre-Vista/Longhorn builds of the OS....
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/25/2007
SPS2003 Upgrade Error When Upgrading to MOSS 2007: Not detaching landing page
When trying to do the upgrade from MOSS 2007 from SPS 2003 you may receive an error in the event log...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/18/2007
System.OutOfMemory Exception Thrown in MOSS 2007 In Place Upgrade
When upgrading a SPS2003 installation with an unusually large number of sites, the in place upgrade...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/16/2007
How to Copy a Data Row from One DataTable to Another DataTable
The long story is in this KB article. https://support.microsoft.com/kb/308909 The short story is to...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/09/2007
How to Configure a Server to Address 4GB of Memory or Greater
We were having trouble with a MOSS 2007 upgrade in that it was throwing out of memory exceptions...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/09/2007
Programmatically Retrieve an Image from an Assembly Resource File
As many times as I do this, invariably it slides from my brain and I have to gather all the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/08/2007
Enterprise Library 3.0 CTP Uses Now
The Enterprise Library 3.0 CTP is of significant use to developers even if you don't plan to write...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/29/2006
BizTalk Visual Studio Solution Management
Here is a great post on how to organize your BizTalk projects and how to manage and version BTS...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/20/2006
Great MSDN Search
Might be late with this, but check out the AJAX auto complete search from MSDN....
Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/17/2006
How to Convert VMWare Machines to Microsoft Virtual Machines (VHD)
I was struggling with this for some time. Here is a great link on how to do it easily! Many...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/14/2006
ASP.NET Control Registration Simplicity
Scott Guthrie has done it again and talks to us about how to register controls for pages in a web...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/14/2006
Development Using Web Parts
Quick tip for anyone doing Web Part development with MOSS. Change the build path of the project for...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/11/2006
Great MOSS Governance Articles
An internal resource just shot this out and I thought it would help me and hopefully you in the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/05/2006
Explolitation of the Easter Eggs in Vista
I wrote earlier about a cool new Vista Easter Egg which allows you to use a command line to supply a...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/05/2006
Return of the SmartPart
The smart part is back! This version of the smart part is compatible with MOSS and WSS 3.0. This is...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/03/2006
A Very Cool Vista Easter Egg
It's only a matter of time before the coolest easter eggs for Vista start hitting the net. Check out...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 12/02/2006
Transformers the Movie on DVD
Just because I am a nerdy geek from the 80's, here is a fun tool many of you will love that you...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/21/2006
Load Testing SQL Server Reporting Services using Visual Studio 2005
Here is a great article on how to leverage the unit testing engine built into Visual Studio to test...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/19/2006
The Kid is Running RTM Bits
I just upgraded my desktop and laptop to RTM bits of Office and Vista. The upgrade went smoothly...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 11/17/2006