Very useful technical SharePoint tips

Andre Kieft wrote a very interesting article where he lists common technical problems a SharePoint-developer/implementen is going to run into sooner or later. Check the article here.


1. How to check the SPS/WSS versions


2. Interpreting the SPS/WSS versions


3. Allowing access to the Online Gallery from behind a proxy server or firewall


4. Manually disconnecting an SPS server from the Config DB


5.Where to find CLSID for word breakers and steamers


6. Creating a new Config Database


7. Latest post-SP1 roll-up packages for WSS/SPS


8. How to increase the Timeout settings for WSS/SPS


9. How to check the versions of WSS backups


10. Considerations when installing WSS on a DC


11. SharePoint Portal Search in WSS sites


12. Migrating SPS/WSS between domains


13. Manually test the SMTP server


14. The theory behind Ghosted/un-ghosted pages


15. How to configure your Default SMTP Virtual Server


16. Remove the !New Tag from New Items


17. How to add a custom theme to the list of available WSS themes


18. How to access the Web Parts Maintenance page


19. Theory between the Web Client and Web Folders


20. SPS Cn Buckets theory


21. Remove the index/job components from topology


22. Paths to be excluded by the Antivirus


23. How to improve the Full-Text Search performance


24. SPS SP2 articles


25. WSS SP2 articles


26. How to manually remove SPS


27. Boost UP the MSI install logging (really useful for debugging patch installation)


28. Where to check for any mismatches regarding the Updates installed


29. Enabling TIFF OCR


30. Enabling RTF indexing


31. Out e-mail template for when sending the SPSReports”