Tag Archives: SharePoint

What’s New and Cool in Exchange 2013

10/1/15: Exchange 2016 is out now! What’s New and Cool in Exchange 2016 post 2/12/13 Update: Exchange 2010 SP3 is out, which provides support for Exchange 2013 CU1. Read more here: https://blog.jasonsherry.net/2013/02/12/exchange-2010-sp3-is-out/ 1/8/13 Update: What’s NOT cool in Exchange 2013: See … Continue reading

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How to fix an out of sync password issue in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 now stores service account passwords in the config database.  So if you attempt to change the password in the AD and on the services that use it this will break SharePoint. To fix this issue do the following … Continue reading

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SharePoint History

For those that didn’t know SharePoint has been around since 2001.  The 1st "real" version of SharePoint was based on the Exchange 2000 ESE database engine, instead of SQL.  The version was code named "Tahoe"   SharePoint 2003 brought in … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2007/WSS 3.0 SP2 was release today

Microsoft SharePoint\MOSS 2007 & Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) SP2 was released today.  I just got done upgrade my (this) server to it and all went well. SharePoint team blog post on SP2 release with links Download WSS 3.0 SP2 Download … Continue reading

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Mimosa releases SharePoint archiving solution

Yesterday Mimosa Systems, the company I work for, released their SharePoint\MOSS Archiving module for NearPoint.   NearPoint now has archiving support for Exchange, File Systems, and SharePoint.  All of these modules use a common architecture to provide global single instancing, searching, … Continue reading

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Data management challenges with SharePoint

Cross-posted with my company’s blog:http://www.mimosasystems.com/blog/archiving/data-management-challenges-with-sharepoint/ As a veteran Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint expert I have witnessed the exponential growth of SharePoint over the last few years.  As a consultant, before I joined Mimosa, I strongly encouraged my clients to stop using … Continue reading

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Blog upgraded using free Community Kit for SharePoint

This free, open source, add-on\upgrade to SharePoint is a major improvement over the standard blog site in SharePoint 3.0/2007.   You can download it and view the docs at: http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=CKS  

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Two-way Sync with Excel 2007 and SharePoint 2007 requires this add-in

In Excel 2003 you could edit a SharePoint list using Excel.  For some reason, probably because they are trying to push users to use Access for this now, Microsoft dropped two-way sync support in Excel 2007.  This ability was listed as … Continue reading

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Exchange, SharePoint, and Outlook 2007 articles

I’ve talked to a few technical friends of mine in the last few weeks about Exchange 2007 and SharePoint 2007. Most of them haven’t had the time to spend with either of these products since they were release, which was … Continue reading

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After 11 YEARS! Izzy.org has been upgraded to SharePoint 2007

Izzy.org was first brought on-line in late 1996.  The domain was registered on 11/16/1996.  The initial background graphic was saved on 9/5/1996, so I started on the page sometime before then.  At some point a counter was added; it was … Continue reading

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