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SharePoint 2007 / SharePoint 2010 resources – September 2009: Administration, WCMS and virtualization, Hyper-V

Here are the in my opinion most interesting SharePoint 2007 resources in September 2009… with every link comes a short description of the content available. This month is about SharePoint 2007 administration, WCMS as well as virtualization and one SharePoint 2010 resources. [More]

MOSS 2007 / WCMS development - Failed to instantiate file "default.aspx" from module "MODULE": The specified list does not exist.

Here we go again: Playing around with SharePoint 2007 xml to create site definitions, site columns or content types isn’t always easy and fun. You have to be careful because forgetting something will result in an error message which may be unhelpful. In this case I got a helpful error message after forgetting an attribute in my module. [More]

MOSS 2007 / WCMS development – Site columns and error The given key was not present in the dictionary

Writing tons of xml in order to create SharePoint 2007 site columns and getting and error “The given key was not present in the dictionary.” after deployment isn’t the thing I want to get at the end of the day. After doing some review I found the error which can easily be missed. [More]

SharePoint 2007 - 4 steps configuring Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms

If you want to install Adobes PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms you can find the iFilter itself as well as manuals describing the configuration steps here: Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms. In the middle of the page you can download the PDFiFilter64installer.zip and at the bottom of the page there are manuals for SharePoint 2007, Exchange Server 2007 and SQL Server 2005. [More]