Remove Licensing issues in SharePoint Server 2007 post SP2

  During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed. The activation of the expiration date will not affect the normal function of SharePoint up until the expiration date passes. Furthermore, product expiration 180 days after SP2 installation will not affect...

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What is best - Backup/Restore or Export/Import?

    Chart showing the differences between Backup/Restore and Export/Import.   Backup/Restore Export/Import 1 Two methods – when the url parameter is used a site collection backup is created - when the backupmethod parameter is used backup of an...

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Additional STSADM commands

  Post release of the SP2 for SharePoint there are additional operations available. Including brief details of the same. stsadm.exe -o enumallwebs -databasename <database name> [-databaseserver <database server name>] Displays the IDs and site map status for all site collections and subsites in the content database. More Details: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd793606.aspx...

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Word 2003: Red "X" displayed in place of embedded pictures/graphs/cliparts in Word document

  Symptoms Observed and Error Message ------------------------------------------------------------ When a user opens a word document all embedded pictures/Graphics in the document  are replaced with the a blank box and a red "x" at the top left corner of the picture holder. No error message is observed. However right clicking the blank box with the red "x" can display error messages...

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