I came across a weird issue this week regarding the Record Centre in MOSS I thought I would share...

The record centre was created and configured as per the “book”. We were however unable to send documents to it resulting in...

How to check if a content type exists on a list by using the SPContentTypeId? Use the BestMatch() method of the SPContentTypeCollection.

Using the indexer is not straight forward because when the content type is assigned to a list, the SPContentTypeId is unique for that list. In other words, the following will return null even...

Uploading bulk volumes of documents into WSS or MOSS can be problematic when file names with reserve characters are encountered.  A common offender is “&”.  Eg an excel file named   bid & proposal.xlsx     will fail to be imported into a document library. 

Just a quick little STSADM tip regarding the “Windows SharePoint Services Search” Service.

Recently during a MOSS implementation, the WSS Search Service wouldn’t start up with its status stuck on “starting”...

The other day I had to create a content type with several complex calculated columns.  I was deploying my content types to the server via a solution deployment pack (and features) and left starching my head on the correct CAML to correctly mark-up a calculated column. 

I know I could create the column in the web UI, but how was I going to get it into a feature and XML.  So it was time put my Elmer Fudd hat on and go hunting wabbits and see how I could easily extract a e...