AvePoint Migration tool

Today I tried out the Migration Tool from AvePoint, for migrating data from Lotus Notes to SharePoint. And I was impressed, very easy tool to use and simply drag and drop a view from Notes onto either a list or document library (or whatever template you will use). So what you must do is to …

Part 1: Search issues.. again

Search had gone to status “Computing ranking”, happens every now and then. Usually a Full crawl makes the index work again, and status changes to Idle, but sometimes you have to perform the “Reset all crawled content”. Did that on a server yesterday, but this time the action hung and I got an error message …

Search and Basic Authentication

We wanted to add a Default Domain so that the users did not have to enter a domain name to logon to our site. Did that, using Basic Authentication and added our domains on the IIS site. Fine, worked perfectly – the user only had to enter the username and password to logon. Fine. But…. …

Edit the welcome-dropdown menu

If you want to remove the “MySettings” from the user dropdown menu (up in the right corner of a sharepoint page) so that it looks like this instead: Then go to folder:C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions12TEMPLATECONTROLTEMPLATESMake a copy of welcome.ascx!Then open the file Welcome.ascx in NotepadAdd the following attribute to each element you wish …

Forms authentication using the AD

I am setting up an extranet site where the customer wants the user to be logged out after a certain idle time. Since there is no way to make the user logged out using windows authentication, for logical reasons, then I must activate forms authentication. But I dont want to have yet another user register …

In one week….. yeah yeah

Then I am off to – hopefully – a sunny weather with lots of SPA treatments! Jealous? Thought so… Well it is not the most exotic place to travel to, but wtf it’s a nice vacation and I just wanna sleep, eat, drink and party for a week. And forget about christmas! But, since we’re …