Erasing a Portal Area via the interface is a bit annoying - you go to the Manage Portal Site to get the Area Tree, right-click and Delete, then you have to confirm again, wait 10-15 seconds, then … more

Customizing SPS is sometimes a hassle. I'm not talking about customizing graphics or Frontpaging the pages into submission - I'm talking about extending the object model. Creating new templates for … more

We've been seeing some strange behaviour after we rename a group or user in the Active Directory:   When we go to the Site Settings to define site-wide permissions, the old username is … more

If you have a web-part on your development machine that occasionaly decides to die - give you Not Marked As Safe errors even though it is, and requires removal and readding for it to work (with no … more

...and just one more. Various indexing problems I've encountered. "Cannot create the file because it already exists - 0x800700B7" This error was reported in the gatherer log for my Portal_Content … more

..and we're back. Enabling multiple Site Directories By default, a Sharepoint installation comes with a Site Directory where WSS sites are listed and found. Each Site Directory holds a custom … more

[Warning: I only have Hebrew SPS installations around, so if I make some mistakes when translating the menu options, try to guess what I meant :] Advanced Search Mode Most of the features mentioned … more

An annoying bug that had one developer here tearing his hair out (our would have, had he any) - an ASCX user-control that has been working fine for a few weeks started to cause strange Visual Studio … more