Contents tagged with Software Development
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VHD Lifestyle – My SharePoint 2007/2010 Development and Home/Media-Network Setup!
First - Many thanks to Windows 7 (and 2008 R2), there has been some very useful enhancements in my “Digital Lifestyle” recently!
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SharePoint 2007 – 12 Hive System-File Changes: One Feature to rule them all!
Making system-file changes in “12 hive” folder of SharePoint is always a hot topic. Microsoft doesn’t recommend that unless you know what you are doing, and also has support clause against it. Despite that, there are numerous KBs at their support site which point to directions of making necessary changes by following steps that leads us to opening a file in “12 hive” and modifying to achieve the desired effect. I think – without much ado – that its important to assess what you intend to do, and when you certainly need to then there should be a manageable way to make changes to system-files that are otherwise part of SharePoint release. In my previous post I gave an example of a case when one needs to make “12 hive” changes; here are the high-level objectives…