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It has been a while since we installed the Adobe PDF IFilter for MOSS 2007 or Search Server 2008. This is in part because Foxit Software (http://www.foxitsoftware.com) released a 64-bit PDF IFilter for SharePoint before Adobe did and because clients have been gravitating towards 64-bit SharePoint Server Farms for a while now. In any case, I had to revisit the installation for a new client and came across a couple of things I thought would be good to share. First, the IFilter installation document found here: http://www.adobe.com/special/acrobat/configuring_pdf_ifilter_for_ms_sharepoint_2007.pdf instructs you to verify that...
If you’ve worked with SQL Server prior to the 2005 release you’ve seen the Service Manager. It was a taskbar tool that let you quickly stop and start SQL Server Instances and Services without having to load the SQL Server Enterprise Manager or the Services MMC. Honestly, I hadn’t used it in ages but this morning I wanted to find and stop all SQL Server instances on a development server in order to save on memory usage and host a Virtual Machine. At that point I remembered that it didn’t exist in the SQL Server 2005 or 2008 versions. ...
Every so often I find it necessary to force a SharePoint web part page into edit or design mode using query string parameters. Originally posted on one of our internal development blogs, I decided to share this because it does come in handy from time to time. SharePoint Query String Parameters Query String Parameter Values DisplayMode ...