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If you have activated SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature on the site collection level, when you try to create a new sub-site on SharePoint 2010, there are only two site templates available by default: Publishing Site with Workflow and Enterprise Wiki. Where are the other site templates?
In SharePoint 2010, you have to ‘enable’ the other site templates first. To do so, go to Site Settings –> ‘Page layouts and site templates’ under ‘Look and Feel’ section. On the ‘Page Layout and Site Template Settings’ page, you can specify which site templates will be available for creating subsites in this site...
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 ...