How to create a backup file with the date of today. Here is an example with STSADM from Sharepoint Services. stsadm -o backup -filename “\\gl-nas-01\backup$\Sharepoint\GL-SP-01\%date:~-10,3%%date:~-7,3%%date:~-4%.dat” -url http://intranet/sites/home
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Configure PDF IFilter in WSS 3.0
First, you need to download the Adobe PDF IFilter 6.0, which you can find at this URL. You should also get hold of a suitable Icon to use with PDFs, so that when they are listed in a document library they are easily recognisable. There is a 17 x 17 one available on the Adobe [...]
Configure Windows SharePoint Services Search Service Settings
By default, the search service is disabled in WSS 3.0. In order to enable it, goto your SharePoint Central Administration page and under the Operations tab, goto the “Services on the Server” list and click on WSS Search. Service Account – You cannot use any built in accounts when specifiying the Service Account, however you [...]
Backup and Restore SharePoint Services 3.0 sites
I tried to make a copy of one of our SharePoint sites. It took some help to figure out how to this. So for the future, lets put it here. The thing you should check are the version numbers of the original and target SharePoint servers are the same. They MUST be the same. In [...]
Manually uninstall Windows Internal Database
When you deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a single-server configuration by using the Basic installation option, the Setup program automatically installs and configures Windows Internal Database. However, an entry for Windows Internal Database is not created in the Add or Remove Programs tool. If you remove Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, the Setup program does [...]
Enable Google Analytics Page Tracking in a Single-Name Intranet Site
Recently I’ve been asked how to get Google Analytics working in an intranet site with a single name in the URL, for example: http://intranet. The first time I added Google Analytics to a site it was a development site accessed by server-name:port-number. For days after correctly adding the tracking code there was still no data [...]

