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SharePoint Quick Tip: Are you running MOSS 2007 Standard or Enterprise
Posted by Brian in Uncategorized on July 8, 2009
John Ferringer replied to a post on the Technet forums that I felt would make a good quick tip. I have seen this question come up numerous times on the forums. How can I tell if I am running MOSS 2007 Standard or Enterprise? There are two ways to answer this. I’ll show you both below.
The first way is to simply see what you have installed on your server. There are several ways to do this. The easiest is to open the Operations tab in Central Administration. Then open Enable Enterprise Features. Your answer to your question should be selected there. Note that if you check Enterprise, you can not go back to Standard.
If for some reason you have an aversion to Central Admin, you can also find this in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0. Find OfficeServerPremium. A 0 means standard and a 1 means enterprise. I would strongly recommend against changing anything here.
Now the other way to approach this question has to do with licensing. There are many times when what you are licensed for is not equal to what you have installed. To find this answer, you will need to find your media or your software license info. If you have the official media from Microsoft, it should say it on there. Mine is labeled Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 For Enterprise. If you purchased it another way and don’t have the media, you should still have a license. It was either snail-mailed to you or you received it in an e-mail or download. If all else fails, talk with whoever handled the purchasing to see what they have. They should have records or, at the very least, know who to talk to to find out.
Again thanks to John Ferringer for part of the content of this post. You should all go out and buy his book: The SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide.
SharePoint Quick Tip: Remove Outlook Connection to SharePoint
Posted by Brian in Uncategorized on June 26, 2009
The is the first in hopefully many Quick Tips. I would like to make this a weekly thing but we’ll have to wait and see how that goes.
One of the most asked questions I get from End Users about SharePoint is “How do I remove the connection from Outlook?” This is usually requested because they are receiving an excessive number of authentication prompts in Outlook due to not having their machine configured correctly or some other bug. In most cases, the prompting should end once they add the site to the Trusted Sites, allow IE to pass authentication, and setup the WebClient in the registry. Note: At my organization, we also have an installer that will do all of that for you. If that is too much and they just have to have it removed, here are the steps.
1. In Outlook, go to Tools and Account Settings
2. Click on SharePoint Lists
3. You could see multiple lists here if you have made more than one connection. Highlight one and then click Change.
4. If you have accessed SharePoint on multiple computers, it is possible that the others have a connection as well. To clear that up, you need to check the box “Don’t display this list on other computers I use.” If you don’t do that, it is possible the list will come back. Click OK and return to the List. You can repeat this process on any other lists you wish to remove.
5. Once you have checked that box for each list, click on Remove and then OK.
That’s all there is to it. One thing you can do in the future if you don’t want the list to show up on every instance of Outlook you touch is click that checkbox before you add the list. You’ll find it under Advanced when you try to add the list.