September 2008 MAR

September 26th, 2008 by kendra.thorpe

• Customize the ISA 2006 Logon page – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb794733.aspx#CustomFormSet

  • First make a copy of the SharePoint folder and rename it
  • Open the HTML folder inside of your newly renamed folder (C:Program FilesMicrosoft ISA ServerCookieAuthTemplatesRENAMEMEHTML)
  • Edit the file called usr_pwd.htm (This is the file that provides authentication using username and password.).
  • If necessary you may also edit the stylesheet. The stylesheet is called logon_style.css.
  • Copy your company logo to this folder as well.

• Customize 404 Error Page in MOSS 2007 – We wanted the custom 404 Page Not Found error page to display links to active SharePoint sites from a MYSQL database

  • First we installed the solution listed on http://blog.rafelo.com/2008/05/custom-sharepoint-404-handler-file-not.html
  • Next install the MYSQL 5.1 driver
  • Edit the Custom404Handler.aspx page in C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions12TEMPLATELAYOUTS

•Attended SharePoint Best Practices Conference in McLean,VA

  • Output caching is important when utilizing Publishing
  • Performance – if your counters are skewed, then believe them.

•Attended Exchange 2007 Troubleshooting Class

•Successfully installed DPM & DPM Agents on the test SQL 2005 cluster and test MOSS 2007 servers

  • Had the DPM MOSS 2007 restore farm scanned and VLAN changed

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