But now I am in need to secure Windows 2008 R2 with an antivirus. I chosen Avast as I really like it and it has protected my computers very well in the past. Thing is, this is a server and the home edition doesn’t allow installations on a windows server.

Fortunately, someone found a very simple hack to install Avast home edition which I have tried and verify it works beautifully!

How to Install Avast Home on Windows Server 2008 R2

Note: Make sure to read one of the comments to run avast on a separate account in order for it to update without any issues.

After users search using a custom result page, the “author” property would return the value of the Author Document Property in Word documents. e.g. for Word 2007, Click Office Button > Prepare > Properties.

The customer wanted to retrieve the Created By value from the list instead.

Our Solution:

Add a new Managed Property that will reference an out of the box Office:4(Text) Crawled Property.

Step 1 – Create a New Managed Property

1. In SSP, Search Administration, go to Search Settings > Metadata property mappings.
2. Create a new Managed property called “ItemCreatedBy“, Check the radio button – “Include values from a single crawled … specified”
3. Click OK
4. On the left navigation, select Crawled Properties > Click on Office Category
5. Heres the tricky part. As there are two Office:4(Text) properties, we need to select the correct one. Select any Office:4 property, and find the one that has Property Set ID = f29f85e0-4ff9-1068-ab91-08002b27b3d9
6. Once you have found the correct one, click Add Mapping and select our newly created manage property ItemCreatedBy
7. Run a full Crawl.

Step 2 – Customising Search Core Result

1. Go to your custom search page, and go to edit properties for the Search Core Result web part
2. Under Results Query Options, in the selected columns add a new Column Entry for ItemCreatedBy, e.g. <Column Name=”ItemCreatedBy”/> and click ok
3. Modify the XSL, the trick here is the make sure that when you reference your ItemCreatedBy, it must all be LOWERCASE, or it won’t work.  e.g. <xsl:value-of select=”itemcreatedby” />

An unsupported way to modify this page is to add “?ToolPaneView=2″  to the end of the URL.

e.g. http://litwaredemo/doclib/Forms/EditForm.aspx?ToolPaneView=2

In the system event logs with Eventid  of 7000 mentioning SPAdmin start timedout (30000 millisecond) and thus failed to start.

I followed option 4 of the below blog post and increased the timeouts to double of the default and alas all was well! But it was most likely be due to the slow performance of the QC environment which we hopefully would not see this in production.

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There is actually a built-in shortcut to list all the commands in a nice GUI interface. Press F7 and wholla, scroll to your previous commands with ease!

As this is my work computer, I was paranoid if I would run into problems, but I have yet to come across any!

A few opinions

• Toolbar is obviously different but it is easy to adapt to.
• Quick and responsive. No more of that Vista waiting annoyances
• Deleting from rubbish bin is fast, vista mucks around too much when deleting from the bin
• No more memory leaks from gadget sidebar becoz there isn’t a side bar!
• You can set your wallpaper to change automatically natively supported by the OS
• Uses Less Memory!
• Boot up and shutdown times are absolutely a blessing. Its faster than WinXP boots.

Anyway, there is nothing but praise with working with Windows 7. There are a few program behaviours that need to be tuned for Windows 7 so I wont be installing this on my home workstation, but when it is released hopefully by end year you can bet I will be installing Win7 ultimate for sure.

The error would be something like, server error in “/” Application blah blah, so I googled it and found a simple fix!

Just create a new Groupboard workspace as sub site and the week view suddenly works again. (weird).
So goto View All Site Content > Create > Sites and Workspaces -> Select the Groupboard workspace template.

After creating it you can delete the site. The calendar will function as normal.

The following example in the link gives an example of using calculated columns! Therefore no need to code!

Customize Date Time

Its a simple fix to the height problem in display items from a list, the items in the list will override the height setting in the web part.

Therefore using JQuery + Content Editor web part you can add a scroll bar to the offending web part.

Read more at endUserSharePoint

This might come in handy in the near future:

http://www.sharepointsecurity.com/blog/sharepoint/sharepoint-security-tip-explicitlycontainscurrentuser/