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While there was some security documentation for SharePoint 2007, it was general in nature, and it required browsing around several different documents and pages.  Microsoft has done us a service with the SharePoint 2010 security hardening documentation that was released around the time the product hit RTM.  This documentation includes a secure server snapshot of [...]

MOSS 2007 Search Service Is Currently Offline

Posted by Amber Pham on October 8th, 2009

This error is showing up in quite a few forum posts with no definitive solution. I was able to resolve this for a MOSS 2007 small farm running on Windows Server 2008 64-bit. The main symptom is that when you try to open your search settings in the SSP, you get this message in the [...]

NAP 802.1X for Windows XP XP3

Posted by Amber Pham on September 21st, 2009

Microsoft has written a step-by-step instructional for setting up a proof of concept lab to demonstrate NAP with 802.1X on the new Windows 2008 NPS. NPS on Windows 2008 replaces IAS on Windows 2003, and new Network Access Protection functionality is now built in. The guide can be downloaded from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a0925ee-ee06-4dfb-bba2-07605eff0608&displaylang=en.  The guide is [...]

How to use a phased approach to migrating SharePoint sites off a Windows 2003 server onto a Windows 2008 64-bit server.