19 May 2008

Alert and history display incorrect time

Different people are reporting problems with incorrect times displayed in SharePoint Alerts which seem to be related to the time zone offset that is not correctly applied to the times displayed in the alert emails. I have also noticed the same problem in the calendar event history where the event times displayed in the history are not correct either (i.e. are displaying UTC time).

There is a thread on TechNet related to this: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3236200&SiteID=17 and Paul Liebrand has posted about it and created a utility to gather the time zone settings on your server: http://liebrand.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/does-your-sharepoint-alerts-have-wrong-time/

05 May 2008

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

Microsoft has released an Admin Toolkit for SharePoint which will allow you to move site collections between content databases. This will be useful to better manage the size of databases that have grown really large due to a specific site collection. The MSDN blog post can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/30/announcing-the-first-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx

Unfortunately they didn't add functionality to move a site to a different site collection or to another site...