SharePoint 2007 - Branding Your Site Application Pages

If you’ve ever tried to customize the branding of a MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 site you’ve probably discovered that SharePoint application pages (pages that physically reside in the /_layouts folder on the file system) share a common master page and thus share the same style sheets.  Said another way; unlike SharePoint site collections and [...]

SharePoint 2007 - Move Content and Configuration Databases

If you’ve ever wanted to relocate your WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 content databases or configuration database from one SQL server to another, you’ve probably found very little documentation and very little written on this topic.  Below is my attempt to provide some guidance for these tasks.  The steps are fairly simple, but please remember [...]

SharePoint 2007 - "Back" Link After Deleting a Site

After deleting a site in WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 the following page is displayed by default.  The “webdeleted.aspx” is a default application page provided by Microsoft, but it is easily customized.  In this article I will show you how to enhance this page to be more user friendly.

The problem with this page is [...]