Overall the upgrade experience to 1.1 was much smoother than previous upgrade,.mainly because I wasn't a moron making changes. Now only if I could get the upload speed on my so-called 6Mbps down/512Mbps up DSL connection from BellSouth to actually perform that fast...

In my haste to upgrade my site and get the Graffitti beta has expired" logo off my page, I corrupted my Access content database. Gotta love those corrupted databases... As I try to re-create the technical postings on this site I will try to commit myself to write more frequently.

Recently I noticed the Application Event Log of one of our internal SharePoint servers filling up with 6482 errors. Another added irritance was that the Web Sites treeview in IIS would not open, instead giving an error "The path specified cannot be used at this time." The solution that worked...

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Today while at work I was working to clean up our intranet's site directory in SharePoint. I noticed that the Site Map (a Table of Contents web part) was only listing 50 sites. Since I knew there were more and that this was probably the result of some inherent limit to the web part, I dug around and found this post which explains how to modify your web.config.

It basically boils down to adding a property DynamicChildLimit="XX" to the following entries in the siteMap providers section of the web.config file, where XX is 0 (no limit) or whatever numeric limit you decide. By default it is 50.

(The web.config file to modify is usually located in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80, with the last portion being whatever port number MOSS is running from).

 

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