If using the “Open with Windows Explorer” option in SharePoint is slow use the following procedure to fix this and increase the performance:

1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Go to the Menu “Tools” > “Internet Options” then go to the “Connections” tab
3. Click on button “LAN Settings”
4. Uncheck the box “Automatically detect settings” (culprit)
5. Close and restart all running Internet Explorer processes
6. Restart the “Web Client” Service, if needed.
7. Try it again!

via Open with Windows Explorer in SharePoint (Fix Slow WebDAV Performance on Windows 7 / Vista)

The Windows PowerShell Command Builder for SharePoint 2010 Products and Office 365 is a Silverlight application that enables IT pros and power users to visually assemble commands in the browser and then take those commands to their respective products.

Click to open the Windows PowerShell Command Builder in a new browser window.

For additional information, see the Getting Started Guide.

Tobias Zimmergren has a great post on his blog that explores the User Information List. 

Here is an excerpt:

The User Information List can be accessed (Only if you’re admin) via the browser by navigating to /_catalogs/users/simple.aspx from your site. (Ex: http://zimmergren/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx)

This works for both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007)

Tobias Zimmergren has a great post on his blog that explores the User Information List. 

Here is an excerpt:

The User Information List can be accessed (Only if you’re admin) via the browser by navigating to /_catalogs/users/simple.aspx from your site. (Ex: http://zimmergren/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx)

This works for both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007)

Here is a listing that I found of web parts that are in WSS versus MOSS:
via Out of the box web part listing for WSS and MOSS

Below is a list of the features available in Sharepoint 2007 MOSS compared to WSS
via What’s a MOSS 2007 vs. WSS v3 Feature

Windows SharePoint Services v3 Features:

33 Features in WSS v3

Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 Features:

107 Features Added in MOSS 2007*

I ran across an issue this morning that had the Sharepoint WSS Search Server in a “Pausing” state.  I had to restart the Office SharePoint Server Search service in order to resolve the issue.

Now to see if it will complete successfully.

Extended web applications are not listed in the web application list and cannot be deleted using the Delete Web Application link in Central Administration.

Use the following steps to delete extended web applications:

1. Start Central Administration
2. Go to Application Management
3. Click Remove SharePoint from IIS Web Site to get a page with a form similar to the following.
   
4. Select the web application that the extended web app was extended from
5. Select which extention/zone to delete
6. Select whether to keep or delete the IIS Web site
7. Finally click OK

I was trying to export a site that had been moved from a MOSS farm to a WSS farm and was getting an error that a list did not exist.  Well, I’ve fought with this particular web application for quite a while and was sick of getting stupid little errors because of the move from MOSS to WSS.  So, I was able to find a SQL Stored Procedure that I could use to delete all references to the “orphaned” list.

I found this Stored Procedure on Vyas Kondreddi’s website.

CREATE PROC SearchAllTables
(
	@SearchStr nvarchar(100)
)
AS
BEGIN

	-- Copyright © 2002 Narayana Vyas Kondreddi. All rights reserved.
	-- Purpose: To search all columns of all tables for a given search string
	-- Written by: Narayana Vyas Kondreddi
	-- Site: http://vyaskn.tripod.com
	-- Tested on: SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000
	-- Date modified: 28th July 2002 22:50 GMT

	CREATE TABLE #Results (ColumnName nvarchar(370), ColumnValue nvarchar(3630))

	SET NOCOUNT ON

	DECLARE @TableName nvarchar(256), @ColumnName nvarchar(128), @SearchStr2 nvarchar(110)
	SET  @TableName = ''
	SET @SearchStr2 = QUOTENAME('%' + @SearchStr + '%','''')

	WHILE @TableName IS NOT NULL
	BEGIN
		SET @ColumnName = ''
		SET @TableName =
		(
			SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME))
			FROM 	INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
			WHERE 		TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
				AND	QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME) > @TableName
				AND	OBJECTPROPERTY(
						OBJECT_ID(
							QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME)
							 ), 'IsMSShipped'
						       ) = 0
		)

		WHILE (@TableName IS NOT NULL) AND (@ColumnName IS NOT NULL)
		BEGIN
			SET @ColumnName =
			(
				SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME))
				FROM 	INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
				WHERE 		TABLE_SCHEMA	= PARSENAME(@TableName, 2)
					AND	TABLE_NAME	= PARSENAME(@TableName, 1)
					AND	DATA_TYPE IN ('char', 'varchar', 'nchar', 'nvarchar')
					AND	QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME) > @ColumnName
			)

			IF @ColumnName IS NOT NULL
			BEGIN
				INSERT INTO #Results
				EXEC
				(
					'SELECT ''' + @TableName + '.' + @ColumnName + ''', LEFT(' + @ColumnName + ', 3630)
					FROM ' + @TableName + ' (NOLOCK) ' +
					' WHERE ' + @ColumnName + ' LIKE ' + @SearchStr2
				)
			END
		END
	END

	SELECT ColumnName, ColumnValue FROM #Results
END

We were having trouble adding a user to a site collection.  Every time we hit the search button or clicked the check userid button the system would just sit there and spin. I added the following section of the web.config to resolve the issue.

The error that we were getting in the trace logs is similar to below.

Exception Type: System.Web.HttpRequestValidationException  Exception Message: A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (ctl00$PlaceHolderDialogBodySection$ctl04$OriginalEntities="").

via Solien Technology