IE 8 Problem in displaying MOSS 2007 pages

SharePoint Tips: IE 8 Problem in displaying MOSS 2007 Pages, Menus

Internet facing websites targeted for IE 7 may have problem in displaying pages correctly in IE 8. To fix the issue use the following fragement

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /> to your master page

Refer the KB article from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/956197 and Randy Drisgill's Blog http://blog.drisgill.com/2009/03/problems-with-ie8-standards-mode.html

and http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/06/10/introducing-ie-emulateie7.aspx

To Open Word in the same IE Browser window

Sharepoint Tips : How To Open Word in the same IE browser windows(and other office files)
• Launch Windows Explorer.
• Tools > Folder Options and click on the File Types tab.
• goto “Registered File types“ and find “DOC - Microsoft Word Document 97-2003“ extenstion and select it.
• Click “Advanced...“ button at the bottom of the dialog.
• Check the “Browse in same window“ checkbox.
  IE will prompt for whether you want to open or save the file, if you choose to open then the document is opened in IE and not in Word. To avoid this dialog box you should uncheck "Confirm open after download". Now the file will be automatically downloaded in your browser and will display in the same browser window.

The site is too large to save as a template. The size of a template cannot exceed 10485760 bytes.

One of the easiest way to transfer your data from one site/server to another site / server would be saving the site to template. But the catch here is by default the maximum size of the template should not exceed 10 MB(10485760 Bytes).
If you try to save any of your large Site as Template, you might get the following error
"The site is too large to save as a template. The size of a template cannot exceed 10485760 bytes. "






This can be solved by just increasing the maximum size of the Template
stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname max-template-document-size -propertyvalue 20971520
Note: 20971520 bytes = 20 MB, Maximum Size you can set is 500 MB

How to Avoid Login Prompt - MOSS 2007

Most of the time users will be prompted to enter user name and password while logging into MOSS 2007 server, to avoid just un-install Enhanced IE security from to avoid the Login prompt