Was really sick for two weeks – hence the lack of posts. While I definitely didn’t enjoy the experience it was a good thing – made me really realize I need to change my lifestyle (exercise, diet etc.) if I want to enjoy plenty of energy and general health. Funny how sometimes you need a kick in the butt to get yourself into action…
Just a quick tip today. I often need to check the version of SharePoint running on a given server (e.g. to verify that certain updates have been installed). Simple enough – just open the Central Administration, navigate to the Operations tab, click on Servers in farm link in the Topology and Services section and verify the version. The problem is it’s a lot of clicking plus I support many deployments that have Central Administration web apps configured to run on different ports which makes things confusing.
What’s an easier solution? Open your SharePoint site in SharePoint Designer (can be the main site or any sub-site), click Site Settings under the Site menu on the top toolbar. Presto, you’ll find the version of SharePoint running the site on the general tab under SharePoint Services version (see picture below). You can then reference a site like this one to find the update level that corresponds to your version number (e.g. 12.0.06318 is WSS3.0 or MOSS 2007 with SP1 and Infrastructure Update KB951695 & KB951297).
SPD site settings dialog box
Nothing special but tips like this one can save quite a bit of time.
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