Add your proxy settings to the web.config

To allow external RSS feeds on your internal Sharepoint site add your local proxy setting to the web.config. Change the following lines:
 
<system.net>
  <defaultproxy>
     <proxy autodetect="true" />
  </defaultproxy>
</system.net>
 
to:
 
<system.net>
  <defaultproxy>
     <proxy usesystemdefault="false" proxyaddress="http://YOURPROXYSERVER:PORT" bypasslocal="true />
  </defaultproxy>
</system.net>
 
Run a iisreset after saving the web.config file.
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Change Application Pool IIS 7

As we all know the design of IIS 7 had some drastic changes.
One of them is the location where you can bind or change application pools. These settings a simply hard to find some times. To change a specific application pool follow these steps.
 
1. Open IIS admin console
2. Expand the website folder
3. Click the website you want to change
4. On the right side of your sceen a menu appears
5. Click 'Basic Settings'
6. Select the Application Pool you would like to bind in the pull down menu
7. Click OK
8. Run IISRESET
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Access Denied - When trying to Enable the Publishing Feature

Recently I had to activate the publishing infrastucture on a new MOSS 2007 site. On other sites this always worked before, but now I was getting ‘Access Denied’ when activating the ‘Server Publishing Infrastructure’ at this client.

To solve the ‘Access Denied’ problem I found you need to elevate the permissions of the AppPool of the web application on which you are trying to activate the Publishing Infrastructure feature.

One way to achieve this is to temporarily change the AppPool of the web application.

1. Open IIS Admin.
2. Location the Web Site for your web application.
3. Goto to the properties and select the ‘Home Directory’ tab.
4.
Change the AppPool to be the same as Central Administration.
5. IISRESET
6. Activate the Publishing Infrastructure feature on your site.
7. Change to AppPool back to the original.
8. IISRESET.

This should allow you to enable the feature and use the publishing features within MOSS.

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