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In the ALUI 6.1 Portal (reproduced in at least 6.1.240495 (Java) and 6.1.0.235226 (.NET) ), there’s a bug that basically prevents you from creating pages based off of Page Templates. If you create a page created from a Page Template and inherit the template, you’ll notice the portlets don’t show up “greyed out” like they [...]

The Audit Manager is a reasonably powerful tool for tracking system events in the portal. By default, it’s not turned on, but at very least it should at least be activated to track security events. Tracking user logins is also possible, but can quickly fill up the event log in the database (PTAUDITMSGS table).

There are a handful of under-utilized Search Server settings that you can use to provide more accurate search results to your end users. You can find these in Administration: Select Utilities: Search Results Manager. Best Bets allow you to specify up to 20 documents that are returned in response to specific search terms. You would [...]

IIS6 has a new feature called Application Pool Recycling. By default, this feature uses overlapped recycling, which means the worker process that is to be shut down is kept running until after a new worker process is started. This can cause problems with the portal, because as one instance is brought up it initializes temp [...]