Restoring a SharePoint Site Collection from a Backup

We had been trying unsuccessfully to do a Sharepoint 2003 backup and restore from production to development for disaster recovery planning for one of our clients, and the restore kept failing with this message: The database schema is too old to perform this operation in this SharePoint cluster. Please upgrade the database and try again. We checked…

Filtering on Multi-Select Columns in SharePoint Data View Web Parts

Data View Web Parts in SharePoint 2003 provide great control over the retrieval and display of items in disparate libraries and lists.  I won’t try to convince you of that in this post, but if you do decide to use Data View Web Parts, there’s a "feature" that you may run into that there is…