In view of my prior frustrating experience upgrading a Microsoft product (complete reinstall), I was pleasantly surprised when I found out how you upgrade a SharePoint install from the Standard edition to Enterprise: just change the license key!!! Wonderful, I look forward to seeing this kind of simplicity when upgrading their other products! Change the License Type Go to Central Administration à Operations. Select Convert license type. Enter the license key for the Enterprise Edition Enable Enterprise...
Background While I mostly use Firefox , I'm sometimes forced to use IE 7 because of two things, 1: SharePoint sites don't work so well on FireFox and 2: I have this strange problem at work where I can't access any secure sites through Firefox. At home it works 100%. Irritation #1: Close button position One thing that I can't understand is why the position of close button in applications changes the whole time. At first it was fine, Firefox and Visual Studio's close was on the...