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Question about your article - Seeting up SharePoint Environment

(Indexed 2009-08-17):

Stan emailed me with few questions about setting up SharePoint Development Environment. I am posting edited version of that conversation here. The post is general and it applies to any SharePoint environment e.g. testing, educational… you might have in your company.In your article “Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Part 2 - Building a development lab” you say that developer has 64-bit Server on the machine and VPC and develops in VPC. Why do y...(truncated)...

SharePoint 2010 session in SharePoint conference

(Indexed 2009-08-16):

This year SharePoint conference will have a lot of SharePoint 2010 sessions, here is a sneak peek list SharePoint 2010 Overview and What's New Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 Capacity and Performance Planning SharePoint 2010 Security and Identity Management: What's New Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Development SharePoint 2010 Ribbon, ECMAScript and Dialog Framework Development Developing w...(truncated)...

Drag Files Here

(Indexed 2009-08-14):

I recently installed the CTP of SharePoint Workspace 2010. All was fine until I came across something I hadn't seen before. When ever I would go to a SharePoint site and try to Upload Multiple Files, I would be presented with a "Drag Files Here" window. So being curious, I tried dragging and dropping a file here. When I click OK, it would try to upload the file to my document library, but would fail.After doing some research (there were no results for "Drag Files Here" and "SharePoint" at b...(truncated)...

Programmatically creating views for a SharePoint discussion forum

(Indexed 2009-08-13):

As you can see I'm still working on sites, lists and views and I ran into another challenge. It started out very basic. I wanted to create a discussion forum list on a site. // Create new listlistGuid = newWeb.Lists.Add("Forum", "ForumDescription", "Forum", "00BFEA71-6A49-43FA-B535-D15C05500108", 108, "", SPListTemplate.QuickLaunchOptions.Off);SPList forumList = newWeb.Lists[listGuid]; After succesfully creating the forum list I wanted to add a custom view to the list. That seemed to be ea...(truncated)...

Enable Anonymous access for site published through ISA server

(Indexed 2009-08-13):

If you want to enable anonymous access for SharePoint site published through ISA server with external URL different from the internal URL, you must enable it using the site internal URL otherwise the anonymous access option will not appear.How to enable Anonymous access:Enable anonymous access Configure anonymous access (Office SharePoint Server) For example:We have a SharePoint site created with internal URL http://anony:444 then the site published through ISA server using URL http://anonymous....(truncated)...

Dealing with the "No parameterless constructor defined for this object" on 'changed' Page Layout

(Indexed 2009-08-13):

When we initially launched one of our publishing page layouts, we had a Page Layout that contained a third party web part. After launch, we realized that this web part either needed to be updated or ripped out, so for the time being, we ripped out the web part (uninstall, the whole nine yards). However, we still needed to use the Page Layout, just without the web parts pre-defaulted on the page. Low and behold, the first time we try to create the Page Layout, we get the "No parameterless constru...(truncated)...

SharePoint Automatically redirecting HTTP to HTTPS

(Indexed 2009-08-05):

If you want to automatically redirect from HTTP to HTTPS on a SharePoint site, there is an easy way to do it using Alternate Access Mappings.  I have seen suggestions involving IIS redirects which is something that I have done in the past but there is actually no need to do this. First you must configure your site to use HTTPS so that the public name is the HTTPS name (creating or extending a Web Application using HTTPS).  Next, define an Internal Name in AAM using the HTTP protocol, ...(truncated)...

Office Server Service Pack 2 Updated

(Indexed 2009-08-05):

SharePoint announced earlier an issue in SharePoint Server service pack 2 that affect the server expiration date and change it to trail 180 days.Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2Microsoft released later on a fix for this issue to be applied after or before installing Service pack 2http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/06/25/service...(truncated)... Office server service pack 2 download has been updated to include the fix directly, so if you have not downloaded service pa...(truncated)...

Speaking at SharePoint Saturday, Copenhagen

(Indexed 2009-08-03):

After a number of events in USA, SharePoint Saturday (free community driven event) is flying across oceans (both Atlantic and Pacific). In August it will debut in Europe: Copenhagen, Denmark.I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at SharePoint Saturday, Copenhagen, organized by Isaac Stith (@MrIsaac) and Jens Nrgaard (@SharePointDK). If you are reading this blog and plan to visit the event I would be happy to see you there.[Image]SessionYour organization has deployed SharePoint as the u...(truncated)...

KPI Dashboard for WSS: Part 1 - No code required

(Indexed 2009-08-03):

A few weeks ago Chris posted the following problem on Stump the panel:We want to display KPI indicators with each item (green if we met the target, yellow almost, red not even close). I’ve been using Visual Indicators for the Masses: KPIs in WSS. So I setup different lists for each one, So in financial the target/actual is set to currency. In customer loyalty it’s a number etc. This was working fine until today, when I got to see more of the real data. I learned under financial th...(truncated)...

CompleteSharepoint.NET is VNext 2010 Compatible!

(Indexed 2009-08-02):

INTRODUCTIONSharepoint VNext 2010 is coming up so I have to make sure that CompleteSharepoint.NET - the content management system built on top of WSS 3.0 (http://www.completesharepoint.net) - is compatible.So I run stsadm -o preupgradecheck and below is the results:[Image]Luckily CS.NET is vNext 2010 compatible! WOOHOO! Please note though that I ran this on a Windows Server 2008 x64 bit environment. Sharepoint vNext 2010 only works on a x64 bit environment and to be precise, it can only run on I...(truncated)...

Chiropractic is Using CompleteSharepoint.NET

(Indexed 2009-08-02):

INTRODUCTIONHi everyone, a client has been using CompleteSharepoint.NET as their website framework.If you're interested, please go to http://www.attadalechiropractic.com. They're chiropractor based in Attadale, Western Australia.The features of the website are:- Random quote generated from a Sharepoint list- Custom navigation controls- The use of CompleteSharepoint.NET custom sitemap providerIf you're interested in using CompleteSharepoint.NET for your personal and clients' websi...(truncated)...

Upcoming Speaking Engagement

(Indexed 2009-07-31):

Just wanted to get a quick note out there that Darrin Bishop has been kind enough to invite me to speak about SharePoint Disaster Recovery at the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group in August, so I wanted to provide the details on it for anyone who wants to come heckle/question/annoy/encourage me.Below is the full write-up on the event from Darrin, he does a great job of covering it all so I'll just let him take it from here:Please join us for the next meetingof the Central Illinois Share...(truncated)...

SharePoint Search What does Indexing Performance mean?

(Indexed 2009-07-31):

When on client sites, i often get asked “What do the Indexing Performance settings actually mean?”They are relating to the Office SharePoint Server Search service setting for the server running the Index role.For those that don’t know, this is access via Central Admin >Operations > Services on Server. Select the Server doing the Indexing and select the Office SharePoint Server Search service.[Image]The Indexer Performance setting affects the number of threads for Server runnin...(truncated)...

InfoPath Bulk update forms in a SharePoint library

(Indexed 2009-07-30):

After a customer of mine ran hopelessly behind processing forms in a SharePoint library they requested a utility to automate the update all the forms in bulk.Initially, I thought this might be a bit of a pain but once I got into it it was a pretty simple little app.It’s written as a windows application and simply loops through each form in a library and makes updates based on your the data you enter. This quick and dirty app only allows 4 field updates per form but if I had the time it wo...(truncated)...

SharePoint Search Not returning results for Email messages (.msg)

(Indexed 2009-07-30):

Had an issue on regarding searching on the contents on email messages (file extension .msg). IssueWhen doing searches on known search terms they were getting varied results. Results were only returned on the contents of the beginning of some emails as if the Indexer was only indexing the first 50/60 words of .msg files. Results wouldn’t appear for short search terms (less than 15-20 characters). Some .msg files wouldn’t even be indexed. Was no definitive reason why a certain email ...(truncated)...

Ajax Control Toolkit and ASP.NET Page Output Caching

(Indexed 2009-07-28):

Using the ASP.NET page output caching can lead to problems with the AJAX Control Toolkit. You might see error messages such asJavascript error: AjaxToolkit is undefinedWhile searching the web, i have found many people with the same problem, however no solution. Many even pointed to a post on Microsoft Connect that concludes with the following statement: "We do not support output caching in combination with ScriptControls, Extenders, or ScriptManagerProxies that need ScriptReferences at this time...(truncated)...

MOSS 2007 - SP2 / April CU Publishing Bug

(Indexed 2009-07-28):

Overview of Bug When editing a Content Editor Web Part Rich Text on a publishing page that is based off an page layout that contains User fields / people picker, such as the Contact field, after saving the Rich Text changes the page refreshes and all of the user fields are "messed" up. [Image]Steps to reproduce Ensure environment is April CU. (We are not sure at this point if it is a bug introduced in SP2 or April CU since we did both upgrades at the same time. April CU is version 1...(truncated)...

Programmatically adjusting the toolbar of listview webpart

(Indexed 2009-07-24):

hmmmm..... nice article by Mirjam: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mirjam/archive/2009/07/24/pro...(truncated)... more)[Image]

Programmatically adjusting the toolbar of a ListViewWebPart

(Indexed 2009-07-24):

I have been doing more work on programmatically adding lists, views and ListViewWebParts to automatically created sites this week and I've stumbled onto another challenge that took me more time than I expected to solve. I'm creating sites and pogrammaticaly adding ListViewWebParts to the default.aspx page of that site. By default a ListViewWebPart that is added to a page shows the Full Toolbar. This isn't always what you want. Even worse, it's usually not what you want. If you a...(truncated)...

Using Workflow in SharePoint?

(Indexed 2009-07-22):

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SharePoint (WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007) and Project Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Installation Order

(Indexed 2009-07-21):

I would like to share my experience with those who are trying to install SP2 on SharePoint server. I defined 3 environments below: WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007 and MOSS 2007/PS 2007. Please try the following sequences in your testing environment before applying to your production environment as yours may be unique. Let me know if you have any comments.Download links:1. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP2 (x86)2. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP2 (x64)3. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 (x86...(truncated)...

Cleaning Up the 1 to 5;#5# number string from your Custom Survey Views.

(Indexed 2009-07-21):

1. This is something I do after I have created a custom Survey View for reporting. For some reason, SharePoint pulls in the Rating numbers as “1 to 5;#5#” from the database. Using the native string functions in Designer, you can strip out this “1 to 5;#_#” junk to leave just the raw rating number.2. Open up Designer and open your Survey View page (ie. AllDataView.aspx) and highlight the first data cell UNDER the column name.[Image] 3. Right-click and select Edit Formula....(truncated)...

My Slides from Learning Gateway Conference

(Indexed 2009-07-21):

Thanks for all those who attended my session on SharePoint Governance for Education. Remember there is no right and wrong – it all depends on your school. [Image]Here are of the links I used throughout the dayLearning Gateway User Group http://www.learninggateway.net SharePoint User Group UK http://www.suguk.org SharePoint 2010 Sneak Preview http://sharepoint.microsoft.com [Image]

What coming in the next version of the Microsoft Learning Gateway...

(Indexed 2009-07-20):

Over the next 12 months Microsoft have some major releases of their main applications. Many of these build up the elements of the Microsoft Learning Gateway.Over the coming month we’ll have a look at the different products that are currently available for beta and a look at what is yet to come.Here is a list of things that are coming from both the client and service sideClientWindows 7 The new Microsoft operating system replacing Microsoft Vista. I’ve played with both the Beta vers...(truncated)...

SPSOzarks Slide Deck: Saving SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-07-18):

I just wanted to put a quick note out there that you can download the slides from the presentation Sean McDonough and I did today at SharePoint Saturday Ozarks on SharePoint DR: Saving SharePoint at the following URL:HTTP://drop.io/SavingSharePointIf you use these slides for your own presentation, I would ask that you contact Sean or I and let us know you're doing it. If you modify it at all, I'd love to know what you're doing so we can encorporate them into our deck for the future [...(truncated)...

Creating a custom view that filters on the current user or [Me]

(Indexed 2009-07-16):

Earlier this week I was creating custom list views for a customer solution. On of the specifications was that the view needed a filter that only showed the documents that were created by the current user. You can do this using the user interface by specifying that the Created By field needed to be equal to [Me]. [Image] I was trying to get this same behaviour by adding a CAML query to my view using the following code: StringCollection viewFields = new StringCollection();viewFields.Add("Title")...(truncated)...

SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview Documentacin para Desarrolladores

(Indexed 2009-07-16):

Este artculo est disponible en el siguiente vnculo: http://dougortiz.blogspot.com/2009/07/sharepoint-2010-techni...(truncated)... more)[Image]

SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview Developer Documentation

(Indexed 2009-07-16):

This blog posting is available at: http://dougortiz.blogspot.com/2009/07/sharepoint-2010-techni...(truncated)... more)[Image]

Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException: Failed to obtain crawl status

(Indexed 2009-07-15):

INTRODUCTIONThe client I'm currently working has the following farm configuration:- 1 WFE- 1 Central Admin + Indexing- 1 DBThey have both Test and Prod environments configured with the same number of servers. After a while, the client starts to find out that although User Profile Import service is running successfully nightly and the data is updated correctly from AD, but somehow the WSS Profile Page is not updated with the latest AD data. There is someone whose job title is updated in AD an...(truncated)...

When do you need a solution in Persian?

(Indexed 2009-07-14):

I think a Persian Interface is not enough for a Solution.We provide EPM and SharePoint Solutions in Iran and we have localization packs for these solutions (Persian Language Pack and Shamsi or Jalali Calendar and Date features), I know our market and customers needs well, Most people's do not need Persian Interface for a Software individually, they need a localization solution, a language pack (If it be a Standard Language Pack without any bad and irreparable side effects) is smallest issue....(truncated)...

SharePoint Farsi - Free Download

(Indexed 2009-07-14):

I finally released my Persian Language Pack for WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2, as a free download for public.You can freely download it here:[Image]Persian Language Pack for WSS 3.0 SP2 – Free DownloadPersian Language Pack for this technology is not supported by Microsoft yet, probably because of US embargo against Iran, but I’m releasing this because I have some requests from outside of Iran, some Microsoft partners at UK, US and CA asking for this release. Persian Language, also known as ...(truncated)...

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek videos

(Indexed 2009-07-14):

Looking for information about SharePoint 2010, set of videos was released for SharePoint 2010 overview, IT professionals and Developers.you can find them hereSharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek vidsEnjoy SharePoint 2010[Image]

Subtotals in the Group By Row

(Indexed 2009-07-13):

Problem:I have a view that does group by and shows the data collapsed by default. So far, so good. However, the users wanted to see the sum of the details in the group line. The default summing in the view's group by/total shows an overall sum (which was meaningless in this case), but does not show the group's sums until the group is expanded. The users wanted to see the sums for all the groups columns, and then see the details if the information showed something interesting.Solution...(truncated)...

SharePoint 2010 sneak peek

(Indexed 2009-07-13):

The SharePoint Team blog annouces the news of some SharePoint 2010 sneak peek:SharePoint 2010 sneak peek I just checked out the overview sneak peek video, pretty cool stuff shown [Image] [Image]

Experience Windows 7 is coming to Detroit!

(Indexed 2009-07-11):

On July 23, 2009, our local Sogeti office here in Detroit will be demonstrating Windows 7 along with New Horizons at the Micosoft offices in Southfield, MI. This event is totally free, so please join us to learn about Windows most recent operating system. Register Now!When: July 23, 2009 9am – 11am Event Highlights: - Learn about Windows 7 benefits for businesses - Make users productive everywhere - Enhance security and control - Streamline PC management Agenda: - Compatibility and Deploym...(truncated)...

CompleteSharepoint.NET v2.1 Released with Bug Fixes and New Enhancements

(Indexed 2009-07-11):

INTRODUCTIONHi everyone, as you may all have known, I've written CompleteSharepoint.NET (abbreviated CS.NET) which is a content management system built on top of WSS 3.0. The idea is to have publishing capability like MOSS but in WSS 3.0. You have to spend around $50K for Internet License if you're using MOSS but it's totally FREE if you're using CS.NET.Anyway, CS.NET has been used by some people around the world. I thank you for all your effort in testing and trying it out. This...(truncated)...

SharePoint Designers Workflows

(Indexed 2009-07-09):

Our new friend Nick has some good ideas here.Since I'm currently focusing on SharePoint Deisgner Workflows, I like this one.and especially the one about copying an SPD workflow from one list to another.-robot[Image]

SQL Server 2008 R2 sheds a little light on new SharePoint 2010 features

(Indexed 2009-07-09):

SQL Server 2008 R2, slated for a Community Technology Preview this summer, provides some clues as to new features that will be availabe with/in SharePoint 2010:From: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/r2.aspx:Add-in for Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010Share & Collaborate with ConfidenceEnables users to publish reports and analyses to SharePoint to make them available to others in the organizationApplications and reports can be refreshed automatically while also maintaining version con...(truncated)...

The Source parameter and the difference between GoToPage and GoToLink

(Indexed 2009-07-09):

A very convenient URL parameter in SharePoint is the Source parameter. If you click on an item in a list for example, you’ll notice this Source parameter in the URL (e.g. /Lists/Projects/DispForm.aspx?ID=31&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fdev-...(truncated)... Now when you click the Close button, you are redirected to the page where you came from. Of course this is also possible with a history.back() call, but there are situations when this won’t work. For example, what if you have custom column...(truncated)...

Managing Risks in Sharepoint 3 - Solutions and Features Deployment

(Indexed 2009-07-09):

INTRODUCTIONThis is a series:- Managing Risks in Sharepoint 1 - Aligning the Environments- Managing Risks in Sharepoint 2 - User PermissionsIn the previous articles I've discussed about aligning the environments and ensuring user permissions. In this opportunity I would like to discuss more on the development side of things in terms of how you should structure your project, etc.When writing custom code for Sharepoint (be it web-parts, custom controls, etc), there is a chance for developers t...(truncated)...

Editing Themes in SharePoint Designer

(Indexed 2009-07-08):

[Image]A Matter of StyleBy now, you are probably aware that SharePoint is a heavy user of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control the look of your site. Hopefully, you are also aware that SharePoint Designer has (among other things) a great array of CSS editing tools. In Professional SharePoint Designer, we go into great detail on how these tools work, and many of the style elements used in a SharePoint theme. You can also find breakdowns of the classes used by SharePoint themes on Heather Solom...(truncated)...

Error in the Site Data Web Service. (Value does not fall within the expected range.)

(Indexed 2009-07-08):

Last couple of days I was spending hell lot of time to fix the crawler issue - For more information on this issue please take a look at the following thread. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoints...(truncated)... http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Syste...(truncated)... solution is to install the WSS 3.0 Post-Service Pack1 Hotfix(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422)Symptom:Error message in the crawl log after you migrate users: "Error in the Site Dat...(truncated)...

Renaming Sharepoint Virtual Machines (VPC, VM, Hyper-V)

(Indexed 2009-07-07):

INTRODUCTIONHi everyone, I've read several blogs about using virtualised environment (VE) for Sharepoint development which I totally agree. I'm not currently using it because I'm using a laptop and you know what the VE performance is like on laptops. But anyway, having said that, few days ago I was asked to create VE image which can be distributed to developers. I'm working at a client site where I have to use powerful desktops (hence VE is a viable solution).I've got no prob...(truncated)...

SQL Server Setup and Maintenance for SharePoint Farms

(Indexed 2009-07-07):

The SQL Server databases are the heart of every SharePoint farm. Your SharePoint farm will only be as fast and as stable as you SQL Server environment is. Despite of that most SQL Server environments for SharePoint farms are maintained by SharePoint administrators that have no deep knowledge of the SQL internals and best practices. This is something that has grown from when SharePoint was only a small scale product. Right now however a lot of SharePoint implementations are enterprise wide and ...(truncated)...

Configure Item Level Permissions for Document Libraries

(Indexed 2009-07-07):

A few weeks ago Duncun commented on one of my posts: “Still hunting for the holy grail of a solution that ONLY allows users to view or edit documents they have created themselves.”The problemAs you probably know, there is an item-level permissions feature that can be a solution to this problem BUT it’s only available for lists, not Document Libraries. Please remember this before you make a promise you cannot deliver.Figure 1. - Item level permissions on custom list[Image]The s...(truncated)...

Learn Nintex Workflow 2007 with Understanding SharePoint Journal

(Indexed 2009-07-07):

In last few weeks I noticed a lot of posts on Twitter about Nintex Workflow 2007 and SharePoint. All these came from a single user: Bjrn Furuknap (@furuknap). So I followed him for a while and I learned that he wrote a FREE e-book about Nintex Workflow 2007. If you are reading this blog on a regular basis you probably know that I think highly of Nintex Workflow 2007. If you are already using it and you would like to learn more, or just prospecting, take a look at Bjorn’s guide. Read more.....(truncated)...

DevDays presentation: LINQ and SharePoint Development and Sod This Pod Cast

(Indexed 2009-07-07):

While I was writing the blog post about the SDN Event I realized I never posted my DevDays slides.It has been a while, but on May 29th I presented on the Dutch DevDays about LINQ & SharePoint Development. I really enjoyed speaking at DevDays and as a bonus I got to do a Sod This pod cast by Oliver Sturm with Marianne van Wanrooij, Sandra de Ridder, Gaby Lieuw, Sara Ford and Danille Lopp. It was a lot of fun to do, but I must admit that I haven't listened to it yet, as I hate to hear myself ...(truncated)...

SPList.Views does not retrieve hidden views

(Indexed 2009-07-06):

Last week I created a list definition with a couple of hidden Views in it, which would only be used in list view webparts.The Views were defined like this: One of these webparts had to be added programmatically with only the BaseViewID (int) as a reference (101 in the above case).Now, my normal approach would be to retrieve all views from the list by using SPList.Views and loop trough these views untill I come across the BaseViewID I am looking for.HOWEVER... When looking in the SPViewCollection...(truncated)...

Managing Risks in Sharepoint 2 - User Permissions

(Indexed 2009-07-06):

INTRODUCTIONThis is a series:- Managing Risks in Sharepoint 1 - Aligning the EnvironmentsIn the previous article I mentioned about how quickly the content in our development/Test environments will be outdated. Sharepoint content database consists of:- Sites- User accounts added to Sharepoint- Site Settings- Pages- Documents and list items- Content types- Meta-data- Features activated- etcWithin a day there may be a lot of activities happening in your Sharepoint farm including users uploading new...(truncated)...

Sprecher an der ShareConnect 2009

(Indexed 2009-07-04):

Ich freue mich sehr, mitteilen zu knnen, dass ich an der vom 21. bis 25. September 2009 in Mainz stattfindenden ShareConnect 09 als Sprecher mit dabei sein werde .[Image]Im Moment ist leider noch die alte Beschreibung aktiv, meine Session wir aber folgenden Titel und Inhalt haben:Extreme SharePoint UI – Was ist mglich mit SharePoint, AJAX und Co.?Haben Sie schon einmal daran gedacht, Ihren Intranet-Benutzern eine Startseite la www.bbc.com zur Verfgung zu stellen? Unmglich? Dieser Vortrag...(truncated)...

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009

(Indexed 2009-07-04):

As most of you aware, Microsoft is conducting a contest to re-design their Conference Site. I wanted to participate on this contest and have designed the following Look&Feel Template. Please feel free to provide comments re.below. Would be appreciate your input.[Image][Image]

Backup Exec - MOSS 2007

(Indexed 2009-07-04):

Last week, I have been working with fixing the search issue. Actually, the crawler was failed to crawl the large team site which has heavy weight document libraries with lot of folder structures - Some other people were try to fix this issue by deleting the large document library, but no luck. So these guys were planning to restore them back, but unfortunately they could not find that huge document library in both site collection & site Recycle Bin(sounds weird)- Please take a look at Chris Blo...(truncated)...

Show videos (Flash, Windows Media etc.) in SharePoint - another approach using JQuery and Reusable Content

(Indexed 2009-07-04):

While the standard SharePoint RichText/HTML field doesn't allow the editor to add any custom code that shows objects such as for playing movies embedded in the content, there are many different approaches documented on the web how to achieve it by creating own webparts, using the Content Editor WebPart, adjusting the RichText-Editor, third party controls etc. I will add another approach that might be worth considering for some of you.The scenario was the following: Content editors should be ...(truncated)...

Blog-Umzug - neue Adresse

(Indexed 2009-07-03):

Ich habe meinen Blog umgezogen!Hier in diesem Blog werde ich keine weiteren Artikel mehr verffentlichen. Die Funktionen zum Kommentieren und Bewerten von Beitrgen habe ich deaktiviert. Mein Blog ist ab sofort ber diesen neuen Link erreichbar:http://sharepointcommunity.de/blogs/owirkus/ -------------------- My blog has been moved. Please use the new link to visit my blog! http://sharepointcommunity.de/blogs/owirkus/[Image]

[EGYSUG] Post June gathering materials

(Indexed 2009-07-02):

Good to back for the blog after long time due to a lot SharePoint projects and implmentations [Image]June gathering for Egypt SharePoint User Group was amazing with a couple of great speakers who captuered all the audeince attention, check the pictures[Image] [Image] You can find the session materials over her June gathering presentationsSee in the next event[Image]

SharePoint Server MVP

(Indexed 2009-07-02):

Technorati Tags: ECM , MOSS , WSS I found out yesterday I was awarded MVP for SharePoint Server. Its is great to be rewarded for something you love to do. You cannot keep what you cannot give away. Giving back to the community is an easy thing to do, especially in the MSDN forums. SharePoint is such a product that if you know how something works then you must share it with others, it makes SharePoint better. I work for KnowledgeLake http://www.knowledgelake.com and we offer a great ECM document ...(truncated)...

Last modified time stamp changes when applying SP2 for MOSS/WSS ?!

(Indexed 2009-07-01):

Ok...I need a little feedback from the community on this one, please. I applied service pack 2 and the April 2009 CU for MOSS and WSS last week. Today, I noticed that all of the content, farm-wide, is showing a last modified time stamp of 1 week ago, unless the file has been updated in the last week, in which case it does show the correct time. I've verified this is the case in my dev farm as well. For those of you who have applied Service Pack 2 and/or the April 2009 Cumulative Update, ca...(truncated)...

Global SharePoint Survey Win a Conference Pass to the SPC!

(Indexed 2009-07-01):

Nintex just released the Global SharePoint Survey that is aimed at understanding the adoption and usage of Microsoft Office SharePoint products and technologies worldwide. The survey is open to both business and IT professional users of SharePoint. Those who participate in the survey will be eligible to win a conference pass to the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas (value USD $1199). To participate in the Global SharePoint Survey simply visit www.sharepointsurvey.com The Global S...(truncated)...

export site fatal error a0e5a010-1329-49d4-9e09-f280cdbed37d for list template 10102 not installed

(Indexed 2009-07-01):

I was running into an issue when trying to run the stsadm export command on a site I wanted to move. The error I was getting was "FatalError: Feature 'a0e5a010-1329-49d4-9e09-f280cdbed37d' for list template '10102' is not installed in this farm. 10102 refers to the "List of user browser-enabled form templates on this site collection." The operation could not be completed." Some people get this because they don't have the InfoPath services feature installed. My issue wa...(truncated)...

Troubleshooting SSRS 2008 and SharePoint Integration

(Indexed 2009-07-01):

I recently implemented SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services in SharePoint Integration mode. Although I followed all the directions and walkthroughs, it took me two days to get it implemented. I was installing SSRS on an existing MOSS WFE, and though every indication showed a successful installation, it would not integrate. I finally did get it working, though. Here is what I did.While I was testing the broken SSRS implementation the symptoms included: No report would open or display.I could no...(truncated)...

Title, description and navigation Link in List Settings Throws a 'value does not fall within the expected range' Exception

(Indexed 2009-06-30):

Recently I migrated a site from Development to Testing and then to Production using the SharePoint Deployment Wizard ( http://www.codeplex.com/SPDeploymentWizard ) from CodePlex. For the most part everything migrated over smooth.I have a subsite that is for all the InfoPath Forms. All the InfoPath forms are displayed in a web browser using forms services. Each form has a workflow that is kicked off when a form is submitted. This all still worked. But when you click on the 'Title, desc...(truncated)...

Managing Risks in Sharepoint 1 - Aligning the Environments

(Indexed 2009-06-29):

INTRODUCTIONI just want to share with you my experience in managing Sharepoint environments (both server and custom code). Before, I came from a development background and purely think as a developer. As a developer, I used to think that as long as my code is bug-free and memory-leak-free then I'm safe.Now, I've got some experience in managing the servers, I can share with you the things that we have to be aware of more than just having a bug-free and memory-leak-free code. This article ...(truncated)...

MOSS Manual Navigation Links Are Static - DANGEROUS

(Indexed 2009-06-29):

INTRODUCTIONWe just completed a MOSS server rebuild project which we managed to align both Production and Test environments with exactly the same topology and configurations. We installed using the exactly the same user accounts, configurations and even the list of features and solutions. After we configured the farm, we then took Production's latest database backup and restore it in Test. Everything worked perfectly except one thing:The manual links in navigation menu items are not updated....(truncated)...

SharePoint Search Inputs and IE6

(Indexed 2009-06-26):

SO...you have users that STILL use IE6. There, there, I know. Let's get out our IE6 voodoo doll and start a'pinnin.You've got a fantastic non-boring search input. It puts the pop in wow. Until you check on your IE6 test site, and #$(*%)#@(*%^)(*!@$(). Nothing. Well, you can just add this bit to your master page somewhere in the head tag:Where "#search" is the id of your search. Of course, would be .search if you used a class. You get the idea! Basically, if someone out there in your...(truncated)...

SharePoint 2007 SP2 - Update

(Indexed 2009-06-26):

The SharePoint 2007 SP2 bugfix is ready: The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation.  If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2. More information and downloading can be found HERE . Originally posted at my new blog...(truncated)...

How to use SharePoint Rich-Text Editor in Webparts and Controls

(Indexed 2009-06-24):

Did you ever wanted to provide your users the ability to enter RichText/HTML in your input controls within a WebPart or Server Control? This post will show you (conceptionally) how this can be achieved using the standard SharePoint RTE.Scenario: We've got a textarea that should allow users to enter RichtText/HTML, for instance: please note that "MultiLine" is mandatory, because we need a to be rendered.If we want to make this control to show the formatted RichText/HTML and provide a toolbar...(truncated)...

SharePoint and FIPS Compliance

(Indexed 2009-06-24):

I while back (about 18 months ago I think) my team ran into an issue while working on a system for the Department of Defense. The issue occurs when the "System cryptography: Use FIPS compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing and signing" security setting is enabled through Group Policy or Local Security Policy on a WSS or MOSS server. After much research and gnashing of teeth, we finally traced the issue back to the fact that the .NET Framework uses AES encryption as the default. Unfortunatel...(truncated)...

Finally - www.1stquad.com is online!

(Indexed 2009-06-22):

Short one - nothing to do with Sharepoint, but Wheeeeew!... Finally http://www.1stquad.com has been released in it's first version... Don't expect anything fancy for the moment, we are just happy that we could piece together some texts that we like and will keep on enhancing the site bit by bit over the time. As for now, there is only a german version, as the german speaking area will remain our focus. But i'm positive we will come up with a multi-language version of the website some...(truncated)...

But Im a business why should I attend the Learning Gateway Conference?

(Indexed 2009-06-22):

The Learning Gateway Conference is focused mainly for education but there are at least 10 reasons why you, as IT Pro’s should attend which would benefit your environment.[Image]Simple really – find out about great innovative technologies being used in education Session 1 – Maintaining your SharePoint Steve Smith will talk about best practices for your SharePoint environments, SQL, patching etc. These are the best practices for education, health and any small or medium sized Sh...(truncated)...

Small SPQuery tip (How to get rid of "Cannot complete this action" error)

(Indexed 2009-06-20):

You try to run an SPQuery and get a "Cannot complete this action" error. I have seen users who think it's a permissions issue and they try to use elevatedprivileges. Remember, if you get this error when running an SPQuery object,the first thing you should look for is the query itself. Because of a small semantical mistake the query will not run and SharePoint will throw this error. These mistakes are often difficult to locate with eye. I'd suggest use a tool, such as U2U CAML builder...(...(truncated)...

A Peek Under the Hood, and More...

(Indexed 2009-06-19):

Hi guys! For those of you who still have this site on your feeds, here's the latest stuff that I've written:A Peek Under the Hood - What Makes The Sanity Point run?I talk about selecting and setting up a dedicated server. (Which, by the way, is where you will find all of my latest postings...)What a Week! - A TechEd Wrap-upWhat was hot at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles.Discovering the Setup User Account - A SharePoint "Whodunnit?"Read this fictionalized tale of a Dark and Stormy Night, and l...(truncated)...

Large items in SharePoint recycle bin fixed ... er ... worked around

(Indexed 2009-06-18):

I've written about it, and written about it, and written about it some more. A very large (70gb) object in the SharePoint recycle bin resembles a steel wool hairball -- you know it's there, it hurts like crazy, and you just can't get rid of it. Microsoft gave me two choices...I could wait for the WSS/MOSS Service Pack(s) 2, because they're supposed to fix the problem. Well, I tried to install them (on a test system, natch) but WSS SP2 ran for days (no kidding) before I finally ga...(truncated)...

How to add Target Audiences site column to your list and complete list of IDs and Display Names of SharePoint Site Columns

(Indexed 2009-06-18):

Sometimes I struggle with the "easiest" things and end up even fighting through all the various blog posts - sooooo time consuming [:'(]. In short: If you want to use a standard "Target Audiences" column in your SharePoint list, simply add it by ID:newList.Fields.Add(TargetWeb.AvailableFields[new Guid("61cbb965-1e04-4273-b658-eedaa662f48d")])And since it took me a "foreach"-loop and Debug-statements to find the site columns and their ID's, here is a complete list of what I've got on ...(truncated)...

My Experience as a Woman in Technology

(Indexed 2009-06-17):

This post is basically a reaction to http://www.mosslover.com/archive/2009/06/17/my-experience-as...(truncated)... I completely agree with the statements made in this post, but the comment got so long that I decided to write a post about it myself. Ok, so I guess the SharePoint community is a very lively thing where people feel the need to separate themselves into sub groups and very actively promote these groups. I don't really want to get involved in discussions like that. I just like my ...(truncated)...

User Profiles and User Information List Synchronization

(Indexed 2009-06-17):

Lately I have been getting a lot of questions about where user data is stored and how it is synchronized within SharePoint 2007. This inspired me to write this blog post about User Profiles and the User Information List or UserInfo table. I will also do a future post on what happens when a user profile is deleted from MOSS 2007. User ProfilesThe user profile store in MOSS 2007 contains information about users. User profiles can be created by importing users from a user account directory, or th...(truncated)...

Adding SharePoint Search plug-in for Firefox

(Indexed 2009-06-16):

If you use Firefox search plugin and want to add your SharePoint intranet as part of the Firefox Search drop down, follow the steps below First the screen shots of what we trying to accomplish [Image][Image] [Image] .[Image] Read full article[Image]

I got tired of attaching debugger to w3wp.exe. And you?

(Indexed 2009-06-12):

As a SharePoint developer, I spend most of my days developing and testing web parts, custom pages, fields and event receivers. Part of this activity is debugging, where one should attach the debugger to the w3wp.exe process instance that belongs to the application pool of the web site we developing on.If you have done that yet, you know it is not an exciting task to select the correct process if you have dozens of instances. You can do that by trial and error, and checking if the red lights next...(truncated)...

Nintex outgoing email settings on IIS 7.0

(Indexed 2009-06-12):

As you've probably noticed by now I'm working with Nintex at the moment. Yesterday I was trying to create a workflow that had to send a notification to a user. I added my smtp server and a from address to the Nintex outgoing email settings. Be aware that you have to set the Nintex outgoing email settings separately from the outgoing email settings for the rest of your farm. This is because Nintex uses System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send where as SharePoint itself uses SPUtility.SendEmail...(truncated)...

Access Denied when trying to get SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) Crawl to work

(Indexed 2009-06-12):

Problem:Well, another problem that consumed several days of my life. I just completed a migration of MOSS 2007 to new servers. The old servers were Windows Server 2003/SQL Server 2005/MOSS 2007. The new servers are Windows Server 2008/SQL Server 2008/MOSS 2007. Got everything working except the search. When searching for anything, I got no results. I looked in the crawl logs (Central Admin/SharedServices1/Search Settings/Crawl Logs/) and found the following error:Access is denied. Verify t...(truncated)...

Hosted SharePoint with Microsoft Online Services - worth to go for?

(Indexed 2009-06-12):

In these days we had to decide where to have our SharePoint collaboration site(s) hosted. As for a very small business, we use mainly the document libraries, calendar, tasks etc. so mainly the standard WSS features. There are many hosters offering dedicated or non dedicated hosted SharePoint-sites, the prices are mainly the same across the providers.Of course we've also tried out the new SharePoint hosting service from Microsoft Online Services, actually the whole Business Productivity Onlin...(truncated)...

Columns missing when using the Lists.GetListItems SharePoint webservice

(Indexed 2009-06-10):

More people complained about that the result of the Lists.GetListItems method call does not contain the empty fields, so the resulting XML cannot be load into a DataSet:http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharep...(truncated)... dirty workaround for that issue may be to adding the missing attributes to the XML from code before trying to load into the DataSet.In the following code I illustrate this approach. In this code I first get the columns of the default view of the list using the ...(truncated)...

A great web part for SharePoint End Users

(Indexed 2009-06-10):

If you ever taught end users on how to use SharePoint you probably noticed they have a problem using all these nice SharePoint menus. I love the SharePoint UI very much, but I am a geek and SharePoint is made by geeks... Average SharePoint user are not geek they are Information workers, and as Mark says: Information Workers don’t care how it all works, they want to know why they should change their existing work habits to accommodate this new way to store their files. That said, you probab...(truncated)...

Ensuring Infopath forms to open in Forms Services

(Indexed 2009-06-10):

You might have ran into the following issue; youve deployed your InfoPath forms to Forms Services, and (of course) it seems to works like a charm. It seems? Yes, there some exceptions in which case Forms Services does not do what you expect it to do, for example: - Opening a form from the Search results - Opening a form from a link (in an email, spreadsheet export, Content Query Webpart or anywhere else) In these cases youll notice that the form will try to open in the Infopath client app...(truncated)...

Troubleshooting Filtered Views

(Indexed 2009-06-09):

I was helping a co-worker this week with a problem he was having with some views he had created. For some reason, whenever he chose to filter by any column, the view would return zero results. Maybe some of you have seen this before, but I hadn't, so I was temporarily off into the weeds. The document library was email-enabled, so I thought that maybe the email-enabled part was the culprit, or possibly the fact that when my co-worker created the document library, he chose to give it no def...(truncated)...

TechNet Virtual Conference 19th June

(Indexed 2009-06-08):

With in the next 2 weeks Microsoft are hosting a online conference.[Image] I’ve personally not attended a online conference yet but I guess we all have to start somewhere.There’s a good agenda for the day which includes Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2 and OCS 2007 R2. Viral who is someone I have got to know quite well at Microsoft is talking about SharePoint while Emma Healey is also talking about Virtualisation.If you are available for the day or maybe it’s something to setup in t...(truncated)...

Creating top-level (welcome page) redirects in SharePoint sites

(Indexed 2009-06-08):

Scenario: You have several SharePoint web-applications (only only site collections). Whenever a user opens one of those using just an entry-URL (such as http://intranet) you want to redirect him/her to another site collection (not necessarely in the same web-application - for example to http://intranet/my .This can be achieved in various was:Create a HttpHandlerIf using the Publishing Feature: Create a page derived from "Redirect Page"...All of the above have some disadvantages: Either you have ...(truncated)...

SharePoint Server Fault

(Indexed 2009-06-05):

Back in summer of 2008. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood launched stackoverflow.com, a Q&A community site for programmers. In just few months it became on of the most authoritative sources for programming questions. These guys made a perfect site which is so much better than thos crapy MSDN/Technet forums and other Q&A sites over the web. Great job guys!!!Few weeks ago the second site called serverfault.com launched. It is a community site for IT professionals. Read more...[Image] [Image]

Tipps & Tricks zum Data View WebPart

(Indexed 2009-06-05):

Laura Rogers hat in ihrem Blog einen sehr interessanten und ausfhrlichen Artikel zum Data View WebPart geschrieben. Fr alle, die fters mal den SharePoint Designer zur Hand nehmen und ein Data View WebPart konfigurieren, drfte ihr Artikel interessant sein.Ich jedenfalls habe ihren Artikel zu meiner Liste interessanter SharePoint-Links hinzugefgt!Hier der Link:http://spinsiders.com/laurar/tag/data-view/ [Image][Image]

90 days 1stQuad solutions - a short recap on the birth of a new company

(Indexed 2009-06-04):

Wow, already 90 days since leaving the Microsoft Consulting Services and as a small summary: Probably the happiest time in my working life for quite long. Nothing against MCS at all, don't get that from the negative side - i had a great time there too and Microsoft as an employer is for sure in the top ranks, but hey, there's nothing for me that compares to building up an own company.So how is it to start a company these days? Maybe 1stQuad ist not the best example to answer these questi...(truncated)...

Dirty secrets of Data View Web Part revealed

(Indexed 2009-06-04):

In last few weeks Laura Rogers has been posting interesting articles about Data View Web Part (DVWP). Check them out here.I know a great deal about Data View Web Part and there are numerous solutions I posted here which were created with it (Blog archive | SharePoint Lists and Libraries, Outlook Style | KPIs), however Laura taught me something new. Learn more...[Image]

Downloading Content From SharePoint (Let me count the ways)

(Indexed 2009-06-03):

Technorati Tags: WSS , MOSS , ECM , Integration This is a follow up post to the “Uploading Content To SharePoint”. In that post I evaluated the performance and complexity of uploading content to SharePoint with three different methods. In this post I will be doing comparisons for downloading content from SharePoint. Once again there are many ways to get content from SharePoint. When I say content I am focusing on files and metadata. There is an additional way to get a list item using...(truncated)...

Changing the save to My SharePoint Sites experience?

(Indexed 2009-06-03):

If you’re saving a document directly from an Office application to SharePoint, you will get the nice option to save it to “My SharePoint Sites”. Apart from some confusion on how these links are created and especially when they are synchronized with the client there are some other behaviors that keep my client from using them. [Image][Image]The first behavior is the error message that is shown when you are saving a document which has required fields. The user gets prompted with ...(truncated)...

Bob Fox, Spence Harbar and a SharePint at the SDN Event on June 26th

(Indexed 2009-06-02):

On June 26th the next SDN Event will be held in Houten in the Netherlands. Now all SDN Events are great, but for the IW track this one will be extra special. We've got two MVPs speaking, Bob Fox and Spencer Harbar and on top of that our own Robin Meure will be presenting as well. The SDN Event is free for members of SDN and only 95 euros for non-members. Lunch is taken care of by SDN. Right after the regular SDN Event you can have a drink and some fun with the Bob and Spence and the Dutch S...(truncated)...

Client-Integration mit FBA

(Indexed 2009-06-02):

Fabian Moritz hat in seinem Blog einen sehr interessanten Artikel ber FBA verlinkt.SharePoint 2007 bietet eine sogenannte forms based authentication. Vereinfacht ausgedrckt handelt es sich dabei um ein lokales Anmeldeverfahren, welches nicht auf den bekannten Standards basiert. Man kann FBA zum Beispiel gut fr kleinere, abgeschlossene SharePoint-Installationen verwenden, bei denen sich nur eine berschaubare Anwendergruppe anmelden knnen soll. Aber auch fr Internet-Auftritte mit gesperrten Kunden...(truncated)...

A Teamsite "Get it Right" Primer

(Indexed 2009-06-02):

If you've been given designer access to a team site and want to begin to use it to support your team's collaboration efforts, ask yourself these questions:What are my team's inputs? Identify them as content types and define their ownership and lifecycle. What does my team do with those inputs? Pay particular attention to the need to interact, "hand-off" or track.What are my team's outputs? Define their ownership and lifecycle from creation to archive.Before you answer these ques...(truncated)...

Tip: Don't use "&" in instance.xml when creating a WSP

(Indexed 2009-06-01):

Here is a small tip for you. If you get a parsing error when compiling a WSP for one of your SharePoint lists and the list has data that uses "&", replace it with "&". to get rid of the compile error. For example: Ben & Jerry This will not compile. Use the following: Ben & Jerry...(read more)[Image]

Custom Content and Structure Report in Sharepoint 2007

(Indexed 2009-05-29):

Sharepoint 2007 has a nice set of reports if you have the publishing features. You can see these reports using Site Actions>>View Reports. There are about 7 default reports in all. I needed to create a custom report for displaying "Expired documents" in our intranet publishing portal and found it to be quite easy to add this new report.Here are the steps I took to create the new reports. Click on Site Actions >> View All Site ContentClick on "Content And Structure Reports" list to open up the l...(truncated)...

My Experience with MOSS 2007 on our intranet

(Indexed 2009-05-28):

We rolled out a company wide intranet solution on MOSS 2007 this week. We used the publishing portal template. Its been 3 days and our launch it has been surprisingly very smooth. Our IT ServiceDesk received very few calls and most were related to now sharepoint issues or user errors.I was a bit worried about 700 + people hitting the web front end server in one day and causing the server to slow down. So far, the performance has been almost the same as when we were testing (about 20 people). I r...(truncated)...

Who has what checked out?

(Indexed 2009-05-28):

It happens everywhere, I suppose. It's close to noon and we are all wondering if we oughtn't get some work done this morning, when somebody asks "Whatever happened to Jonesy?" To be honest for once, I hadn't noticed, and the few who had assume he hasn't returned yet from his annual vacation at Snakentick State Park. Nobody wants to wake the Boss, and the security guys just shift their eyes back and forth like Susanna Hoffs in a long loo queue, so finally someone else grabs the sh...(truncated)...

Disaster Recovery across Farm using Log Shipping

(Indexed 2009-05-28):

TechNet has posted an excellent guidence regarding Disaster Recovery across sharepoint farms using SQL Server Log Shipping with additional details for SP2 and some excellent coverage of pre-requisites, fundamental planning considerations and performance and it clearly describes how to provide a disaster recovery site that provides current search results when a failover occurs by using this configuration.Log shipping consists of three jobs. Each job performs one of the following operations:Backs ...(truncated)...

SPLimitedWebPartManager.ImportWebPart - How Microsoft does it

(Indexed 2009-05-27):

As you can see from my previous post, I used to load WebParts into my instance of SPLimitedWebPartmanager through the "ImportWebPart"-method like this:string fileName = string.Format("{0}/{1}", selectedWebPartListItem.Web.Url, selectedWebPartListItem.File.Url);XmlUrlResolver xmlResolver = new XmlUrlResolver();xmlResolver.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(fileName);reader.XmlResolver = xmlResolver;string errorMsg;System.Web.UI.WebControls.We...(truncated)...

EduGeek Conference 28th May

(Indexed 2009-05-27):

Tomorrow Im speaking at the Edugeek Conference in the UK. Ive put together a new presentation called SharePoint Governance for Education and hope this can be a great start to anyone who is looking at implementing SharePoint at their school. Maybe by listening to my presentation you will find that you have missed something in your environment and you can go back and implement something new which will drive your user adoption further. Ill post my slides onto slideshare after the conference so yo...(truncated)...

Fehler beim Crawling von Content Sources

(Indexed 2009-05-27):

Wenn es beim Crawling von Content Sources in SharePoint zu der Fehlermeldung Access denied bzw. zu Eventlog-Eintrgen mit der Event ID 2436 kommt, kann es an dem Fehler liegen, der im folgenden KB-Artikel beschrieben ist. Hier die Fehlerbeschreibung: Crawling of content in SharePoint fails for sites that use host headers. Sites that use the NETBIOS name of the server are crawled successfully Eine Lsung bietet Microsoft ber KB971382 bzw. diesen Link an. [Image][Image]

Spreading Wings and Stuff Like That

(Indexed 2009-05-26):

Well, it's been a good ride here at SharePoint Blogs... But the time has come to take flight and host my own blog.The purpose for this blog has always been to give back to the community that has propelled my career and helped me put food on the table for my wife and two boys. SharePoint is ON FIRE and the admin/developer/blogosphere/searchipedia community is very strong and growing stronger by the day. So I've always wanted my blog to contribute to that in some small part.I decided to...(truncated)...

FASTforward Summit 2009 in Frankfurt am Main

(Indexed 2009-05-26):

Heute bin ich in Frankfurt auf der FASTforward Summit 2009. Neben etwas Standdienst (wir sind FAST-Partner) freue ich mich schon auf interessante Vortrge zum Thema "FAST" und auf Gesprche mit Besuchern, die -wie ich- in der Integration von FAST in SharePoint eines der groen Themen fr die Zukunft von Portalen sehen. Nachtrag: so - die ersten Partnervortrge sind beendet undich bin ehrlich gesagt positiv berrascht, wie viele Besucher sich fr das Thema "Wie kann ich FAST mit ShraePoint verbinden" in...(truncated)...

Manage WebParts of Page Layouts through a feature: Resolving the "AllUsersWebPart"-pain - Part 2

(Indexed 2009-05-25):

Before we start, please make sure that you've read and prepared everything posted in Part 1.OK, so now - finally - to the code in the file "PageLayoutsWebPartConfiguratorFeatureReceiver.cs". I am using a custom logger, so I've commented out all logging calls - maybe you can adjust them to your logging-mecanism or simply delete them.Let's start with the feature receiver and the obligatory overrides from which we only need "FeatureActivated":using System;using System.Collections.Generi...(truncated)...

Manage WebParts of Page Layouts through a feature: Resolving the "AllUsersWebPart"-pain - Part 1

(Indexed 2009-05-25):

Situation: I'm deploying my SharePoint Publishing page layouts nicely through a feature - and I want to have WebParts for all users in the WebPartZones of my page layouts. Expected behaviour: When I create a new publishing page from my page layout, it will add the WebParts automatically (and pre-configured!) into the WebPartZones of my page. Should be an easy one, no? Have a look here, here, here and also here. I've spent several hours trying to figure out how I must prepare my WebPart ...(truncated)...

CompleteSharepoint.NET v2.0 - Content Management System Built on Top of WSS 3.0 - Documentation

(Indexed 2009-05-23):

INTRODUCTIONHi everyone,I've just recently released CompleteSharepoint.NET v2.0, please see http://www.completesharepoint.net for more details. I've also written a blog article about it http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tommysegoro/archive/2009/05/1...(truncated)... got some queries from some people that have tried to install it and they have problems with it. I've tried to install it on Microsoft's WSS VPC and it actually worked totally fine! So I'm sure there may have been som...(truncated)...

Inadequate Resources to Support the Implementation Part 5: My Proposed Solution

(Indexed 2009-05-22):

In Part 1 of my series titled Inadequate Resources to Support the Implementation, I spoke about the large amount of risk that companies are taking on due to the ease of entry into the SharePoint Administrator’s role. In Parts 2 and 3, I explained how the SharePoint Administrator’s role was never clearly defined and that most of us lack a true identity. In Part 4 of this series, I examined the expectations from the business perspective, and in Part 5, I’ll share my solution on...(truncated)...

Bug found on SharePoint Service Pack 2, re-enter the Product ID number to fix it

(Indexed 2009-05-22):

Yesterday the SharePoint Team blog posted an announcement on a bug they recently found. It's not that major but it's still something you need to take care of. Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President, SharePoint says thatThe Bug:"During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed"Fix for the Bug:They say that they will post a new KB article (Currently not ac...(truncated)...

STSADM Technical Reference Chart

(Indexed 2009-05-22):

Wer kennt es nicht – das Schweizer Offiziersmesser fr SharePoint-Admins und –Entwickler.Bei Microsoft habe ich ein groes Poster mit alle STSADM-Kommandos gefunden. Ideal, um es sich neben den Schreibtisch zu hngen.Fr alle, die einen richtig groen Drucker zur Verfgung haben, hier der Link:http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/Documents/ST...(truncated)... [Image] [Image][Image]

Make sure you install SP3 on SQL 2005 if you are using SharePoint Integrated Mode

(Indexed 2009-05-22):

If you haven't already you should definitly consider installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3, because it provides various updates including updates to how items are fetched using the SharePoint object model. It seems to bring 30 to 50% less latency after the SP3 is installed. Here is the link to the document released by Microsoft that lists all of the new features and improvements that are included in SQL Server 2005 SP3 - What's New document. Below is the bit from the docu...(truncated)...

Wichtiger Hinweis fr die Installation des SharePoint Server SP2

(Indexed 2009-05-22):

Folgender wichtige Hinweis wurde im Blog des Sharepoint Teams bei Microsoft von Jeff Teper (Corporate Vice President) verffentlicht: Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2We take product quality seriously and make every effort to avoid and resolve issues that adversely impact our customers. Unfortunately, we have recently discovered a bug with Service Pack 2 (SP2) that affects all customers that have deployed it for SharePoint Server 2007. During the installation of SP2, a product ...(truncated)...

Collaboration and Enterprise Content Management - Solutions Blueprint

(Indexed 2009-05-21):

Most of the IT Managers would like to have a comprehensive view of how ECM and Collaboration work within their IT environment. Also, they are looking for a blueprint where they can easily see the relative relationships of the critical solutions patterns for ECM and Collaboration and how they fit together. Also, they would like to learn the stages of ECM and Collaboration adoption as well as how a platform aligned solution contributes to the success of their infrastructure.[Image]Here is a Soluti...(truncated)...

Silverlight XAP File Out of Date When Built with Expression Blend

(Indexed 2009-05-21):

  The latest project I am working on involves some rather tight integration between Silverlight and SharePoint so Im getting my feet wet with these tools in the SharePoint-o-Sphere. I recently ran into an issue where the .XAP file that is needed for Silverlight would not update properly whenever I built the solution within Expression Blend.  If I switched over to Visual Studio, then it would work perfectly.  A quick search showed no conclusive fix for this issue so I came up wit...(truncated)...

How to delete PageLayouts and MasterPages

(Indexed 2009-05-21):

This is the first post on (hopefully) a series of posts on how to work with page layouts, masterpages and the style library - the utlimate nightmare of every deployment manager when it comes to feature-based deployment of SharePoint solutions. I will start with posting something, that Katrien de Graeve posted already on 20th of January 2007, but it is one big piece of important information when trying to manage your two most important libraries in a WCM scenario:How do I overcome the "This item ...(truncated)...

Potentielle Sicherheitslcke in SharePoint-Installationen

(Indexed 2009-05-20):

Ein wichtiger Punkt bei SharePoint-Installationen, die von auen (also ber das Internet) zugreifbar sind, ist das Thema Sicherheit. Kaum etwas ist fr Firmen rgerlicher, als wenn der schne neue Internetauftritt, der mit SharePoint erstellt wurde, Sicherheitslcken ausweist, die von Hackern ausgenutzt werden. Deswegen ist es gerade bei solchen Installationen sehr wichtig, alle Sicherheitslcken abzudichten.ber eine dieser Lcken, die gern bersehen wird, mchte ich hier berichten.Gehen wir einmal davon ...(truncated)...

Uploading Content Into SharePoint (Let me count the ways)

(Indexed 2009-05-19):

Many developers new to SharePoint want to know how to get content into SharePoint from another application. This application is usually a remote application either running in a asp.net application or a desktop application. The developers may be familiar with the SharePoint object model and how to use it to put content into SharePoint. However, when it comes to doing this remotely there seems to be a lot of confusion. This confusion is brought on by the fact that there are numerous out of the box...(truncated)...

Windows Server 2008/MOSS 2007/SQL Server 2008

(Indexed 2009-05-19):

Problem:I have two servers (WebServer and DatabaseServer). Both are Windows Server 2008. I have MOSS 2007 installed on WebServer and SQLServer 2008 installed on DatabaseServer. I could not get MOSS to use a content database from the DatabaseServer.Solution:It turns out that I had to do several things. First, I had to go into SQL Server Configuration Manager and enable Named Pips. TCP/IP was enabled already, but I believe that both have to be enabled to get things to work.Second, I had to go...(truncated)...

Hohe CPU-Last in Virtueller Maschine

(Indexed 2009-05-19):

Nachdem es mir nun schon zum wiederholten Male passiert ist denke ich, man knnte mal eine kurze Blog-Notiz darber schreiben. Momentan bin ich wieder etwas strker in SharePoint-Entwicklungen involviert und kann endlich mal wieder ein paar WebParts programmieren. Dabei ist es mir nun schon fter passiert, dass pltzlich die CPU-Last hochgegangen ist. Auslser dafr war jedes Mal der Task DW20.EXE.Nach ein wenig Recherche im Internet habe ich Informationen zu diesem Task und eine Mglichkeit gefunden, d...(truncated)...

Unable to delete files, "transaction log for database 'MOSS_Config' is full" and other strangeness...

(Indexed 2009-05-19):

Today I have a world of SharePoint issues to deal with - all on one server. First off, the client alerted me to a strange problem - she was unable to delete images in any image library. So, logging in with the system account I tested:- Marking the image in the library and selecting delete from the actions menu - nothing happened, the image remained in the library, no error message was shown. - Opening the library in the explorer view and trying to delete from there - returns "U...(truncated)...

CompleteSharepoint.NET v2.0 - Content Management System CMS Built on top of WSS 3.0

(Indexed 2009-05-18):

INTRODUCTIONHi everyone, I thought I would love to share with you my latest development. I've ever written CompleteSharepoint 1.0 that was released months ago. It's basically a CMS built on top of WSS. It's meant to be an alternative to MOSS. You will not want to spend $50K on a simple information website with MOSS, will you? Well, I won't.Anyway, I've released version 1.0 which has a lot of defects of course. I've now re-written the code to be a lot better and I've j...(truncated)...

Ahh... a man after my own heart :)

(Indexed 2009-05-18):

Loving this blog A Microsoft SharePoint / Information Architecture / Web Usability blog by Sadalit Van Buren - it reminds me how much I like to find SharePoint stuff to complain about :) [Image]

Egypt SharePoint Users Group June meeting (Michael Noel & Ayman El hattab)

(Indexed 2009-05-17):

Egypt SharePoint Users Group June MeetingNote: due to limited seats you have to register and present the registration mail at the eventfor more details and registration click here http://egysugjune.eventbrite.com/the event will be on Sunday 14/6/2009 from 6:30 PM till 9:30 PM @ ITWorx Egypt Roof Cafeteria6:30PM7:45 PM start 6:45 PM7:45 PMBuilding the Perfect SharePoint Farm: A Walkthrough of Best Practices from the Field 7:45 PM8:00 PM Break8:00 PM9:00 PM Deep Dive Into SharePoint Content Types...(truncated)...

Power of CMIS - Interoperable Content Management

(Indexed 2009-05-17):

As you may aware, CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) uses web services to provide greater interoperability across multiple Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories. Here is a small introduction about CMIS who doesn't aware of it: CMIS is a standards proposal consisting of a set of Web services for sharing information among disparate content repositories that seeks to ensure i...(truncated)...

How-To: Create a SharePoint list programmatically

(Indexed 2009-05-15):

This is not rocket-science and probably back in beginning of 2007 (or 2003? [Image]) would have last raised someone from her/his seat. But it took me quite some time to find a fully working example of how to create a SharePoint SPList programmatically, add some fields of different types and add those to the default view. Sounds pretty simple, but has some traps in it. So here goes my final (simplified) code, take from it what you can use:private void CreateEmailTemplatesList(SPWeb web){ Guid ...(truncated)...

How-To: Overcome missing Exists() function on SharePoint objects like SiteGroups, RoleDefinitions, Lists etc.

(Indexed 2009-05-15):

Especially when I'm wiriting Feature Receivers, I need to know if a certain SharePoint objects is present or not. A .Exists() method would be great on all the nice collections we are given back from SPRoleDefinition, SPGroup, SPList and so on. This posts will show you how to overcome this in a convenient way. No rocket sience here, only collection information from various posts and putting them together.The shortest way to implement an .Exists() function is by using LINQ Extensions:SPGroup.E...(truncated)...

IE8 Security Changes

(Indexed 2009-05-14):

I have just discovered that, unlike IE7, in IE8 when you open a new browser it shares its authentication information with other opened instances.  This is VERY bad for anyone trying to sign in as different users at the same time (e.g. using SharePoints Sign in as Different User option) in different browser windows for testing purposes. This means, for example, if you sign in as SharePoint Administrator in a browser session, then open up a new IE8 window using the normal quick launch icon a...(truncated)...

Web part error - cannot deserialize the web part

(Indexed 2009-05-14):

Yesterday my production server started displaying the following error message across all sites and sub-sites:ErrorWeb Part Error: One of the properties of the Web Part has an incorrect format. Windows SharePoint Services cannot deserialize the Web Part. Check the format of the properties and try again.Looking in the event viewer I see a nice little message informing me that I am out of disk space on my server.Source: Windows SharePoint ServicesCategory: Web PartsEvent ID: 6635Description:There i...(truncated)...

Figuring out a alternative to Cross-Site Lookups

(Indexed 2009-05-14):

In my Twitter feed I posted some tweets on building a workaround to create cross-site lookups. I’ve got some replies of people -thanks!- mentioning alternatives like the one of Tony Bierman (in the Netherlands that would be a name to be proud of!), found on his blog: http://tonybierman.blogspot.com/2008/07/free-custom-cross-si...(truncated)... this is a valid approach for sure, but in my opinion it has one flaw; it uses a custom field type. I’ve had some bad experiences using custom ...(truncated)...

Sharepoint IIS Error - You are not authorized to view this page

(Indexed 2009-05-14):

INTRODUCTIONI can access my Sharepoint site from remote machine's browser but not from the Sharepoint machine that hosts that site. I keep getting authentication box whenever I tried to access the Sharepoint site and its sub-sites/sub-folders/pages.The fix is actually to disable security check on loopback in registry.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 Hope this helps,Tommy[Image]

IE7 / IE8 Security Changes Shared Authentication (Solution Included)

(Indexed 2009-05-14):

[Solution below] I have just discovered that, unlike IE7, in IE8 (and IE7 with the latest updates, I believe thanks to Peter England for the comment) when you open a new browser it shares its authentication information with other opened instances.  This is VERY bad for anyone trying to sign in as different users at the same time (e.g. using SharePoints Sign in as Different User option) in different browser windows for testing purposes. This means, for example, if you sign in as SharePoin...(truncated)...

Add Alerts to All Sites

(Indexed 2009-05-13):

I recently had a request from a client that would allow them to automatically display a Notification on all Sites and Pages. This was easy enough to do because I was already stapling a custom page layout to the publishing infrastructure along with a custom Master Page and CSS. The Master Page was altered to include a pointer to a hidealert.css file residing in a document library I had created on the root site. The Page Layout was then altered to include an IFrame that loaded an HTML file called ...(truncated)...

Code Console Web Part

(Indexed 2009-05-13):

Interesting project by Einar Otto Stangvik, Basically you can execute server side code using webpart directly using browser with SharePoint. I should say I haven't tested it out but I can think of couple of ways it can be useful. Click here for original blog posthttp://einaros.blogspot.com/2009/05/codeconsole-web-part...(truncated)... Read full article[Image]

STSADM Commands Cheat sheets/Poster

(Indexed 2009-05-12):

I found a list of STSADM commands for MOSS and WSS on Microsoft site. These are large images and can be printed as poster for your admin nerdiness right next your “Now slower with more bugs” sticker WSS: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/Documents/STSADM%...(truncated)... And below for MOSS Read full article[Image]

SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 online info

(Indexed 2009-05-12):

Microsoft released some information about SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010, this is conslidated list with information released till nowAnnouncing SharePoint Server 2010 Preliminary System RequirementsOffice 2010 the movieMicrosoft Office 2010 IT BlogNext Wave of Microsoft Office Products Will Redefine How People WorkVisual Studio 2010 SharePoint toolshttp://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/20...(truncated)... 2010[Image]

The impact of browser speed on your SharePoint app

(Indexed 2009-05-12):

To me the browser discussion has always been on standards, some additional buttons and open-source ideals. Rendering speed has never been an issue. The other way around, the browser had never been a factor in the performance of my applications. I tested load times of a certain page or application in a single browser, no more than that. A year ago this changed for the first time when it appeared that IE7 was dramatically faster in displaying InfoPath forms than IE6 (http://www.sharepointblogs....(truncated)...

When to consider FAST ESP over MOSS Enterprise Search

(Indexed 2009-05-11):

FAST ESP core platform has been designed to allow for modification and customization by content owners and rapid integration with external data sources. At a high-level, FAST ESP does following tasks:Retrieves or accepts content from different content sourcesTransforms all content into an internal document representationAnalyzes and processes these documents to allow for enhanced relevancyIndexes the documents...(truncated)...

Developing SharePoint Web Parts with VS 2010 CTP

(Indexed 2009-05-11):

This posting is available at the new blog location: http://dougortiz.blogspot.com/2009/03/developing-sharepoint-...(truncated)... more)[Image]

Tip sobre el uso del metodo Visible de un Web Part

(Indexed 2009-05-11):

Disponible en la nueva direccion en: http://dougortiz.blogspot.com/2009/03/tip-sobre-el-uso-del-m...(truncated)... more)[Image]

ImageButton: Server-side click-event not fired when in UpdatePanel / ICallBackEventHandler context

(Indexed 2009-05-10):

Now this one took really a lot of my spare time and almost broke my head - so I hope my post will prevent you from going through the same... I still have no clue why and what but if you happen to experience that your ImageButton won't fire the client-side click event, please read this and maybe it helps. This applies also to scenarios where you are using the standard calendar or Grid-controls as they are using internally ImageButtons.Let's explain the scenario little bit more: I'm ta...(truncated)...

Thursday's DIWUG meeting

(Indexed 2009-05-09):

Last Thursday we held another DIWUG meeting. This one was a special one! We had an all-time high number of visitors. 99 people registered and in the end 85 actually attended the evening event that was held at our own Macaw office at Schiphol-Rijk. It was just able to hold all 85 attendees. Luckily food and drinks were well taken care of :-). As usual there were two presentations:A SharePoint User eXperience by Sandra de Ridder from Sparked (slides)Functioneel ontwerpen voor MOSS by Maurice de...(truncated)...

Customizing the ContentQueryWebPart: Custom XSL Files, Subclassing, Passing Parameters and more...

(Indexed 2009-05-08):

This is the second part (first part goes here) of my findings when working with the ContentQuery (or Content-by-Query) WebPart of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and I would like to summarize what I have found on the web as well as some own findings (which I'm sure were posted by my fellow sharepoint colleagues already [Image]) I hope it helps some of you to have everything at hand when it is needed. As a very good start i would recomment MSDN, the always very helpful Heather Solomon...(truncated)...

Interesting SharePoint Public site case study

(Indexed 2009-05-07):

I have just passed through a interesting blog talking about external website case study using MOSS 2007SharePoint website case study: Alfa LavalWhat attracted is the following numbers:Publicwebsite (www.alfalaval.com)3000pages25languages60country sitesPre-study:1-year (planning, etc.)Implementation:1-year (launched May 2008)Projectteam of 5 people50%of money on external dollars; 50% internal time and resourcesEnjoy[Image]

Customizing the ContentQuery WebPart: How to create Header/Footer, UL/LI and other "impossible" things

(Indexed 2009-05-07):

I was spending a lot of time trying to figure out how I could not only customize the appearance of each data item in a ContentQuery (or Content-By-Query) WebPart. There are several good posts made within the SharePoint community, but almost all of them concentrate on how to customize the itemstyle.xsl file.However, this is not what I want. When the items are rendered, they will be separated with Table-TD and this limits the branding and layout options essentially. As well, there are other issues...(truncated)...

Filter List-View by Workflow Status

(Indexed 2009-05-05):

Today i wanted to create some views on a list of change requests. All change requests have to be reviewed by the solution architect and have then to be approved by the project board. Working on a MOSS collaboration site, I decided to use the standard "Review" and "Approval" workflows. In order to give the reviewers and the approvers a simpler view on all change requests, I decided to create some additional views that would filter the "Change Request" list items by the workflow status of the "Rev...(truncated)...

FREE Webinar on Reporting Services and SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-05-04):

I wanted to let you know that I'm going to be presenting a FREE webinar on SharePoint and SQL Reporting services. Read the webinar invite below to register!!!Thanks,Coskun----Put the Pedal to the MetalReporting through SharePoint - WebinarDate: Thursday, May 7thTime: 2 to 3 pm Eastern (1 to 2 pm Central)There is no charge for this webinarSharePoint guru Coskun "Cujo" Cavusoglu will be your driver and discuss how Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services has two gears: Native and Sha...(truncated)...

Macaw Solutions Factory blog posts series

(Indexed 2009-05-03):

Our two Macaw Solutions Factory Architects, Vincent Hoogendoorn and Serge van den Oever have started blogging about the Macaw Solutions Factory. Some of it is about the Factory itself, some of it is about the thoughts and ideas behind it. All projects that have custom development in them in the Information Worker Solutions department at Macaw that I work for use the Macaw Solutions Factory to support the development process. It makes starting a new project easier and because it defines the base...(truncated)...

FAST and SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-05-02):

http://blogs.technet.com/vedant/archive/2009/01/24/fast-and-...(truncated)... This blog post contains good information about SharePoint and FAST. True, there are not many blogs (developer's perspective) at the moment that are discussing this topic but it's gonna be a popular topic very soon (6th sense?)....(read more)[Image]

Lessons Learned & Fun in Bermuda

(Indexed 2009-05-02):

So after a season of study and training, I'm getting back into the swing of things. I thought that as I wrap up projects going forward, I might jot down solutions to things that hang me up along the way. I figure that by writing them down, I'll remember a little quicker next time! And of course... the hope is that someone else may benefit. So I'll start off with lessons learned during a sweet gig in Bermuda (more on that later) that I just wrapped up. As usually, I hit my head o...(truncated)...

Is the SharePoint Forms Library intended for one form?

(Indexed 2009-05-02):

I've got an addiction these days. It's OK, I'm not embarrassed. Some people are addicted to XTC, some to crack, some to YouTube. Me, I'm addicted to Expert's Exchange. I know, who would want to participate in a closed forum that requires you to pay to see the answers?? Preposterous! That doesn't fit the internet model! I had originally joined Expert's Exchange when they first went live. Back then, when you joined, you were given a block of points for asking questions....(truncated)...

Im Still Alive and Im Here to Prove it

(Indexed 2009-05-01):

Did that get your attention? Good.I’m just going to do a quick post before I head out for the weekend to let you know about a few things I’ve got going on out there in the meatspace (you know, that place away from your computer monitor with the bright yellow ball in the sky and the incredible resolution…). Think of it as Proof of Life, since I’ve been so remiss in posting here in the last month or so.In a little less than two weeks on May 12th I’ll be giving a pres...(truncated)...

Congratulations to the First SharePoint Masters !

(Indexed 2009-04-30):

A SharePoint Certified Master is one who passed all 4 SharePoint Certifications ExamsThey also spends 3 weeks at Microsoft Redmond to be educated, challenged, tested and then at the very end if they pass all those cool things then they will receive SharePoint Master.I am so excited to announce you, one of the first SharePoint Certified Masters is Ali Mazaheri, which is Iranian and I would like to say him special Congratulations, and wish him more success in his career and happiness on his lifeHo...(truncated)...

SharePoint Saturday DC: Live Blogging

(Indexed 2009-04-30):

Hi Friends, April 30 - 11:10 AM: I will be at the SharePoint Saturday DC on May 2nd. I will do live blogging and will try to cover as many sessions as possible. I have setup a flickr account for this event: http://flickr.com/photos/sharepointsaturdaydc In the window below, you will see live commentry, comments from readers and poll questions. If you have any comments, feel free to write to me. If you want me to cover any particular sessions, let me know. The list of sessions is available at: htt...(truncated)...

Redirect Page Content type Error - It don't like spaces

(Indexed 2009-04-30):

Recently I had an interesting error issue with my companies MOSS 2007 intranet.My marketing department were trying to create a page to redirect to a PDF newsletter. The answer was the OOTB Redirect Page. Now this worked fine for all users with edit permissions, the redirect page came up for 5 seconds and then loaded the PDF file in the browser (as configure in Adobe Reader) as expected. Now all the other users who had read permissions tried to open the redirect page straight away they were di...(truncated)...

Congratulations to the First Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters! (via SP Team Blog)

(Indexed 2009-04-30):

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/29/congratu...(truncated)... more)[Image]

SharePoint User Group UK tonight in Nottingham

(Indexed 2009-04-30):

Just a quick post that there is a SharePoint User Group meeting tonight in Nottingham.[Image] If you want to come sign up at the link below and hope to see you there at 6.30.http://suguk.org/forums/thread/18475.aspx[Image]

SharePoint Site Definition Provisioning Order

(Indexed 2009-04-29):

When you use site definitions to create sites it's often pretty unclear what the order is in which the sites are provisioned. Knowing the order can be important if you want to make several changes to your site that are dependent on each other. In that case you need to know how to make sure that the changes are executed in the right order.Site Definition Provisioning OrderUrl for the site is createdGlobal onet.xml is provisionedSite collection (SPSite) scoped features defined in onet.xml are ...(truncated)...

SharePoint SP2 available now

(Indexed 2009-04-28):

As promised MOSS and WSS service pack 2 is available on time, you check it hereWindows SharePoint ServicesWindows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 Changes.xlsx package Service Pack 2 ( x 86 ) von Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79B...(truncated)... Service Pack 2 ( x 64 ) von Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79B...(truncated)... Service Pack 2 des Language Packs ( x 86 ) von Win...(truncated)...

Configuring Reflector in Visual Studio 2008

(Indexed 2009-04-28):

Red Gates Reflector (Formerly by Lutz Roeder) is one of those tools that you can technically live without but the question then becomes: why?  It is free and makes SharePoint development that much easier.  And to be honest, those of us doing serious development in SharePoint can use a few breaks in this area. The main thing that it gives SharePoint developers is the full name of your compiled dlls (including the PublicKeyToken) in the exact format that you have to use all over SharePo...(truncated)...

ServicePack 2 fr MOSS und WSS verfgbar

(Indexed 2009-04-28):

Das lange erwartete Service Pack 2 fr SharePoint 2007 und WSS3.0 ist endlich verfgbar!Im Blog von Michael Greth findet sich eine bersicht ber die Download-Links. http://weblogs.mysharepoint.de/mgreth/archive/2009/04/28/sha...(truncated)... [Image][Image]

Very large objects in the SharePoint recycle bin

(Indexed 2009-04-28):

I've written about it before, but the problem remains. Deleting a very large (78gb) SharePoint document library will get you in trouble. The delete works fine; flushing it from the page recycle bin works like a charm. But thirty days later, when SharePoint's Empty Recyle Bin job tries to really, truly delete it from the second stage recyle bin, and thus from the SqlServer database, your users will be locked out of SharePoint for two hours before the job throws up its figurative hands in ...(truncated)...

Security in SharePoint application pages: Choose the right base class for your pages

(Indexed 2009-04-28):

I just ran in to a seucrity issue on a public MOSS site: There are a lot of custom admin application pages and we observed that even as an anonymous user, it gave full access to these pages in the _layouts folder.After some research, we found out that the pages are inheriting from System.Web.UI.Page - the default when creating a new WebForm.However, be aware that inherting from this class means - in case that anonymous access is configured for the SharePoint site - anonymous access to this page!...(truncated)...

Slide decks: SharePoint For End Users - Shortcuts To Success

(Indexed 2009-04-26):

In last two weeks I did not have enough time to post here as I waspreparing to deliver a session at Microsoft Windays conference.As I promised here are the slide decks. Click here to download...[Image]

Innovation Day Brief

(Indexed 2009-04-23):

It was really exciting day meeting user groups in Egypt Presenting on behalf of Egypt SharePoint User Group and play air hockey with Steve Ballmer [Image]Here picture from the event[Image][Stage background][Image][Steve talking about next 10 years technologies and his feedback on the visit to Egypt] I will post more photos later on my game with Steve and User groups photosYou can find my presentation in the event here with the sample codejQuery and SharePoint[Image]

Inconsistent document library dropdown behavior

(Indexed 2009-04-23):

Is it just me, or is anyone else bothered by SharePoint's inconsistent behavior regarding document library dropdowns. If you are staring glassy-eyed at a site that displays the doclib webpart, you can hover til the cows come home without displaying the dropdown menu needed to delete the document of a lazy user who can't bother to delete his own documents but has to call you to ... sorry ... without displaying the document's dropdown menu. [Image]Of course, if you click the doclib'...(truncated)...

How-To: Adding WebParts programmatically to a WebPartZone

(Indexed 2009-04-22):

I had a very hard time finding information on the web on how to correctly add Web Parts programmatically to my SharePoint WebPartZone.It's easy to get all the WebParts that are present in the current Site:SPContext .Current.Site.GetCatalog(SPListTemplateType.WebPartCatalogSince this is a normal SharePoint list it is also easy to extract the items, display them etc... Now, given that I have selected the WebPart that I want to add:SPListItem selectedWebPartListItem = SPContext.Current.Site.Ge...(truncated)...

Presenting @ Microsoft Innovation Day & Steve Ballmer Key note speaker

(Indexed 2009-04-21):

Microsoft Egypt is organizing Microsoft innovation day 22 April 2009where all the Egyptian Users groups will gather and present sometechnical sessions.I will be representing Egypt SharePoint Users Group with my colleague Ayman El-Hattab; I will be presenting jQuery and SharePoint.The day surprise is Steve Ballmer.Steveb will be the key note speaker for the innovation day and will answer the Users groups questions about Microsoft strategysee you there [Image][Image]

Passed 70-630 and 70-631

(Indexed 2009-04-21):

Easy as pie :) Got a 1000 on one and 973 on the other.. Now I have all 4 SharePoint certs, if only I could afford the MCM! :)...(read more)[Image]

Unable to authenticate to a SharePoint portal on the server itself

(Indexed 2009-04-21):

Lets say you created a web application with a host header on SharePoint which is installed on Windows Server 2008, and your credentials can not be authenticated if you try to log in to the web application on the server itself. Check the Security category on the event logs, if you see some entry like the one below, then go on reading :P   An account failed to log on. Subject: Security ID: NULL SID Account Name: - Account Domain: - Logon ID: 0x0 Logon Type: 3 Account For Which Logon Failed......(truncated)...

Anybody seen this? IE8 and Datasheet view

(Indexed 2009-04-21):

Ever since upgrading to Internet Explorer 8, I've noticed one or two issues with SharePoint. I wonder if it's just my machine, but has anybody seen this? For users with Microsoft Office, SharePoint has the capability of displaying a list in DataSheet View, which is actually powered by a DLL from Microsoft Access. This gives you a nice quick-editing experience. One of the things I commonly use is the "Fill Handle". You know what I'm talking about: it's that little dot on the l...(truncated)...

Brand it baby! Buy tickets by Wednesday for my next branding class...

(Indexed 2009-04-20):

Themes? Master pages? CSS? Page layouts? Content customization? All covered next week in my SharePoint Branding Boocamp in Anaheim, CA. You will get a lot of one on one time with me to work on your plans, designs and issues with your SharePoint sites. Check out more info in this post, or online at: http://www.sharepointbootcamp.com/sharepoint_branding_bootca...(truncated)... [Image]

When SharePoint Pukes

(Indexed 2009-04-18):

Yes, we've all seen it. SharePoint can become your worst nightmare when it goes down, especially when you're following behind someone who didn't quite know what he was doing. SharePoint goes down, the event logs are full of nasty, cryptic errors, and people are very, very nervous about losing their work forever. I guess I shouldn't be surprised when I see it; SharePoint is really easy to screw up, or at least to misconfigure. I know for a fact that a lot of IT guys read an articl...(truncated)...

SharePoint 14 is SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010 public at 2010

(Indexed 2009-04-16):

It's been a busy week with a lot of news about new Microsoft products.Microsoft SharePoint “14” is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010[via Press Pass]Office 2010 — including Office Web applications, SharePoint Server2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 — will enter a technical preview inthe third quarter of 2009 and will release to manufacturing in thefirst half of 2010.Microsoft Unveils Exchange 2010 With Public BetaExchange Server 2010 will become available in the second hal...(truncated)...

The future of SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-04-16):

Da redet und wartet die weltweite SharePoint-Gemeinde auf bzw. ber das nchste SharePoint-Release und die neuen Features und whrend dessen verffentlich Microsoft bereits Informationen ber die bernchste Version von SharePoint und Office. Hier der Link zur offiziellen Mitteilung mit dem schnen Titel Next Wave of Microsoft Office Products Will Redefine How People WorkUnd auch im Blog von Bil Simser findet sich ein lesenswerter Artikel ber die bernchste SharePoint-Version unter der berschrift 2010 Th...(truncated)...

Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 - Agora oficial!!!

(Indexed 2009-04-15):

Aps muito mistrio e um tempo considervel de especulaes, comeam a surgir novidades oficiais sobre a prxima verso do Sharepoint, que j fora chamada de Sharepoint VNext, Sharepoint 14, mas acaba de ser anunciada oficialmente como Microsoft Sharepoint 2010.Notem que, a exemplo do que ocorreu na transio da segunda para a terceira verso, quando passou de Portal Server pra Office Server, agora o termo "Office" que est descartado do nome do produto/plataforma. A explicao da MS para o nome atual que o ...(truncated)...

Best Practices Conference registration is open

(Indexed 2009-04-15):

Registration for the August edition of the newly named Best Practices Conference is now open. Dates are August 24 - 26 at the Hyatt Regency Reston just outside of Washington DC. In addition to sessions on SharePoint Best Practices there will be sessions on best practices for SQL Server. While I am going to have to miss this one (holding out for San Diego again next February) if you can go it will definitely be worth your time and money. Hopefully my DBA and Developers are going to be able to get...(truncated)...

Link two lists and display the data using the SharePoint Data View

(Indexed 2009-04-15):

I'm going to need to do this soon and if I don't document it I'll lose it or forget where I saw it.From Devin Walkers site dlocc.com again a timely article on how to link two lists and then display the data using the SharePoint Data View.http://www.dlocc.com/sharepoint-main-menu/solutions-cat...(truncated)... that I have not tried this yet and I recommend that should you decide that this is worth investigating that you try this in either a test environment or using a virual server se...(truncated)...

While I'm at it.......

(Indexed 2009-04-15):

I've been busy as a dog chasing his tail the last couple of months. A week after I got back from San Diego and the Best Practices Conference I was fortunate enough to be able to attend one of Mindsharps SharePoint classes. While I do have a fair amount of experience using SharePoint (2003 and 2007) I was able to convince my boss that I would get a lot out of attending the Core Technologies in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 class in Atlanta. I definitely was not wrong.Although Brian ...(truncated)...

SharePoint Administration Training in Anaheim, California

(Indexed 2009-04-14):

Hi everyone,I’m so excited; I just had to post this topic to my blog. I’ll be teaching my SharePoint Planning and Administration Bootcamp publicly in Anaheim, California in two weeks (from April 27th to May 1st). SharePoint Experts has been to Anaheim before, but never like this. Class will be held at Disney’s Paradise Pier hotel. That’s right! We are in the park! Over the past few months, I’ve been working diligently to update my class materials, and have rewr...(truncated)...

Chicagos very own SharePoint Saturday on June 13, 09

(Indexed 2009-04-14):

Call for Speakers - SharePoint Saturday Chicago – June 13, 2009 If you are interested in speaking at SharePoint Saturday Chicago on June 13th, 2009, they are currently looking for sessions on SharePoint. For more information please visit - http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/chicago/default.aspx [Image] [Image]

SharePoint Field Names have 32 Character Limit So Do Replicated Profile Property Names

(Indexed 2009-04-13):

Note: Cross posted from Life on Planet Groove.PermalinkI ran into a situation where I created a User Profile Property with the Replicable checkbox set, which had a really long name. There were no errors when saving the profile property, however later on I started receiving errors in the Event Log: failure trying to synch site [guid] for ContentDB [guid] WebApp [guid].  Exception message was A WSS internal name for profile property 'ProfilePropertyWithReallyLongName' could not be fo...(truncated)...

Learn how to brand SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-04-13):

In two weeks I am headed to sunny Anaheim California to teach my SharePoint Branding Bootcamp . There are still seats available and I would love to have you join me for a week (April 27 - May 1st) learning how to effectively brand the SharePoint interface. A lot of my materials have been updated to include the latest tips and tricks I have discovered. This class covers more than just where SharePoint CSS files are or how to create a theme, we delve into master pages, WCM page layouts, customizin...(truncated)...

Downloadable Book: Getting Started with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

(Indexed 2009-04-12):

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA AbstractThisbook provides basic information about capabilities of and require...(truncated)...

Egypt SharePoint User Group on the Egyptian TV

(Indexed 2009-04-12):

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Yes as you read [Image], yesterday 12 April we ha...(truncated)...

Egypy SharePoint UG 9 April gathering Great Event Thanks Joel and all the attendees

(Indexed 2009-04-12):

It was great event, great speaker Joel Oleson and amazing attendees Egypt SharePoint User group membersHere some pictures from the event[Image] [Image] Thanks for all the attendees and thanks for Joel on being with us in our first event.to stay updated with group activities register athttp://www.sharepointgroups.org/egysugand follow on twitter @egysug[Image]

IE8: Disabling the loopback check, 401.1 Unauthorized: Logon Failed

(Indexed 2009-04-11):

Dammit, today I couldn’t log onto SSP or any other host header site from inside my dev VPC. I usually use host headers when I create SharePoint web applications on my development VPC’s. I create a loopback entry in the hosts file to direct the FQDN to the current server. Today I wanted to check out the IE Developer Tools that come in IE8, so I installed it on my VPC. I specifically unticked the option asking if Windows Updates should be installed – I did not want anything other...(truncated)...

Content Type Definitions: RemoveFieldRef IDs are case sensitive

(Indexed 2009-04-10):

I was working on some pretty basic custom content types inheriting from the OOTB WSS content types. My child content types had to remove some fields from the parent content types. Here is an example: Lets say you are inheriting from the OOTB Event content type. In its schema it includes a Recurrence field (fRecurrence). This field has the following GUID: {F2E63656-135E-4f1c-8FC2-CCBE74071901} (notice the GUID is in retarded case) To create a child content type that inherits from Event but excl...(truncated)...

SharePoint May Break Hyperlinks in Workflow Task Emails

(Indexed 2009-04-10):

Note: Cross posted from Life on Planet Groove.PermalinkI ran into an issue where hyperlinks in workflow task emails where being automatically changed by SharePoint from absolute hyperlinks to relative ones.Scenario:You create a custom Visual Studio workflow and use the CreateTask activity.You set your SPWorkflowTaskProperties.Description property to some HTML text.In your Description HTML text, you have an html hyperlink tag whose href= attribute contains an absolute hyperlink to a resource in ...(truncated)...

Programatically using OOTB SharePoint Error Handling

(Indexed 2009-04-10):

Okay, so if you get an error in your custom code that you want to handle using the "out of the box" SharePoint mechanisms, use the following lines of code... Make sure you only call the 'TransferToErrorPage' method if you are handling errors in the a user interface (web part, page, etc...). Don't call that method in a workflow, event handler, etc...//This will write to SharePoint's log files. Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics.PortalLog.LogString("Your Error Message"); //This ...(truncated)...

BDC Error - Type does not match DotNet type of TypeDescriptor

(Indexed 2009-04-09):

Note: Cross posted from Life on Planet Groove.PermalinkI ran into a BDC error, Type does not match DotNet type of TypeDescriptor, with a particular application definition I wrote. In this case, I had a specific finder method that took one input parameter (the identifier) that was of type System.Decimal. It turns out I didnt specify a default value in the TypeDescriptor for this input parameter in my XML definition. It looks like when you dont set a default value, it will automatically set one fo...(truncated)...

My Microsoft Certified Master experience

(Indexed 2009-04-08):

Since a lot of people are interested in the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) experience I'm going to try and write a blog about it. Note that this will just be a post on how I experienced the program. I can't elaborate on the actual content of the training, although I will blog on specific topics later on. It was great, very intense, so usefull, terrific, brutal, fantastic, fascinating, informative, overwhelming…Ok, so it's very difficult to describe. I will give it a try. T...(truncated)...

Greetings from the SharePoint Summit in Montreal, QC, Canada

(Indexed 2009-04-07):

I’m in Montreal this week to present two sessions at the SharePoint Summit. There are a lot of great vendors in the exhibit hall, and the presentations that I’ve attended thus far have been standing room only! This is turning out to be an incredible experience!If you are familiar with my style of presentation, you know that I focus on the business first, and take the extra steps necessary to make the audience as comfortable and entertained as possible throughout the session! A S...(truncated)...

Security/Cross-Site-Scripting: How to validate user-inputs

(Indexed 2009-04-07):

This post continues my examinations to prevent cross-site-scripting (XSS) attacks.My colleague Jens Gtze from the SharePoint cracks at ADVIS has implemented some great helping methods to validate user input agains malicious attacks:Simply implement a static method that takes the user-input and performs regular expression checks agains it using the following Regex-Patterns:To prevent from JavaScript's: ([a-z]*)[x00-x20]*=[x00-x20]*([`'"]*)[x00-x20]*j[x00-x20...(truncated)... prevent from ...(truncated)...

Security/Cross-Site-Scripting: Watch out when working with Label and Literal Server Controls

(Indexed 2009-04-07):

I'm working heavily to secure a public SharePoint publishing portal that hosts many custom components. While performing a cross-site-scripting prevention review, we found out that even after years working with ASP.NET we were not aware of how certain server controls render the .Text property.Try this: Add the following controls to a simple, plain ASPX page: In the Page_Load, add the following code:Label1.Text = "alert('i am a cross-site scripting attack in a label!');";TextBox1.Text...(truncated)...

Use case: Automated knowledge base in SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-04-06):

ScenarioLet’s consider the following scenario: Your company is working witha partner. All support requests are being submitted via email.[Image]You have a a team of people submitting requests:[Image]Furthermore, sometimes you need to include additional people on yourside. The communication channels might get even more complicated (themore employees you have working on this, the more complicated it gets:-)).[Image]The real problem here is email as communication channel. Email is agreat tool...(truncated)...

Master Training: Are You Ready?

(Indexed 2009-04-06):

So I just made it back home after attending the 3-week R2 (Beta) rotation of the Microsoft Certified Masters SharePoint training. I wanted to specifically call out the fact that this was a beta program because I really wanted to commend Microsoft for putting together a very polished experience even though it was "beta". Sure, there were a few minor issues and there is always room for improvement but it is clear that they've worked very hard to get this right.How was it? Absolutely incredi...(truncated)...

SharePoint Development Special ich bin als Sprecher dabei

(Indexed 2009-04-06):

Ich freue mich sehr, auf der diesjhrigen ASP-Konferenz - SharePoint Development Special als Sprecher dabei sein zu drfen. Am 22. und 23. Juni wird es in Burghausen zwei Tage lang in ber 20 Vortrgen nur um das groe Thema SharePoint Development gehen. Ich werde ber eines der Themen informieren, die ich persnlich besonders im Zusammenhang mit SharePoint fr sehr interessant halte: die Integration von Daten aus Fremdsystemen am Beispiel SAP. Es werden sicher zwei sehr interessante Tage werden. Erfa...(truncated)...

WebParts and Audiences - Part 1: Show or hide a Web Part based on audiences

(Indexed 2009-04-05):

This is part 1 of a series I will write on how to deal with audiences in your custom SharePoint WebParts.Some of the standard SharePoint WebParts implement audience filtering. I was wondering, what it takes to make my custom WebParts as well audience "sensitive". I wanted to apply the audience filtering at 2 different levels:Show or hide the WebPart depending on audiencesShow or hide data items the WebPart displays depending on audiences.As well, I wanted to enable administrators / power users t...(truncated)...

My agenda for European SP Best Practise Conference SPBPUK

(Indexed 2009-04-05):

Well tomorrow sees the start of the first (of hopefully many) European SharePoint Best Practise Conference and I feel very lucky not just to be there as an attendee but also as a presenter.I'm currently on my way down to London at the moment on the train and thought I would look at the agenda and make my final decisions on what I would go attend. Below you will what I am planning to see - I may change one of these but have undecided yet.I hope as many of you will be able to make the SharePo...(truncated)...

Don't install IE 8 on SharePoint Server machine?

(Indexed 2009-04-05):

Don't install Internet Explorer 8 on a SharePoint machine. What will happen? You will no longer have access to any of your SharePoint Web Applications. You will be prompted for your credentials - and prompted and prompted and ... At the end, you'll get an empty page and if you check your IIS log files, you'll see 401 erros.Why it happens? I have no clue at all... But it seems that others have the same problem.What to do against it? Simply de-install Internet Exlorer 8 and - it works....(truncated)...

Slides from my Sharepoint session at IT Pro Users group Croatia

(Indexed 2009-04-05):

Last night I spoke about SharePoint at IT Pro Users group Croatia. We forgot to take photos but I was really happy to see the room full of people eager to learn more about SharePoint.I hope each participant had I chance to to learn something new.You will find my slides below. If there are some questions I forgot to answer yesterday please drop me a line. Read more... [Image]

WebParts and Audiences - Part 2: Create a custom ToolPart/EditorPart to configure audiences for your custom WebPart

(Indexed 2009-04-05):

This is part 2 of a series I will write on how to deal with audiences in your custom SharePoint WebParts.In this post, I will show you how to create a custom ToolPart/EditorPart for your WebPart that allows to configure audience settings for the WebPart. In my example I've implemented to possible settings: Audience targeting for the whole WebPart (if a user is not in the right audience the WebPart will be invisible --> see Part 1)Audience targeting for the data items that are showed in the W...(truncated)...

Strange 401 side-effects on host-header sites when installing Internet Explorer 8 on a SharePoint server machine

(Indexed 2009-04-05):

Edited - my original post was:Don't install Internet Explorer 8 on a SharePoint machine. What will happen? You will no longer have access to any of your SharePoint Web Applications. You will be prompted for your credentials - and prompted and prompted and ... At the end, you'll get an empty page and if you check your IIS log files, you'll see 401 erros.Why it happens? I have no clue at all... But it seems that others have the same problem.What to do against it? Simply de-install Inte...(truncated)...

SharePoint Designer 2007 is FREE -Yay! I mean yikes!

(Indexed 2009-04-03):

Although a lot of SharePoint users were really happy with the news yesterday some were not so happy. Having SharePoint Designer on every desktop can be a scary thought if you don't have the proper governance in place. Luckly there are several ways you can control the usage of SharePoint Designer in your environment. You can control SharePoint Designer usage at the Site level using permissions, at the Server level customizing site definitions, at the Web Application level usign central admini...(truncated)...

TechDays Slides - OFC202 Put the Pedal to the Metal When Reporting through SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-04-03):

Hi All,Thank you for attending my session on Microsoft TechDays April 1st.And here is the link to download the PPTs. Thanks,Coskun[Image]

On Babies, Bathwater, and SharePoint Designer

(Indexed 2009-04-03):

[Image]On April 2nd, as has been rumored for quite some time, Microsoft announced that SharePoint Designer is available as a free download. (Get it Here...) Reaction to even the rumors of this has ranged from very positive, to downright horrified. So, what's all the fuss about? What is SharePoint Designer, and why should you care? Read all about it either at TheSanityPoint.com, or on my Live.com Blog![Image]

Using the standard SharePoint List & Site Picker in your WebPart's configuration / -ToolPart

(Indexed 2009-04-03):

I recently wrote a WebPart that allows you to show SharePoint List-Items transformed by an XSL-Stylesheet. I needed the user to be able to choose the SharePoint list and the view that will serve as the data source for the transformation. I wanted to make this as confortable as possible and I wanted to have something like in the Content-Query WebPart where I can pick a list using a dialog popup that shows the structure of the current site collection.[Image]Doing some research with .NET Reflector ...(truncated)...

Is Null Filter Condition for List Views

(Indexed 2009-04-02):

I have wondered why SharePoint List Views doesn't have filters for Is Null and Is Not Null when CAML Queries support it. U2U CAML Creator [Image] List View [Image] Turns out it does. When you select is equal to and is not equal to and do not enter any text it generates IS Null and Is Not Null CAML Queries for the View. ...Note: Cross posted from SpyralOut.Permalink[Image]

SharePoint Designer is Free!

(Indexed 2009-04-02):

Just announced officially: SharePoint Designer is available to download for free ! No, this doesn't mean the end of this product's support. Moreover, stay tuned... I can't tell more as I'm under NDA, but the vNext will rock! Trust me! If you want to know more, see Asif's post . Originally posted at my new blog....(read more)[Image]

SharePoint designer is free

(Indexed 2009-04-02):

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 IS NOW FREE! you can download it now from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=...(truncated)... SharePoint designing.[Image]

Architectural Patterns for Silverlight-on-SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-04-01):

The main challenge in silverlight development on sharepoint that this poses is that the code in the Silverlight control runs in the user's Web browser, and not on the server like a normal Web Part. Therefore, unlike a normal Web Part, the Silverlight UI does not have access to the SharePoint object model. The aim, then, is to somehow provide an infrastructure that enables communication between the client-side Silverlight UI and server-side code that has access to SharePoint objects and data....(truncated)...

Inadequate Resources to Support the Implementation - Part4: SharePoint Administrators are NOT Superheroes!

(Indexed 2009-03-31):

In Part 1 of my series titled Inadequate Resources to Support the Implementation, I spoke about the large amount of risk that companies are taking on due to the ease of entry into the SharePoint Administrator’s role. In Parts 2 and 3, I explained how the SharePoint Administrator’s role was never clearly defined and that most of us lack a true identity. In Part 4 of this series, I’ll examine these expectations from the business perspective and uncover just how outrageous this ...(truncated)...

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

(Indexed 2009-03-31):

A downloadable CHM is available in the Microsoft site(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyi...(truncated)... this is a copy of content in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 technical library. If you are using Windows Vista or have installed Windows security updates MS05-026 or MS05-001, the text in this file might not appear as expected. The messages "Navigation canceled," "Action canceled," or "The page cannot be displayed" might appear. Kindly follow these steps to a...(truncated)...

Blog Moving - http://www.sharepointbloggers.com

(Indexed 2009-03-30):

Moving my blog due to downtime..... http://www.sharepointbloggers.com Thanks![Image]

Use case: Auditing documents on a regular basis

(Indexed 2009-03-26):

At Stump the Panel forum of End User SharePoint Maurice asked:I have a bunch of documents that need to be auditedevery six months. This their a way that a reminder can be set up toremind the owner of the document that its time to review the document?Laura Rogers suggested the following for Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007:If you have MOSS, you can use the informationmanagement policy settings in the document library. You can set it to:Modified Date + 6 months. Then, make it kick off a workflow a...(truncated)...

50% off Microsoft Certification exam exclusive offer for TechDays attendees!

(Indexed 2009-03-25):

As you may already know Microsoft is hosting a Virtual TechDays for Developers and there are some great sessions on SharePoint and related Microsoft Technologies. You can register to this FREE event by using the following link - http://www.msfttechdays.com/Modules/Registration/Submit.aspxMake sure once you register , chose the ones you’re planning to attend - I'm doing a session on SQL Reporting Services 2008 and SharePoint 2007. Find my or other sessions by using the following link- ...(truncated)...

SharePoint - Access Denied When Enabling The Publishing Infrastructure Site Collection Feature

(Indexed 2009-03-24):

Cause: The application pool account does not have rights to create / update timer jobs which is required when enabling the Publishing Infrastructure feature.   Resolution: There are two options: 1) Temporarily add the application pool account to the farm administrators group, or 2) Run the following command: stsadm -o activatefeature -name PublishingResources -url http://SITECOLLECTIONURL[Image]

WSS on Server 2008

(Indexed 2009-03-24):

We have some unique challenges installing WSS on Server 2008.First of all there's some chatter about WSS being offered as a Server 2008 Role. The assertion being that you can just go into Server Manager and run the Add Roles wizard to select the WSS role and then the configuration is straightforward. Then there's some dissenting voices that suggest it may be more complicated than that.Second, there's also a number of issue that arise from the User Access Control (UAC) issues. This te...(truncated)...

Does Microsoft Translator answer the question for Languages and E2L

(Indexed 2009-03-24):

The other day I had a feed come though on my RSS and Twitter from Mike Gannotti's blog talking about Microsoft Translator.This is a great new webpart/widget that you can add to your site which will change the text to one of 12 languages. [Image]I've thought for a while now whether we should be taking advantage of the multi language opportunities in SharePoint for those who have English as a second language (E2L)? SharePoint can help them deliver the information that they need/want in th...(truncated)...

The Uninstall

(Indexed 2009-03-24):

Okay, I've stepped into it.I started a post yesterday about how to back out of an install when you've got it wrong. What I did was select Kerberos Authentication for the Central Adminstration website and once the Configuration Wizard completed, I couldn't open CA and I didn't want to take the time to configure the SPNs for my service accounts just now so I wanted to do a "post-config" uninstall.So I just deleted the databases, the web site and the app pool and thought I'd jus...(truncated)...

"Error in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Protocol Handler" exception in MOSS 2007 Search

(Indexed 2009-03-23):

If you get the error in the title at the crawl logs of the MOSS 2007 farm and googled some, you'll see some solutions like restarting the search services on the farm, detaching the search database of the shared services providers, and things like that. Before trying these solutions, just be sure about this: Do you have "I" ( "aye", the upper case "i" ) character in the URL of the error generating site? If your answer is "Yes", go ahead and change the "I"...(read more)[Image]

While creating a web application on a multi front ended SharePoint farm...

(Indexed 2009-03-23):

... do not forget to give a host header to the web application. For the web applications that has a port but not a host header as the initial configuration, the portal will not function as it has to. You will not be able to reach the standart configuration pages below /_layouts/ folder and you'll get "File not found" exceptions; if you have mutli language support on the SharePoint farm, some parts of the portal will be served on a different language than the original portal language;...(read...(truncated)...

Programming with Anonymous Accessable Portals

(Indexed 2009-03-23):

Let's say, you have a portal that can be accessed with anonymous access and the anonymous users will reach a data on SharePoint that anonymous users can not reach. You can use the code below to accomplish this: SPSecurity .RunWithElevatedPrivileges( delegate () { SPSite sc = new SPSite ( SPContext .Current.Site.ID); foreach ( SPUser user in sc.RootWeb.Groups[ "Portal Owners" ].Users) { Response.Write(user.Name + "" ); } }); The RunWithElevatedPrivileges method...(read more)[Image]

The document could not be opened for editing error

(Indexed 2009-03-19):

If you try to open an Office document on a SharePoint document library and the document only opens in read-only mode or if you get a "The document could not be opened for editing. A Windows SharePoint Services compatible application could not be found to edit the document." error when you click on the "Edit in ..." item on the documents menu, it means that the hotfix at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888 is missing on the client machine. To download and install the hotfix...(read more)[Image...(truncated)...

Querying Sub Folders with SPQuery Objects

(Indexed 2009-03-19):

With SPQuery class, we can search lists just like views. Thik of a document library with lots of documents and sub folders. To get the filtered list of items in this document library, your code will be similar to the one below: SPQuery pagesQuery = new SPQuery (); pagesQuery.Query = "" + FileID + "" ; pageUrl = currentWeb.Lists[pagesList...(read more)[Image]

Wow! New SharePoint Themes - And they look pretty good.

(Indexed 2009-03-19):

I was looking at my tweetdeck and saw that theMossMan (Randy - coolest guy in Florida) posted on hos blog about the new themes that are now available to us. Good post my friend, Branding MVP's rock :)Check out his post to learn more about the new themes. http://blog.drisgill.com/2009/03/microsoft-released-10-new-s...(truncated)... Also don't forget to vote on your favorite, I liked Contoso and Events the most...You can download these from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?d...(truncated)...

Turn off the "Powered by Forms Services" Logo on InfoPath Web Forms

(Indexed 2009-03-19):

I don't understand why Microsoft stuck that logo on all the web based InfoPath forms by default. I could maybe see the reasoning if Forms Services was free and came with WSS but it's a freakin MOSS Enterprise Feature. Go figure.Anyway, on my quest to find out how to turn it off, I came across a Microsoft Hotfix that is suppose to resolve this issue. Not the way to go. The hotfix must of been meant for a version of InfoPath forms services / MOSS prior to SP1. Then I found this blog b...(truncated)...

Using the SPChangeQuery to detect Group Membership Changes

(Indexed 2009-03-18):

I don't know how many people use the SPChangeQuery API but I find it to be extremely useful for a number of different options. You can use it to track sites/webs that are created, lists that are created and a number of other things. One thing that I thought was interesting was that someone wanted to monitor when a SharePoint group membership changed. As it turns out, you can use the SPChangeQuery to do this too. Check out the code sample. // Connect to the Site collection you wish to monitor...(truncated)...

Speaking about SharePoint at IT Pro Users Group Croatia

(Indexed 2009-03-18):

My colleague Marin Frankovic invited me to speak at IT Pro Users Croatia group meeting on April 2nd 2009. I will be covering a slightly different topic than I usually do.This is a free event, so you are welcomed to join us!Venue:Microsoft CroatiaTurinina 3, Zagreb, CroatiaApril 2nd 2009. at 17:30Session: Introduction to Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 – Planning, installation, configuration and maintenanceRead more..[Image]

Resolved - SharePoint Profile Sync Problems

(Indexed 2009-03-17):

I have just resolved a very annoying profile sync problem, although the solution is not 100% clear:   Issue: Data in users profiles was not syncing into a Site Collection from the profile database.  Other Site Collections in the same Content Database were syncing fine, but one particular Site Collection was not.  The following errors were added to the logs each time a full sync was attempted (I recommend for testing running stsadm o sync synctiming m:1 but remember to set it ba...(truncated)...

Speaking at Virtual Techdays Developers 2009 (1 april)

(Indexed 2009-03-17):

Virtual l TechDays 2009 is a 24-hour day of ONLINE technology learning with 95 LIVE sessions delivered anywhere. In this FREE event, I will be speaking on the topic of Reporting Services 2008 in SharePoint integrated Mode. So make sure you look at the sessions and sign-up for the ones you're intrested in.The sessions are presented via LiveMeeting. See the list of session on ttp://www.msfttechdays.com/public/sessionlist.aspxHere is a detailed version of my topic, for those of you intrested in...(truncated)...

Content Query Web Part: getting a full dump of the raw XML

(Indexed 2009-03-17):

Ive been doing some really cool stuff with the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) lately, so Im gonna put together a few posts on some of the nice challenges that I had to tackle. After playing around with XSLT for a while now, I have grown to love it and I think it is awesome and really flexible. When styling the CQWP, you sometimes have to get to the RAW xml data that comes out of it it really helps you understand how XSL style sheets work when you have the raw view. In my case, I had to understa...(truncated)...

Content Query Web Part: filtering on a text field removing results with blank or null values

(Indexed 2009-03-17):

This should be an easy pick for developers. When you want to query items and omit results that have a blank or null value in a text field, simply use the greater than 0 filter chaining operator. [Image] Computer Network Name is a text field in my example. I want to only return results when that field has values. [Image]

VanSPUG: SharePoint Planning and Architecture

(Indexed 2009-03-17):

Hey everyone in Vancouver (area), next SharePoint User Group meeting is tomorrow (!!). Good techie topic, esp. for those of you who are involved in infrastructure or architecture. Details here: http://www.vanspug.com[Image]

Content Query Web Part: querying by content type, grouping results by the parent list

(Indexed 2009-03-17):

Consider the following scenario :An existing content type spread across multiple listsA CQWP is required to query the items of that content type and group the results by the list which they belong toThe group headings have to be links to the actual listThere should be no visible change to the existing stuffThere is an existing ItemAdded event handler attached to the content typeThe challenge is, that by default the items returned from the CQWP don’t actually know much more about the parent...(truncated)...

Get Current Page URL using XSL in CQWP

(Indexed 2009-03-16):

I frequently write custom XSL templates for Content Query Web Part (CQWP) for Rolling up List Items. I use CopyUtil.aspx for link items to to Display Form Pages which on close or after editing the items takes you back to default list item page instead of where CQWP is located. You can either fix this by opening a item new window (target =”_blank” in your href’s ) 2. Using Source attribute in your URL. SharePoint ListForm Pages use this to navigate back to location you arrive...(truncated)...

Follow Egypt SharePoint User Group on Twitter

(Indexed 2009-03-16):

Now Egypt SharePoint User Group on Twitter, follow it now[Image]Egypt SharePoint User Group twitter using GroupTweet, to get updates from it or send updates to all the followers just follow it and it will follow you back.Members can broadcast a message to the whole group by sending a direct text to the group's account. For example: 'D egysug We need to have meeting about Features development best practices'Waiting for all Egyptian SharePoint enthusiasts.[Image]

Can't use IP address when exporting linked SharePoint list from Access 2007 into SharePoint..... use server name instead

(Indexed 2009-03-16):

I ran into this little issue and wanted to record it on my blog in case others experience the same error that I had run into today. So today I was using Access 2007 with a MOSS 2007 site to export a decent size list (1500+ items). The normal process that I was going through would be to first import the SharePoint list into Access 2007. There is a good article which states how to accomplish this here: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Post...(truncated)... more)[Image]

SharePoint Navigation treeview-like navigation

(Indexed 2009-03-15):

I recently had the goal to create a SharePoint navigation that behaves almost like a tree-view:- Starting on the root (1st-level), you see the navigation items that are directly under the root(2nd-level)- If you select one node on the 2nd-level, you can see all navigation items on the 2nd-level plus the ones below the selected one (3rd-level).- If you open another child (3rd-level), you can see all nodes of the 1st- and 2nd and 3rd-Level within the path you’ve ch...(truncated)...

Kimberly Tripp Clarifies Ambiguous Recommendations for SQL and SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-03-13):

SQL Maven Kimberly Tripp, who is legendary in SQL Server circles, has become interested in SharePoint as of late. She has some excellent recommendations for best practices setting up SQLmaintenance plans for SharePoint: http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/post/Database-Mainte...(truncated)... [Image]

Using SharePoint Metadata in Word Documents The Lookup Column Issue

(Indexed 2009-03-13):

Using Word templates in combination with Content Types in SharePoint gives a user a rich experience in using SharePoint metadata in the content of a Word document.For example: if you are making the meeting minutes for a certain meeting, you would like to have the Meeting Date as meta data of the document, but that same Meeting Date is probably also used in the minutes document itself somewhere.So we could insert meta data columns as Document Property Quick Parts in the Word document. That way, e...(truncated)...

Custom SharePoint Applications Logging Framework

(Indexed 2009-03-12):

One of the things that I could never quite figure out about the SharePoint API is that they expose just about everything under the sun but when it comes to using their diagnostics / logging framework, it's all hands off. Granted, if you have the MOSS version, you can use PortalLog.LogString() method to write entries to the SharePoint ULS but for me that wasn't good enough. I wanted more control, control similar to what SharePoint does with their applications. Basically, I wanted the abil...(truncated)...

How to use a URL parameter to filter a Data View Web part in FrontPage 2003

(Indexed 2009-03-11):

This works for MOSS as well... Insert a Data ViewTo add a Data View to your Web, page follow these steps:1.Click the position on the page where you want your Data view to reside.2.On the Data menu, click Insert Data View.3.Click the data source that you want to use for your view.4.Click Insert Data View.Modify the parameter binding locationTo modify the Data View to accept data from a URL, follow these steps:1.Open the page in FrontPage 2003.2.At the bottom of the edit window, click Code.3.On t...(truncated)...

Bug? Edit.aspx pages, Survey Branching and more...

(Indexed 2009-03-11):

Bug? Edit.aspx pages, Survey Branching and more...occurs after you have the August Cumulative Updates or later installed and have exported/imported a siteI've come across an interesting scenario that I believe may be a bug in SharePoint 2007. To summarize, if you meet the following conditions, you probably have this issue and don't even know it yet: You have applied the August Cumulative Update or any cumulative update after that (October, December or February).You have exported a site...(truncated)...

SharePoint Adoption Statistics

(Indexed 2009-03-11):

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 InterestingSharePoint adoption statistics [via In...(truncated)...

MOSS und IE8

(Indexed 2009-03-11):

Seit dem Erscheinen der ersten Beta-Version vom IE8 taucht immer wieder die Frage auf, ob SharePoint-Seiten auch mit dem IE8 richtig dargestellt werden. Zwar stammen sowohl SharePoint, als auch der IE8 von Microsoft, doch leider reicht diese Verwandtschaft nicht aus, um das problemlose Anzeigen sicherzustellen. Michael Nemtsev hat in seinem Blog einen interessanten Artikel verfasst. Er beschreibt hier, wie man durch das Setzen eines Meta-Tags in der Masterpage den IE8 in den Kompatibilittsmodus...(truncated)...

What to spend your end of year budget on...

(Indexed 2009-03-11):

For many schools its that time of year where you find a bit of money in a budget and you have to spend it. Instead of buying a few computers why not to try and get some professional development for yourself.If you have or looking at getting SharePoint in the coming months there are 2 great conferences coming up. One is local to the UK the other is in the US - maybe you can get them to push the boat out ;-)European SharePoint Best Practice Conference, 6th - 8th April, Queen Elizabeth II Confere...(truncated)...

Error: File not found

(Indexed 2009-03-10):

File not found I got this error second time in two months so I thought I would share my experience with the readers. As you may know, there could be several reasons for this error. If you google internet for this specific SharePoint error, you will find a couple of posts discussing the issue: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/conversation.aspx?messageid=29254...(truncated)... http://dattard.blogspot.com/2008/05/file-not-found-error.html As you will notice in the above two posts, in both cases the...(re...(truncated)...

10 Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions

(Indexed 2009-03-10):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd458798.aspx Some tips about writing testable code and deploying SharePoint solutions!...(read more)[Image]

Can I have SharePoint Installed on my Netbook with Win2k8?

(Indexed 2009-03-10):

Netbooks have been around for about 18 months now since the ASUS eee first appeared on our shelves. This time last year I heard HP were creating a netbook and being a bit of HP fan I decided I wanted to try on. I feel I am always on the move, from one meeting at work to another or driving someone to talk about SharePoint or the Learning Gateway. So when a HP MiniNote 2133 arrived on my desk I fell in love with it. A year later and I still love it now. I was disappointed with the speed of Vista...(truncated)...

SharePoint and SQL Licensing

(Indexed 2009-03-10):

Every time I think I have a handle on licensing, I turn out to be wrong. A co-worker brought this to my attention the other day. It appears that for every licensed SharePoint user who accesses a SharePoint site, an additional SQL Server CAL must also be purchased. This nearly doubles the cost of deploying SharePoint on any significant scale. I didn't want to believe this, because my assumption had been that since the SharePoint service account accesses data on behalf of the user, a SQL li...(truncated)...

SQL 2008 Annoyances

(Indexed 2009-03-10):

My job is divided between SQL and SharePoint consulting. This week I am doing lots of SQL work with SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition.Something I have noticed in this edition is that the SQL Server Management Studio does not seem to hide the functionality I don't have. There are all kinds of Enterprise-only features, such as Backup Compression, Encryption, and Auditing, which appear to be available in the GUI-- even though Standard Edition can't use them. So since I don't have the ...(truncated)...

This Blog has Moved

(Indexed 2009-03-06):

This blog has now moved. I'll continue to cross post relevant SharePoint articles here, but if you would like to stay current with my latest postings, please follow me at the new location:URL: http://www.lifeonplanetgroove.comRSS Feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/LifeOnPlanetGrooveSharepointTha...(truncated)...

Performance Optimizations for Large Programmatic User Profile Imports

(Indexed 2009-03-06):

Note: Cross posted from Life on Planet Groove. PermalinkI’m working on a project that imports over 1 million users from an Oracle database used with SharePoint/Forms Authentication into the SharePoint user profile store. This is done as a custom SharePoint timer job that pulls the users from the DB and creates/updates User Profiles through the SharePoint API.When running a job on a recordset of this size, there are several things to strive for:Limit the time that the process needs to run (...(truncated)...

The SharePoint recycle bin entry that just won't die

(Indexed 2009-03-05):

As I have blathered on about before in painful and agonizing detail, it is possible to delete a SharePoint object that is too large for the recycle bin to digest. In my case, the object is a single document library containing 140,000 items that run to about 78 gigabytes. Unlike the Windows recycle bin, the SharePoint recycle bin will accept this JabbaTheHutt-like monstrosity without complaint, but when it comes time to purge it (after 30 days is the default), the Recycle Bin Timer job runs about...(truncated)...

Use case: Integrating lists from different sites

(Indexed 2009-03-05):

We had a SharePoint site that was organized as shown on the following picture.[Image]Each project had it's own site but in each document library wewanted to connect a document with an asset stored in a central site andunique custom list. Read more...SharePoint Use Cases[Image]

Install directories are imporant for Project Server 2007 and MOSS 2007

(Indexed 2009-03-04):

I was recently working at a clients that had begun installing (on their own) Project Server 2007 into their MOSS environment. However they were having all sorts of issues provisioning the PWA site. Once we finally managed to get PWA provisioned, we began receiving an error that the language could not be determine. This was Project's strange way of telling us that it can't find the Project Server web services. As it turns out, the PSI web services files (which are suppose to be part o...(truncated)...

SharePoint Blogs

(Indexed 2009-03-04):

Christophe from Path to SharePoint has a nice list of SharePoint Blogsby Technorati Authority, and I am happy to inform you that my blogimproved it’s rating a lot in last few months and I would like to thankyou all for reading and sharing this blog. Check the full list ofSharePoint Blogs by Technorati Authority here…Read more...[Image][Image]

Quick tips: Managing closed web parts and calendar filtering

(Indexed 2009-03-03):

Here are two quick tips:1. Managing closed web partsA customer emailed me in a panic... He closed a web part and thought he lost the entire content. :). Here is a nice article by Mark Miller that explains how to solve this problem. Read more... [Image]

At the MVP Global Summit

(Indexed 2009-03-03):

Body: I'm attending the Microsoft MVP Global Summit this week and we're getting sneak peeks at the coming Office/SharePoint 14. VERY cool stuff. Of course, it's all under NDA right now J Suffice it to say YOU'RE GONNA LOVE SHAREPOINT 14! Later C Published: 3/3/2009 11:57 AM...(read more)[Image]

State of the Search

(Indexed 2009-03-03):

So...I've been holding off on this post for a few days now because I couldn't determine if this information was "in the wild" yet. But it turns out that it's been reported on by at least one other blog post, so if this was protected info, I'm not the guy who released it! :)That said... here's the deal. Microsoft is doing a Wal-Mart rollback on ESP (FAST Search) for SharePoint! If you have an EA with Microsoft that includes MOSS, then you can "add on" ESP for SharePoint for...(truncated)...

How Sharepoint Geek Proposes for Marriage

(Indexed 2009-03-02):

INTRODUCTIONJust thought of sharing this with you as I was blessed with a beautiful girl of whom I just proposed yesterday. Anyway, please visit our website at http://www.tommyfrancesca.com and it's fully created using CompleteSharepoint.NET (http://www.completesharepoint.net) - a content management system built on top of WSS 3.0. Cheers everyone. [Image] [Image] [Image] [Image]

Guide to SharePoint Performance Optimization

(Indexed 2009-03-02):

I have been interested on the best practices on analyzing SharePoint Performance issues and how to solve them, find in this blog post SharePoint Performance optimizationsHere I will elaborate more on some steps to do on your environment to enhance the performance (Some of these techniques were mentioned on Andrew Connell's Book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development):URL Ping Tool: custom tool (developed by MS team) that recorded the time to first byte for URLs hoste...(truncated)...

The Enigma of Anonymous Access

(Indexed 2009-02-27):

I had an interesting day troubleshooting an elusive issue with anonymous authentication for SharePoint farm at a customer site. Their farm is a network load balanced deployment: [Image] There are three web applications for the farm (as noted above): Portal, Mysite, and SSPAdmin. Portal is configured to use Anonymous authentication; MySite and SSPAdmin are configured for no anonymous access. The security architecture of Portal is designed so that it can be used by both domain and non-domain us...(truncated)...

Everything's amazing, nobody's happy

(Indexed 2009-02-27):

Saw this video and makes so much sense. Earlier this week got some support email asking users to call support before trying something on SharePoint because it is “Microsoft not Apple” … we expect for a perfect system.. no one works for it, everyone hopes for someone to fix it or create and then *** some more . All software you like is just a preference to some extent you are made to like it. Consciously or sub consciously. Everything out there is good and bad, yes even firefo...(truncated)...

Display Video from document library in SharePoint Blogs using Jquery

(Indexed 2009-02-27):

SharePoint Blogs OOB filters out all the html for embedding any kind of video in them. I use Windows live writer for my Blog post. I use one of the plug-in I think, but even though it wont embed the video within SharePoint it will show take a screenshot of the video and link to the external site, which is fine for me. To Display local intranet videos within blog takes bit of work, either hyperlink to media file or Content Editor web part for embedded code. I using Jquery to accomplish this.Inst...(truncated)...

SharePoint Login Prompt after windows password reset

(Indexed 2009-02-26):

I encounter this issue every once a while, company policy makes me use my password algorithm to change my password, which in turn leads to annoying login prompts every time I try to get on to SharePoint or use Office application connected to SharePoint site. Here are steps to fix it in Windows XP (I doubt it is that different in Vista but you never know). Go To: Start > Control Panel> User Accounts Click on Advanced Tab > Click Manage Passwords > Remove the Entry of the SharePoint site. ...(truncated)...

One Note Web View and SharePoint Integration

(Indexed 2009-02-26):

One Note: "Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides people one place to gather their notes and information, powerful search to find what they are looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks so that they can manage information overload and work together more effectively." from Microsoft More on One Note click links below http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HA101686341033.aspx Webcasts: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/webcasts/HA102547531033.aspx Out of th...(truncated)...

MetaBlog API should be fixed now

(Indexed 2009-02-26):

[Image]Ive updated sharepointblogs.com to fix an issue with the MetaBlog API (so apps like Windows Live Writer should work).  Set your offline posting tool to use www.sharepointblogs.com/[blogname]/metablog.ashx as the remote posting URL. Note: Tags are still being cleared out automatically dont bother adding tags (categories) to your posts until we determine the nature of the performance issues were experiencing with them.[Image]

Can I use Live writer or word to post on Sharepoint blogs?

(Indexed 2009-02-26):

Didnt know where to ask this question. I like live writer on SharePoint blogs and would like to use to post here and also back it up. So is there a way. I triedd comunity server setting ... didnot work. If anyone has got this to work please post in a comment. [Image]

Code Monkey Hates SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-02-24):

The SharePoint Developer Maturity Model. The other ‘MS’ has a problem. Those gnarly developers that write your software on the smell off an oily Pizza Box emerge from a four day MOSS training course and sware (and I quote) “I don’t care what they told you, I’m never going to do SharePoint development.” As Jeremy Thake’s excellent blog post has already covered, Microsoft just threw in the towel when it came to documenting and supporting the product for us...(truncated)...

Iranian Microsoft MVPs et Tehran's SharePoint User Group

(Indexed 2009-02-23):

We had a great SharePoint User Group meeting, 7th of February at Tehran. [Image]I know two Iranian Microsoft SharePoint MVPs (if you are third, I'll be more than happy to hear from you); first one is Mr. Reza Alirezaie, a really nice guy who is pretty mature at SharePoint development and architecture. Second one is me who invited Reza and some other Iranian SharePoint Bloggers to attend and have a free and friendly talk.At the beginning Reza talked about infrastructure and server farm enviro...(truncated)...

SharePoint Custom Application Pages and Custom Action Features: did you know this?

(Indexed 2009-02-22):

At the moment I am reading Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to prepare for the Microsoft Certified Master SharePoint program. I consider myself an experienced SharePoint developer, but I came across a couple of basic facts that I didn't know or wasn't fully aware of. The first tip: when you are creating custom Application Pages for SharePoint 2007 (WSS and MOSS alike) your page should inherit from Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.LayoutsPageBase. I never realized that the...(truncated)...

SharePoint Konferenz 2009 - Mein Interview mit Michael Greth

(Indexed 2009-02-22):

Auf der SharePoint Konferenz 2009 in Mnchen hat Michael Greth ein Interview mit mir gefhrt. Dieses hat er nun im Rahmen einer Ausgabe seines SharePoint Podcasts verffentlicht.Wer sich dieses Interview bzw. den ganzen Podcast nochmals anhren mchte - hier ist der Link: http://mediap1.roadkast.com/sharepointpodcast/SPPD-112-2009-...(truncated)...

Help! Bug: Using Site Directory to Create Site Collections

(Indexed 2009-02-22):

Hi All,Today I will pose this blog post as a question rather than an essay. I've run into what might be a bug, or an intentional limitation of MOSS. It appears that when you configure the MOSS Site Directory to create site collections (rather than subsites under http://yourportal/SiteDirectory) the meta data you collect about the site is not actually added to the Site Directory. If you switch back to having it create subsites, it begins working again.I've been researching this weirdne...(truncated)...

VSTO 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services v3.0, v1.3 - Feb 2009 CTP

(Indexed 2009-02-21):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b2c...(truncated)... more)[Image]

Sharepoint tools support in Visual Studio 2010

(Indexed 2009-02-21):

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/19/sharepoin...(truncated)... more)[Image]

Content Editor WebPart: Twitter

(Indexed 2009-02-21):

I don't know about anywhere else in the world but Twitter seems to be going through the roof here in the UK. You go on the radio and someone is talking about twitter or they are getting comments from it, TV shows are talking about, newspapers etc.I've been using twitter since about July 08 and have found it a great way to communicate but since Christmas I have been on it a lot more as more people join. http://www.twitter.com/apearce_bfcI'm not going to claim any of this work but you...(truncated)...

Inadequate Resources to Support the Implementation - Part 2: The oversight weve been paying for all these years

(Indexed 2009-02-20):

In Part 1 of my series titled Inadequate Resources to Support the Implementation, I spoke about the ease of entry into the role of the SharePoint Administrator. Way too often, it is on a whim or in passing that someone is asked to “dabble” in the setup or site provisioning of SharePoint. Little did we know, sometime over the next year of our lives, we’d be asked to pose for the cover of Van Halen’s 5150[Image] album. That’s right people. We back Sammy in this bl...(truncated)...

Using SPDisposeCheck in Visual Studio

(Indexed 2009-02-20):

One of the things that I like to use in Visual Studio 05 & 08 is the external tools. After the much anticipated release of the SPDisposeCheck from Microsoft via codeplex (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/01/29/spdispo...(truncated)... I thought...this would make a pretty cool External Tool. Here is how I set it up......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint server fails to boot at ACPITABL.DAT

(Indexed 2009-02-19):

Body: My WSS server that hosts this blog, decided to crap out after a storm. It was a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition server, but not a R2 server. It would boot but only so far and then it would reset itself and restart the boot process. I booted the server in Safe Mode in order to see where the problem was. The boot cycle would fail at the ACPITABL.DAT file. Searching Google and Live.com didn't yield too much help other than that a "Repair Install" is probably going to be required......(truncated)...

Agregando un Archivo WSP al Servidor de SharePoint sin el Prompt de D.O.S.

(Indexed 2009-02-18):

Todo Programador o Administrator de SharePoint en algn momento ha tenido la necesidad de agregar un archivo solucin ( WSP ) al Servidor de SharePoint. Esto se puede lograr fcilmente en un ambiente de desarrollo, en los cules podramos usar herramientas cmo WSPBuilder o STSDEV. En un ambiente distinto usualmente se utilizan batch files o el prompt de D.O.S. para agregarlos. No es problema utilizar cualquiera de las mencionadas tcnicas, pero por...(read more)[Image]

Adding a WSP to the SharePoint Farm without the Command Line Prompt

(Indexed 2009-02-18):

Every SharePoint Developer or Administrator at a given point in time has had the need to add a solution file ( WSP ) to their SharePoint Farm. While in a development environment, one can take advantage of WSPBuilder or STSDev. In a non development environment one usually uses batch files or the command line. There is nothing wrong with either of these approaches, although it is much easier to perform this task in a User Interface. With this in mind, I finally developed a small utility that does ...(truncated)...

SharePoint User Group UK: B'ham - Future Topics

(Indexed 2009-02-18):

Thanks to everyone who attended last night.It was my first involvement standing at the front of a SUGUK event and I really enjoyed it. Thanks to Steve for inviting me to join him at the front. Thanks also to Andrew Woodward for jumping in at the end to help answer some of the question. Andrew blogs over at www.21apps.com if you don't read his blog already.Here are a few links from last nightNintex - http://www.nintex.com/Fab 40 Site Templates - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsse...(truncated)...

Cleveland SharePoint User Group

(Indexed 2009-02-17):

If you work around Cleveland area, I strongly recommend attending Cleveland SharePoint User Group. [Image]Melissa Lucarelli, who is good friend of mine, runs this group with full dedication. One such example is related to rescheduling of the cancelled event due to the winter storm. Cancelling the event would have been easy choice but she decided not to do. She followed up with all registered users individually and informed them of the new date. It was a very well attended event. Speaker Rob ...(truncated)...

Use case: Integrating SharePoint with LOB applications

(Indexed 2009-02-16):

Last week I was listening to SharePoint Pod Show - Episode #16 where Brett interviewed Todd Bleeker.Todd presented some of the benefits of custom SharePoint field typeswhich reminded me of a project we have finished few days ago.ProblemA customer wanted to integrate proprietary LOB system (projectmanagement application) with SharePoint. Their requirement was simple:they wanted to show a list of their clients and projects as SharePointdocument library columns.Read more...[Image][Image]

SharePoint Moodle Web Parts

(Indexed 2009-02-16):

As a school we have decided to evaluate Moodle for a VLE for our school. The main reasons we have done this is because of the course builder with built in quizs and SCORM builders.[Image]I have to say they are very well built. They are not page viewers like some companies make for their SharePoint webparts but these are written to look at the Moodle database and give you the information presented in a proper ASP webpart. I'm very pleased to see this happen.What caught my eye straight away...(truncated)...

SharePoint Konferenz 2009 - Nachlese

(Indexed 2009-02-15):

Fr mich persnlich war die SharePoint Konferenz 2009 in Mnchen ein interessantes Erlebnis. Ich hatte Gelegenheit, diese Konferenz als offizieller Sprecher zu erleben und -ich gebe es gerne zu- es war ein schnes Gefhl, einen Vortrag vor der groen Leinwand und den aufsteigenden Stuhlreihen im Kino zu halten. Wider Erwarten hielt sich auch das Lampenfieber in vertretbarebn Grenzen.Ich hatte aber auch Gelegenheit, viele interessante Gesprche in den Pausen und beim Mittagessen zu fhren. Viele Besucher...(truncated)...

SharePoint Best Practices and SPTechCon Slide decks

(Indexed 2009-02-13):

Well I have finally made it back home after a long few weeks on the road. I had a great time and met a lot of great people at the SPTechCon in San Francisco (my favorite city by far) and at the SharePoint Best Practices conference in San Diego (great weather there). Both conferences were a great success and the people who attended were ready to learn and interact. I always find that people including myself get a lot more out of a session that is an interactive open forum type rather than the pre...(truncated)...

Guess who's back?

(Indexed 2009-02-12):

Well, despite my efforts to the contrary I am back in the world of SharePoint again. Not that I don't like working with SharePoint. Actually I really enjoy the challenge of making this versatile tool useful for my user community. Learning the ins and outs of something new helps make the days pass quickly most of the time and although it can be frustrating at times (well a lot actually) there is a certain reward when you get a user that lights up and says "Wow, that's pretty cool!"However...(truncated)...

Filtering for SQL Injection in IIS7

(Indexed 2009-02-12):

One of the most common attacks against websites is a SQL Injection attack. What is a SQL Injection Attack?This is targeted against websites that have a database on the back end. The most common scenario uses the username/password field. Normally a web site visitor would enter his username and password and the webpage would then query the database to find if the username on record matched the submitted password. For example: Select count(*) from Users where username = 'John' and pas...(truncated)...

SharePoint Blogs Update: Mirrored Feeds

(Indexed 2009-02-12):

Just in case you missed the forum post on the actual SharePoint Blogs site, due to popular demand, we've split the "mirrored" blogs from the "local" blogs on our main page and on our main feed. When you sign in to the site and click "SharePoint Blogs" in the navigation bar, you'll see the two selections for "SharePoint Blogs Bloggers" and "Mirrored SharePoint Blogs". You can get the mirrored blogs (only) feed here: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/spblogsmirrored. That's all for now -...(truncated)...

Use case: Integrating Microsoft Office SharePoint with Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Part 2

(Indexed 2009-02-12):

Last week, in the part 1,I wrote about possible integration scenarios for SharePoint and CRM. Inthis post I am going to explain which products you can use to integratethe two. Read more...[Image][Image]

SharePoint SuperStar! Workshop

(Indexed 2009-02-11):

Last week Mark Miller invited me to join SharePoint SuperStar! Workshop hosted by Mark and Paul Grenier. I have been working with SharePoint for a number of years now but I have never seen such a powerful but easy to use solutions. There is another online session scheduled for this Friday, which I highly recommend [Image] Learn more...As a participant you will receive a number of free web parts, and here are my favorites:Expand/Collapse All Groups[Image]Calendar Preview Pane[Image]Expand / Colla...(truncated)...

Using UserControls in SharePoint web parts

(Indexed 2009-02-11):

If you want to use UserControls in SharePoint web parts you can use SmartPart (http://www.codeplex.com/smartpart). But you can also build a web part that load a UserControl yourself. If you want to do it yourself you start out by opening Visual Studio (whether you use 2005 or 2008 doesn't matter). Next you create a new project of the type "ASP.NET Web Application". [Image] Then you can add a new class to the project and you make sure that it inherits from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts....(truncated)...

SharePoint Podshow and Office 2007 Adoption

(Indexed 2009-02-11):

In last few months I have been listening to SharePoint Podshow, apodcast show about SharePoint and related technologies. Show is hostedby Nick Swan, Brett Lonsdale and Rob Foster. Show delivers interesting information about SharePoint, ISV products and interviews with key people from SharePoint community. Read more...[Image]

SharePoint User Group UK - 17th Feb - Birmingham

(Indexed 2009-02-11):

[Image]The 17th February sees my first involvement at the SharePoint User Group UK. I've been attending as many sessions as I can in the UK since September 2007 and the group has grown massively over the last few years. I even attended a session at the New York User Group back in August which I really enjoyedThis time around its back in Birmingham - my home town and I was very excited to be asked to help in the evenings topics which include user adoption, document management, out of the bo...(truncated)...

The Server Revolution

(Indexed 2009-02-10):

Moving the server from the data-centre to the desktop Lifting my gaze from the code for a few seconds, one of the things that has always stuck we with SharePoint is the similarity its impact has on businesses to the PC Revolution. The same arguments for and against central control, the same immaturity of tools, the same gist of ‘user empowerment’, and the same fears and demarcation lines are surfacing. I like analogies – they provide a framework and a perspective from which to ...(truncated)...

SharePoint development Books

(Indexed 2009-02-10):

I have received a lot of request the past two weeks about good SharePoint development books, here my preferred list[Image] [Image] [Image][Image]

Add a Banner to your SharePoint Site

(Indexed 2009-02-10):

There are several ways to add a banner to the top of your SharePoint site like below.[Image] The banner sits in your global breadcrumb so you need to think about your design of your image[Image] I create my images in Adobe Photoshop and this is the only additional tool used in this how to. Open up your image editor (Photoshop) and start with a blank canvas that is width of 2200px and height of 100px. When your SharePoint page loads it will load this image from the left hand side so any images l...(truncated)...

SharePoint Application Templates 101

(Indexed 2009-02-10):

When it comes to SharePoint, the most important feature is the abilityto manage your documents from a central location with all these coolfeatures like versioning, permissions, workflows and stuff. Once youmaster the basics, you will find that SharePoint is a great applicationplatform and can be used to build some extraordinary applicationswithout any programming knowledge. Read more...[Image][Image]

Configure this

(Indexed 2009-02-09):

A List of WSS and MOSS Site Definitions and Configurations MS already has a good list of all the OOTB content types here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms452896.aspx ( have a look in C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12TEMPLATEFEATURESctypesctypeswss.xml), but I thought I would share another piece of reference material I often use - all those "Out Of The Box" Site Definition Configurations. You know, all those 'site template' choices...(read more)[...(truncated)...

Silverlight SlideShow for SharePoint Picture Libraries

(Indexed 2009-02-09):

This is way cool. So as I'm preparing for this SharePoint Master training, I'm working through some site customization. I started playing with a hosted WSS 3.0 site to see what I could do without writing a single line of compiled code.I hit a big roadblock when I wanted to use a picture library as a source for an animated slideshow. I can't upload custom webparts to the site because I don't have the rights to deploy solutions or features or to manipulate the web.config. So I ...(truncated)...

New Online Training Classes: SharePoint Planning - The Business Comes First! (... and more!)

(Indexed 2009-02-09):

Hello everyone! Here at SharePoint Experts, we are expanding our training offerings in some new and very exciting ways! Starting the week of February 9th, we are hosting five Three Hour Tours highlighting popular SharePoint topics such as...The Data View Web Part: Deep Dive! - Learn moreFebruary 9, 2009, 1:00 PM - 4:00PM CSTSharePoint Features: What's the Big Deal? - Learn moreFebruary 10, 2009, 1:00 PM - 4:00PM CSTBrand It!: SharePoint Branding, from Start to Finish - Learn MoreFebruary 1...(truncated)...

How to: SharePoint Datenbanken verschieben

(Indexed 2009-02-09):

Im SharePoint-Umfeld ist das Verschieben der Datenbanken von SharePoint-Installationen ein immer wiederkehrendes Thema. Hierzu habe ich bereits frher einmal eine bebilderte Anleitung erstellt, aber nun hat Microsoft eine offizielle Vorgehensweise verffentlicht. In zwei WORD-Dokumenten beschreibt Microsoft, wie man Datenbanken auf dem gleichen Server verschiebt und wie man SharePoint-Datenbanken von einem Server auf einen anderen Server verschiebt. Fr alle, die sich mit der Projektierung von Shar...(truncated)...

CompleteSharepoint.NET in Action - CMS Built on top of WSS 3.0 - www.bmuu.com.au

(Indexed 2009-02-08):

INTRODUCTIONSeveral months ago I wrote a simple Content Management System (CMS) built on top of WSS 3.0 called CompleteSharepoint.NET (http://www.completesharepoint.net). I've just got a client who is currently using it in action.http://www.bmuu.com.au[Image][Image] For more information about CompleteSharepoint.NET please go to http://www.completesharepoint.net or http://www.codeplex.com/completesharepoint. Please note that this is still in BETA and will have ongoing code upgrade. Cheers,Tom...(truncated)...

Use case: Integrating Microsoft Office SharePoint with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

(Indexed 2009-02-05):

Few weeks ago I taught Course 8912A: Customization and Configuration in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and a student asked an interesting question: How should I integrate SharePoint and CRM? Here are some of my advices and experiences on this topic. Read more...[Image] [Image]

New book: Building content types in SharePoint 2007

(Indexed 2009-02-04):

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New MSDN Article: Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007

(Indexed 2009-02-04):

MSDN has published a new article written by a fellow MVP Scot Hillier. This is an excellent article that shows how one can integrate external document repositories like Documentum, etc with SharePoint server 2007. It's not a web part but a complete solution where external repositories can participate in workflows and use task lists and extensible metadata. This is a cutting-edge article. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd440954.aspx...(read more)[Image]

Twitter web part for SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-02-04):

I love Twitter. I started using it a couple of weeks ago and I am starting to get hooked on it. Of course I also love SharePoint, so what would be better then to combine the two by having a Twitter web part that displays the tweets in your public timeline in your SharePoint environment.Aidan Garnish has build the web part and blogged about it. The blog and the download of the web part can be found here.I installed the web part and it works like a charm. [Image]Very cool![Image]

Top 5 benefits of Sharepoint check-in/check-out

(Indexed 2009-02-04):

When planning a SharePoint site, you will need to plan check-in andcheck-out. Each document library allows you to check-in/out documentsand this feature cannot be turned off. On the other hand you cancontrol if check-in/check-out will be required to edit documents. Read more...[Image] [Image]

SharePoint 14 is comming !

(Indexed 2009-02-03):

SharePoint 14 will be present at SharePoint Conference 2009, at Los Vegas, NV 19-22 October 2009.This promise to be the biggest and the best SharePoint Conference yet. register here and get 300$ discount.[Image]I couldn't join for SharePoint Conference 2008, because of those Visa things, nor at 2009 Microsoft MVP Global Summit, even when I have an official invitation and supporting letter from an attorney at Microsoft, Redmond !!! so I'll not trying anymore for this really amazing event....(truncated)...

How to Display SharePoint Blog Post Archives

(Indexed 2009-02-03):

While browsing End User SharePoint Forums I stumbled upon an interesting questions from idosp:How does one go about setting up an Archiving list ona SharePoint OOB blog? Where all the Nov 2008 entries display? Dec2008? Jan 2009, etc.? Can this be done with OOB?Read entire article...[Image]

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 Announced

(Indexed 2009-02-03):

The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 has been announced!http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/spc2009.aspxA whole conference about SharePoint "14" for IT Professionals, IT Decision Makers, Architects and Developers.And this time we get to go to Las Vegas instead of Bellevue. Let's have some fun! ;-)http://www.helloitsliam.com/archive/2009/02/03/microsoft-...(truncated)... [Image]

Nice post about Podcasting kit for SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-02-03):

A nice post by Michael Gannotti about Podcasting kit for SharePoint: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/Lists/Posts/Post...(truncated)... kit available on Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/pks...(read more)[Image]

New SharePoint Training Available

(Indexed 2009-01-31):

At SharePoint Experts we are expanding our training offerings! I am excited about the new sessions we are hosting, the unique learning environment we are creating, and the innovative classes we are in the process of authoring. Starting the week of February 9th, we are hosting five Three Hour Tours highlighting popular SharePoint topics such as... The Data View Web Part: Deep Dive! - Find out more February 9, 2009, 1:00 PM - 4:00PM CST SharePoint Features: What's the Big Deal? - Find out more...(truncated)...

Free web part download: Show Icons for External Links

(Indexed 2009-01-30):

I found the article from Paul Grenier concerning jQuery and managing external links so compelling that I packed up a web part for use on sites. Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs Read More......(read more)[Image]

Notes on SharePoint and CRM integration

(Indexed 2009-01-30):

A came by a cool post today on http://www.sharepointusecases.com/ discussing basic integration possibilities between SharePoint and CRM. I thought it was worth mentioning:http://www.sharepointusecases.com/index.php/2009/...(truncated)... a few other idea's on use cases:Delivering sales data to a SharePoint dashboard. Could also bring any data that is stored in CRM - support tickets, service activites, event detailsCombining SharePoint sites with CRM entities - Project Workspaces, Account/Cas...(truncated)...

Help! I killed the edit menu on all the web parts on my SharePoint page

(Indexed 2009-01-30):

As Paul and I were testing the environment for tomorrow's workshop, I dumped a web part on the page that I expected to hide the 'View' menu on a list or library. Well, not only did it knockout the View menu, it also took out the functionality Read More......(read more)[Image]

Encuesta Sobre Workflows de SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-30):

El manejo Corporativo de Procesos es un tema apasionante sin lugar a dudas y Sharepoint 2007 dio un gran paso al incluir mejoras en este sentido, inclusive con un generador de flujos en SharePoint Designer que relativamente soluciona varios problemas Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint NEWS! 01/09

(Indexed 2009-01-30):

Se termina enero, y aqui les dejo un compilado de las mejores ULTIMAS noticias sobre el mundo SharePoint. 1 - Como utilizar Google Analitics con SharePoint 2007 muy buen articulo sobre todo para portales externos o internet Facing. 2 - Abrir una planilla Read More......(read more)[Image]

Video: BackSeat Driving With Michael PerformancePoint and SharePoint With Rory

(Indexed 2009-01-30):

URL: Video: BackSeat Driving With Michael PerformancePoint and SharePoint With Rory Body: In this episode of BackSeat Driving Microsoft SharePoint Product Manager Rory Richardson discuss the recent PerformancePoint announcement, and its implications Read More......(read more)[Image]

Feedback: Become Your Companys SharePoint Superstar

(Indexed 2009-01-30):

The first session of Become Your Company's SharePoint Superstar is completed. We played to a "packed house" online, with all seats being taken plus a waiting list for the next session. This space is for the participants to give their feedback Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint: why are my custom content type forms empty?

(Indexed 2009-01-30):

Okay, this is the hit of the month for me. Well, we had to use custom forms with some content types. Everything went fine until all those custom forms showed up empty. No errors on screen, no errors in log files, no errors in event log. Also diagnostic Read More......(read more)[Image]

Back to blogging Podcasting Kit News

(Indexed 2009-01-30):

Zunchst bedanke ich mich mal bei dem fiesen Virus, der mich in den letzten zwei Wochen heingesucht hat und worunter nicht nur das Bloggen sondern auch der SharePointPodcast gelitten hat. Aber so langsam geht es wieder .. Und da gibt es Neuigkeiten vom Read More......(read more)[Image]

Free, Online Sessions - NYC SPUG and Seamless Teamwork Study Group

(Indexed 2009-01-28):

Next Wednesday, February 4, is going to be a busy day. I’ll be working with Michael Sampson to deliver the first, live online SharePoint Study Group session. We’ll be doing some introductions, talking about Michael’s book, Seamless Teamwork Read More......(read more)[Image]

A Personal Note Regarding the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in San Diego

(Indexed 2009-01-28):

Body: As most of you know, I was scheduled to speak at the SharePoint Best Practices conference in San Diego next week. Alas, it was not meant to be. My wife is eight months pregnant and has been having a rough time of it. Odds are that we'll be welcoming Read More......(read more)[Image]

IE6 print CSS PNG-24 with the AlphaImageLoader DX filter causing issues

(Indexed 2009-01-28):

Technorati Tags: CSS,error If youre one of the criminals using IE6s print function, please upgrade. You are causing web developers extra headaches Yesterday I was solving a print styling issue in IE6. It basically looked wrong in IE6, so wrong that I couldnt even recognise the output. I noticed that elements with a DX filter (AlphaImageLoader) were getting displaced. The AlphaImageLoader DX filter is used to get IE6 render PNG-24 images correctly. Your CSS file might have the following proper...(truncated)...

Creating a Bootable USB Flash Drive

(Indexed 2009-01-28):

Found these useful when I wanted to install Windows Server 2008 R2 beta from a USB drive ... Creating Bootable Vista / Windows 7 USB Flash Drive Turn any USB flash drive or HDD into a bootable Windows 7 installer Mark Harrison Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Read More......(read more)[Image]

How to Move Groove Data Files

(Indexed 2009-01-28):

Needed to move my Groove Data files from my primary partition - Ian Palangio had the solution ... How to Move Groove Data Files Mark Harrison Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Accessibility Resources

(Indexed 2009-01-28):

From Sanjay Narang ... ... a comprehensive list of SharePoint Accessibility Resources . Mark Harrison Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs Read More......(read more)[Image]

Enviar Recordatorios y Alertas desde SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-27):

Otro de los proyectos Gratuitos y que personalmente veo como muy util es esta solucion publicada en CodeProject que nos permite configurar un sistema de Recordatorios, Alarmas o Alertas desde SharePoint, y como siempre, la mejor parte es que es totalmente Read More......(read more)[Image]

Hoy : WebCast Commerce Server 2009 MOJAVE

(Indexed 2009-01-27):

Estimados lectores, en unas horas estare dictando el WebCast Referido a Commerce Server 2009 MOJAVE el cual ya se encuentra en version RC1. Integrado a SharePoint. Martes 27 de Enero - Commerce Server 2009 MOJAVE En esta sesin ofreceremos una visin Read More......(read more)[Image]

Free WebPart de Cumpleaos en SharePoint!

(Indexed 2009-01-27):

Personalmente este es un WebPArt que estaba esperando desde hace tiempo, ya que en la mayoria de las implementaciones de Portales Internos, la lista de Cumpleaeros es uno de los requisitos que Recursos Humanos solicita en el 90% de los proyectos, y bien Read More......(read more)[Image]

Free SharePoint Statistics Reports Application!

(Indexed 2009-01-27):

Esta nueva herramienta de MAPILab realmente es una de esas joyas que se encuentran muy poco, se trata de una completa aplicacion, integrada a SharePoint que nos muestra los reportes de uso, acceso y demas, mediante el uso de graficas muy llamativas, si Read More......(read more)[Image]

TDD in SharePoint Using DI - Summary

(Indexed 2009-01-27):

This post is part of a series on Test Driven Development - Using Dependency InjectionIn this 5 part series we refactored the solution developed in our white paper Unit Testing SharePoint - Getting into the Object Model to make the code more testable Read More......(read more)[Image]

Upload from SPTechCon

(Indexed 2009-01-27):

So Todd and I are here at www.SPTechCon.com speaking and the class wants this deck so I am uploading it. http://sharepoint911.com/Downloads/Hurry Up.pdf Hi class Here is a sweet set of cow jokes you all can tell Todd to impress him. http://sharepoint911 Read More......(read more)[Image]

Free Podcasting Kit For SharePoint Configured Virtual Image Available For Download

(Indexed 2009-01-27):

URL: Free Podcasting Kit For SharePoint Configured Virtual Image Available For Download Body: So you have been dying to get your hands on the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint but are short on time, infrastructure to set up a test area, or are intimidated Read More......(read more)[Image]

Publication Schedule: January 26 - January 30, 2009

(Indexed 2009-01-26):

At the beginning of each week, I send an email to the authors at EndUserSharePoint.com, announcing the schedule for the upcoming week. It just occurred to me as I punched this week’s ’send’ button, that the schedule might be of interest Read More......(read more)[Image]

Become your companys SharePoint Superstar in less than two hours

(Indexed 2009-01-26):

“Become Your Company’s SharePoint Superstart!“ is a special , live on-line session for SharePoint Power Users, the ones with all the responsibility and no authority to touch the servers. You know who you are. “Please manage the Read More......(read more)[Image]

Hoy : WEBCAST!

(Indexed 2009-01-26):

Se los habia comentado hace unos dias, pero hoy lunes voy a estar dictando el siguiente WebCast : Lunes 26 de Enero - SharePoint ONLINE Extendiendo los ServiciosAprenda a acceder a los archivos y datos de SharePoint y a manipularlos en forma remota con Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Iphone Wallpapers

(Indexed 2009-01-26):

La SharePointmania puede afectarlos en varios sentidos y si no queres dejar de ver tu producto favorito hasta cuando hables por telefono, pues ya cuentas con los Backgrounds Personalizados para poner en el Iphone o en cualquier otro telefono que soporte Read More......(read more)[Image]

Free MOSS Toolbar

(Indexed 2009-01-26):

Otro Freebie para la comunidad SharePoint, en este caso se trata de una Toolbar que se instala automaticamente en nuestro navegador y que podemos configurar para el acceso a nuestros vinculos mas frecuentes dentro del portal y el Buscador Integrado. Link Read More......(read more)[Image]

ISV Innovation - product training webcasts

(Indexed 2009-01-25):

Some great product training webcasts on the ISV Innovation site ... 2007 Office System Windows Vista SQL Server Visual Studio Windows Mobile Windows Server 2008 Mark Harrison Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs Read More......(read more)[Image]

Filter by an Empty Field

(Indexed 2009-01-24):

I ran into a little quirk this morning that turned out to have an interesting solution. When authors submit articles to the Article Submission Library at EndUserSharePoint.com, there is a date column named “Actual Publication Date” to compare Read More......(read more)[Image]

Microsoft BI Roadmap Update SharePoint gets Performance Point

(Indexed 2009-01-24):

Microsoft has updated its roadmap for Business Intelligence products. The new roadmap consolidates into SharePoint Server, leaving SharePoint, Excel, and SQL Server the primary components of a BI solution. I have summarized the important notes and implications Read More......(read more)[Image]

Updating/Resetting the ListView Web Part

(Indexed 2009-01-24):

I came across this post earlier this month, didn't book mark it, and GMail's web history kind of failed me (only b/c I wasn't exactly sure what search term to use). So, I'm sticking it here. Thanks Zlatan!How to update/reset the ListView Web Parts on your page: http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan/archive/2009/01/07/updating-list...(truncated)... WooPosted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

Microsoft Performance Point Server Folded Into SharePoint, More Value For Customers Delivered!

(Indexed 2009-01-24):

URL: Microsoft Performance Point Server Folded Into SharePoint, More Value For Customers Delivered! Body: This folks is HUGE!! .. and welcome news for many For customers who have been sitting on the fence wondering if it was worth the added cost to head Read More......(read more)[Image]

Video: Michael On The Go Excel Spreadsheets And SharePoint Import For Lists

(Indexed 2009-01-24):

URL: Video: Michael On The Go Excel Spreadsheets And SharePoint Import For Lists Body: The other day I was at a client site and looking at their needs around centralizing data input that was presently taking place within Microsoft Excel. While they Read More......(read more)[Image]

Creating downloadable calendar item of SPListItem

(Indexed 2009-01-24):

Recently I prepared some code to download calendar item from SharePoint web part to user computer. I was lucky because the web part will only be used on details view of one list. The testing code I wrote was simple and short. protected void downloadButton_Click Read More......(read more)[Image]

Seguridad en Columnas de SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-23):

Este es un tema que habia comentado con varias personas ya, asi fuera en consultas o con clientes al momento de trabajar en implementaciones, y realmente era necesario, asi que afortunadamente ya contamos con el Codigo para generar una solucion que nos Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Explained - An Introduction

(Indexed 2009-01-22):

focus is on End User topics including SharePoint Project Planning, Governance, and Design. Additionally, Ive co-authored a book with Nicola Young focused on solving business problems with MOSS. Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs Read More......(read more)[Image]

Invitation to the Seamless Teamwork Live Study Group, Online

(Indexed 2009-01-22):

Seamless Teamwork helps people in collaborative teams envision how to accomplish their work using Microsoft SharePoint. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate how SharePoint can be used to support team collaboration, innovation and the carrying out Read More......(read more)[Image]

VSeWSS 1.3 CTP disponible para descarga!

(Indexed 2009-01-22):

Contiene varios extras y es bastante estable, tuve la oportunidad de crear un Web Part Project rpidamente en Visual Studio 2008. VSeWSS 1.3 CTP no solamente crea la plantilla pero agrega al menu varias opciones cuando se ejecuta un right-click en el proyecto. Entre las varias acciones que provee, estas estan entre las mas importantes: Package Deploy Retract Quick Deploy o Recycle Application Pool o Attach to IIS Worker Processes Adicionalmente te crea el manifest.xml, ddf and feature file......(truncated)...

The VSeWSS 1.3 CTP is available for download!

(Indexed 2009-01-22):

It contains a lot of goodies and is very stable, have had the chance to create a Web Part project in Visual Studio 2008. VSeWSS 1.3 CTP not only creates the template but adds a menu when you right click on the project. Among the many tasks provided the most useful ones are: Package Deploy Retract Quick Deploy o Recycle Application Pool o Attach to IIS Worker Processes On top of that it creates the manifest.xml, ddf and feature file automatically. It certainly has made it to the top list of.....(truncated)...

Microsoft Web Platform

(Indexed 2009-01-22):

  So one of the best little items I have seen recently is the release of the MS Web Platform Installer. This is a nice tool(Free Download) that makes setting up an ASP.NET (or other technologies) development environment fairly painless. You simply launch the installer, tell it what kind of web development you want to do and it will download and install all the tools needed for you. For example if I choose that I want it to install the requirements for asp.net development, it will download...(truncated)...

Feedback on Fundamentals of SharePoint Dashboards Online Workshop

(Indexed 2009-01-22):

The Fundamentals of SharePoint Dashboards online workshop has just completed. I’m using this post as a way for the participants to give feedback on the session. If you like what you hear, I will be giving a live, in-person demo at the New York City Read More......(read more)[Image]

Self-Service Site Creation Isn't Exactly About Creating Sites

(Indexed 2009-01-22):

Like many SharePoint consultant types, I've been exposed to a lot of SharePoint functionality. Some times, I dive pretty deep. Other times I just notice it as I'm flying by to another set of menu options. One of those is "self-service site Read More......(read more)[Image]

70-631 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring Passed!

(Indexed 2009-01-22):

I studied on SkillPort, which I have access to through my current company. They have great tutorials walking your through what you need to know for this exam. It deals mainly with the deployment and configuration of WSS 3.0.Here are some topics to be versed on:- Farm Topologies- Hardware clustering: software, hardware, load-balancing, and fail-overs- NIC card configurations- ISA Server 2006 and how it can be utilized for security in relation to WSS 3.0- DNS configurations (A records) as well a...(truncated)...

How to: Control Adapter fr den Inhaltseditor erstellen

(Indexed 2009-01-22):

Noch eine andere Sache ist uns whrend der Entwicklung unseres neuen Internet-Auftritts aufgefallen. Zuvor aber ein paar Worte zur verwendeten Konfiguration: der Internetauftritt ist -wie blich- fr jedermann aus dem Internet ber Port 80 erreichbar. Die Mitarbeiter, die als Redakteure neuen Inhalt einstellen sollen, greifen intern ber einen anderen Port (z.B. Port 555) und ber Windows-Authentifizierung zu. ber diesen Weg trennen wir externen und internen Zugriff und knnen ber den internen Zugriff ...(truncated)...

Video: BackSeat Driving Episode 4 Architecture vs SharePoint Architecture

(Indexed 2009-01-22):

URL: Video: BackSeat Driving Episode 4 Architecture vs SharePoint Architecture Body: Mark Miller is one of the contributors at the great blog site EndUserSharePoint.com . Over at the site Mark and a host of other SharePoint experts have teamed up to Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Branding / Free Templates!

(Indexed 2009-01-21):

Al momento de pensar en el branding o aplicacion de la identidad corporativa en los portales de SharePoint es bueno recordar que hay una serie de plantillas que son adaptables a SharePoint. Para ello les dejo un recopilatorio de los Mejores Sitios donde Read More......(read more)[Image]

Presentation on SharePoint Search and Longitude

(Indexed 2009-01-21):

Yesterday I did a presentation for the Perth SharePoint User group on MOSS 2007search and enhancing it with Longitude (a product by BA Insight). 'Longitude' is a third party product by BA Insight which extends SharePoint's search capabilities Read More......(read more)[Image]

Live Online, SharePoint Dashboards Workshop: Final Call

(Indexed 2009-01-21):

I guess the title says it all, right. Thursday, January 22 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm, I’ll be running the Fundamentals of SharePoint Dashboards Workshop, live online. If your team is in need of dashboard examples but are bogged down because of the limitations Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Calendars: How can I add colors?

(Indexed 2009-01-20):

Color coding a SharePoint calendar is a very common request. There are server based solutions and third party web parts, but that’s not what we’re about, right? Christophe has continued to refine his solution for color coding and other effects Read More......(read more)[Image]

Creating a SharePoint variation hierarchy fails: An error was encountered performing this operation

(Indexed 2009-01-20):

It doesn't give you much more details than the following message:"An error was encountered performing this operation. You may re-try the operation, and you may need to clean up the half-created data first before re-trying. If the problem persists, please contact your system administrator."This error is much more severe than a simple "failure" in the Variation Logs - the Long Running Operation (LRO) that creates the hierarchy terminates half-way. It is also very easy to miss.I've been wo...(truncated)...

Case Study Alert: Continental Airlines - Airline Boosts Efficiency, Enhances Revenue with Web Content Management Solution

(Indexed 2009-01-20):

URL: Case Study Alert: Continental Airlines - Airline Boosts Efficiency, Enhances Revenue with Web Content Management Solution Body: I love when these new case studies come out. Here is a good example of using the power of SharePoint in an Internet customer Read More......(read more)[Image]

New SharePoint Technical Library in CHM

(Indexed 2009-01-20):

Hace pocos dias fue liberada la version 4 de toda la informacion Tecnica de Technet en un archivo .CHM el cual podemos descargar en nuestros equipos para tenerla como referencia OffLine, sin lugar a dudas es una de las bases de datos de material de sharepoint Read More......(read more)[Image]

.swf Files Won't Play in IE7

(Indexed 2009-01-20):

I love putting other people's shockwave pages in page viewer web parts. I've sorted and filtered them to have a pretty handy reference of .swf solutions.The problem is in IE7; the .swf thingey just won't play. Try it in Firefox, no problem, in IE7, no dice.I understand this arises from a security "feature" in IE7 that blocks "Cross-Domain" shockwave objects. Of course, this is exactly what I want to do because I don't have much Shockwave skill and I'd just like to drop it on...(truncated)...

D/FW SharePoint Community January Meeting

(Indexed 2009-01-19):

Body: After taking a break for the holidays the D/FW SharePoint Community is back in action for January. Be sure to stick around for the Developer breakout session - I'll be presenting data aggregation techniques for SharePoint lists, a small preview Read More......(read more)[Image]

Sharepoint Farm - Document Library Returns Incorrect Document Version on One WFE but OK on Another WFE

(Indexed 2009-01-19):

INTRODUCTIONI'm currently working at a client site who has the following Sharepoint Intranet farm configuration:- 2 Web Front End (WFE) servers- 1 Central Admin server- 1 Indexing server- 1 DatabaseThere is a load balancer that should balance the load between the 2 WFE however it doesn't work properly. Somehow, the load balancer always points to the first WFE. Therefore, if you access http://intranet it always points to the first WFE.The Intranet works OK everyday until one point few mon...(truncated)...

10 Best Intranets of 2009

(Indexed 2009-01-18):

Technology Platform: Unification Begins In all previous years, the only conclusion regarding technology was that there was no universal platform for designing good intranets. Winners typically used an extraordinarily wide diversity of implementation packages. Although this conclusion continues to hold this year, it is less pronounced. Among the winning intranets, many are built on a single intranet platform that integrates most of the supporting features they need including a content management...(truncated)...

Aprende SharePoint Designer

(Indexed 2009-01-18):

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2008/11/14/...(truncated)... Test Drive http://www.runaware.com/microsoft/en-us/2007office/td?action...(truncated)... Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)[Image]

Using the SchedulePicker

(Indexed 2009-01-18):

There isnt much to find about the SchedulePicker Class (in the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls namespace) which is very handy when it comes to creating a SPSchedule . The question if of course, when do you need to have a SPSchedule? Well it could be very handy for instance when creating application pages that handle the scheduling of custom timer jobs. So instead of creating your own dropdowns with all the days of the week and all the possible times and converting to those the proper schedule.....(truncated)...

Stretching images can be achieved with a percentage as a width/height value

(Indexed 2009-01-18):

I keep forgetting about this really cool feature - image sizes can be proportionate to the browser window size and shrink/expand as you change the browser window size.This can be very useful in many situations where fixed images cause difficulties in flexible/liquid site designs and layouts. Picture galleries are always a candidate for flexible thumbnail sizes.A container (div) sized as a percentage (ie 50%) will stretch together with the browser and always be 50% of the viewable browser area. A...(truncated)...

CTP of VSTO 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3 available

(Indexed 2009-01-18):

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/01/12/announci...(truncated)... Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)[Image]

Mintiendo descaradamente: "Problemas? SharePoint no tiene ningn problema..."

(Indexed 2009-01-18):

La semana pasada, charlando con un colega, me ha hecho una de esas preguntas que te agarran complemente con la guardia abajo: “En tu opinin, cuales son los mayores problemas de SharePoint?”... y por eso de ser un mentiroso experimentado Read More......(read more)[Image]

Free SharePoint Video Library (With Thumbnails)

(Indexed 2009-01-17):

El team de Bamboo libero recientemente una solucion para hacer upload, visualizar y compartir videos en sharepoint de una manera simple, ademas incluye un preview de los videos que esten publicados... los videos pueden ser hosteados en cualquier biblioteca Read More......(read more)[Image]

DPM SP1 y SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-17):

La reciente liberacion del Service Pack 1 de Data Protection Manager trae novedades para todos los administradores de SharePoint, inclusive ya se encuentra disponible un WebCast sobre el What's New que esta muy interesante, asi como tambien un sitio Read More......(read more)[Image]

Como Crear un Menu de 2 Capas

(Indexed 2009-01-17):

Un Interesante articulo que nos explica paso a paso como podemos configurar el Menu de SharePoint para obtener 2 Capas de Opciones, asi como lo ven en los siguientes ejemplos... Desde el Blog de Eric Swenson , donde van a encontrar el articulo completo Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Disaster Recovery Book

(Indexed 2009-01-17):

Desde el Excelente Blog de Steve Pietrek (Thanks Steve!) me entero de la existencia de este libro que realmente cubre una necesidad entre tantos materiales que aparecieron sobre SharePoint 2007 en Amazon. Review del Libro en Amazon Mis felicitaciones Read More......(read more)[Image]

Integrating Office: OneNote and SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-17):

One thing I realized as I started writing the book (the SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Reference Guide in case youve missed my other posts) was that I was going to be taken a lot of notes and referring to them on a regular basis. While taking notes with pen and paper is still something I do for my job, it doesnt tend to happen with the volume or frequency I understood was going to be needed for this project. For this it was going to be important for me to be able to store a lot of informati...(truncated)...

Saving files in ItemUpdated for a SharePoint List

(Indexed 2009-01-16):

I had an issue today trying to call File.SaveBinary() method of an SPListItem in the ItemUpdated method. Everytime I treid to call it it seemed to throw an error. In the end there was an easy fix for this - make sure AllowUnsafeUpdates is set to true Read More......(read more)[Image]

Quote of the Day Web Part, Reprised - Part 2

(Indexed 2009-01-16):

This is the second part of a two part series on how to create a Quote of the Day web part in SharePoint whose quotes are drawn from a SharePoint list. The first article created the foundation for accessing the list. In this section, randomizing the quotes Read More......(read more)[Image]

Site Template Definition Error: The Template You Have Chosen is Invalid or Cannot Be Found

(Indexed 2009-01-16):

INTRODUCTIONI got this error message when I tried to create a site using my custom site definition:The template you have chosen is invalid or cannot be found. SOLUTIONThe problem is, on my custom WebTemp file I use an ID which has been used by other custom site definitions I developed previously. See below. I'm wandering if there is a tool out there that can check whether a particular ID has been used or not. It will be very-very handy if you have to develop so many custom site definitions...(truncated)...

Create a dynamic F1 sensitive help system in SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-15):

I love the way this guy writes… he makes it look so easy. Woody has just posted an article on how to create an ‘F1′ sensitive help system in SharePoint. The idea is to create a Wiki with various pages for help. Nothing new there. The Read More......(read more)[Image]

Windows 2008 & Wireless Networks (WIFI)

(Indexed 2009-01-15):

No tiene nada que ver con SharePoint pero es un inconveniente que sufri hace un par de dias y se que varios lo estan sufriendo tambien.. El problema se inicia cuando, en un server con Windows 2008, intentan instalar una Placa Wireless, en mi caso, mi Read More......(read more)[Image]

Ted Pattison Group - free webcasts

(Indexed 2009-01-15):

Ted Pattison Group - Premiere SharePoint Training Free web casts from SharePoint top guns Ted and Andrew ... Introduction to SharePoint 2007 Development Using Features and Solution Packages Instructor: Ted Pattison Date: January 20, 2009 Time: 1 - 2 PM Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Administrators guide to not screwing up :)

(Indexed 2009-01-14):

On the SharePoint IT Pro documentation team blog there is a wonderful new paper out with some fancy name; we will call it the SharePoint Admin Guide . The paper was written by the team at SharePoint911 with guidance from Brenda C. at Microsoft. The idea Read More......(read more)[Image]

Video: Halo Wars, Mobility, And Tag It!

(Indexed 2009-01-14):

URL: Video: Halo Wars, Mobility, And Tag It! Body: The other day I posted a short piece about a new Microsoft application called TagIt! (see Microsoft Tag It! SharePoint, STSADM, And Ian Morrish ) Well this evening after getting home while sitting at Read More......(read more)[Image]

Using custom forms to create, display and edit list items

(Indexed 2009-01-14):

For many reasons, we would need to create custom forms to create, display and edit List Item, instead of using the out-of-the-box forms. How can we make sure that users would not have the access the original forms?Here is a little trick that works well. Export the original forms from SharePoint using SP Designer, open with Notepad Insert the following javascript right before the closing tag of the content place holder "PlaceHolderMain"function GetUrlParam(name) { name = name.r...(truncated)...

MOSS: Add Incoming Links to a Wiki Page with jQuery

(Indexed 2009-01-14):

Sharepoints wiki implementation is rudimentary, but still useful.  One of the corners cut in the implementation is that incoming links are on a separate page you have to click the Incoming Links link (and wait for the screen to refresh) to see Read More......(read more)[Image]

Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts for the desktop

(Indexed 2009-01-14):

So after much experimenting and also talking to co-workers I have gotten a nice little list of some of the more useful desktop keyboard shortcuts for Windows 7. I will post the list here just in case you might find it helpful. If you have found or know of other useful keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 please feel free to let me know and I will add them. These ones mainly deal with manipulating windows on the desktop in Windows 7:   Keyboard Shortcut Description ...(truncated)...

Now available on Twitter ;-)

(Indexed 2009-01-14):

  I'm starting to become more and more active on Twitter. I find that it's easy to Twitter what I'm working on. I only write a blog post if I've actually got some serious information to share. Right now I'm working on a presentation about integrating SharePoint and Silverlight, with a little bit of LINQ, so that's probably what my next real blog post will be about. Until then: http://twitter.com/MirjamvanOlst See you around!Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image...(truncated)...

SharePoint Designer Video Tutorials

(Indexed 2009-01-12):

Body: Last week I announced the release of my book Professional SharePoint Designer 2007 . I had already seen a lot of interest in the market on SharePoint Designer and now with the release of the book, I'm seeing a whole lot of people asking for Read More......(read more)[Image]

Create a Windows 7 Federated Search provider for SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-12):

I had blogged about the federated search feature that was demonstrated at the PDC but now that more than 2.5 million people have downloaded Windows 7 there bound to be people running Windows 7 who also have access to a SharePoint server. File preview Read More......(read more)[Image]

The somewhat fantastic 40 templates

(Indexed 2009-01-12):

Toni Frankola (SharePoint Use Cases), Dessie Lunsford (The Elusive Calculated Column) and I were talking about putting together a series of articles on the fantastic 40 templates for SharePoint. Here’s what Dessie suggested we call the series: Read More......(read more)[Image]

February meeting topic change and JOG news

(Indexed 2009-01-12):

Body: We've recently changed the topic that will be discussed at our next meeting on February 19th, 2009 from search in SharePoint to Silverlight in SharePoint. This will also be our last scheduled meeting for a while... for more information, please Read More......(read more)[Image]

Cuando los dinosaurios usaban documentos... y no SharePoint...

(Indexed 2009-01-11):

En algn lugar de Seattle de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, erase que se era un producto llamado "Site Server, que ms que nada era un montn de herramientas engomadas unas a las otras, porque de otra forma no habra manera de venderlas por separado Read More......(read more)[Image]

End User SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-11):

I have been following End User SharePoint blog by Mark Miller for a while now. Mark is building a great site which is focusing on SharePoint value for end-users. Read more...Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

Perth SharePoint User Group on BA-Insight's Longitude

(Indexed 2009-01-11):

Clinton Cherry will be presenting at the Perth SharePoint User group on the 20th January 2009 at 12:30 at Microsoft in QV1 Building. Clinton will be talking about his experiences with BA-Insights Longitude for SharePoint 2007 which is a Seach add-on for Read More......(read more)[Image]

Preview or play Video files in library

(Indexed 2009-01-10):

There are many ways of displaying video in a sharepoint site, my personal favorite is by Manoj Iyer from http://www.sharepointkings.com/2008/05/play-video-into-share...(truncated)... blog.  But I often heard that the requirement is to have a video Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Localization

(Indexed 2009-01-10):

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A Brief Look Back

(Indexed 2009-01-10):

[Image]Hi all! While I've already done my retrospective of the year 2008 in SharePoint, a lot of you have only recently started reading my blog. Because of paging, RSS limits, or other reasons, you may have missed some of the articles I've posted since re-launching. The following list isn't everything (I'm leaving out the shameless plugs for my book and the Best Practices Conference, and my walking tour of Barcelona, for example), but it does include the the ones I feel are key i...(truncated)...

Creating the SharePoint Silverlight Slideshow

(Indexed 2009-01-10):

Instructions on how to build this demo http://www.wssdemo.com/SlideShow/show.aspx It would be simpler to just install a custom web part on your SharePoint server that provides this functionality but not everyone has server administration access to their Read More......(read more)[Image]

Sharepoint Incoming Mail Bug or Is It Just Me?

(Indexed 2009-01-09):

INTRODUCTIONI'm currently working with a 5-server farm Sharepoint installation:- 1 Central Admin- 1 Search Indexer- 2 Web Front End- 1 DatabaseFor several months the document libraries which have "incoming e-mail settings" specified never receive email any more. The SMTP service is installed on the Central Admin server. THE PROBLEMWhen I troubleshooted the issue, I noticed that the emails were sent to the drop box successfully but somehow the Sharepoint Timer never grabs and delivers them. I...(truncated)...

Are you a SharePoint GIPS or what?

(Indexed 2009-01-09):

As you might have noticed, we’ve started implementing a “SharePoint User Level” ranking at the top of each article. I’ve got to go back and tag about 400 articles, but when finished, you’ll be able to pull up content based Read More......(read more)[Image]

[Sharepointers] eee l vamos ns .... 3 Turma - curso Sharepoint 2007 para Desenvolvedores

(Indexed 2009-01-09):

Corpo: Ol pessoal, isso mesmo, depois de muitos e-mails e tentativas de agendamento/organizao, com prazer que anuncio e disponibilizo a vocs a 3 turma donosso curso Sharepoint 2007 para Desenvolvedores . Eu particularmente tentei lanar esta Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint error: Cannot convert type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.DelegateControl' to 'System.Web.UI.IAttributeAccessor'

(Indexed 2009-01-09):

I got this error today while deploying a solution to a test environment:"CS0030: Cannot convert type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.DelegateControl' to 'System.Web.UI.IAttributeAccessor'"Disabling SP's custom errors and turning on callstack in the web.config revealed the following:Line 171: There's 2 quick lessons from this: (1) don't leave any controls in commented out areas - ASP.NET still processes them during the rendering methods, b...(truncated)...

SlipStream SharePoint & Last Updates

(Indexed 2009-01-09):

Desde el Blog Oficial de SharePoint nos llega la guia de como construir nuestros propios instaladores de SharePoint con los ultimos Updates (En este caso los liberados en Diciembre). Here are the steps to create a slipstream to the latest bits: Copy the Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Online Standard Developer Guide

(Indexed 2009-01-09):

Hoy fue liberada la Guia para Desarrollo de SharePoint Online en forma gratuita y desde el sitio de Microsoft, se trata de un documento de mas de 100 Paginas con las siguientes Secciones: Getting Started Creating SharePoint Online Sites Customizing SharePoint Read More......(read more)[Image]

Video: Michael On The Go SharePoint Discussion Boards, Outlook, and Mobile Integration

(Indexed 2009-01-09):

URL: Video: Michael On The Go SharePoint Discussion Boards, Outlook, and Mobile Integration Body: In this episode of Michael On The Go I talk about a real world scenario for enabling discussions for mobile personnel using their mobile devices (in this Read More......(read more)[Image]

Good Shetiquette

(Indexed 2009-01-07):

A new term has recently hit the blogosphere, Shetiquette, that I find interesting. The term Shetiquette is derived from a combination of the two words SharePoint Etiquette. In general, Shetiquette is defined as the practice of using and configuring Read More......(read more)[Image]

Taming the Elusive Calculated Column Lookup and Reference

(Indexed 2009-01-07):

In this article, we’ll be discussing the single function belonging to the “Lookup and Reference” set of SharePoint formulas, the “CHOOSE” function. Background Since the formulas available in SharePoint are “Based” Read More......(read more)[Image]

Silverlight SharePoint Image Slideshow! FREE

(Indexed 2009-01-07):

Un nuevo proyecto disponible en Codeplex y que seguramente les resultara de utilidad, se trata de un visor de Imagenes (que obtiene los archivos desde una biblioteca de SharePoint), en modo Slideshow para publicar en nuestros portales... Mas informacion Read More......(read more)[Image]

Ministerio de Hacienda de CR en MOSS y 2 Nuevos MVPs!!!

(Indexed 2009-01-07):

Un nuevo Portal Publico de gran relevancia es construido en SharePoint, en este caso el del Ministerio de Hacienda de Costa Rica, en el cual tuve el gusto de poder conocer en el proceso de elaboracion y conocer tambien al equipo de Desarrolladores que Read More......(read more)[Image]

TDD in SharePoint - Using Dependency Injection

(Indexed 2009-01-07):

In our previous white paper Unit Testing SharePoint - Getting into the Object Model we introduced the concept of mocking, looked at the new Typemock Isolator AAA API to demonstrate testing against SPSite, SPWeb, SPList and SPListItem objects and reinforced Read More......(read more)[Image]

Commerce Server 2009 - Ecommerce for SharePoint!

(Indexed 2009-01-07):

Recientemente fue liberada la CTP de Diciembre 2008 de Commerce Server 2009 o Proyecto MOJAVE, una de las principales caracteristicas de esta nueva plataforma es la completa integracion con SharePoint 2007, tema que estaremos viendo en un proximo WebCast Read More......(read more)[Image]

What is the PID of my web application?

(Indexed 2009-01-07):

just a quick tip for developers. When you need to debug an assembly loaded by a web application (like SharePoint) you can attach the process to the project and debug. The problem is how to determine the correct process in the processes list if you have Read More......(read more)[Image]

Microsoft Office SharePoint Online

(Indexed 2009-01-07):

Zwei Dokumentationen von Microsoft zum Download Microsoft Office SharePoint Online Service Description for Office SharePoint Online Standard Microsoft Office SharePoint Online is a collection of Web-based tools and technologies built on Microsoft Office Read More......(read more)[Image]

Mark Your Calendars - SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series: NewsGator Social Computing Enhancements for SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-06):

Body: This Thursday we resume the SharePoint Weekly Webcast series with a real bang of a show to kick off the New Year. Please block off your calendars and plan on attending SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series: NewsGator Social Computing Enhancements for Read More......(read more)[Image]

The System Spotlight Episode 15

(Indexed 2009-01-06):

URL: The System Spotlight Episode 15 Body: Updtae: The embedded video appears to be having some issues. You can access it directly here . Video In this edition of The System Spotlight: Internet based SharePoint sites, Silverlight Slideshow of a SharePoint Read More......(read more)[Image]

Upcoming Speaking Engagements - Mark Miller, EndUserSharePoint.com

(Indexed 2009-01-05):

I’ve got a few speaking engagements for January and February that might be of interest if you are close to Virginia Beach, VA or New York City. January 10th - Virginia Beach, VA February 4th - New York City February 21st - New York City March - Read More......(read more)[Image]

Thankfully Im not a SharePoint Project Manager

(Indexed 2009-01-05):

But I often wish I had more influence on the way some projects are run. Most organizations know there is lots of room for improvement in the way they manage and execute projects. Lots of emphasis is placed on Enterprise Project Management (EPM implies Read More......(read more)[Image]

Mind Maps and SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-05):

It looks like I’m not the only one who thinks Mind Maps are useful when talking about SharePoint. Every one of my presentations begins with an expandable/contractable map, showing the various pieces of the presentation along with embedded notes Read More......(read more)[Image]

Prepare for the future: Windows 2008 and 64bit

(Indexed 2009-01-05):

New Year = New work for you. As I look into my crystal ball for 2009 I see Windows Server 2008 and 64 bit servers in your future. Why? If for no other reason than the next version of SharePoint will be 64bit only and I know you are looking forward to Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Kaffeetasse #97

(Indexed 2009-01-04):

SharePoint Dataviews and experiments with Twitter Top 25 SharePoint Twitterer Mashup Showing Off Your Twitter Status in SharePoint Using Silverlight SlideShow and a SharePoint Picture Library(Part1) Silverlight Slide Show of Picture Library SharePoint Read More......(read more)[Image]

SP Links Week 1 2009

(Indexed 2009-01-04):

I had disappeared for most of last year. Not this year Kick of year 2009 with some SharePoint love to share   Not only will you appreciate Gary Lapointes STSADM commands extensions, but also the first batch of his 11 PowerShell Cmdlets for SharePoint Read More......(read more)[Image]

Inspecting SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-03):

When developing for SharePoint you absolutely need a SharePoint inspection tool, a tool that can navigate through the SharePoint object model and SharePoint content. A nice tool is http://www.codeplex.com/spi that comes with source code, but it has a Read More......(read more)[Image]

Reporting on the performance of your SharePoint SQL Server

(Indexed 2009-01-03):

Or any other SQL server for that matter... Another task I managed to complete within a day was to get SSRS installed on WSSDemo.com's SQL server (still running 2005, upgrading to 2008 will wait for another day). There are a number of reports you can Read More......(read more)[Image]

Content Editor WebPart: Popfly/Mashup

(Indexed 2009-01-03):

Microsoft Popfly is a great way to create a mashup - taking a source of information and publishing it in a great graphical view. http://www.popfly.ms As an example here I have taken my favourite football team(soccer for you Americans ;-), Aston Villa, searched Live Images and  published all the images it finds into a page turner.  There are some many different blocks you can use now in Popfly - you should really give it a go if you haven't already. So here are the blocks for the...(truncated)...

Best Practices SharePoint Conference - My Sessions and More

(Indexed 2009-01-03):

[Image]You probably know by now that I'm presenting at the Best Practices SharePoint Conference next month. But there are plenty of reasons to attend this conference beyond my own presentations.Check out my session abstracts and some thoughts on ROI on my new site!Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

Meine SharePoint Aktivitten im neuen Jahr

(Indexed 2009-01-03):

Zum Jahreswechsel habe ich mal so meine ganzen Aktivitten rund um SharePoint durchgesehen und bin auf ein ganz ansehnliches Sammelsurium von Kommunikationskanlen gekommen: Mein Weblog, was jetzt ins 6 . Jahr geht Die SharePointCommunity mit dem Diskussionsforum Read More......(read more)[Image]

Troubleshooting Tip - [The resource cannot be found] error

(Indexed 2009-01-03):

Corpo: Ol pessoal, Final de ano .... teoricamente clima natalino ...... HAUHAUAHAU, QUE NADA!!!! Eucontinuo por aqui, no mais tenso e agitado clima de Troubleshooting com o meu querido SharePoint. :-) Lets rocks!!!! (again...) Hoje trabalhei em uma Read More......(read more)[Image]

Exposing the Event content type

(Indexed 2009-01-02):

For some reason, by default the Event content type is not exposed as a parent content type. This means that it is not available to be used to create children. We handled this problem in the Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint workshop last week. Tim Read More......(read more)[Image]

Waldek Mastykarz is now a SharePoint MVP

(Indexed 2009-01-02):

Waldek Mastykarz Congratulations to Waldek for his new role as a SharePoint MVP. Not only has he contributed invaluable content here on this site, he is now getting the recognition he deserves for his other contributions to the SharePoint community. Again Read More......(read more)[Image]

Service accounts should never expire...

(Indexed 2009-01-02):

Body: So I am working in a Windows 2003 server virtual machine that is hosted by my client and is a member of their domain. This VM is my development VM, and it has MOSS installed and uses many of the same service accounts that our production environment Read More......(read more)[Image]

Happy New Year and I am a Microsoft SharePoint MVP for 2009 !

(Indexed 2009-01-02):

Today morning when I started my day as usual by opening my laptop, I picked a new email up from the Microsoft!Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.Happy New Year, And wish all the bests for SharePoint Community around the world. Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

Conflicting Characteristics of Content Requirements in SharePoint

(Indexed 2009-01-02):

Most products that store content are designed to meet the requirements of a particular discipline; collaboration, document management or record management. The challenge with designing a SharePoint solution is that you might need to meet the requirements Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Saturday - Kansas City

(Indexed 2009-01-01):

Body: I'll be speaking at the SharePoint Saturday event in Kansas City on February 7. You can learn more about the event at www.sharepointsaturday.org/kc . I'll be presenting with some good pals of mine, including Matt Bremer and Todd Kitta. The Read More......(read more)[Image]

Silverlight Slideshow of a SharePoint Picture Library

(Indexed 2009-01-01):

I decided that I should start and finish something for the first day of 2009. Fitting that it should be SharePoint project consisting of a Web Part that uses the Data View and Silverlight to turn the pictures in a slide library into a slide show. http Read More......(read more)[Image]

HOW-TO: Group search results by a property value in SharePoint

(Indexed 2008-12-31):

Body: In my last post, I described the process that I follow when customizing search results in SharePoint using the Core Search Results web part that ships with MOSS. If you havent seen it yet, I suggest you start there for some context on the rest Read More......(read more)[Image]

Im at BETT 2009: Jan 14 - 17

(Indexed 2008-12-31):

One of my many highlights of 2008 was to present on the Microsoft stand at BETT.  I enjoyed the 4 days their presenting 8 times in total and making a lot of friends at the same time.  It was a great way to start the year. I'm hoping 2009 will be just as good as 2008 if not better and this year I am on Ask The Export also know as the Tech Desk on the Microsoft stand.  It will be great to meet up with Eileen Brown and her team at Microsoft on the desk.  I know we will have...(truncated)...

Professional SharePoint Designer book on sale now

(Indexed 2008-12-31):

Body: The Professional SharePoint Designer 2007 book that I co-authored with Woody and Bryan has finally hit the shelves. I hope this book can help fill the knowledge gaps on this Awesome (but often misunderstood) product. Category: General Published Read More......(read more)[Image]

A Web Proxy Server Tried to Stop Me From Installing Windows Workflow Foundation, But I Defeated It

(Indexed 2008-12-30):

I'm working at a client site and needed to install windows workflow foundation so that I could so some SharePoint Designer work. (I didn't know until today that SPD installs fine but really needs at least .NET 2.0 and Windows Workflow Foundation Read More......(read more)[Image]

Shane as a Bobble Head?

(Indexed 2008-12-30):

True story. This was my surprise gift from my team at SharePoint911. All I can say is they rock! The picture doesn't do it great justice but this thing is super cool. Now I need to think of some strange things to do with it. Anyway, don't have Read More......(read more)[Image]

Feedback on Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint online workshop

(Indexed 2008-12-30):

The December 30th “Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint” online workshop is completed. The participants will be giving feedback here so you can get an idea of how things went. In addition to the workshop itself, they received all of the Read More......(read more)[Image]

Problems with SharePoint Governance

(Indexed 2008-12-30):

Now hang on, this post shouldnt be misconstrued as attacking the concept of governance as a whole, it is more rantish. I am not going to portray that “Buenz Thinks Governance is Bad”, I do violently believe that cultivating long-term value Read More......(read more)[Image]

Another Year, Another Reason to Hate Technical Recruiters

(Indexed 2008-12-30):

Body: Here it is, almost 2009 and I've gone nearly the whole year without ranting about recruiters but I just can't take it any more. Way back in 2006 I penned an Open Letter to SharePoint Recruiters , begging them to stop trying to combine a Read More......(read more)[Image]

HOW-TO: Customize SharePoints Core Search Results Web Part

(Indexed 2008-12-29):

Body: The purpose of this post is to share the process that Ive begun to follow in my own work related to search customization and to provide an opportunity for you to share whats worked for you, as well. The post assumes that youre generally familiar Read More......(read more)[Image]

10 Steps for A Military SharePoint Contract

(Indexed 2008-12-29):

Recently a friend of mine won a substantial SharePoint military contract which I contributed to the RFP for since I owed him a favor (your welcome Kirk for my entire weekend). Although he has been doing SharePoint since it was Tahoe, he had on no account Read More......(read more)[Image]

Some New Years Reflections And Resolutions Plus Monday Morning SharePoint Reads

(Indexed 2008-12-29):

Body: I am still out on vacation but I did spot a few good SharePoint nuggets to pass along. I also just received my second Backseat Driving piece to work on and it is a good one! That will be releasing that Monday when everyone is back to work so keep Read More......(read more)[Image]

Determining the Worker Process Id in Windows Server 2008

(Indexed 2008-12-29):

The topic of debugging came of in my talk SharePoint Development for ASP.NET developers earlier this month. One technique I mentioned is the process of determining the application pool ID using the often used iisapp.vbs file. I went to demo this on my Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Of View - SPReporting (beta)

(Indexed 2008-12-28):

Corps: Un petit billet avant la nouvelle anne pour vous signaler la mise en ligne de la version beta de mon nouveau projet sur CodePlex l'adresse suivante : http://www.codeplex.com/SoVSPReporting/ . !!! Qui dit bta dit uniquement destin du Read More......(read more)[Image]

Using Reflector on Microsoft.SharePoint.dll

(Indexed 2008-12-28):

Michael Blumenthal has put up an article about alerts and views ("Which views can be used when Creating an Alert ?"), which is interesting on its own merits. However, I was even more interested to see how he methodically walks through the process Read More......(read more)[Image]

A Fresh Coat of Paint

(Indexed 2008-12-27):

[Image]I've freshened the look of my new blog site! Why not check it out?And while you're there, don't forget to update your links and feeds...Thanks for your continuing support!Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

Dealing with network shares and a SharePoint deployment

(Indexed 2008-12-27):

An important part of any introduction of SharePoint for better document collaboration/management as compared to a network share is to decide what documents to migrate. The first question I always ask is "are you going to add any value to the documents Read More......(read more)[Image]

Increase in SharePoint Certified Technology Specialists

(Indexed 2008-12-27):

Updated from 6 months ago http://www.wssdemo.com/Blog/archive/2008/06/12/there-are-not...(truncated)... . Qualification Qty 12/06/08 Qty 26/12/08 MCP (all) 2,268,992 2,354,663 Microsoft Office SharePoint Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint in 2008 An Interesting Road

(Indexed 2008-12-26):

[Image]Driving Through Flyover Country2008 should theoretically have been a boring year for SharePoint. The current version (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) was released in 2006. The next version wouldnt be out until 2009, if not later. The software equivalent of flyover country.Take this trip with me on my new site!Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

EndUserSharePoint.com is closing

(Indexed 2008-12-24):

I worked at B&H PhotoVideo for a year, doing special projects; leading a team to coordinate and digitally organize information from 400 vendors, structuring the Payment Card Industry Processing project, setting up a metadata reader to expose the Read More......(read more)[Image]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

(Indexed 2008-12-24):

Here's wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays... stop reading blogs and go spend time with family! ... but come back in a few days please. :) Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs Read More......(read more)[Image]

XML Webpart Caution, Governance WhitePaper, And Somber Reflections

(Indexed 2008-12-24):

Body: Couple of quick notes this morning. First off one of the smartest guys I know, Dave Armstrong, pointed out a potential issue with my idea around using the XML web part for grabbing the notes part as referenced here . According to Dave " One Read More......(read more)[Image]

Working around the CEWP's absolute links...

(Indexed 2008-12-24):

[via Stefan Gossner & Maxime Bombardier ] The Content Editor Web Part, as many people have realized who've tried to use it in Publishing sites and then extend multiple Web apps or leverage content deployment, stores links as absolute references Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint web services, Visual Studio e l'autenticazione perduta (?!?)

(Indexed 2008-12-23):

Questa cosa davvero bizzarra (vi prego, ditemi che ho qualche grossa lacuna, preferirei...) la scrivo perch (spero che sia complice qualche festicciola natalizia) mi ha fatto perdere due giorni lavorativi. Finalmente stasera ho avuto l'illuminazione. Ho dovuto abbandonare la mia razionalit, ma d'altronde Einstein insegna " Imagination is more important than knowledge ". Veniamo al dunque. Premesso che, fino a luned, ancora non avevo mai utilizzato WCF , ho deciso di non farmi...(read mor...(truncated)...

A Page in a Box - The Easiest SharePoint Integration

(Indexed 2008-12-23):

[Image]Gift-wrapping Web Applications with the Page Viewer Web PartWith the Holidays upon us, everyone is putting things in boxes. Boxes are very convenient they let you just drop something into them without having to change anything about the item being packaged.Read all about SharePoint's neat little box for other pages on my new site!Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

December SharePoint Cumulative updates and important support information

(Indexed 2008-12-23):

Body: So we've come to the end of the year and just when you though that you'd wait for a while before updating SharePoint again we have a new update. Well actually this is quite important since from January if you still have note moved to at Read More......(read more)[Image]

Great Event! SharePoint Saturday January 10th

(Indexed 2008-12-22):

URL: Great Event! SharePoint Saturday January 10th Body: If you are going to be anywhere remotely near Virginia Beach, VA on January 10th then you NEED to head this link here and register to attend SharePoint Saturday . The SharePoint user group has put Read More......(read more)[Image]

Get Distinct Lookup Values

(Indexed 2008-12-22):

Here's another code example using HubKey's Client-side API for SharePoint . In this case 2 lists are created, a document library and a generic list. A lookup field (Subject) is added to the document library which looks up values in the Title column Read More......(read more)[Image]

Search Server? SharePoint? FAST? Which Enterprise Search Solution Is Right For My Business?

(Indexed 2008-12-22):

URL: Search Server? SharePoint? FAST? Which Enterprise Search Solution Is Right For My Business? Body: Microsoft now offers the full continuum of search offerings from entry level (See Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express and Video:Microsoft Search Server Read More......(read more)[Image]

Clarification On Windows Mobile, iPhones, Android And More

(Indexed 2008-12-21):

URL: Clarification On Windows Mobile, iPhones, Android And More Body: Wow, as someone who blogs mostly about SharePoint I was somewhat amazed by the response to my casual column inspired my temporary phone lust for the Samsun Omnia and futile attempt Read More......(read more)[Image]

When Best Practices Aren’t Best Practices

(Indexed 2008-12-21):

[via SharePoint Security ] I couldn't agree more with Adam's latest post. Too many people get hung up on "best practices" and thing they are the panacea in their SharePoint deployment when they should ALWAYS be taken at face value and Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint December Cumulative Update Error and Resolution

(Indexed 2008-12-20):

Error I ran the CU on my Development Environment and had some errors in my Logs! Central Admin was working fine, but my Web Application wasn't. Action 12.1.5.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPSearchDatabaseSequence failed. And my web application Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Best Practices Conference Feb 2-4, 2009

(Indexed 2008-12-20):

I'll be doing two presentations at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference this February in San Diego . I haven't been doing this thing long enough to get jaded by it, so every conference I attend is a, frankly, awesome. However, I do think this Read More......(read more)[Image]

Reading Through 1,000 Blog Entries in 3 Weeks is like Watching Lost Season Four in a Weekend

(Indexed 2008-12-19):

This past summer, while I was working on two chapters for the best SharePoint social computing book ever , I began to get very far behind in my blog reading. I use Google Reader for my RSS stuff and when you have more than 1000 unread items, it just says Read More......(read more)[Image]

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 y Modalidad Integrada en SharePoint

(Indexed 2008-12-19):

Probablemente han escuchado que el SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 ha estado disponible desde Diciembre 15, 2008. Que importancia tiene esto para la Comunidad de SharePoint? La respuesta, es que las llamadas que SSRS ejecuta contra el SharePoint Object Model han sido optimizadas . Esto resulta en menos tiempo de respuesta cuando se compara la Modalidad Integrada contra la Nativa en SharePoint. Sabiendo esto, decidi descargar el mencionado Service Pack y determinar como se refeljaria en mi Instala...(truncated)...

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 and SharePoint Integrated Mode

(Indexed 2008-12-19):

As you probably have heard, SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 was released on December 15, 2008. Why is this significant to the SharePoint Community? Because, the calls that SSRS makes to the SharePoint Object Model are optimized. This in turn reduces the latency when you compare Integrated Mode against Native Mode. With that in mind, I set to download the Service Pack and find out how this would reflect on my SharePoint Installation. While the benchmarking between both Virtual Machines was limited...(truncated)...

Thank You EndUserSharePoint.com Authors

(Indexed 2008-12-19):

It’s typical at this time of year to think back over the past twelve months and see how things are going. For me, EndUserSharePoint.com has exceeded all of my expectations: number of people who visit the site each day, number of email subscribers Read More......(read more)[Image]

Leveraging SharePoint as a Document Management System

(Indexed 2008-12-19):

Daan De Brouckere spoke at the NYC SPUG earlier this month. He has just release an article on using Leveraging SharePoint as a Document Management System. Highlights include: Document Management Basics Versioning Metadata Security Workflow For those trying Read More......(read more)[Image]

Improving the SharePoint print experience

(Indexed 2008-12-18):

The ability to print web pages has been available for years. Comparing it to the transition that most browsers have gone through, there is very little that has changed about how web pages are printed. While moving the digital version of a page to its Read More......(read more)[Image]

KPIs for the Masses: Embed KPIs as a list view

(Indexed 2008-12-18):

In my first post of this series, I discussed using the Data View Web Part to show visually attractive KPIs in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). In this article I am going to present an additional scenario for creating KPIs with a Data View. Mirrored Read More......(read more)[Image]

New Blog To Check Out: Jason Cahill SharePoint Lead Program Manager Infrastructure

(Indexed 2008-12-18):

URL: New Blog To Check Out: Jason Cahill SharePoint Lead Program Manager Infrastructure Body: Hey I just ran across Jasons blog and wanted to pass along a link to it because well. it rocks! Great informative posts for infrastructure/operations folks Read More......(read more)[Image]

Video: SharePoint Enterprise Workflow With K2 Blackpoint

(Indexed 2008-12-18):

URL: Video: SharePoint Enterprise Workflow With K2 Blackpoint Body: For todays SharePoint Weekly Webcast we had two guest speakers from K2 talking about enterprise workflow for SharePoint using Blackpoint. I was very excited about getting them scheduled Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint 2007 (MOSS/WSS) - Adding header and footer in Word Document (.docx) with ItemAdded Event Receiver using OpenXML

(Indexed 2008-12-18):

I used OpenXML to add the two metadata column values - document name as the header and modified date as footer while someone upload a document in document library. Please include a reference of WindowsBase and DocumentFormat.OpenXml in the project. WindowsBase is included in .Net framework 3.0/3.5 and you have to download DocumentFormat.OpenXml separately. Here is the code: using System; using System.Security.Permissions; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Sy...(truncated)...

Actualizacion de Diciembre para MOSS y WSS!

(Indexed 2008-12-18):

El Team de SharePoint ha liberado hoy un nuevo Parche, Actualizacion para el mes de Diciembre, para WSS y para MOSS 2007. December Cumulative Update Steps & Suggestions Se recomienda instalar estos Updates hasta que realmente se vean afectados por Read More......(read more)[Image]

Windows 2008 not playing nice with Central Admin

(Indexed 2008-12-17):

This is one for your "that is odd" file. Just finished installing MOSS 2007 on a fresh w2k8 server with SQL 2008. All 64 bit. I am hoping to build a dedicated production server for http://www.sharepoint911.com instead of the current prod, test Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint e Architettura...why not? #1

(Indexed 2008-12-17):

Una volta qualcuno mi ha chiesto "Ma perch ti interessi di Architettura (del software nda )? Tu mica lavori con SharePoint?". A parte il fatto che fortunatamente non lavoro solo con SharePoint, non capisco dove sia il nesso. Una buona architettura ti aiuta. Sempre. (dove per buona non intendo che la sua bont sia direttamente proporzionale alla sua cardinalit, per non dire complessit). Detto questo volevo portare questo mio esempio (niente codice, solo teoria quindi, veri coders , cambiate...(rea...(truncated)...

2009 SharePoint Best Practices Conferences

(Indexed 2008-12-17):

Body: This coming year we have not one but two Best Practices conferences on the calendar and the good news is that the folks across the pond are finally getting a chance to participate. The first conference is being held in San Diego, California on the Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint Best Practice Training von Microsoft sterreich

(Indexed 2008-12-17):

Im Microsoft Tech Presales Blog fr Austrian Partners wir eine sehr interessante Veranstaltung fr Mitte Januar angekndigt: SharePoint Server - Lernen Sie "Best Practices" von internationalen Microsoft Consultants! Internationale Microsoft Read More......(read more)[Image]

Microsoft releases a WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint

(Indexed 2008-12-16):

Earlier today Microsoft released the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) toolkit on MSDN Code Gallery as a unsupported sample for SharePoint under the Ms-PL license. As defined by OASIS, WSRP : WSRP defines a set of interfaces and related semantics Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePoint workflow forms development with ASP.NET 2.0 pages... without the pain!

(Indexed 2008-12-16):

[via Wouter Van Vugt ] One of the biggest value add propositions of SharePoint's integration of Windows Workflow Foundation is the introduction of a human element. The biggest piece of this is likely the forms. Developers are given two options: ASP Read More......(read more)[Image]

Re-Professing My Love of WSPBuilder

(Indexed 2008-12-15):

Say what you will about SharePoint as an application development platform; it adds a significant crapwork overhead to your everyday asp.net development.  Especially when it comes to organizing folder structures, creating xml files that point to other Read More......(read more)[Image]

MOSS - Web Services for Remote Portlets Tookit

(Indexed 2008-12-15):

The Web Services for Remote Portlets ( WSRP ) Toolkit for Office SharePoint Server 2007 has been announced. The WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint provides sample code for producing WSRP conformant data from SharePoint lists and libraries. External portal platforms Read More......(read more)[Image]

My SharePoint Development Best Practices SharePointPodShow Interview is live!

(Indexed 2008-12-15):

Last month I was interviewed by Rob Foster from the SharePointPodShow and we discussed SharePoint Development Best Practices. It was great fun discussing my experiences and back then SharePointDevWiki.com was just a twinkle in my eye! I recommend that Read More......(read more)[Image]

*** NOW AVAILABLE *** Finding Developer Help for SharePoint Products and Technologies

(Indexed 2008-12-13):

An article I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The article, Finding Developer Help for SharePoint Products and Technologies , assists people in finding help and different resources when embarking on SharePoint projects. The trick is to know Read More......(read more)[Image]

DevExpress' SharePoint Control Demo Site

(Indexed 2008-12-13):

[via DevExpress ] Check out DevExpress' SharePoint ASP.NET demo control site: http://sharepoint.devexpress.com/default.aspx This slick new SharePoint site is being used to host a few of their ASP.NET controls within SharePoint. The demo for their Read More......(read more)[Image]

SharePointDevWiki making great progress!

(Indexed 2008-12-13):

Thanks to everyone that has contributed to the SharePointDevWiki already. It's made great progress since being launched with over 4000 page views and just under 200 page edits already! Check out the activity for yourself here ! I've set up a new Read More......(read more)[Image]

Runion du Club MOSS lundi !

(Indexed 2008-12-13):

Corps: Petite piqre de rappel : lundi prochain (15 dc.)aprs-midi se tient la runion du Club MOSS rue de l'universit Paris. Voici rapidement le menu du jour : Introduction gnrale, information sur les certifications - Erol Giraudy [MVP] et Read More......(read more)[Image]

Its the little things that count

(Indexed 2008-12-11):

Last week at the New York City SharePoint User Group (NYC SPUG), Janelle Razzino gave a door prize of a $100 lottery ticket for a trip for two to the SuperBowl… private jet, limousine, hotel, the full works. Genelle’s excitement was contagious Read More......(read more)[Image]

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