- Business Data Catalog Read/Write – Screencast
- Open with Windows Explorer not working in Document Library for WSS or MOSS
- Using the Business Data Catalog with Single Sign-On
- The BIG SharePoint Resource List
- Enhancing teaching and learning with SharePoint in Higher Education
- SharePoint Learning Kit: Part 2
- SharePoint 2007 – Calculated Fields
- MOSS + ECM or ECM = MOSS
- New Release of BDC Metaman!
- All the upgrades – except the one people seem to need the most
- Using workflow and policies to view only certain list items
- Mirroring, Log Shipping and High Availability resources
- SharePoint Installation/Configuration Guides
- Shortcuts in Document Libraries
- Using Delegate Controls as WebParts
- Article series – custom permissions with a site definition
- Meaningful conceptual mappings between entities for SharePoint programining/administration
- Sync Your Database to SharePoint Using SSIS – Discover how to import and export SharePoint list items using SQL Server Integration Services and the new Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML).
- Thank you for a banner year for SharePoint! - from Tom Rizzo
Archive for July, 2007
Links (7/31/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 31, 2007
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Links (7/29/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 29, 2007
- **** Tools of a SharePoint consultant
- Sharepoint Sales Break US$800m - great news for someone starting a new job as a SharePoint consultant tomorrow
- Display CSS Classes within SharePoint
- Utilizing Custom Navigation Controls in MOSS
- Telerik: New Resources for MOSS 2007 available!
- MOSS interop
- Before/After properties not available for InfoPath content types in Form Library – MOSS 2007
- What if you need to hide site templates in MOSS 2007?
- BizTalk Architects on Facebook
- WSS FAQ additions and changes LXV – 23rd – 29th July 2007
- SP Event Recievers Firing 10 Times On Purpose?
- SharePoint Data View Part Magic and Search
- Using calculated field on Yes/No fields
- Easy way of Editing Customized Theme in MOSS 2007
- Updated Base Master Page for Collaboration Sites
- MOSS2007 – Item Level Menus using “EditControlBlock”
- MOSS2007 – Item Level Menu Items using “EditControlBlock” (Part 2)
- MOSS2007 – Portal Connections and Quick Launch Items (Part 2)
- Illegal characters in Site URL (repost)
- ASP.NET WebPart Life Cycle reminder (repost)
- Word 2007 Content Control mapping tool (repost)
- EventHandlerManager
- SharePoint Data View Part Magic and Search
- Certification Tests for WSS and MOSS
- SharePoint Designer 2007 Backup: Totally Broken for Sites Greater than 24MB in size
- Performance Benchmarks for SharePoint Lists
- MOSS Metadata Propperty Mapping Wierdness
- How to create a minimal.master for WSS
- Business Data Catalog Read and Write? You got it!
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Turn off SharePoint Custom Error Messages
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 28, 2007
Below is a list of steps to turn off SharePoint custom error messages so you can see the “true” ASP.NET error message along with the callstack/stack trace. I would recommend only making the following changes in a development environment – not production.
- Navigate to the site directory.
- Backup web.config.
- Open web.config.
- Switch Custom Errors off. Search for “customErrors” and set the value to “Off” instead of “On”. You can also set the value to “RemoteOnly” to troubleshoot a production issue.
- Enable CallStack. Search for “CallStack” and set the value to “true” instead of “false”.
- Save web.config.
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Links (7/26/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 26, 2007
- **** Dev Utilities and The New Dev Environment - Just bought ClassMaster last week and am very impressed. I would also add ReSharper to the list.
- Creating a New Document Template
- Delete Files with Workflow Using Duration
- Web parts and extended portals - “Cannot import this web part”
- Getting Things Done – The Workflow
- DebugViewer in Biztalk
- Solution Providers for MOSS
- How to create your own custom wiki site definition
- Migration Tools
- Sleepless in NY – the Ultimate SharePoint Training!! (Free)
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Links (7/25/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 25, 2007
- Telerik: RadControls for SharePoint 2007
- Telerik’s Controls on MOSS
- MOSS Contact Details Web Part Image Issues
- SharePoint Web Service Example – Grabbing Wiki Content
- Scaling to Extremely Large Lists and Performant Access Methods
- MOSS 2007 and Accessibility; ADA guidelines and standards
- MOSS Search UI Architecture – Introduction
- *** NOW AVAILABLE *** White Paper: Working with Large Lists in MOSS 2007
- Get SPUser object for someone who’s never browsed a site before
- Incorporating Telerik’s RadMenu in a MOSS 2007 Publishing Site
- SharePoint guidance
- Managed paths for new site collections
- Opening documents from SharePoint crashes Internet Explorer
- How to Add a Task in a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS/WSS) Site Programmatically
- SharePoint Big Secret - EtISPIAL
- SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Forms Based Authentication Login/Registration Web Parts Update
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Links (7/24/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 24, 2007
- WSS FAQ additions and changes LXIV – 16th – 22nd July 2007
- WSS 3.0 support in TFS 2005 now ‘official’
- Finalized guidance published for WSS 3.0 support
- How to configure Email Enabled Lists in MOSS 2007 RTM using Exchange 2007
- Site definition customizations versus using feature stapling Part 1
- (Recording) Building custom document workflow in SharePoint 2007
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Links (7/23/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 23, 2007
- **** Depth and Breadth in a SharePoint Architect Skillset
- **** SharePoint field objects – classname, name and types
- Accessing the User Profile in both MOSS and WSS
- Another day, another new error message – mssearch.exe (0x0DEC) 0x0E88 Search Server Common GathererSql 0 Monitorable CSqlCrawl::ExecuteCommand fails Error 0x80040e2f – File:d:\office\source\search\search\gather\server\gathersql.cxx Line:407
- Free webinar form NewsGator: Increasing SharePoint value with RSS
- Using the Save site as template link on a publishing site
- How do I? – Installing SharePoint Designer 2007 Step-by-Step
- Office Business Applications (OBA) Resources
- Connecting MOSS Version number in Word Documents
- Edit page command disabled – Edit page command will be disabled when another user has checked-out that particular page.
- Warming Up your Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 on Virtual Machine
- ISA + MOSS: makes life a lot easier for FBA
- Associating the default page in a SharePoint 2007 publishing site with a custom content type and a custom page layout
- Adding Comment To Folder In SharePoint
- SharePoint Forums Web Part
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Ch-Ch-Changes (lyrics by David Bowie)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 22, 2007
For the past 13 years I have been working on a Business Intelligence product sold mostly to manufacturing companies world-wide. Originally the tool we used was Forest & Trees; however, spending too much time dealing with its shortcomings as a lesser development tool we switched to Delphi 1 a few months after it was released. What a great decision that was!
With the advent of .NET and C#, I realized it was important to update my skills so for the past 3.5 years I have been learning .NET in my spare time. The main reason for my original blog was to track interesting posts on mostly .NET so I could go back and search on them at a later time. Things changed however at last year’s DevConnections conference. I sat in on many SharePoint presentations and was instantly smitten with SharePoint. For the past 9 months, I have been reading up and messing around with SharePoint. I created a separate SharePoint-specific blog earlier this year to keep track of interesting SharePoint links.
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Links (7/22/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 22, 2007
- Virtual Eart Web Part
- Using Sharepoint’s Web Services to QueryDocuments
- How do I make a dashboard show up in the tabs in SharePoint
- Folder with comment field
- New Icon on New Items
- Get rid of your CAML – Download LINQ to SharePoint alpha 0.2.2.0
- Relocation of existing SharePoint site(s)
- How To Open An SPFile To Access Content
- Updating A View Name With An Event Receiver
- WCM Content Type IDs
- Office Developer How-to Center – great list of links for Access, Excel, InfoPath, Office Fluent Ribbon, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint Designer, SharePoint Server, Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office, Windows SharePoint Services, Word, XML in 2007 Office System
- Learn how to build document workflow in MOSS 2007 (Live Web cast on July 24th)
- MOSS 2007 VS MCMS 2002
- Update to Guidance: Configuring WSS 3.0 with Team Foundation Server 2005
- RDP in MOSS
- Working with CAML.Net – Part 2 [ Introducing the CAML Query Designer ]
- MOSS 2007 on Windows 2008
- Installing Windows Server 2008 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- Building and deploying SharePoint Solution packages
- Blog commenting policy
- Running Best Practice Analyzer for WSS and MOSS 2007
- Configuring LDAP Provider with MOSS 2007
- ****Warm Up your SharePoint Servers…
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Links (7/19/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 19, 2007
- Document libraries, Folders & Content Types – it is possible to associate different Content Types with different folders within the same document library
- Application Development on MOSS 2007 & WSS V3
- Using ASP.Net user controls in your WSSV3/MOSS ASPX pages…
- New InfoPath content on the web
- What Happens to Listings During Upgrade and Migration
- 64-Bit Gotchas
- Enabling MySites in MOSS 2007 – if you removed it
- MOSS Has Got Game – Glu Mobile’s Website (www.glu.com) – How We Did It – Part 3 of 3
- 15 Ways / Questions To A Smooth SharePoint Contract
- Common Risks for Common SharePoint Projects
- Video: Creating A Knowledge Center 5 of 6 – Building the Blogs Environment
- Using a Custom Query with the Search Core Results Web Part
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Links (7/18/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 18, 2007
- SharePoint SDK Downloads Refreshed! (7/17/2007)
- Recap of Last Weeks Training: In a Word – Awesome! - Michael Gannotti has some good info from training he had last week
- LINQ to SharePoint
- Sharepoint Learning Kit
- Windows Media Player Web Part
- Username directly shown in InfoPath form
- A SharePoint 2007 (MOSS/WSS) WebPart to show up all subsites under a site
- Applying the KISS Principle to PerformancePoint Planning
- New Demos to Show the Benefits of Migrating Lotus Domino Apps to MOSS 2007
- Branding of Sites in Windows SharePoint Services and MOSS 2007
- Some more glaring omissions in the Sharepoint 2007 SDK and Web Services
- Programatic way to determine space used on all database tables
- InfoPath 2007 Template Parts to the rescue
- Beware – MOSS migration of SPS Listings generates problematic Site Columns
- Today’s cry for help was to do with the behaviour of one of the fantastic 40 SharePoint application templates - problems: 1) The date is always in US format even though the site is in UK format and the region setting of the machine is also UK 2) Cannot do recurring reservation
- Using SharePoint 2007 audiences in combination with MOSS Publishing placeholders
- **** Upgrade Performance and Time to Upgrade
- Using CustomAction to modify system pages
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Links (7/16/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 16, 2007
- IISReset is bruteforce, there are civilized alternatives (IISApp.vbs)
- Pulling Data From SQL Server for Use in Sharepoint 2007
- Reasons for a Full Crawl
- ContentEnumerator.cs for stored procedure sample
- Community development for SharePoint
- FPRPC Call: How to determine if server is 2003 or 2007
- Using client operating systems for MOSS development
- Effects on Search After Upgrading from SPS2003 to MOSS
- Deploying custom site templates that include SP Designer developed pages
- Unattended and Silent Installs
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Links (7/15/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 15, 2007
- **** WSS v3 & MOSS 2007 Downloadable SDK’s (*.chm) Files Refreshed
- 18 New InfoPath Development Articles
- MOSS Security
- Building a SharePoint workflow in Visual Studio part 2
- Using Microformats with your SharePoint Data
- How to get a filtered RSS feed of a SharePoint List
- What’s the difference between Windows SharePoint Services and Office Sharepoint Server 2007
- Windows Sharepoint Services failed to create the configuration database System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException
- MOSS 2007 People Search Issues
- MOSS 2007 Install
- Returning SharePoint Folder Item Count In C#
- Setting up the Office HTML Viewer to Support Users Without Office
- SharePoint Metadata Integrity Checker Utility
- Display Version and Other SharePoint Metadata in Word 2003 Documents
- **** SharePoint for Collaboration Demo My Way - good information
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 List Web Part
- Integrate Your Watch with SharePoint List Items and Document Libraries
- Massive Scale Deployment – Modularity in SharePoint Farms
- Is XML Notepad 2007 for BDC Meta Data(Application Definition) File Creation?
- Using the BDC and SharePoint Profile Database to Create A Company Directory Lookup
- **** A very common prescan problem that stops you from doing your upgrade
- SharePoint’s core.css stylesheet: Put it to where it belongs
- Changing Recipient of “Access request for a site” Emails
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Links (7/12/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 12, 2007
- **** SharePoint Logs That Make Sense
- Debugging Feature in SharePoint 2007
- How to implement debug option in SharePoint Application within VS 2005 with complete call stack instead of custom error page
- Change a Filename using a Workflow
- Locking Down Custom SharePoint Assemblies
- Creating custom 404 and landing pages (easy to remember URLs that are redirected) in SharePoint
- Modifying ‘system’ pages in SharePoint safely – with sample code
- ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider and SharePoint 2007 and Forms Based Authentication
- Resources for SharePoint Second Wave - Michael has put together a great list of links
- Browser Crashes when Opening Office Documents from SharePoint
- How to enable anonymous access for a site collection and disable anonymous access for sub-sites
- Deploy a SharePoint list template to SharePoint MySites
- Site Restore with SharePoint Designer limitation and work around
- Best Practice on Backups
- Backup and restore your website using SharePoint Designer
- The My Site drives
- Cleaning Inactive Profiles from SharePoint 2007
- Creating Sites From Templates
- Lessons Learned Part II — Upgrading Code That Has Been Deployed
- Which server the SharePoint Central Administration web site should be installed on and how to move it there
- Uploading files to WSS 3.0 document libraries using HTTP PUT and Lists.asmx
- ASP.Net User Control as Web Parts
- Creating SharePoint document library folders from CSV file
- CQ CQ CQ Using the SharePoint Content Query Web Part with the Fantastic 40 Application Templates
- Son of Smartpart article repost
- Implementing Workflow and BPM Solutions on the MOSS 2007 Platform
- Hey There, Mr. 50,000 Properties Guy - good advice on creating controls
- How to filter a SharePoint List or Library by WorkFlow approval status
- Capacity Planning Key Info
- How to change service accounts and their passwords in MOSS and WSS 3.0
- Enhanced Content Query Web Part goes Beta 2
- ‘Customizing SharePoint the supported way’ – slides and sample code now available
- 10 Steps To Effective SharePoint Project Management
- Building professional internet sites using MOSS 2007 – Metatags (Part 1)
- Building professional internet sites using MOSS 2007 – Metatags (Part 2)
- Building professional internet sites using MOSS 2007 – Page Titles (Part 3)
- MOSS User Profile Info – How the information flows
- Fix the ‘problems’ in your Site
- **** SharePoint 2007: All you ever wanted to know about User Profiles
- SharePoint Designer Workflows
- LINQ to SharePoint – Improving the parser == debugger visualizer fun
- LINQ to SharePoint team blog
- Porting SharePoint Designer Workflows to Visual Studio
- Why SharePoint Projects Fail
- Calling WSS 3.0 Web Services from WCF clients
- **** Lessons learned from a real world implementation – Part I
- Overview of SharePoint Navigation
- SharePoint Solution Deployment: Handy Post-Build Events
- Blank “Author” field when querying document libraries
- **** All you ever wanted to know about SharePoint 2007 Site Templates
- **** Understanding Why SharePoint Server 2007 is so “Chatty” with SQL Server
- Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control — MossMenu source code released
- SharePoint OOTB Web Parts
- Control the Modifiability of a Workflow
- Automated Backup Script for MOSS 2007
- Having trouble deleting a page layout because it’s still being referenced?
- Considerations when using Features to deploy SharePoint files – ghosting/unghosting
- How to create SearchAlert Programmatically?
- How to convert a class library project type to a SharePoint Solution project type
- Finding all references where a master page, page layout, or other file is used in a MOSS 2007 Publishing (WCM) site
- Defining multiple authentication providers to a single MOSS 2007 web application
- LINQ for SharePoint
- How to set Item Level Permission for MOSS/WSS List/Document Library Programmatically
- Creating KPI’s from PerformancePoint Planning Cubes
- Foxit PDF IFilter for 64-bit SharePoint Installations
- Xpress XML for Microsoft SharePoint
- Custom Site Theme for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS 2007) and WSS 3.0
- Using SharePoint Designer to optimize your pages
- Custom Site Definition with Custom Master Page for SharePoint Portal Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) and WSS 3.0
- **** 5 Steps to a Great SharePoint User Experience
- Integrating Office 2007 and SAP using VSTO
- STSADM GUI Tool from Microsoft
- How to Add the Attachment from an InfoPath 2007 Form to a Document Library
- Integrating with PerformancePoint Planning – Best Practices
- Customizing SharePoint Search
- How to Implement Form Based authentication in MOSS/WSS using AspNetSqlMembershipProvider
- Working with SPGridView – all in one
- Filtering with SPGridView
- It’s FINALLY here! Get your Office 2007/Office 2003 co-existence patch NOW!
- Crawling external web sites
- Programmatically download a document
- Tons of New SharePoint Now Content Live on MSDN – July 12, 2007
- Migrating SharePoint Portal 2003 Database to SharePoint 2007 using Content Database Migration
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Links (7/1/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on July 1, 2007
- SharePoint Groups, Permissions, Site Security, and Depreciated Site Groups
- Partners and Tools to Help with SharePoint Migration
- MOSS 2007: How content types and record repository are linked
- Overriding the Content Query Web Part
- SharePoint Web Services Resources
- White Paper Goes Under the Hood
- LINQ to SharePoint alpha v0.2 available
- Drop a border around your page - CSS tip
- Minimal or Base Master Pages
- SharePoint Farm Least Privilege and hotfix packages
- Free the SPWeb! - using for SPSite and SPWeb
- Which WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 site Template is right for me?
- Timer Trigger for the Delay Activity
- More Online Essential Resources
- SharePoint Weekly 11
- AJAX User Control Wrapper Available For Download
- MOSS/WSS Usage Reporting
- Stylize Buttons using Microsoft’s Gradient Filter
- Styling Form Elements Using CSS
- **** SharePoint – CSS Reference Sheet
- Missing UI Settings in the Object Model
- What is a Shared Service Provider?
- AC’s “Best Damn SharePoint Books” List - I would agree with them. I would also throw in SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed.
- Using IComparer For SharePoint Date Comparison
- Using the Business Data Catalog and Smart Tags with the 2007 Office System
- Information Architecture and Management Controls in WSS 3.0 (Governance 2 of 5)
- Finding sites in WSS2.0 content DB’s
- InfoPath 2007 Rich Client vs Form Services
- **** LINQ to SharePoint – Introducing SPML
- Free Online Course: BizTalk 2006 for Developers (Self-paced course)
- SharePoint Solution Generator – Deploying to a Production Server
- How to implement style in MOSS/WSS Web Parts using CSS and using property
- Part 1 – Scott, why do you always ask me to run SPSreport when I call in for help?
- How does SPSPORTAL provision without a folder?
- Enable proxy settings in SharePoint web.config to view RSS Viewer Web Part
- How to change the view from userdisp.aspx to MySite View?
- **** SharePoint 2007 Developers Resources
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