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Archive for August, 2007

Links (8/30/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 30, 2007

  1. **** Create DDF/WSP Tool - now with Manifest!
  2. **** SharePoint Resource Guide
  3. **** SharePoint 2007 - Development and Engineering Practices
  4. Which SharePoint edition is right for you? - includes pricing
  5. Progammatically Adding Folders to a SharePoint List
  6. Importing a Word Document using InfoPath 2007 (Simple Example)
  7. Extend The PublishingLayoutPage Class - Create Your Own to Run Code in the ‘Page’
  8. Document Library “Send to” copies a bit broken
  9. Knowledge Base application template - don’t try to move it!
  10. Dynamic CAML Query
  11. Testing Whether A User Has SPBasePermission On SPList Object
  12. .NET Rocks! #268 - Vishwas Lele on MOSS as an Application Platform
  13. Permissions, Security - useful resources
  14. How to free your DataForm WebPart from those nasty GUIDs
  15. SharePoint applications - Architecture and Design lessons learned (so far)
  16. Creating a library of user controls in a single DLL - and that will work in MOSS!
  17. Adding a document Link to a Sharepoint Document Library in code
  18. Programmatically getting the value of an SPField from inside a publishing page
  19. Getting the call stack inside of Sharepoint 2007 / WSS v3
  20. Adding a custom Resource file to use in your Sharepoint 2007 Feature.xml file
  21. SPGridview and collapsed grouping by default
  22. SPContext.Current.FormContext
  23. SPFormContext - if (SPContext.Current.FormContext.FormMode == SPControlMode.Display) { }
  24. SharePoint Publishing’s including the Long Awaited SharePoint Data Migration Tools from Kimmo Forss!
  25. UI matters (Revisited): Menus and ToolBars vs. Office 2007 Ribbons
  26. MOSS 2007 and SPS 2003/SPS 2001 migration tools public release
  27. Bringing Live Search to your SharePoint Site
  28. AJAX SharePoint List Rotator WebPart
  29. Crawling a DFS Tree in SharePoint Server 2007
  30. Web Services on SharePoint - making F5 Work

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Links (8/28/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 28, 2007

  1. **** External Storage API for WSS 3 available
  2. **** More useful and (free!) SharePoint “Features” available at http://www.CodePlex.com/Features
  3. SPListItem.URL Funky Return Fiesta
  4. To Create Workflow Association and Initiation Forms (Windows SharePoint Services)
  5. Complete Code of SharePoint 2007 (MOSS/WSS) Connected Web Parts using IWebPartField Interface
  6. Change your IIS Web App in Dev Mode using SPWebConfigModification
  7. Dynamic CAML Query
  8. Publishing Page - List does not exist error message - Error: List does not exist. The page you selected contains a list that does not exist.  It may have been deleted by another user.
  9. All about workflows Part Uno
  10. Forms Based Authentication ( FBA) in WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007
  11. WSS 3.0 - Behind the scenes of creating a new Web Application
  12. How to force MOSS to create Team Sites using the same language as the Portal site collection
  13. Georeplication in WSS 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Geographic Replication
  14. Adding custom help pages to SharePoint is complex
  15. Alternative Access Mappings in SharePoint - AAM
  16. How to force MOSS to create My Sites using the same language as the Portal site collection
  17. Using your SharePoint site Master Page on all application pages
  18. Using Features to enable Drop-Down Menus in Team Sites
  19. MOSS 2007 – Using Property Bag of SPWeb to store Metadata
  20. Failed to determine definition for Feature - Error: “Failed to determine definition for Feature with ID…”
  21. Two Applications to Help with Getting the Perfect Colors for Your SharePoint Styles - Color Crop and Color Jack
  22. SharePoint Skinner Overview - “tool was developed to make creating themes for SharePoint easier, it works with any website and has no real dependencies on SharePoint.”
  23. Displaying SharePoint Fields in different order than edit fields
  24. How to make Search Results Actionable
  25. Introduction to Single-Sign-On (SSO) with Data Views
  26. Verifying functionality of Forefront Security for SharePoint 2007
  27. MOSS as a Development Platform: DoD 5015 Compliance Solution Case Study
  28. Integrating Access Contacts with SharePoint and Outlook
  29. Sample .NET code that retrieves data stored in a SharePoint list
  30. (Shane Young) is Joining The Ted Pattison Group - Shane’s lives minutes away from me. One of these days I’ll finally meet him.
  31. ByPass Error Page while canceling the event in Event Handler
  32. Increasing Profits, Driving Brand Recognition, and Increasing Customer/Employee Loyalty with SharePoint, an Academy Mobile like Solution, and Zune Part 1 of 3: Overview

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Links (8/26/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 26, 2007

  1. **** The ‘P’ in ‘SharePoint’ Stands for ‘Platform’ - good post on using SharePoint as an application development framework (”platform”)
  2. SharePoint 2007 Workflows - Adding a user input form
  3. MOSS 2007: Connect a custom Search Page to a custom Search Scope
  4. Custom Content Types with Custom Icons
  5. Imtech Fields Explorer - tool that can help you during the development process while working with fields. The tool allows you to explore properties of the fields contained within the (Site Collection) Content Types and Lists.
  6. AddToEnvPath - tiny tool which I wrote to help me add some path to the Environment Path variable. Like this you gain easy access to tools like STSADM.EXE and GACUTIL.EXE no matter the command line location.
  7. Accessing Sharepoint from a Mobile device?
  8. Adding the 12 hive to VS.NET File Dialogs
  9. Filters in Query String
  10. Building Customer Intimacy Using External Portals
  11. Anonymous Comment Feature for SharePoint Blog - now available on CodePlex
  12. MOSS2007 – Page Layouts and CSS
  13. Update “lookup” fields in SharePoint 2007
  14. “Email to” links generated by SharePoint
  15. Retrieving List Information in Share Point

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Edit in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer Error

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 24, 2007

Today I attempted to edit the default.master file found in the Master Page Gallery by selecting the “Edit in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer” option. I received the following error:

“The document could not be opened for editing. A Windows Sharepoint Services compatible application could not be found to edit the document.”

It seemed I had a mismatch of Office 2003/Office 2007 applications installed. I checked the list of installed applications and didn’t find any specific to Office 2003. Anyway, to fix, install the following hotfix (will require a reboot).

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888

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Links (8/23/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 23, 2007

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Links (8/22/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 22, 2007

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Links (8/21/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 21, 2007

  1. **** Announcing the CTP for VSeWSS Version 1.1
  2. **** Fantastic post on SharePoint debugging
  3. **** Debugging tips for SharePoint
  4. **** Hotfix lets you store WSS data outside of SQL
  5. Announcing the Microsoft Business Data Catalog (BDC) Definition Editor
  6. How to remove farm administrators permissions from a site?
  7. One document, multiple Document Libraries
  8. EWA Companion Part 2: Save As Functionality
  9. EWA Companion Part 3: Open/Download functionality
  10. Microsoft SharePoint and the SharePoint Learning Kit - Live Meetings
  11. “Incorrect syntax near ‘COLLATE’.” Error When Trying to Join a SharePoint Farm
  12. Solution for multiple filters… (Javascript/Forms Solution)
  13. Why Findability is so Important and how SharePoint Server 2007 Helps
  14. MOSS 2007 supports Live Earth – Conservation International’s Public Web Sites – How We Did It (Part 2 of 2)
  15. Listing of Public Facing Internet SharePoint Driven Web Sites
  16. More Kerberos in SharePoint: The lifetime of a Kerberos ticket
  17. Exception from HRESULT: 0×80041050
  18. SharePoint: SPWeb.AllUsers vs. SPWeb.Users vs. SPWeb.Groups
  19. Embedding JavaScript in SharePoint Pages
  20. Bug in SharePoint Designer Found - with web part connections
  21. Customizing Master pages in Enterprise Portal
  22. Resources for geekSpeak - Custom Authentication in SharePoint 2007
  23. How to create Site Collection in a specific Content Database?
  24. Essential Tips On Kerberos for SharePoint Deployers
  25. Defining SharePoint v3 webparts (ASP.NET 2.0 webparts) in the Modules section of ONET.XML
  26. “Save As” Functionality in Adobe Graphic Products from SharePoint
  27. OneNote 2007 and SharePoint
  28. Automatically starting workflow problem on document libraries
  29. Social Networking and My Sites
  30. Creating Permission Levels in MOSS

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Links (8/19/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 19, 2007

  1. **** MOSS 2007 – Creating an ASP.NET Application in the “_layouts” Directory using the Visual Studio 2005 Plug-In “Web Application Project”
  2. **** Running the event handler code with elevated privilages
  3. **** A couple SharePoint logging tricks (Dev Environment only)
  4. **** Those dang System Screens - excellent list of the SharePoint System screens (now to memorize them!)
  5. Three New SharePoint Solution Accelerator Programs
  6. SharePoint Graphical Workflow
  7. Search Problem in SharePoint Server 2007
  8. Integrate Windows Live and SharePoint search into your site
  9. New SharePoint MOM Packs for System Center Ops Manager 2007
  10. Announcing the Availability of the SharePoint Manageability Toolkit Beta
  11. SharePoint 2007 Weblog » Blog Archive » SharePoint 2007: Team Tools Feature Explorer v1.0
  12. Automatically setting custom permissions on new sites
  13. How to create a custom Document Library item edit/upload form
  14. Using BDC with RdbCredentials - when you have no Domain
  15. The Anatomy of a SharePoint Farm
  16. Resolving the “Unable to display this Web Part” problem after SharePoint Designer restore
  17. Introducing EWA companion: A web-part that adds missing functionality to the EWA component
  18. Two White Papers on Extending and Customing Search in SharePoint Server 2007
  19. Codeplex & Technet: SharePoint Governance and Planning Resources
  20. Ensure You Remember EnsureChildControls() - “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”
  21. PowerShell: get SharePoint Central Administration web application path
  22. Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server)
  23. SPSite vs. SPWeb - at first this is really confusing…
  24. Creating and deploying VSTO Documents inside SharePoint Document Libraries
  25. Creating a custom Site Definition in WSS V3 / MOSS
  26. Adding a Document Library Feature to a Site Definition in WSS V3 / MOSS 2007
  27. Creating a Custom Document Library Feature in WSS V3 / MOSS 2007
  28. Workflow + InfoPath Forms, Form is not workflow enabled??
  29. Redirection options in SharePoint

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Links (8/16/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 16, 2007

  1. **** Retrieving Attachments from SharePoint List Items
  2. **** Creating a site administration page that looks like a real SharePoint administration page
  3. MOSS - Visual Studio Development (What works for me…)
  4. Create Sub Folders in Lists Programmatically
  5. How To Create SharePoint Document Library Subfolders Programmatically
  6. MOSS2007/WSSv3 Restore Feature Issue
  7. Set SharePoint List Template for Access Table
  8. Adding Prompt Text Inside of a Search Text Box
  9. Great diagram for the ultimate enterprise search solution
  10. Managing social networking with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  11. Current Navigation, Global Navigation, siblings and PublishingWeb?
  12. MOSS 2007 & Outlook integration - sometimes a one way street…
  13. More Infrastructure Optimization - Models, Capabilities and Requirements by Maturity Level
  14. Writing Custom Webparts Article
  15. How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools to XP or Vista
  16. New Search Indexing Whitepaper from MS IT includes Best Practices and Optimization
  17. Build SPFile Url’s Into A String Array
  18. WebDAV and Explorer View
  19. BizTalk 2006 VHD available for download
  20. MySite Customization
  21. Searching .pdf Files
  22. Sample Code for Custom C# MOSS Navigation Using PortalSiteMapProvider
  23. Running Timed Jobs within SharePoint
  24. Improving Your Innovation Process with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and DataLan Corporation…an Ampacet Case Study
  25. A few examples of InfoPath 2007 Template Parts we created for the current project
  26. MOSS 2007 Site Navigation - Topical Versus Organizational
  27. Forefront Security for SharePoint SP1 Available Now
  28. Connected Page Viewer Web Part
  29. Making PublishingWebControls Disappear in MOSS
  30. Aggregating multiple data sources in a browser based InfoPath 2007 form

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Links (8/14/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 14, 2007

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Links (8/12/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 12, 2007

  1. **** Complete reference of all STSADM operations (with parameters) in MOSS 2007
  2. **** Application Pool Recycle Utility: Small Update and Roadmap - what a great tool!
  3. **** Add Advanced Search to a Top Level Team Site in MOSS 2007
  4. **** Introduction to Biztalk
  5. Custom User Site Provisioning Solution
  6. 10 reasons to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  7. The Business Data Catalog is a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 shared service
  8. Useful WSS 3.0 Samples - export and import a document from document library
  9. Bulk file name changes for files with reserved characters
  10. WSS FAQ additions and changes LXVII - 6th - 12th August 2007
  11. List definitions Type and BaseType
  12. Validate Microsoft Forefront for SharePoint Installation
  13. Enhanced Content Query Web Part
  14. Add new SharePoint Server to Existing Server Farm - “An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: Unable to connect to the remote server”
  15. Taxonomy management in MOSS
  16. Automatically GAC an assembly after a build and include debug info
  17. Debugging in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  18. MOSS 2007 Document Migration
  19. SharePoint 2007 Hotfix KB 936867 - security inheritance was broken for a document library on a WSS site for a MOSS 2007 installation
  20. Web apps 2.0: Building the next generation applications for the Enterprise in SharePoint
  21. Applying HotFixes in Office SharePoint Server 2007
  22. Setup of Forms authentication w/ administration pages for users
  23. MOSS2007 – Item Level Menus (Investigation)
  24. A great resource for MOSS Search - SharePointSearch.com
  25. PDF Document Type Icon in MOSS

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Links (8/9/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 9, 2007

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Expand VHD File

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 7, 2007

Today I needed to expand a VHD file. Below are the “easy” steps I followed to get it working.
1. Download VHD Resizer and follow instructions to expand the VHD file. The problem is the extra space will be unformatted raw space.

2. Download Virtual Server. Do a Custom install and only install VHDMount. I use only VPC 2007 so I only cared about VHDMount.

3. Open a Command Prompt and type the following commands (in the host OS). Note: I copied the vhd file to the same directory as VHDMount.

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Links (8/7/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 7, 2007

  1. **** Adoption of SharePoint - good questions
  2. **** Yet another Developer Feature - “a page where I could consult certain list properties, like content types and field properties
  3. **** Renaming a MOSS Server
  4. SharePoint Governance and Planning Resources
  5. LinqToSharePoint…CHECK IT OUT!
  6. MOSS 2007 - Records Management at Defra - video
  7. SharePoint Services Gotcha, Field names with Whitespaces
  8. Pretty Up WebPart Exception Display
  9. Recovered: Context Menu for Web Part Page
  10. SharePoint Learning Kit: Part 3
  11. Anonymous Comment Feature for SharePoint Blog - now available on CodePlex
  12. MOSS and Database Mirroring
  13. SharePoint Skillset
  14. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Remote Blob Storage API
  15. This item is currently being updated by…
  16. .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.42 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A05E2B3) (80131506)
  17. This control does not allow connection strings with the following keywords: ‘Integrated Security’, ‘Trusted_Connection’”
  18. Give a user access to the SSP
  19. Customizing ListFormWebPart URL Returns
  20. Strange Resolution - Page Layout Error: ‘Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls’ along with Master Page Gallery Error: “This item cannot be deleted because it is still referenced by other pages.
  21. Archtecting for SharePoint Governance and Content
  22. How do I? – Work around the BUG where Site Columns for a custom Site Content Type do not show up as field controls in SharePoint Designer when customizing the Page Layout
  23. How do I? – Make a new Content Type available in SharePoint 2007
  24. How do I? – Create a new Content Type in SharePoint 2007
  25. How do I? – Add a new Site Column in SharePoint 2007
  26. Creating, deploying and updating custom site definitions
  27. Learn more on building OBAs (Office Business Applications)
  28. Some users cannot view a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site when added as part of an AD group
  29. Test Whether SPUser Is In SPGroup
  30. Flash News Ticker for SharePoint (via Michael Gannotti)

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August Cincinnati SharePoint User Group Announcement

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 7, 2007

 

The August Cincinnati SharePoint User Group meeting will take place on 8/13 (sorry I had the wrong date before) at 6:00 pm at MAX Technical Training in Mason. Check out the website. There are two sessions:

  1. How Shepherd Color Company utilizes SharePoint
  2. Shane Young will speak on Search

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Links (8/5/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 5, 2007

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Links (8/2/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on August 2, 2007

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