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Links (10/30/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 30, 2007

  1. **** Quick Site Settings: Adding Sub Menus to Site Actions in SharePoint
  2. (AC’s) MOSS WCM STSADM custom commands have been updated
  3. Adding SharePoint 2007 Lists using a SmartClient
  4. Using Validators to Verify User Input from a Web Part’s Custom EditorPart
  5. HtmlDesignerAttribute: Custom Property Builders for SharePoint Web Parts
  6. Free Custom Cross-Site Lookup Column Add-On for WSS v3
  7. The Three-State Workflow - The Forgotten Out-Of-The-Box Workflow for Both WSS and MOSS
  8. Changing the Number Of Blog Posts Per Page
  9. Select Multiple Categories for SharePoint Blog Posts
  10. Adding JavaScript to a Content Editor Web Part to Run onLoad
  11. Make Selected Links in a Links List Open in a New Window
  12. Sneak peak at Alert Manager 2007
  13. Save as template with Publishing feature turned on
  14. Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 1
  15. Step-By-Step Tutorial on Creating Workflows for WSS v3 and MOSS 2007
  16. How to Video: (Programmatically Creating a User Task) Document Workflow in SharePoint (MOSS) 2007
  17. Tips and Tricks: Use a lookup table instead of a choice dropdown list
  18. Failed to instantiate file “default.master”
  19. VSeWSS 1.1 CTP
  20. How to Customize the User Information Page (Part 3)
  21. Installing SQL Reporting Services and MOSS 2007 on the Same port ( default : 80)
  22. Building a Hello World Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  23. [CADCAMNet] “Microsoft SharePoint is a PLM Trojan Horse”
  24. 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part7)
  25. MSDN Webcast: Best Practices for Developing, Debugging, Deploying Web parts in WSS
  26. Debugging Web parts in WSS
  27. Windows Live ID Authentication on your SharePoint site?
  28. STSADM export, Content Deployment, Content Migration API, Features/Solutions - deployment options compared
  29. Recommendations for SharePoint Application Pool Settings
  30. IntelliGantt SharePoint Web Parts
  31. SharePoint Designer — Custom activity to execute user-defined C# functions
  32. SPD Workflow custom action - get the tag right to avoid frustration
  33. Tips and Tricks: Access document libraries from your local Quick Launch
  34. New eLearning Course: Developing Solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio 2005
  35. Structured content authoring using the 2007 Microsoft Office System and XML
  36. MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) - Part 3 - Customize using SharePoint Designer 2007

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Links (10/28/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 28, 2007

  1. **** Save as Template Size Limitation (Workaround)
  2. **** Quick Contact List - access SharePoint database directly
  3. **** To bracket or not to bracket GUIDs in SharePoint CAML files - a general rule to live by
  4. **** Integrating SharePoint with other portals and applications
  5. Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model
  6. SharePoint Object Model “Hidden Gems”
  7. PerformancePoint Planning & Architecture Guide
  8. (Updated) Visio Stencils for Sharepoint 2007 Site Structures documentation. Version 0.2.
  9. Missing Content Types association with variations - an STSADM extension solution
  10. You receive an error when you create a page, as a SharePoint Member, for the first time in a sub-site
  11. Programmatically create a site lookup column in SharePoint
  12. Links for SAP and MOSS integration
  13. Data Protection Manager 2007 - Protect Exchange, SQL and SharePoint
  14. PerformancePoint Planning Association feature
  15. SharePointBeagle November Edition
  16. SharePoint MySites Integration with Active Directory
  17. How to Screencast: Setting up your Virtual Lab Part 1
  18. Building a VM Test Lab Part 2
  19. How to make MOSS 2007 search results open in new window
  20. How To Screencast: Alternate Access Mappings or AAM
  21. Variation Logs Paging Bug
  22. WSS FAQ additions and corrections LXXVII - 21st - 27th October 2007
  23. Example of using a repeating section instead of repeating table for a InfoPath form
  24. SharePoint 2007 Search Analytics
  25. The Ecstasy and Agony of MOSS’s Enterprise Functionality and Licensing
  26. SharePoint 2007 - Incoming Email
  27. SharePartXXL Newsletter WebPart for MOSS/WSS now available
  28. MOSS SSP Unexpected Error - Safe mode did not start successfully. Request for the permission of type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Security.SharePointPermission, Microsoft.SharePoint.Security, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’ failed.
  29. MOSS: White paper: Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments
  30. Upgrading from WSS 2.0 to 3.0: Another Approach
  31. Flushing out the cache in SharePoint
  32. Resources for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0
  33. How to Video: Document Workflow in SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 (Extracting email addresses and sending emails)
  34. MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) - Part 3 - Customize using SharePoint Designer 2007
  35. Managed Paths Screencast

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Links (10/25/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 25, 2007

  1. **** SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Edit Consoles Throw Off Your Design - definitely ran into this before
  2. SharePoint 2007 as an Enterprise Application Platform
  3. Getting More from the Content Query Web Part (CQWP)
  4. Repeaters as menus inside SharePoint
  5. SharePoint Backup and Restore Resources
  6. Code Practices - getting\setting values from\to the lookup and the hyperlink fields
  7. Danger, Will Robinson! I hit a limit on the Quick Launch menu - 40 items it appears
  8. Quick and Simple: Configure MOSS to search a specific document library
  9. WebPart Tip: How to quickly view the public key for an assembly in the output window - good advice. another way is to get AC’s VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint Developers.
  10. Enabling and managing social networks (for business use) with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  11. SharePoint and Managed Paths
  12. When SPWeb.DoesUserHavePermissions() (SPWeb.DoesNotWork == true)
  13. Adding more than two site collection administrators programmatically.
  14. Lesson learned (the hard way): Never use underscore in your hostname
  15. Hunting the encoding problem in content deployment - part 1
  16. Hunting the encoding problem in content deployment - part 2
  17. Hunting the encoding problem in content deployment - part 3
  18. InfoPath 2007 and SharePoint Site Columns
  19. Adding users to MOSS 2007 (SharePoint) sites and groups
  20. Using .NET Reflection to Create SharePoint Features
  21. Custom Web Parts can “break” Variations process
  22. How to deal with URL fields in SharePoint Lists programmatically
  23. Vivid Group Launches Another MOSS 2007 WCM Public Internet Website - http://www.amanaliving.com.au - case study
  24. Pdf documents not appearing in search results?
  25. Getting to grips with Data View Web Parts in SharePoint Designer 2007
  26. What is OzMOSS.com? - is an online collaboration site and mailing list that brings Australian (and International) WSS/MOSS/SharePoint knowledge together in one place.
  27. SharePoint Document Workflow Example: Extracting document details with your workflow
  28. Proxy server settings for SharePoint 2007
  29. Content Wrapping with Master Pages and HTTPModules
  30. Active Directory Membership Provider and SharePoint
  31. How to troubleshoot MOSS 2007 Protocol Handler for Lotus Notes and other tips/tricks. Part 3 of 3
  32. From InfoPath to Database via Web Service
  33. Alternate Access Mappings
  34. Backup / Restore and Data Protection Manager 2007 RTM
  35. E-Mail Records Retention in SharePoint Server 2007

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Internet Explorer 6.0 Crash Clicking Items in Quick Launch

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 24, 2007

Hey everyone,

I’m hoping for a little guidance. I created a basic team site which has a Shared Documents document library and Calendar, Tasks, and Issues lists. As you can read, pretty simple stuff.

I have two users who are running IE 6 (6.0.2900.2180) and when they click a link in the Quick Launch bar, they receive the following error. The error occurs in kernel32.exe.

quicklink_crashinfo.jpg

I have read numerous posts on this issue. There are quite a few on users running into this issue when opening a document (Microsoft has a hotfix on this). It seems related to owssup.dll. My users are not opening documents, they are just clicking the list links in the Quick Launch. My feeling is there is an add-on which is messing up IE. I told them to disable them and figure out which one is causing it.

Update #1 (11/7/2007): I have done a little more research on the issue. I believe the issue is related to either an add-on or a conflict with having Office 2003/Office 2007 applications installed on the system. We ran into another user who has the same issue. What do all of the users have in common? They are all running Office 2003 and Project 2007. Although I told them to go through the list of add-ons and disable one at a time and retry, I believe it’s the conflict issue. I wrote up instructions for the users to hopefully resolve the issue. We’ll see when they run through the tests:

  1. Open C:\program files\microsoft office\office 12\ 
  2. Rename the OWSSUPP.DLL file to something like OWSSUPP.backup.
  3. Go to Start –> All Programs –> Microsoft Office –> Microsoft Office Tools –> Microsoft Office Diagnostics.
  4. Run the tool after it runs you will have a new OWSSUPP.DLL file.  If you look at the time stamp it should be an hour newer than the other dlls.

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Links (10/23/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 23, 2007

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Links (10/21/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 21, 2007

  1. **** Performing joins between SharePoint lists
  2. **** Usage Event Logging in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  3. **** Training Resources for Web Conent Management
  4. Authoring a Workflow Foundation runtime host
  5. Update your SharePoint servers with KB934525 (WSS v3) and KB937832 (MOSS 2007)
  6. CQWP Frustrations - Introducing CARBURETUR
  7. XHTML Validated Compliant SharePoint Website
  8. WSS FAQ additions and correction LXXVI - 14th - 20th October 2007
  9. Is MOSS 2007 a platform or a solution?
  10. MOSS 2007 WCM / Publishing Linkfest Updated
  11. How Do I: Develop Custom Applications by Using Excel Web Services in SharePoint Server 2007
  12. Video: Developing Custom Applications by Using Excel Web Services in SharePoint Server 2007
  13. How Do I: Add Excel Web Parts to Pages Programmatically in SharePoint Server 2007
  14. Video: Adding Excel Parts to Pages Programmatically in SharePoint Server 2007
  15. How Do I: Create Custom Enterprise Search Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2007
  16. Video: Creating Custom Enterprise Search Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2007
  17. Helper Classes for the SharePoint Server 2007 Search Query Web Service Built Using the Microsoft .NET Framework
  18. Install and Configure the Community Kit for SharePoint: Internet/Extranet Edition
  19. Locking Down Styles in the MOSS Publishing HTML Field Control
  20. SharePoint 2007 - Giving rights to a particular group, to manage another group
  21. The search is not working in SharePoint 2007
  22. SharePoint Customization Policy White Paper
  23. Performance considerations when using enumerable types
  24. Porting SharePoint Designer Workflows to Visual Studio
  25. Accessible Web Content Management Solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  26. Error after KB941422 : The specified SPContentDatabase has been upgraded to a newer version of SharePoint. Please upgrade this SharePoint application server before attempting to access this object

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Links (10/18/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 18, 2007

  1. Visio Stencils for SharePoint 2007 sites and servers
  2. The Multi-line Text Box and its Malcontents - Part III
  3. Servé’s SharePoint Theme Generator
  4. SharePoint Skinner - Theme Generator
  5. Creating a Custom Meeting Workspace Site Definition
  6. Storing Unstructured Data – From file servers to cloud services
  7. SharePoint seems to be read only (or perhaps you need SQL Server 2005 SP 2)
  8. Tip: Getting around a SharePoint Error Page
  9. Microsoft SharePoint and SharePoint Learning Kit - Live Meetings
  10. SharePoint Pro Live Follow Up - Slide Deck Up - AC’s slide deck is up. need time to check it out…
  11. Using a Web Application Feature to Modify web.config
  12. ASP.NET, MOSS and App Pool identities
  13. Using the SharePoint People Picker
  14. Using the SharePoint date control in a web part
  15. Please install the SharePoint updates on your server
  16. SharePoint Server e-Learning content released
  17. SharePoint Connector for Confluence - Atlassian has just announced a SharePoint Connector for Confluence, their very popular wiki product (Atlassian also makes JIRA the issue tracking system).
  18. Working With SharePoint Events Lists
  19. Changing Service Accounts for SharePoint 2007
  20. SharePoint Errors when you’re SQL Server runs out of disk space
  21. Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 5
  22. WSP Solution Installer: Add to every new Web Application
  23. How to Debug a Custom OWSTimer Job
  24. Using Debug Statements in BizTalk
  25. Policy for Web Application
  26. High Availability, Scale Planning and Amazing work by Mike Watson
  27. Feature Inheritance for new sites
  28. Finally, Available for Download: Creating A Knowledge Center Series - Videos 1-6
  29. Microsoft Popfly goes to public Beta, and SharePoint users can join in on the fun, too!
  30. InfoPath Forms Services - There has been an error while loading the form error
  31. How to setup the MOSS 2007 Protocol Handler for Lotus Notes to search multiple Domino Databases. Part 1 of 3

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Links (10/16/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 16, 2007

  1. **** Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model
  2. **** SharePoint Developer Explorer - Visual Studio Add-in
  3. SPWorkflowAssociation.AutoCleanupDays
  4. SharePoint is not the Holy Grail
  5. Migrating Site Collection to new Content Database
  6. ASP.Net 2.0 Navigation and SharePoint v3
  7. Managing Enterprise Metadata with Content Types and Search
  8. SharePoint Ajax Toolkit: Reference Application
  9. Avoiding performance issues in Infopath Forms Servers
  10. IntelliGantt Synchronization with Outlook and SharePoint
  11. Announcing Community Kit for SharePoint: Windows Live Authentication!
  12. Quick and Simple: Use Fixed Keyword Query in Search Core Results
  13. SharePoint Designer Reformat HTML
  14. MOSS 2007 as a consumer for service oriented architecture (SOA) base architecture
  15. How to elevate permissions?
  16. Document Library and ItemAdding Event
  17. SharePoint navigation highlighting - Download project files
  18. Adding a task for multiple persons
  19. Be careful with uninstalling (core) features
  20. AutoGAC your class library after build
  21. Controlling publishing features from onet.xml
  22. SharePoint 2007 - Add a Lookup Field to a List Template Element that references its own List
  23. WSS vs MOSS for Internet (MP3 link)
  24. Creating your own custom Base Class with your own MOSS Web Part
  25. How to restrict public access to sharepoint list views using filters
  26. Are You Ready For SharePoint?
  27. Positioning Microsoft Office SharePoint - Part 2
  28. SharePoint Office Server 2007 - Overview WebCasts for Decision Makers
  29. SharePoint Architecure presentation & dev poster from San Diego
  30. Known issue: Office 2007 on Windows Vista prompts for user credentials when opening documents in a SharePoint 2007 site
  31. Another SharePoint Sucks Post Released into the Wild

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Links (10/14/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 14, 2007

  1. **** SharePoint Deployment Essentials and Resources
  2. **** ScriptaculousPrototype Feature for WSS v3 - From my buddy Leon. “The goal of this project is to allow site administrators to deploy the javascript elements required to use the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js libraries to their site collections for use by developers.”
  3. Customizing the PlaceHolderSearchArea
  4. Announcing the Community Kit for SharePoint: Internet/Extranet Edition Forms-Based Authentication solution
  5. Announcing the Community Kit for SharePoint: Virtual Earth Maps on SharePoint
  6. geekSpeak on Channel9 - SharePoint Features with Paul Stork
  7. How to Customize the User Information Page (Part 2)
  8. “Content Type is still in use” error when trying to delete an InfoPath Form from a Form Library
  9. Custom Field Validation With SPFieldValidationException
  10. WSS FAQ additions and corrections LXXV - 7th - 13th October 2007
  11. Installation and Setup – Preparing your Server Environment
  12. Quick Launch Disappeared
  13. Use A Builder With JavaScript In WebParts
  14. Understanding that “SharePoint” is a really broad label - couldn’t agree more.
  15. Developing AJAX Web Parts in SharePoint 2007
  16. SharePoint Branding Design Gotchas
  17. Document Workflow in MOSS 2007
  18. Information Architecture - Worksheets for SharePoint 2007
  19. Excel 2007 Hotfix Package released - fixes the 65535 error
  20. Differentiating Windows SharePoint Server and Office SharePoint Server (more info)
  21. Key Sharepoint Business Roles Part 2 with Definitions
  22. Displaying Features’ version in the Site (Collection) Features Overview
  23. Central Administration site - Service Unavailable
  24. Forefront for Sharepoint - Tech Center and Best Practices Guide
  25. ForeFront Security Blog Launched, when?
  26. A Tip For SharePoint Developers: XSLT Is Your Friend
  27. Deployment using STSADM export or content migration API

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Links (10/11/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 11, 2007

  1. **** Custom Web Part Building: State Management Tips and Tricks
  2. **** What does MOSS WCM get you?
  3. Introducing the Content By Type webpart - call for betatesters
  4. Meeting Workspace Master Page Woes
  5. How to fix a completely screwed up SharePoint 2007 webpart page
  6. Setting the Content Type of a document programatically
  7. Query Multiple Lists using SPSiteDataQuery class
  8. Records Management Overview
  9. What is the relationship between Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer?
  10. New to SharePoint? where to start?
  11. A script to configure SharePoint to use ADFS for authentication
  12. Reporting Services and SharePoint MOSS Configuration Woes
  13. Customising the Send To link in SharePoint
  14. Where’s my DispForm?
  15. Understanding Site Pages versus Application Pages
  16. SharePoint Backup Error - Access to the path ‘x’ is denied
  17. Announcing the CKS: World Clock and Weather web part
  18. Default Install Configuration
  19. Adding Site to Site Directory
  20. Enhanced Content Query Web Part available on CodePlex
  21. How do I – Solve the “Could not create type WebService.Name” error when trying to deploying a web service?
  22. SPSite, SPWeb and SPWebCollection
  23. SharePoint Licensing Links
  24. PowerShell: Is a SharePoint solution installed or deployed?
  25. PowerShell: Creating a SharePoint solution package (WSP file) with CAS
  26. More on the Usage and Reporting Tool Release for SharePoint
  27. Another Way to Get a Color Coded SharePoint Calendar - Thanks Kevin for the Tip!
  28. Learning SharePoint MOSS at 2.5 Weeks - Perspective of an ASP.Net guy
  29. WSS 3.0 Security Fix causes Performance Issue for Hosters
  30. Creating simple tasks calendar for SharePoint sidebar
  31. SharePoint End User Training Kit now available

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ONET.XML, Site Definitions, and alternate default.aspx

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 10, 2007

Today I ran into a frustrating issue. I was creating some custom site definitions and when I attempted to provision a site, I would get the “404 Not Found” error. Instead of creating a default.aspx, I created several derivatives with different names (e.g. defaultxxxxx.aspx). The issue was in the ONET.XML file in the modules section, I referenced the correct URL but did not give it a name.

    <Module Name=”CustomSite01Url=”" Path=”">

      <File Url=”default01.aspxName=”default.aspxNavBarHome=”TrueType=”Ghostable“>

        <NavBarPage Name=”$Resources:core,nav_Home;ID=”1002Position=”Start” />

        <NavBarPage Name=”$Resources:core,nav_Home;ID=”0Position=”Start” />

      </File>

    </Module>

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Links (10/9/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 9, 2007

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Links (10/7/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 7, 2007

  1. **** SharePoint 2007 for .NET Developers - looks like a great series Sahil is putting together
  2. **** Turning a Master Page into a Theme
  3. **** A Single Developer’s SharePoint 2007 Development Environment
  4. **** Learn MOSS: DVD Training from Franklins.NET and Sahil Malik
  5. Backup and Restore Strategies in MOSS 2007
  6. SharePoint Environments - when developing as a team
  7. Using “Person or Group” in a calculated column
  8. .NET Helper Classes for the SharePoint Server 2007 Search Query Web Service
  9. Word documents to Sharepoint
  10. How to apply css style sheet in Sharepoint
  11. SharePoint Roles Assignments
  12. Customzing Connection Information Using The FilterInfoBar Class
  13. Creating a Standards Compliant MOSS 2007 WCM Public Internet Website With Low Page Weight
  14. Account locked WebPart
  15. Using the SPFullTextSqlQuery object to query scopes
  16. AD Change Password WebPart
  17. How to obtain the incoming email domain name
  18. Cannot convert type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.DelegateControl’ to ‘System.Web.UI.IAttributeAccessor’
  19. Create a New SharePoint Permission Level and Bind it to an Existing SharePoint Group
  20. Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) Community portal
  21. Using Firebug to Manage CSS Effectively - couldn’t agree more!
  22. Office/SharePoint Bug When Using Encrypted Documents
  23. Office SharePoint Server Deployment Plan sample
  24. How to access the Embedded database used by SharePoint
  25. My STSADM extension toolbox
  26. ConceptSharePoint, Document Classification and Advanced Search for Microsoft SharePoint
  27. Using Records Management in SharePoint 2007 Part 3 (Sending Content from SharePoint Server 2007 to the Records Repository site)
  28. Windows Workflow Foundation Updates
  29. Return IIS Settings For A SP Zone

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Links (10/4/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 4, 2007

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Links (10/3/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 3, 2007

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Links (10/2/2007)

Posted by Steve Pietrek on October 2, 2007

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