- SharePoint notebook problems and another hint
- Site Columns and Look Up Lists
- Displaying a file or a folder in the Page Viewer Web Part
- SharePoint Developers … what are your tools and environments like? VM, single team member, manually write ddf and manifest files, not used VSEWSS, templates
- MOSS Audience compilation doesn’t return any members
- MOSS’ blobcache causing 404 errors
- ISV Video on MOSS 2007 published
- SharePoint Lists Synchronizer - without BDC
- What the Heck is RSS?
Archive for November, 2007
Links (11/29/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 29, 2007
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Links (11/28/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 28, 2007
- **** Business Objects Offers Free Integration Kit for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Announcing the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) 1.0
- Five Simple But Powerful PowerShell Functions/Filters for SharePoint
- People ranked by social distance are DummyResults
- How to Video: Building a Multilevel Approval Workflow with SharePoint (MOSS 2007) and Visual Studio
- SharePoint Resource Center Pages Now Live
- Credential Prompts on Vista with SharePoint and Office
- Closing of the SPWeb or SPSite Object within Web Part Development
- SharePoint SUSHI – Home (via Matt Hinze) – SUSHI is a powerful, user-friendly way to accomplish common SharePoint administrative and development tasks.
- Using Today in a CAML Query
- Tip – Creating CAML Queries
- What’s new in MOSS 2007
- Avoiding CSS caching issues
- SharePoint Debugging and Feature Implementation
- Should I Use Visual Studio 2008 as my only development environment for SharePoint?
- Connecting SQL Reporting Services to a SharePoint List
- Converting ASP.NET site into a SharePoint site
- MOSS 2007 Governance Plan
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Links (11/27/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 27, 2007
- **** Speed up your SharePoint site using cache-control
- Dealing with Memory Pressure problems in MOSS/WSS
- Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Using SPQuery and CAML to filter and order
- SharePoint 2007 (MOSS/WSS) how to change the template link within a InfoPath Form under a Form Library to point it to a New Form Template – Part 2 (few findings)
- DotNetNuke and SharePoint — An {EndBracket} response from Shaun Walker
- Update a SharePoint List with PowerShell
- Remote SharePoint code release and App Pool recycling
- Change the width of TreeView navigation in SharePoint
- Keep your SharePoint rich text editor toolbar in view
- Fixing page layout URLs after importing a publishing site in SharePoint
- Rapid For SharePoint available for download
- SharePoint caching in the BaseFieldControl
- Debugging tips for SharePoint
- Easily print SharePoint lists using your own template
- SharePoint Calendar CSS – Clean and Condensed
- SharePoint Security Fundamentals Primer / Avoid Common Pitfalls
- Display New Icon in SPGridView
- WS-FileConvertor 1.0a - a .NET application that converts image files into text readable format
- Don’t modify your MOSS files, even core.css, menu.css…
- New Deitel Resource Centers: ASP.NET 3.5, LINQ, Popfly, WPF, and SharePoint
- Naughty SharePoint Designer
- Another MOSS 2007 Internet Site Seen in the Wild: Fly Buys
- Adding querystring parameters to a SPNavigationNode
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Links (11/25/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 25, 2007
- Quick and Easy: Create a Data View Web Part (DVWP)
- MySites – Moving from one Web App to another
- Free Utility for Testing SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Email Sending
- Changing the boundaries
- Some new SharePoint content on WSSDemo.com - MindManager integration with SharePoint, Screen cast of the SLK SharePoint Training preview, 99 Internet sites hosted on SharePoint (soon I hope to add my client’s website to the list)
- WSS FAQ additions and corrections LXXXI – 18th – 25th November 2007
- Content Types: Title Column Rename Issue
- The Enhanced Content Query Web Part
- What’s the best way to coordinate and manage ideas for SharePoint site creation? - MindManager
- SharePoint web service in forms authentication
- You Should Learn DotNetNuke – although I am a SharePoint consultant, always good to know other options
- Adding custom web parts in a SharePoint Site Definition
- Changing the locale of a SPWeb
- Inconvenient StringToSPViewType (Programmatically adding Views)
- Generate email address automatically - automatically in the contact list
- Managing Site Collections: new STSADM command - move a site collection from one content database to different content database using mergecontentdbs
- Part 2 : Blending publishing/collaboration functionality in SharePoint
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Links (11/22/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 22, 2007
- MOSS Capabilities with Other Browsers
- How to Video: Building a basic Approval Workflow with SharePoint (MOSS 2007) and Visual Studio
- PerformancePoint Server 2007 Product Video
- Unable to delete Master Pages or Page Layouts?
- The answer to life, the universe, and everything = SharePoint - Getting the (Share)Point About Document Formats
- Restricting Available Templates in MOSS07
- Filtering Active Directory Accounts from People Picker
- MOSS Jumpstart Presentation
- Required firewall ports for importing Active Directory profiles with MOSS
- Solution to the ampersand (&) gotcha in SiteMapPath breadcrumb
- Huge MOSS Workflow Issue… What is Microsoft Thinking!!!! – Part 2
- Finding My Links in the Database
- SPContentType.Fields and SPContentType.Parent
- Update to Mark Wilson’s Color Calendar for SharePoint
- Using Microsoft Enterprise Library Application Block in SharePoint
- Displaying live log file contents
- Understanding SharePoint Branding Options
- HRESULT: 0x80040E14 when adding items to SharePoint
- Subtracting or adding Dates in your CAML quey filters
- Performance Point Server Training and Video’s
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Links (11/20/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 20, 2007
- Re-using SharePoint Designer workflows in multiple lists
- Two New Books on Performance Point Server
- How to troubleshoot common errors that occur when you run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007
- MOSS 2007 – CSS Crackers - CSS is rendered in alphabetical order
- Embed a Video into a SharePoint Page
- Move Site Collections in a Single Bound
- Deleting Content Sources and effects
- Deleting / Purging / Removing Orphaned Sites or Site Collections
- Modify the inherited properties of a field
- SPSiteDataQuery limited to 10 document libraries work around
- Still learning… (aka. SPD or not to SPD)
- Free download: SLP – InfoPath extension for custom lookup pages
- Controlling SPField Display
- PlaceHolderPageTitle is the root of all evil
- Branding Intranets with SharePoint (MOSS) 2007
- SharePoint, DOCTYPE, and Master Pages
- Quick Guide on how to install Reporting Services on its own server/cluster in SharePoint Integration Mode without using Kerberos
- Writing to the SharePoint Trace Log in your code
- Reporting Services Support for Forms Authentication in SharePoint Integration Mode
- How to Connect Filters to Web Parts
- SharePoint and Storage
- Content Deployment does not fix links (at import) when the source has been deployed with features
- Uploading images to a Wiki
- Setting a Custom Edit Form for a Content Type
- Cannot get the list schema column property from the SharePoint list” — description/work-arounds
- SharePoint Visio Stencils
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Links (11/18/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 18, 2007
- **** Creating a Custom WSS Site Definition
- SharePoint SDK’s
- PowerShell for SharePoint Developers
- Content By Type webpart v1.1 released
- Creating Custom Content Type using MOSS 2007 Object Model
- Shortcut to stsadm.exe
- BlobCache woes, how to work (clean) correctly with it, and what to expect when using it with SharePoint features
- SharePoint Toolbox – Home (via Matt Hinze)
- Using Cookies with SharePoint’s Data View
- WSS FAQ additions and corrections LXXX – 11th -17th November 2007
- Use a web part to filter the display in another web part
- Continued: SharePoint vs File Server
- Tool to purge or delete site collections safely and quickly
- Data protection and recovery for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in small to medium-sized deployments
- SharePoint random link collection – good set of links
- Chapter 2: SharePoint Architecture (Part 1 of 2)
- Chapter 2: SharePoint Architecture (Part 2 of 2)
- SharePoint development best practices on MSDN
- How to Programmatically Set Permissions on Files/Folders in a SharePoint Document Library
- My Top 5 SharePoint Resources to Bookmark
- Sharepoint SPConstant generator – Home (via Matt Hinze)
- How to change the permissions for hundreds of thousands of files and sub-folders (file shares)
- New release: SharePoint Designer Workflow Extensions (string manipulation functions)
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Links (11/15/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 15, 2007
- **** Code Callout Features: How to make automated modifications to sites after they have been deployed
- Sharepoint Application pool settings: update
- An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: OSearch (Administrator)
- When a Feature Isn’t the Same Thing as a feature
- Get a list of site groups - against CommunityUserDataSet
- Add user to a SharePoint Group ( Web Service )
- How to Remove Unwanted Top Sites
- Convert template title to internal name
- Expanding the Global Navigation in SharePoint
- Some comments on common Variation problems
- Deciding to use SharePoint Server 2007 or SharePoint Services (Part 1)
- Deciding to use Sharepoint Server 2007 or SharePoint Services (Part 2)
- BDC Meta Man new release
- An Introduction to Single-Sign-On (SSO) with Data Views
- Visio SharePoint Stencils
- SharePointPedia.com - SharePointPedia.com is a web site where people discover and share useful content about SharePoint and SharePoint related products and technologies. It’s a social computing application built on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
- Office Space: Event handling in SharePoint 2007
- Lesson Learned While Customizing Newform.aspx
- What is a “Current View” and why can’t I find it anywhere?
- Upload a File to a SharePoint Document Library – Part II
- Overriding core.css in MOSS 2007
- What is the difference between a file server and SharePoint?
- How delete webparts from a page using the browser (spcontnt.aspx)
- What is SharePoint? – new screencast created with the answer
- Promote and recommend SharePoint content
- Information Rights Management in MOSS
- Announcing the SharePoint Toolbox shared source project on CodePlex along with CopyTimer and SPAlertPipeline
- Best Practice : Using disposable objects in SharePoint
- Setting Up a Development Environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System
- Creating Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically
- Getting Search Crawl Details from the DB
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Telerik Controls in a Web Part
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 15, 2007
My client had a requirement to display a tab strip with 4 tabs in it. On each tab they wanted a way to enter some simple HTML text. Great, sounds easy enough. I have some experience with Telerik’s fine ASP.NET controls so I quickly put something together. The client wanted the control to look a certain way. Lucky for me, it was close enough to Telerik’s standard ClassicBlue theme.
After going through the regiment of creating a webpart file, a feature, and a solution package, after adding my web part to the a page, the theme did not come through. The theme was included in the page source but was defined as the following:
/RadControls/Tabstrip/Skins/ClassBlue/styles.css
Easy enough, I copied the source path to my virtual directory, iisreset, refreshed the page, and the theme came through. However, this is where the problems starting occurring. First, if I entered site anonymously, I would either get prompted for a user name and password on any page where the tabstrip web part was placed (very confusing at first) or worse I would receive an 403 error. Second, I had a difficult time figuring out how to include this theme in a WSP file so I could deploy it.
The first issue was simple enough to resolve. I opened Windows Explorer, right-clicked on the RadControls folder, selected properties – Security – and added the anonymous user (servername/iurs_servername). After an iisreset, all was well. This is not the most elegant solution though. I would run into the same issues if I forget to add the security (unfortunately ran into this issue yesterday at the client site – most embarrassing). Also, the quick fix doesn’t doesn’t solve my deploy issue. Back to the drawing board.
Solution: After reviewing the page source, I soon realized I should be able to specify my own path to the skin. Telerik controls have a SkinsPath. I assigned the following path:
_tabstrip .SkinsPath = “/_layouts/images/rsc/RadControls/TabStrip/Skins”
Once I included the proper theme files in my WSP, everything worked properly. This solved both issues. I’m a happy camper!
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Links (11/13/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 13, 2007
- **** What Not to Store in SharePoint
- **** Branding a MOSS Corporate Intranet Portal, Part 1a: High-level overview, terminology, and approach
- SharePoint Branding issues - ASP.NET flyout menus
- SharePoint Branding issues – My Site Control
- SharePoint Branding issues – Table of Contents WebPart
- SharePoint Branding issues - MOSS Search Center
- SharePoint Branding issues – Breadcrumb
- SharePoint Branding Issues - Web Parts
- SharePoint Branding Issues – Application Pages
- SharePoint customization guide – Brett Geoffroy
- High Confidence Results in MOSS 2007
- SharePoint Skinner Overview – eLumenotion Blog
- MOSS KPIs
- SharePoint bloggers @ Dolmen - looks like a solid set of bloggers
- New Tools for Anyone Who Uses SharePoint - http://searchforsharepoint.com, http://sharepointpedia.com
- More on WSS (MOSS) Backup and Recovery
- How do I deploy the Monitoring web part on a separate SharePoint Web Application on the same SharePoint Web Server?
- SharePoint: Managing Users and Security - whitepaper
- MOSS Deployment Scenarios 2 of 4 – Feature.xml
- CodePlex + CopyTimer = SPToolbox - This is a standalone application which measures SharePoint performance by timing the downloads/uploads of files to a SharePoint site. It then records how long the operations took along with a bunch of information about the client system like latency, Ethernet adapter, IP address, etc…
- Write a custom field type in SharePoint with Ajax-driven autocomplete functionality
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Links (11/11/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 11, 2007
- Silverlight and Popfly in a SharePoint-based collaborative intranet solution?
- So what’s the good reason you can’t access sites in another site collection in SPD 2007′s Data View?
- An Introduction to Conditional Formatting
- A New Upgrade Paper
- Very useful SharePoint 2007 (and WSS 3.0) Utilities from SharePoint Solutions Software
- Provisioning engines for SharePoint 2007
- Reporting Services SP 2 – MOSS / WSS 3.0 Integration
- Querying SharePoint for content – using SPSiteDataQuery and CrossListQueryInfo
- WSS FAQ additions and changes LXXIX – 4th – 10th November 2007
- Re-Skin Your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Site in Less than a Minute
- Want a simple web page listing SharePoint Documents without any navigation?
- SPD custom workflow actions — string manipulation enhancements
- Setting Up a Development Environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Oct07 Update)
- Video: Creating a Custom Task Pane to Consume SharePoint Server 2007 Query Services in Word 2007
- Organizing and navigating your SharePoint site
- SharePoint Hacks
- Introducing the MSIT/MMS/BOSD SharePoint Blog - SharePoint team in MSIT has started blogging
- How to Change SharePoint Site URL
- Change a SharePoint site’s URL
- Site definitions vs. Site templates
- Windows MSN Live Instant Messenger (or whatever it’s called) in a SharePoint web part
- Want InfoPath forms with custom lookup dialogs?
- Reporting Services architecture diagram
- Web Part Connections in WSS 3.0 (Part 4)
- Create a WebCreated event of your own in onet.xml
- MOSS Deployment Scenarios 1 of 4 – Manifest.xml
- Setting item level security in an eventhandler
- Web Usage Reporting Tools
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Links (11/8/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 8, 2007
- **** Is the hotfix or service pack going to break my SharePoint pages or deployment? - wise advice
- **** Extending SharePoint’s stsadm command
- How to Extend the Advanced Search WebPart
- Details and manual monitoring of the Content DBs
- Using OOB Workflows to Provision Sites
- How to Create a Search Scope
- SharePoint Connections 2007 Code Samples and Session Materials - dang, guess I need a new name for my Object Model application!
- Trial Period [Evaluation Period] for this product has expired
- Self Service Site Creation
- PlugIt: Extend InfoPath browser form with custom lookup dialogs
- Microsoft’s Search Server 2008…very cunning plan
- Scripting STSADM commands
- SharePoint lists in Outlook 2007 are awesome
- Returning approved SharePoint list items from a console application
- Quick and easy: Embed a hyperlink into data view web part XSLT
- Using Analysis Services data in Excel Services part 1 – Preparing the AD for Kerberos
- Using Analysis Services data in Excel Services part 2 – Preparing the MOSS server
- Using Analysis Services data in Excel Services part 3 – Create and test an Excel sheet
- Using Analysis Services data in Excel Services – Overview and updates
- Use dynamically created InfoPath form instance to pre-fill form
- How to get the most out of SharePoint 2007 using SharePoint Designer 2007
- Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) Crashes when Selecting Edit With SharePoint Designer
- Wildcards? We’re not playing poker!
- Apply a Theme to all sub sites in SharePoint 2007
- Codeplex Project that Adds Custom Actions to SPD
- TechEd Session on performance for Internet facing web sites in SharePoint 2007
- Conferencing Documents Stored in a Disparate Repository
- Quick and Simple: Enable SharePoint Designer workflow to update an InfoPath form
- Programmatically uploading multiple files to Custom sharepoint list in 2007
- Addendum to the SharePoint Deployment Daylight Savings patch issue
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Links (11/6/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 6, 2007
- Announcing Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express
- How to Fix the Calendar View Expand All/Collapse All Error
- Hosting UserControls inside of webparts
- Overview of all the WSS/MOSS KB’s
- SharePoint 2007 (MOSS/WSS) Custom BDC Web Part Example
- Free Series of SharePoint Workflow How-to Videos
- Mapping a drive to a SharePoint document library
- Tips and Tricks: Opening a Closed Web Part to Properly Delete a Web Part - I thought it was easier to use ?contents=1
- Architecture of MOSS Web Application Separation
- Comprehensive list of WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Resources
- SPSecurityTrimmedControl: Conditionally display contents by security
- SharePoint Designer Help Articles
- Helpful Tips for SharePoint Developers – #1: Warmup.bat file
- Important SharePoint 2007 security updates (Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-059)
- Create a New Page Layout in SharePoint 2007 – Feature-Based
- Excluding A Site from MOSS Enterprise Search While Maintaining Search Within the Site
- SharePoint: Let PSConfig and STSADM setup your MOSS
- Provide Status Updates for Long Running Operation Jobs
- Windows SharePoint Services Search – No Results and Errors
- Announcing SharePointPedia — community driven content recommendations and requests!
- MOSS/SharePoint Video training
- Dynamically create static Excel files for Excel Service
- SharePoint 2007 and cross site groups? - pertaining to beta exam 70-541
- Document templates and SharePoint 2007 content types
- SharePoint 2007 Filter webparts – using the Page Field Filter webpart on a Lookup field
- SharePoint field objects – classname, name and types
- Creating custom editor parts for a SharePoint webpart
- ASP.Net 2.0 Navigation and SharePoint v3
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Links (11/4/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 4, 2007
- **** How To: Hide the View All Site Content link in SharePoint
- Groove and SharePoint work together
- SharePoint Terms: Ghosted, Unghosted and Reghosted
- The best way to explain SharePoint Content Types
- WSS FAQ additions and corrections LXXVIII – 28th October – 3rd November 2007
- Lesson learned when create list instance in SharePoint solution
- Scripted Installation for all site templates - Installing fab 40 using a script, is one of the most popular posts here. However, this installation guide covered wsp only and not stp. So here is the scripted installation guide for site template files.
- How do I? – Solve the “Cannot use ‘partitionResolver’ unless the mode is ‘StateServer’ or ‘SQLServer’” error
- SharePoint Backup and Restore
- SharePointPedia.com goes Live
- Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations – Part 3
- Stupid SharePoint Delimiters
- Resources for geekSpeak: LINQ to SharePoint with Bart De Smet
- Implementing a multi-lingual internet site based on MOSS2007
- SharePoint Indexing Limited by 64 kB ACL Limit
- MenuItem for Outlook ContextMenu
- Update: SharePoint 2007 theme generator
- The database schema is too old to perform this operation in this SharePoint cluster, please upgrade the database and try again. Whats up with DST and SharePoint??
- Fixing ‘Error: Access Denied’ error on creating a new page in MOSS
- Screencasts demonstrating how to create a simple Document Management Center (DMC)
- SharePointPlan.com - Mark Schneider, has setup his own blog that focuses on organizational change, project planning, requirements management and governance planning for SharePoint implementations.
- How To: Modify the web.config file in SharePoint using SPWebConfigModification
- SharePoint Workflow Resources
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Links (11/1/2007)
Posted by Steve Pietrek on November 1, 2007
- **** 2 SharePoint projects on Codeplex - check out Leon’s code!
- **** Applying a SharePoint Custom Master Page Globally
- CAML or LINQ, which would you prefer?
- CSS causes JavaScript error while moving Web Parts in edit mode
- Tips and Tricks: Deleting a site that has subsites (yes, you can, despite what the error message says)
- Haunted by deleted documents? - To make sure your documents are really gone, you need to delete in two places.
- Another simple code snippet – using the user field
- SharePoint Designer Workflows: How to Tell Which Fields Have Changed
- SharePoint Portal administration service was not starting
- Using named anchors in SharePoint Wiki pages
- SharePoint Learning Kit: Default Alternate Access Mapping
- BizTalk 2006 R2 Posters available
- How everyone should test their BizTalk based solutions presentation links
- Customizing the application.master in SharePoint 2007 – Revisited
- The Long Tail of Content and SharePoint Technology
- SharePoint on another machine than TFS
- Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations – Part 2
- Step-By-Step Tutorial on Creating Workflows for WSS v3 and MOSS 2007
- Basic Workflow: Sending an e-mail when a column is populated
- E-mailing a Document from a SharePoint Document Library
- KB 944105: How to customize application pages in the Layouts folder in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007
- Email-Enabled Lists in SharePoint
- Difference between SharePoint and AD Groups
- BDC Mapper Web Part released
- How to Video: (Programmatically Escalating an Overdue Task) Document Workflow in SharePoint (MOSS 2007)
- SharePoint and Web 2.0, Social Networking, etc.
- Sharepoint Site Usage Report won’t update
- The Importance of MetaData in SharePoint
- Master pages/page layouts deployed as Feature not updating
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