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In a current project I work with Binary Messages in BizTalk Orchestration (received by WebService, sent with dynamic SMTP Adapter). To get to know more about the topic the following ressources where extremely useful: http://www.novaenterprisesy... http://www.novaenterprisesy... http://blogs.msdn.com/richa... http://vdcruijsen.net/post/... ...
We have a document library which makes use of the 'Link to a Document' content type which lets users add links to a document library. We noticed that users were using this feature to add links to documents hosted on sites outside of the SharePoint farm. This is all good as far as they are concerned because the content type does its job and end-user can access the external documents by clicking the link. However, we noticed that none of these links were showing up in the search results. When we looked ...
If you were to restart (i.e stop and then start) the search service, in a SharePoint farm, from the 'Services on server' page in Central Administration chances are that you might encounter both or either of the following errors when yo do a search on your web application: Your search cannot be completed because of a service error. Try your search again or contact your administrator for more information. The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service. This happens because after restarting ...
ASP.Net does not provide a rich text box control in its set of web controls. So, if you need to place a rich text box on your SharePoint page you'll have to use a commercial, free or open source text box control (and there are plenty out there). However if you don't want to introduce another dependency, in the form of an external control, you can use SharePoint's built-in rich text box. If you're creating a page layout that binds to a content types field then its straight forward and you can use ...
During my project that is heavily centered around web services, I often found that before I could execute one overall integration, I would need about 3 or 4 web Service calls to collect all the parameters I needed to actually call the web service call I was really trying to execute. I came across an interesting situation where I need to retrieve the List from SharePoint. A web service call will send back an XMLElement with all the information available for a list. The problem is that the list needs ...
I am currently on a project that consists of an integration between a web application and SharePoint. Both applications live in their own servers and so it was necessary to use web services. I have come to many weird glitches and many unresolved issues at this time, I will make an effort to document as much as possible to save people time when working with WCF, SharePoint Web Services, and Visual Studio 2008.0 The first issue I'm going to write about is fairly easy to identify but it was frustrating ...
In debugging a lot of large log files in SharePoint you need to use a nice tool to help you.
I have used this tool and i have found that it is a nice and easy one.
http://sharepointloggingspy.codeplex.com/
In the mix of things we were the 2nd SharePoint Saturday event and I think we can do far better. I wanted to have a free conference with 2010 content that people didn’t have to pay for if they couldn’t afford SPC. So we are now finally confirmed for Saturday, December 12th at Johnson Country Community College Regnier Center. This event will be bigger (250 is the cap) and far better. I have a lot of good people helping me out including Brian Laird, Kevin Huges, and Bob Davis. St. Louis is working ...
As part of my automated deployment post last week, one step of my deployment script called for creating a SharePoint site collection using the “STSADM –o createsite” command with the –sitetemplate option used for a specific site template. If you have never had to create a site collection from a template at the command line you may not know what to put (or know what is available to you) for the –sitetemplate option. To remedy this I created a very simple PowerShell script that opens a site collection ...
Here we are! Half way through! Actually… half-way through this post will be halfway. So, we are not quite half-way done now and will be more than halfway done at the end. Do you half-way understand? By the way, thank you for putting up with me. Now you know what my wife goes through every day. So, at this point you have read Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series and we have a nice little console application that iterates through a particular View of a SharePoint List and writes the field name/value ...
We are very excited to have a flier that will be included with all of the bags that are given to the attendees of the SharePoint Best Practices Conference that is happening in Washington, DC. Below is a preview of the final version that is going to print today. Be sure to stop by and meet SharePoint Pod Show co-host Brett Lonsdale who will be standing at the Lightning Tools booth and signing his book “SharePoint 2007 Developer's Guide to Business Data Catalog” during the conference ...
/// <summary> /// Add Permission Level to a Sharepoint user group collection /// </summary> /// <param name="spWeb">The sp web.</param> /// <param name="permissionName">Name of the permission.</param> /// <param name="groupCollection">The group collection.</param> public static void AddPermissionsToGroupCollec... spWeb, string permissionName, string[] groupCollection) { SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedP... { try { //Allow updating of ...
Microsoft Announcing SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview http://sharepoint.microsoft... ...
This is an important list of SharePoint books I thought it will be good to share. Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Step by Step Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building ...
The sharePoint conference will be held in the period October 19-22, 2009 Las Vegas, NV
http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx
If you faced an issue with document library when trying to open files in edit mode they are opened in read only mode with no ability to edit in it.
There are a lot of reasons for that among it is some configurations in the load balancer.
Kindly find the below link.
http://blogs.msdn.com/vsofficedeveloper/pages/SharePoint-Cisco-CSS-Switch-Issue.aspx
For those of you looking for the slides for my presentation at devLink here is the link: http://cid-8e2654c5f01e6069... Here is the code samples: http://cid-8e2654c5f01e6069... So most of you guys know I’m more of an alternative/rock type person. I don’t enjoy country music much. It’s just not my thing that I will go and seek out. I don’t fully hate most of it. In fact Johnny Cash is a huge ...
In part 1 of this five part blog series we learned how to find a specific SharePoint list on a farm. In this post we will modify that code from part 1 to iterate through and store data for a particular view of that list in the proper column order. So let’s get started! If you haven’t already, read the previous blog post and get up to speed with the code we’ve written so far. Specifically the method we wrote to retrieve the SharePoint List. Got it? Good… A Word About Performance Before we continue ...
Now this is a topic that really excites me. It combines two things I love: automation and SharePoint. At my current client we are in the process of moving our custom SharePoint applications to the production environment. As we are moving to production, that means that we develops have less handle on the implementations be they databases, code migration, etc. To ease the load on the infrastructure team who is implementing our custom application I took the liberty of automating as much of the process ...
I’m not attending SPS NY (or at least I think I will not attend), so I pulled out my speaker submission. I have two full days with my boyfriend to apartment shop and that weekend should be more geared towards finding a place. I really wanted to attend, but priorities need to be placed in other areas right now. I am considering attending SPS Bham, but I am not fully sure where I will be and if it’s at all possible fully. I may speak at theSSWUG.org VConference again this fall (maybe Omaha SPUG and ...
I was kicking myself last week wondering why am I not seeing a last logged out time in SharePoint. I talked to a few people and I guess I never really though about it. If you are using Active Directory, then there really is no last logged out time for SharePoint. There is a last logged out time in Active Directory, because AD is what is handling SharePoint. So when you logout and you close the browser, then open it back up with SharePoint it will show up with yourself fully logged in. I came up with ...
So, you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, or maybe this is your first time here. Regardless, I think it’s time I showed you guys some code. At my core I like to think of myself as a competent developer. I’m probably fooling myself, but I enjoy it and even find it relaxing at times. However, lately my main job function has been that of a SharePoint Architect which does not leave me much time to write any code at all. Recently, one of my twitter friends (@rlilly) wanted to know how to get some ...
In my last blog I talked about the new site around SharePoint 2010 and the sneak peak videos. I got a chace to watch them and here are my notes: SharePoint 2010 Feature Highlights: New User Interface including new Ribbon Web Edit Silverlight Web Part Rich Theming Browser support for Safari, Firefox and IE Visio Services SharePoint Designer enhancements Business Connectivity Services (BDC evolution) SharePoint Workspaces (formerly Groove) or offline libraries Richer Media Support SharePoint 2010 Admin ...
So I’ve been kind of busy lately in Omaha…I have a new gig that deals with FAST and SharePoint, but it’s government so I can’t really talk about it. So far I’ve met a person in Omaha related to SharePoint name Kirk Hofer. He is running the SPUG in Omaha. It sounds like it should be fun. Hopefully we can get a few SharePint’s going in the future. I just did our first unofficial SharePint event in KC…We had about 5 people…We might do another next month to see if we can get more if we hold it in Kansas. ...
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while now… Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program that will help you build professional development skills. Ready to move forward in your software development career? Ready to learn new skills, say SharePoint development for example? Well then head over to Ramp Up and check out the available tracks and start moving forward today! Tracks include: SharePoint for Developers Web Development With ASP.NET Learn ASP.NET: For PHP Developers ...
In the last week, I have been working on a project that involves web services. It has been an interesting project, SharePoint projects are always a surprise in that code is supposed to work a certain way and it never really seems to work the way it's supposed to. I feel as though i need to apologize for this post because it's kind of a rant. I still feel like it needs to be said. If someone out there is going to blog please post up code that is your own! and more importantly post up code that actually ...
This post is the fourth in a series of postings, containing examples of SharePoint WebParts that anybody can build all by themselves. To read all posts in this series, or to get started with the RSSBus WebPart, go here. #4 – List Active Directory Groups and Users This web part will list each user group and its members, as defined in your Active Directory (or other LDAP server) installation. Step one is to make sure you have the RSSBus Web Part installed. See here for instructions. Step two, make ...
It’s 6am and I am bored, so I thought I would give you a quick heads up on what’s coming in the next version of SAF (due by the end August). Here’s the Feature list : DSL with Diagram capabilities inside Visual Studio 20008. This is probably been the most exciting one for the release. We have been spending a few months working on a way to create SAF Macros visually via a VS 2008 designer window. This will give you the following advantages : You don’t need to know the Schema for a SAF Macro (which ...
Part 1 – The Tools Part 2 - Exporting the Site Part 3 – Exporting the Lists Part 4 – Exporting the Site Columns and Content Types Part 5 – Wrap Up Before I begin with the wrap up portion of this post, I want to make a correction to this series. I was doing a bit of research today (quick comparisons, Joel Oleson’s take, deeper look at site definitions) on site templates, features, and site definitions and it struck me that the title of this series (Exporting a SharePoint Site into a Feature) isn’t ...
Here is a screencast showing the absolute basics of how to use the RSSBus SharePoint Web Part. The screencast does not go over installation, but all that requires is that you download and run the setup on your SharePoint machine. Technorati Tags: SharePoint, RSSBus ...
So, you’ve attended a few SharePoint Saturday events. You’ve sipped the Kool-aid and it tastes good. You started a blog and feel it is time to take the next big step in giving back to the community: Speaking at an event. Well, I’m NO expert here, but again my blog is not about being the expert. It’s about helping give new people a boost where I can so they don’t have to face the horrors I’ve faced. It’s also where I try to document all the little quirks I run across so that I can remember where to ...
Introduction Well it's now Saturday afternoon and the family have been out shopping all day, so I have taken the opportunity to conduct some tests that I had been meaning to do for a long time now (geek I hear you say). I wanted to find specifically what happens if you want to make changes to Content Types, Columns and Lists that have previously been deployed using Features and CAML. I am going to split my findings up into several posts. I will detail each set of tests then summarise at the end what ...
Introduction In a previous post, I explained my findings with "Upgrading Content Types", but now I want to test out a few scenarios with upgrading Site Columns. On the whole, the test results for Site Columns were pretty similar to that of Content Types. Although, I wanted to test what we can do when it comes to updating site columns that contain data. If you don't want to read each test case, please check out the "Summary" at the end of this post. Test Cases – Removing a Site Column Can we remove ...
A couple of you emailed and asked how to install SAF, so here's some instructions. Installing... If you have never insalled SAF on your SharePoint Farm then you need to install. To do this, you need to use STSAdm commands which I have popped into a batch file. Hence follow the steps below : Logon to a SharePoint Server in your Farm as a Farm Administrator. Download "Install.bat" to that server in your SharePoint Farm (right click "Save Target as...") Remove the '.txt' extension. Download the latest ...
Well, the hayfever has got me again! Here I am at 6am with a bunged up nose and itchy eyes wide awake. So I thought I would do the sensible thing and give you a heads up on what’s due in the next release of SAF. Here’s the Feature list : New Actions STSAdm Action. This allows us to call STSAdm commands and pass arguments from a SAF Macro. Powershell Action. Allows us to to call Powershell “Function” and pass arguments from a SAF Macro. Adapters In SAF, we think of “Adapters” as being components that ...
I am pleased to announce that it’s now possible (with release 1.2.3463.00) , to run STSADM commands from the SharePoint Action Framework (SAF). Hence, if you add the standard STSAdm commands (that ship with SharePoint) to the truly awesome collection that Gary Lapointe has developed, (available on his STSADM Blog), you are looking at over 250 useful SharePoint Actions. This functionality has been made available by a new Action called “StsAdm”. The Action should be called via an Alias like this “Action.StsAdmin”. ...
SAF contains 6 ready-to-use Actions that allow the Exporting and Importing of : - List Items - Lists - Webs The 3 pairs of Actions that allow you to do this, are namely : - ExportListItem & ImportListItem - ExportList & ImportList - ExportWeb & ImportWeb The actions are listed as pairs, for convenience, although there is nothing that mandates that they have to be run one after the other. In fact, you can export a List and import it into a completely different Farm months later if you ...
At Last! Finally, we have released the SharePoint Action Framework (SAF) on CodePlex!! Please take a look at : http://saf.codeplex.com . Now that I can take a minute, I just wanted to spend a bit of time detailing why we have spent the best part of 18 months (with lots of late nights building it!) Here's a FAQ to give you some answers: If you are developing with SharePoint, do you suffer from any of these ? Lots of Defects caused by differences in SharePoint Farms. – eg. “It works on Integration, ...
I was spending some time discovering design patterns. When searching for the decorator pattern, I also aimed to retrieved results for SharePoint. This way I found a nice site about a datalayer for SharePoint. It's based on extension methods and generics. It wraps the SPListItem class, and adds some new "custom" functionality. That way, by using the wrapper, you can access your SPListItem objects more strongly typed ...
So, lots of great feedback from my presentation on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who attended and for putting up with me. :) Ultimately I think the session was such a success because of the great interaction and awesome people that attended. I really hope you guys picked up some useful information. If you weren’t there, I’m trying to develop the presentation that I wish I would have seen when I started SharePoint development. I’ll keep improving upon it and do what I can to make it more cohesive as ...
Below are the few webcasts on BizTalk found in CloudTV website. Have a look at once. SNo. WebCast Name Author 1 ESB Toolkit 2.0: Itinerary Demo Brian Loesgen 2 ESB Toolkit 2.0: Order Demo Brian Loesgen 3 Lap Around the ESB Toolkit 2.0 Richard Seroter 4 Integration With SharePoint from BizTalk Mick Badran 5 Implementing BizTalk RFID Mobile Solutions Mick Badran 6 Transactions and Compensation Alan Smith 7 Creating a Highly Available BTS 09 Environment Kent Weare 8 All you need to know about the SAP ...
SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 2 (SharePoint Magazine) As a Front-end Developer with a background in designing I’ll show you how to make a graphical design that works for a default SharePoint-environment. If you want to take control over the front-end, don’t use any themes. Create your art by using style sheets! SharePoint Daily - Bamboo Nation Technorati Tags: SharePoint,Limitations,Part... Windows Live Tags: ...
Assess Your Readiness to Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Today Did you know that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes the addition of a "preupgradecheck" in stsadmin? It will assess your general readiness for upgrading to SharePoint 2010, provide feedback, and include best practices recommendations. Why wait? Get all the details on SP2 and run your preupgradecheck today! SharePoint 2010 - Bamboo Nation ...
Two great articles to get you started on MOSS 2007 BDC SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog - Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development SharePoint BDC Part 2: Creating your first BDC Web Part Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren SharePoint BDC Part 2: Creating ...
An old fix but I felt necessary to post If you open IIS on any of your SharePoint servers and it comes up blank, it is because there are too many threads connected to it at the same time. This is due to the wonderful Timer service for SharePoint. There are two ways to fix this: 1. Do an iisreset (temporary fix) 2. Install this hotfix http://support.microsoft.co... (permanent fix) The hotfix should also fix the following events in the logs that would not go away for anything - Event ID 6398 ...
Well! I’m still recovering from SharePoint Saturday Ozarks and preparing my presentation for this weekend’s SharePoint Saturday Dallas, but I wanted to be sure to blog about my experience organizing an event before I forgot it all. Plus, if someone out there is thinking about organizing their own event you can hopefully learn from what I went through. So, let’s take a look at my thought process for organizing the event and I’ll be sure to point out where I could have done things better. Before you ...
Check out the new features in SharePoint 2010. Really cool stuff. I highly recommend watching the video here. The cools stuff I remember is LINQ for SharePoint !! how cool is that? no more CAML queries.. blur....anyway watch the presentations that show easy it is to deploy a WSP file into the dev SharePoint page. .. I love it.... For more info on how EMC Application Consulting Services can help you get ready for SharePoint Server 2010 please contact me through this blog Harish Pavithran. Developer ...
Part 1 – The Tools Part 2 - Exporting the Site Part 3 – Exporting the Lists Part 4 – Exporting the Site Columns and Content Types Part 5 – Wrap Up If nothing else, this blog post will win the award for longest title that I’ve written yet. Joking aside, It’s time to put one of the finishing stones in place for this series. So far we’ve exported the site and lists, now it’s time for the site columns and content types. The tool we’ll be using this go around is the Imtech Fields Explorer. The process ...
While working with Enterprise Portal, we frequently work with URL menu items required for linking our web pages in EP. These URL Menu Items require the URL path to the web pages created in SharePoint. However, when you try to click on the URL property of the URL Menu Item, you recieve an error “The current operation cannot be completed because an unexpected error has occurred.”, instead you should recieve a screen with web folders so that you can easily navigate to the web part page created in SharePoint. ...