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Thought I should bring this to attention since it’s a weird issue and the solution isn’t obvious when googling. The issue is - In MOSS an Ajax-Partial postback, causes the page to loose its page title. Like shown below So whats the fix? Appaprently additional spaces between the <title> and the <asp:ContentPlaceHolder> cause this issue. The solution is to remove the spaces. <title id=”onetidTitle”><asp... id=”PlaceHolderPageTitle” runat=”server”/></tit... ......
Hi All, just wanted to point out a teensy weensy but maybe very useful tip. It might be outdated information if you are using SharePoint 2010, but if you are using SharePoint 2007 then you might find this useful. I am sure all of you working with SharePoint has come across Heather Solomon through her blog, it being a really wonderful resource for skinning SharePoint. Heather also has provided a ton of help to the SharePoint community by sharing the minimal masterpages for WSS and MOSS. What I wanted ......
All right I admit, that's a very abstract title for a blog post, and its not eye catchy or snazzy as something like “What to do when you get a “Object reference not set to an instance of an object. exception on a SharePoint farm that uses SQLSessionState. “ But hey its supposed to grab your attention if you are having this problem. Ok so the error is Server Error in '/' Application. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution ......
Dated: March/2008 Yes as saddening that sounds, it seems it is true. Having a bit of slack time and not being able to give VS2008 a whirl earlier due to project pressures, I broke it out today all eager to gauge what elegance this IDE brings, specially since I had the need to write a test WebPart. Out of instinct I went File -> New Project -> *hold up where is the SharePoint Category. So then me thinks ah! its not built in to the product, maybe another extension for Visual Studio. So googled ......
I am actually pleased that today we have a bit of variety in tools that can generate BDC Application Definitions. An addition to this list of tools is "MOSS BDC Design Studio" by Simego, which actually quite good and easy to use. The site offers a 14 day trial version, and prices aren't that bad (but me thinks it should priced more a little bit more reasonably). But still for all the tool is quite good, it seems to be limited to SQL Server and WebServices which is a limitation. The other limitation ......
I am sure some of you have been stuck with this, or are reading this because you are still stuck with this problem. i.e. not being able to change the granular permissions of a listitem for a user or a group. Well then I shouldnt waste your time but should point out to null's blog which shows you how its done. Technorati tags: sharepoint, moss, permissions, securtiy Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Was doing some deep digging in google to find a comprehensive post on MOSS's Security Model, and came across Reza's post. Its a good read and comprehensive. Technorati tags: SharePoint, MOSS, WSS, Securtiy, Object Model, Permissions, SPRole, SRoleDefinition, SPRoleAssignment Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Yes, that's the question I have been pondering for the last couple of hours (maybe more). And I am begriming to believe that it cant be done. Other than for the route of either writing a feature receiver to upload the template to a list on activation (but I think this approach is unclean) or modify onet.xml (a site definition?). I think both approaches are unnecessarily complex for the task at hand. Think about it, just so that I could have a custom document library or form library with a custom ......
I've been pondering about the lack of a more efficent process for developing MOSS/WSS Solutions (I mean a solution to a business probelm and not a wsp) lately, because believe it or not, when your MOSS Solution contains more than just one component, e.g. WebParts, Features, ASPX pages, Workflows etc, there is no Solution template in Visual Studio where you can add all these project types and have them compile to a single wsp. Its kind of a pain to develop without this functionality. Serge pointed ......
Nothing much in this post. Just some intersting MOSS/WSS resources on the web. WCM Andrew Connells SharePoint WCM Resources - http://andrewconnell.com/bl... Localisation Mikhail Dikov's post on Feature localisation - http://www.mikhaildikov.com... Troubleshooting Dan Attis's post EventReciever example on changing absolute urls to relative ones - http://devcow.com/blogs/jda... Technorati ......
aka, List Column not appearing in Managed Propperty Selector. I am not sure if I have blogged about this before, but I do recall falling for this stumbling block earlier. If I have blogged it, then this is a worthy reminder When wanting to map a crawled property as a managed property, please be cautious when declaring the managed property to select the appropriate type, because when you click that "Add Mapping" button to select the crawled properties to map to, the crawled properties that are going ......
I am noticing some wierdness with the MOSS's metadata propperty mappings. The scenario I tried was, went to a document library and added a new number column, did an incremental crawl, came back to search settings and went to add a new metadata propperty. If declare the metadata propperty as Integer it does not pick up my new column, but if I declare the metadata propperty as text it does. Is that wierd or what? Technorati tags: MOSS, SharePoint, Search Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
I was doing some work on the MOSS Search API to execute a few custom queries. I also wanted the Search Engine to return the blurb of text that contains the occurence of the searched term. A little digging around and I discovered there is a managed propperty that contains this. The managed propperty is HitHighlightedSummary (just in case any of you are stumbling down this route too). Technorati tags: MOSs, Search, SharePoint, Managed Propperties Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
I came across this tool from JOPX's list of SharePoint Tools (see my previous posting). Its a good thing I did, since now this is my favorite new SharePoint tool. It helps that I am playing around with Search these days to put the tool to good use. Thanks for the link Joris, and speschka you rule Technorati tags: MOSS, SHarePoint, Search Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Joris has update his list of SharePoint Tools. This time its more shiny and uber than before. He provides a very upto date aggregation of the tools available for MOSS that are out there. Check it out. http://jopx.blogspot.com/20... Technorati tags: SharePoint, MOSS, Tools Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Here are few lessons learnt from playing with the BDC on a project 1. Even though the BDC can crawl associated entities in your database schema, the search results will not show related entity instances for the item you searched. 2. In case of mapping 'complex' db schemas specially ones that contain m:n relationships between entities, sometimes it might be advisable to show un-normalized relationships via stored procedures or views, but this approach provides the following roadblocks Un-normalized ......
This is a bit of a kludge in SharePoint 2007. In your site collection how do you move your search scope from one display group to another? Logically you would expect there to be an option in the context menu (i.e. Site Settings -> Search Scopes [Under Site Collection Administration]) of the search scope, or be able to change it in the subsequent page when clicking the search scope. That isnt the way. Here is how you would have to do it. 1. On the Search Scopes Page click on the name of the display ......
Access Denied for User 'MOSS\crawlUser'. Securable MethodInstancewith Name 'TableIDEnumeratorInstance' has ACL that contains: User 'MOSS\administrator' with Rights 'Execute, Edit, SetPermissions, UseInBusinessDataInLists, SelectableInClients' or The parameter is incorrect. (Access denied by BDC.) If you get either of the error message above trying to crawl the BDC, the error could possibly be caused by the crawl account not having access to the BDC application defintion; i.e. the crawl account is ......
Something thats new to anyone comming from SPS03 or WSS 02 is the logging in MOSS/WSS3. In MOSS/WSS3 SharePoint does some good logging and the log files are stored in "%commonprogramfiles%\Micro... Shared\web server extensions\12\logs" Technorati tags: SharePoint, Moss, WSs, Logs Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Via Mart Oooh - this tool from John is like an a couple of asprins for the developer writing those CAML queries. Thanks so much for this John Technorati tags: MOSS, SPS, WSS, Sharepoint, CAML Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
The Kid (Vincent Rothwell) has a post on how to create floating toolpanes in SharePoint. Link: http://blog.thekid.me.uk/ar... Lot of good content on his blog. Another SharePoint blog worthy of aggregating. Technorati tags: Sharepoint, Moss, wss, Toolpane, Themes, Templates, Css Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Continuing the YASQ series but now updated for MOSS let me introduce my contribution to Yet Another MOSS Quirk (YAMQ). I was trying to enable Windows SharePoint Search Service on a MOSS Server, on the configuration page I kept entering the required user accounts as just "UserName", and the configuration kept failing. I tried this over and over, and checkign the username, password, secuirty permissions etc. with no luck. The logs provided no help either. How do you get around it, you need to enter ......
The other day I was totally playing around with configuring SharePoint to recieve emails. I totally went to town with with configuring Virtual Server (VS), Creating a Private Network within VS, and setting up MOSS Virtual Machine (VM) and Exchange/DC VM. For some reason I couldnt get far. I see the messages I send in Exchange's queue, and on the MOSS box in IIIS under SMTP Sessions I see a session with the Exchange box. But thats it, my lists dont recieve the emails I send. Anyways enough of my ranting, ......
I experienced an issue with the SharePoint Solution Generator today it kept crashing right the first screen (i.e. choosing Site Definition and clicking next). The exception being thrown shows that the tool is looking for a SharePoint site on the default website i.e. http://ServerName Now in this paticular case there was no SharePoint site on the on port 80 so http://ServerName would naturually fail. As much as I would like to I am not going to complain about this being a silly Exception. The workaround: ......
In a MOSS publishing site (can I say CMS 2007?) there is an editor in which you can change the navigation elements shown on the Top Navigation. At first glance you would assume that it would be easy to manupilate elements on that top navigation bar through code. Infact Todd has an in-depth article showing you how to add and remove items from the navigation bar. But have you tried to hide an element. Its not as easy at it would seem. TheSPNavigationNode.IsVisible propperty is readonly, and I am yet ......
Mikael Gannotti has a posting on how to rename a MOSS Server. http://www.mikeysgblog.com/... Thanks for the tip Michael. Technorati tags: Rename, MOSS, Sharepoint Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Via Serge The long awaited (atleast by me) Visual Studio 2005 Extentions for SharePoint is out. I've been wanting this for a long time. Here is the link tags: SharePoint, Visual Studio 2005, Extentions Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
The Microsoft Office site has a page that lists pricing for the Office System. It lists down the pricing for each of the products as well as the suite/editions and the server products (oops scratch that. Office Servers are only available through volume licensing) Wait, Office Servers only available through volume licensing? hmmm... I am confused but no time to ponder, anyone else have clearer idea on how this would work? tags: SharePoint, Licensing, Office Servers, Office Pricing Cross-posted from ......
Ever want to use a control that would allow you to choose users in a WebPart. I needed to today, and came across the People Editor control for MOSS. Ishai Sagi has a good post on its usage tags: SharePoint, People Lookup, WebParts, MOSS Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Googling for some insight on the SPDataSource I came across the blog by the guys at SharePoint Solutions. Its a very usefull programming reference blog. If you are a SharePoint developer check out their blog, because they have some good tips to share, and while the posts may not be many, the content so far is good. Link: http://sharepointsolutions.... tags: SharePoint, Development, Visual Studio 2005, WSS Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
When debugging WebParts not knowing which w3wp process to attatch to has always bugged me. Thankfully ASPalliance has this article to show you how to identify the w3wp process for an app pool. The gist of it is. Shipping with Windows 2003 is a vbscript named iisapp.vbs. running "cscript iisapp.vbs" from the command prompt displays list of w3wp processes running, its process id, and the app pool it belogns to. tags: SharePoint, IIS6, Windows 2003, WebParts, Debugging, Application Pool, Attatching ......
A colleague of mine ran I ran into a bug in MOSS today with the DVWP. i.e. It treates numeric fields as text for sorting (when sorting on column headers is enabled), hence if you sorted in ascending order on the column, the values would be like 1, 10, 11, 2, 3 etc. This happens even though the field is formatted as a number and even when the type is set to x:float. on the sort column. tags: SharePoint, DVWP, Bug, Sorting, Numeric, MOSS 2007 Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Heather Solomon has a good post on how you can enable provisioning of Master Pages via features. Thanks for the info Heather. I am definitely going to use this in the next few days. tags: SharePoint, Master Pages, Feature Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
MOSS B2 TR expired on me today. It took me totally by surprise. I backdated the machine by one day and it was fine. Brought it forward by one day, and it said the trial period had expired. Was a bit confused since all web posting for this issue cliam it happens on Domain Controller, and my MOSS server wasnt a domain controller. Anyways the fix is to run the patch for the DC. StandaloneDCWorkaround.msi Thanks for the link Jan tags: SharePoint, Moss, Office Server, 2007, Beta 2, Technical Refresh, ......
Its wierd, and I cant make head or tail of it. I was writing a webpart today, and I was maintaining a generic stack collection which I wanted to place in the session. What is wierd is that if i were to add object of type Stack <T> to the session, SharePoint says an unrecoverable error has occurred. The moment I changed the stack from a generic to a plain old .NET 1.1 non-generic Stack the error was gone. tags: SharePoint, WebParts, Generics, Session Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
A colleague of mine had a problem today where she connected to RSWebParts on MOSS 2007 and SharePoint gave her a security exception. The solution was to make an exception for the RSWebparts assembly in WSS_MinimalTrust.config. The problem with that approach is that you do know the PublicKeyBlob of the RSWebParts to make the exception. How you go about finding a the PublicKeyBlob is to open up the assembly in ildasm. Check the assemblies manfiest, and there will be the PublicKeyBlob in there. tags: ......
I got the following 2 links via the User Group. MindSharp Summit - SharePoint Developer MindSharp Summit - SharePoint Administrator Its training by MindSharp on SharePoint in Sydney, need I say more? tags: SharePoint, Training, Sydney Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Lately I have discovered a quirk with document libraries in WSS v3 and MOSS that is not very consistent. Basially the problem I am seeing is that SharePoint doesnt consistenly handle query parameters passed to aspx pages store in document libraries. For instance if you had a page in a document library called MyPage.aspx, and if you were to point it in your browser as http://server/[site]/Document Library/MyPage.aspx?MyQuery... your page would load only some of the time. More of than not SharePoint ......
B2TR of SharePoint designer even though its a bit more stable than plain old B2, it is still frustrating to work with. I will be editing a DVWP when all of a sudden an action like adding a new <tr>, or saving would cause the whole thing to crash. Whats worse is if I restart it after the crash, and open the page, DVWP i was working on will be corrupted. This just sucks. Minor consolation is the DVWP works, but I cant do too much before SPD crashes. 1 step forward... well its more like the wall ......
Take a look at this. See the link at the top and all the big fonts. I have no idea what happened, and not sure how to turn it off, and actually not sure how I turned it on in the first place. But this actually proves that there are accesbility options baked in to SharePoint 2007 tags: SharePoint 2007, WSS v3, Accesibility Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
2 Good blog postings on creating list definitons as features 1. Steven Van de Craen's attempt at customizing announcements (thats what I did too) 2. Tod Baginski's in depth analysis of creating list definintions. But the major problem with the approach is CAML for the Views are pain to tinker with. Just absolutely chaotic, requiring a lot of patience, and if not done methodically would result in admitting yourself to a mental institution. Now Mart gave me a tip yesterday (Mart you should really blog ......
Creating and using Calculated Columns in your ContentTypes are a bit tricky. First off the syntax for defining a Calculated column is like <Field ID="{Some GUID}" Name="Name" Group="GroupName" Type="Calculated" DisplayName="Display Name" StaticName="Name" FromBaseType="TRUE" ResultType="Number/Text" ReadOnly="TRUE"> <Formula>Some Forumula</Formula> <FieldRefs> <FieldRef Name="Name of Field Referred"/> </FieldRefs></Fiel... For the calculated column to work ......
The Title Column inherrited from Item typically shows itself up in any contentType that would define. But ever wanted to call it something else? Here is how you do it. <FieldRef ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b86... Name="Title" DisplayName="Your Other Name for Title" Sealed="TRUE"/> The trick is in the DisplayName. Reference the Title Colulmn and give it a seperate DisplayName And you could even have a go at LinkTitle <FieldRef ID="{82642ec8-ef9b-478f-acf... Name="LinkTitle" ......
Yay! There is an update to the SDK to reflect WSS v3 B2 TR. Looks like the OSS SDK is still on B2 (i.e. not TR) tags: sdk, wss, sharepoint, v3 Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
In case some of you missed it, Andrew May has a good post on how to create content type ids for feature definitions. Now as you might gather, creating features requires a whole heap of GUIDs on your hand. So a tool that can do this static void Main(string [] args){ if (args.Length == 0) { // Show GUID Form} else { Guid g = Guid.NewGuid(); if (args[0].ToLower() == "d") { Clipboard.SetDataObject( g.ToString("D"), true); } if (args[0].ToLower() == "n") { Clipboard.SetDataObject( g.ToString("N"), true); ......
Having to upgrade servers to B2TR today, I was wondering, it would really be cool to have a tool that could backup ContentTypes that you have defined using SharePoint into a feature definition. That would actually make defining ContentTypes as a feature more easy, provide a means of porting them between servers, and also assist as a means of fascilitating granular backup. Does anyone else see eye to eye with me on this? I am thinking that if Microsoft doesnt have this on their radar it might be an ......
The SharePoint Team blog points to the SharePoint Beta 2 Technical Refesh download links. The ful list is on the Microsoft Download Site as they say. Heres is the link sorted by date (descending order) so that 2007 B2TR downloads are on top Link tags: sharepoint, beta 2, technical refresh, download Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
I went through this big list of vendors providing Outlook style navigation bars. Out of the list, 3 stand out in terms of quality of their products. Telerik's r.a.d. panel DevExpress's ASPxNavigation and ComponentArt's NavBar My ultimate goal was to use the control in a webpart, hence I was using the control entirely through code (no utilization of a designer/SmartPart capabilities) Out of the 3 above, the telerik product is just exceptional in terms of ease of programability. Its a very good product, ......
Nope, I am not a bit literary buff, but if I were to write a poem on SharePoint Designer it would consist of the following phrases. Start Open Site, Work, work, work, Save Work, Save, Crash Start Work, work, work, Save, work, work, Close site, crash Start Work, Work, Save, Crash Painfully tolerating Beta 2 till the technical refresh comes out. Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
I wanted to try out DVWPs with OSS 2007, so I fired up SharePoint Designer and chose DataView -> Insert DataView from the menu, clicked on a DataSource like a SharePoint list (even tried a DB) in the task pane and double clicked (or Show Data from the context menu). What I get is the error below "The server returned a non specific error when trying to get data from the datasource" Is anyone else seeing this in SharePoint Designer 2007? Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
This MSDN Mag article by Scott Roberts and Hagen Green has a very comprehensive rundown, and mini tutorial of InfoPath 2007. http://msdn.microsoft.com/m... Topics discussed are InfoPath Forms Services, Hosting InfoPath in a managed/unmanaged application, Document Information Panels and much more. Technorati : 2007, infopath, sharepoint Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
I deployed a sample ASP .NET 2.0 app in to the _layouts directory of a WSS v 3 setup. This app was not precompiled. When the app runs, executing code that accesses the SP object model gave me the error "Unable to Validate Data". I can think of any reasoning behind that error. But after resetting IIS, all was fine. Note to Self: Recycle the Application pool after each deployment. Technorati : 2007, Sharepoint, Wss, v3 Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
So I spent my first day at my new employer's and I am not as impressed as I innitially thought I would be. Spent most of the day setting up or trying to setup MOSS 2007 Beta 2. Ran in to a couple of issues innitially. First there was the issue of a concurrency problem when configuring MOSS. At stage 8 in the configuration process, the Configuration wizard it gave me the following error. An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Admini... was thrown. Additional exception ......
I and a few others were on on a call with Microsoft Consulting (India) who were giving us a presentation on SharePoint 2007. Interestingly the consultant said that the Beta is good for deployment and the only changes to be expected in the final from the Beta would be minor stuff like 'UI look and feel'. And there I was thinking "Bullshit!". It just could have been the consultant trying to make the sale, but he should know better than to bullshit with people who actually use the product. Any who. ......
Somewhere around March this year Ron Jacobs published an interview where he discussed Web 2.0 trends in the Enterprise with Dion HinchCliffe on ArcCast. If you have been working with SharePoint for sometime then you'd realize what they speak about in terms of 'Democratisation of Content' isnt something really new. This was something anyone working on SharePoint first got excited about when SharePoint 2003 came out. Harry Pierson (a.k.a DevHawk ;) ) elaborates on this idea on his blog, and more recenly ......
Hi Guys, I created a few Feedburner Urls to the feeds on my blog. SharePoint Content only – http://feeds.feedburner.com... All blog content – http://feeds.feedburner.com... Currently they point to this blog so you might have to still tolerate the ads (I am looking into what I can do about that). but for starters they are FeeBurner Urls. SharePoint Content only – http://feeds.feedburner.com... All blog content – http://feeds.feedburner.com... ......
I was trying to setup WSS v3 on a VPC today. The setup went fine, but then the configuration (I mean SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration) failed about 4 times at the “Registering SharePoint Servces” i.e. 5/10 stage before it finally continued. I really dont get it. The exception in the log says this 05/27/2006 17:16:52 10 ERR Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPExce... ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlEx... Cannot open database "WSS_Search_HEX" requested by the login. ......
I think the SharePoint show is a really great idea. Its only at episode 3 so far and I am loving it. So far most of the material we’ve been seeing about SharePoint that comes from outside Microsoft is by way of blogs and articles these have mainly been literary pieces, i.e. most of them lack personality and voice (I mean most of them are text). The SharePoint show on the other hands adds that human touch which is quite awesome. Kudos to Gene for comming up with this. As someone who works with ......
If you havent seen it yet MSBee Beta has been release. Check it out here http://www.gotdotnet.com/co... In addition to this there are 2 additional tools that the MSBee team have apprently published. These are (in their own words) “Managed Stack Explorer MSE is a lightweight tool for monitoring .NET 2.0 processes and stack traces. Just copy and run. No installation required. Download Managed Stack Explorer v1.1 TFS Admin Tool (Joe's ......
Looks iDevFactory have come out with a comprehensive SharePoint Mangement tool called USPM. “Focused Management within USPMUSPM is broken down into the four key management focus areas that comprise a SharePoint environment: Portal Management, Sites Management, User Management and Content Management. This approach allows you to get a holistic view of the management area and then immediately act and complete your management task(s). “ This think looks neat, yet to try it though ......
<rant> I am not a guy who regularly checks if there any changes to specs, infact I cant remember the RSS spec at this very moment, so the content of this post could be 90% BS, 10% my the things I want. To state the obvious there are a lot of interesting blogs out there. And some of them (really good ones at that) might not be in English. Take Micheal Greth for example. He really blogs some awesome stuff or so I am told. But subscribing to his RSS feed really gives me nothing. What I would really ......
I have been a big fan of the Run Command. Primarily because from the app you are currently working with, launching another app is just a few key strokes away. Eg. if you are working with SharePoint, then typical run commands you would use is 'iexplore', 'inetmgr', 'iisreset', 'compmgmt.msc', 'frontpg' etc. Previously I had come across an app called 'ExeCommand' that would let you add entries like the above with an associated path to the registry making it available off the run command. But now I ......
I am sure most of you are familiar with NeoWorks of their Log4Net fame. But they also have 2 products for SharePoint. 1. A wiki product - WikiPoint 2. And a series of XML WebParts for External Application Integration – NeoWorks XML Suite Check them out: http://www.neoworks.com/ ......
Pedro has shared a general set of Guidelines on SharePoint CAS.
Definitely usefull if you are starting off on SharePoint WebParts and having to deal with CAS.
Via Chris Johnson “So ... the smart guys in MS IT have come up with an alternate way of providing document recovery without going to a SharePoint backup. They have also decided that it is so useful that they are providing it to the world via GotDotNet. This solution uses an ISAPI filter that sits in front of the WSS ISAPI filter. It watches for requests from users to delete documents. When it sees one, it grabs the document and copies it down to a file share first, then allows WSS to delete ......
I previously raised some concerns regarding WinApp Echo an how it accessed SharePoint objects, and Garry Smith from WinApp has provided clarifications to set us straight. Check out the comments section on this post. Thanks Garry Post: http://geekswithblogs.net/t... ......
Shane’s got his list of Messenger SharePoint contacts up. Awesome! One more immidiate requirement I have to get this community rocking. i.e. Basically to write a Messenger plugin that is capable of recording transcripts of these chats. I am thinking of something more like a ‘logging’ contact. That way whenever a SharePoint community site gets rolling, we could have an archive of interesting conversations. This could be a first cut attempt at a more aggressive plan for the future. ......
Our friendly SharePoint “Microsoftie” Mike Fitz has dropped us a big one. He has a post listing out some of the features of V.Next. Just looking at the ‘listed features’ which I believe isn't all of them, theres only one thought on my mind; i.e. “Woah!!!! Thats awesome, ME WANT NOW!” RSS. Everything about sites, lists, libraries, etc., can be syndicated via RSS automatically. Blogs and Wikis. Templates and features in the box. Content Types. These aren’t ......
Got this link from Dustin over a chat session we had today. Its a link to a couple of screenshots of Office 12. Now take a look at the screenshot showing FrontPage. Its got a WSS v.NEXT site loaded into it. So far I like the UI Revamp, but more than that, from what I notice i like the fact that there is breadcrumbs built in (i.e. the ‘You are Here’ text) and also the fact that there is a Recycle Bin built in. Rock On ......
Looks like Stevie (from InfoTech) has posted a comprehensive SharePoint Backup Script. From the blog post “This script will backup: · The portal using the SPSBackup utility · The IIS Metabase · The computer's System State using NTBackup · Template and Config, Inetpub, log, and other miscellaneous files not backed up by SPSBackup” I am sure this will make a lot of you Admins happy J ......
Tim points out a utility for SharePoint from WinApp Echo. I faintly remember that someone mentioned that this was demoed at TechEd in the MS Partner section (I could be mistaken). I would agree with Tim that some of the features provided by the tool might be accomplished by directly manipulating the SharePoint Database (which is unsupported). But at the end of the day if you are managing a large Portal Setup what the product offers is ‘must-have’ features (i.e. in contrast to ‘would ......
I was playing around with those SharePoint Templates MS released recently, especially the change management one. If you have had a swing at this one you'd probably have noticed the Infopath forms submit to http://wsstemplates.quilogy... Orders/ so the question that remains are who are Quilogy, what do they do, and do they do SharePoint? Infact this "error" with the forms submitting to their site perhaps would end up servnig them ultimately; coz if they do SharePoint this ......
Eli already blogged about the release of the new SharePoint Templates. Quite frankly that post is a killer, very complete. but here is an article up at Microsoft Watch, where Mary Jo Foley talks about Microsoft's 'quiet' release of the templates, and forecasts much more to come in or ahead of Office 12 ......
I came across her blog when going through the Newgroup trying to be a good samiritan. She blogs SharePoint, MCMS, and Web stuff (my cup of tea) ......
One of my readers, Nelda Wong left me a link to the following 'cool SP Utility' "KnowledgeLake Connect is a configurable desktop application that enables users to easily index, store and retrieve any document, within any desktop application to SharePoint. KnowledgeLake Connect eliminates the conventional multi-step, manual process that standard SharePoint constructs require, replacing it with a fully integrated and automated solution" Link: http://www.knowledgelake.co... Thanks for the link ......
Recelty a colleague was looking for a freebie IE DOM inspector. ( yes this is for SharePoint Javascript work ;) ). He hasnt found one yet but came across this cool link. http://slayeroffice.com/?c=... That one shows the DOM tree when you mouse over an element - pretty cool - could be effective for CSS debugging ......
Every other SharePoint blogger by now must have already praised CaveDigital's XML Form WebPreviewer WebPart So I am going to do it as well. Pedro, good job on the release. I am sure a lot of us SharePoint Developer types would be exclaiming a sigh of releif, esspeically becuase you will be saving them the trouble of explaining why each user would need to install InfoPath otherwise. Here is a link to the Product: http://www.cavedigital.com/... ......
Mads posted about Power Aggregator from OmniSys, JOPX, Mike Walsh, and whoever is maintaining a list of SharePoint utils, thats another one for you. Personally I think this good. Having information rollup is something that is very critical to the SharePoint story. If it is not it should be, because what sells SharePoint is not only collaboration but also information sharing, and you do not always want the information on a teamsite to stay only at that teamsite. More often than not that information ......
Recently we had a need to autofill some dropdowns in an upload form based on query parameter. Sounds pretty easy right? After all, this just involves adding some JavaScript onto the page to pick something from the query string (lets say an index for convenience), then manupilate the DOM to set selected item index of the html "<Select>...</Sele... corresponding to the choice field you desire to the value obtained from the QueryString. But the only problem is, this is SharePoint and things ......
I came across 2 good On-Demand Webcasts at Microsoft Webcasts that detail how Microsoft hosts its SharePoint insfrastructure, how the manage capacity planning, performance, and detail out best practices for your SharePoint Portal Server infrastructure TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does SharePoint Portal Server Hosting (Level 300) TechNet WebCast: SharePoint Performance and Capacity Planning Best practices and Lessons Learnt (Level 300) Here is another one worth looking at for your SharePoint ......
Hey, did you guys know that James is back? Well neither did I. Its not like his back, but he has a new blog up at mindsharp. No longer jj4.bloggedup.com He is sorta/kind back here: http://mindsharpblogs.com/J... His last post on March 25 2005 was on stress testing SharePoint. Woah, he is getting 6 RPS. Jim u need to look at your box there ;), you might have a problem there. By the way that is actually a good question. Anyone interested in claiming there Stress test results for SharePoint along ......
A couple of my colleauges who as far as I know have all their life worked with ASP (mind you not ASP.NET, just the now aged ASP) were trying to dip their feet into SharePoint. One of them developing a paticular WSS site kept insisting on the need for an asp include file to create a bit of jazzy navigation. Now as you know SharePoint does not allow include files. So I proposed for all the links to be on a WSS list and then render the navigation by means of DVWP. Yes this can be done, but to create ......
Bill Simser has a post titled "The Collective vs the Individual". He is not the first to spring up with an idea along these lines. As Mart points out in the comment thread Bob Mixon is setting up a Wiki for SharePoint information, but that isnt the first either. Around last year Amanda had a notion for setting up a Virtual SharePoint user group. Amanda is 'right on' that as individuals working on SharePoint we 'the collective' are geographically distributed. But what I have most wanted out of the ......
59 Dr E.A. Cooray Mw, Wellawatte, Colombo 6, Sri Lanka +94 11 2360793 tariqayad@gmail.com M. Tariq Al Ayad OBJECTIVE An experienced Software Engineer in .NET Development with a keen interest in SharePoint Technologies and high-tech collaboration solutions, having experience in working on project teams as well as leading teams from a technical aspect Enjoys learning new skills and is confident working in different cultures. EMPLOYMENT STATUS I am currently employed but am open to discussing fulltime, ......
As Mart points out, JOPX is doing a very much better job than me in keeping the list of SharePoint tool upto date. Quite frankly I've given up, I want the ease of a SharePoint list to update and I am hoping Mike does a good job in keeping WSSFAQ.com upto date with all this information ;). Anyways on JOPXs list was Neverfail for SharePoint, which is a replication tool. Interesting! something Ive been looking for, for sometime. And I would assume a lot of you running 'global shops', or having a humongous ......
Fortune.com has a joint interview Ray Ozzie and Bill Gates on Information overload and the future of Email. This is nothing new but the following is explicitly stated "Would you like to use e-mail less?Gates: Sure. We're going to make SharePoint [Microsoft's team collaboration product] a clear adjunct to e-mail. So if we have an event coming up, we can create a shared workspace that contains the documents instead of having a chain of e-mail back and forth with lots of enclosures. " "What about your ......
Fortune.com has a joint interview Ray Ozzie and Bill Gates on Information overload and the future of Email. This is nothing new but the following is explicitly stated "Would you like to use e-mail less?Gates: Sure. We're going to make SharePoint [Microsoft's team collaboration product] a clear adjunct to e-mail. So if we have an event coming up, we can create a shared workspace that contains the documents instead of having a chain of e-mail back and forth with lots of enclosures. " "What about your ......
What a frustrating day. I spent hours looking for a code snippet on google on how to achieve something that I was very sure I had done. I was looking for the snippet which does not bring up the enter credential box if the user does not have rights for a sharepoint section. I knew it could be done, I had done it before. I spent an awfull long time searching the newsgroups (as i recalled the place i had seen it the first time). All this for what? just the one line below // Prevent the request for access ......
Ian recently posted about a WebPart called R.A.D Editor. Which is actually super brilliant, and I am sure most of us would more than welcome a tool of its capabilities, but me as a developer am wondering whether the $349s is worthwhile considering the alternatives such as FreeTextBox and FCKEditor. For a simple WSS solutions it might be it might be cheaper to write a simple content editor based on the 2 mentioned above. In the long run considering my woes with SharePoint's RTE and image functionality ......
Here is an enlightening post by Maurice on Part Property Validation http://www.bluedoglimited.c... ......
I found this series of WebParts being linked to from Micheal Greths blog. Theres a couple of good stuff in there including a Poll WebPart & Quiz WebPart amongst others. I had previously not subscribed to Micheal Greths blog since its mainly in German, and having to language translate an RSS feed is no fun, now I think I should just in case not to miss stuff like this. ......
Shane has a good post on why SharePoint from the Graphic designers perspective. I think I am going to be using that post a lot to convince a lot UI guys I know to make the move. check it out http://www.graphicalwonder.... ......
Faced a dilemna with a SharePoint box recently. This SharePoint box had been running for over 4 months, and had over 500 users using it daily. Its not a dedicated server box, but more of a PC that runs as a server. Its local HDD capacity is 40 Gigs split up into 2 20GB Partitions. Most you might think that is OK (I innittially thought - what the heck, its just WSS hosting 1 site). But remember 500+ users on a daily basis. IIS Logging was turned on (default settings + few other properties for a usage ......
A small quirk I ran into yesterday. Typical scenario is there a list on a site (call it ListX) that is on a site (lets say SiteY). Now typically if a user is given rights to the list and not the site (i.e. the user has no rights on the site, but is given rights to ListX), then if the user goes directly to ListX he can view list items. - Thats not a problem everything is fine and dandy. What doesnt work is the user cannot call any webservice on SiteY even the Lists.asmx to retrieve data from ListX. ......
Breadcrumbs for SharePoint has become a very popular WebPart, amongst developers and WebPart vendors. I've seen quite a few of these and most of them have one inherrent problem. From the ones I've seen it appears that most of the developers assumed that if a user visiting a site somewhere down the site hierarchy they naturually had rights to the parentwebs. This assumption is wrong, and such an assumption should not be made because its not unusual where you would want to give rights to specific sites ......
Mike Shorten posted an entry on his blog about simplifying user administration for Team Foundation Server. Now we on the SharePoint end would have a few reservations about step 16 over there. But anyways here is what I would like to know from those of you much more fortunate than me. Are the TFS sites a special WSS or SPS Site definition? I would like to know, but haven’t had time and from the looks of things will not have time to investigate this further (i.e. not time to install TFS at all L) ......
A lot of people in the blogosphere have been pointing to Brian Scott’s Cropper, which I see nothing wrong with. Cropper is a very nice application Brian has put together in C#, and I am sure most of you will find a real nice use for it. Nice work Brian. Sometime back I really had the need an application like this, and I was entertaining thoughts of writing something with a similar objective. Brian thanks for saving me a lot of trouble. Now let me tell you about the idea I had. Sometime back I was ......
A lot of people in the blogosphere have been pointing to Brian Scott’s Cropper, which I see nothing wrong with. Cropper is a very nice application Brian has put together in C#, and I am sure most of you will find a real nice use for it. Nice work Brian. Sometime back I really had the need an application like this, and I was entertaining thoughts of writing something with a similar objective. Brian thanks for saving me a lot of trouble. Now let me tell you about the idea I had. Sometime back I was ......
Hey, do you remember sometime back I was searching for some CAML tools. I think I have found them. Patrick's got one at U2U and Stramit's got one too. btw, Patrick, I think you need to mention that CAML testing will only work on the same box as SharePoint is installed on. Same problem on my tool (because it uses the SP API, not the WebServices), but I am sure we SP Devs dont mind ;) Stramit's blog posting has some other cool tools as well ......
Cnet news.com has an interview with Ray Ozzie, regarding how he will be involved with Microsoft. I think Groove's acquisition by Microsoft will be a great thing (heck it was bound to happen anyway). I've played around with groove about a couple of years back, and I liked what I saw. Anyways in a previous post of mine about Moon Edit I hinted at how real-time interactive collaboration was lacking in the office system (SharePoint namely). This is where I feel the P2P technology behind groove can really ......
OK here is a little problem you might eventually come across if you are running stsadm backups. Fact is stsadm backups are version dependant. Now initially I assumed that it was only service packs that affect sharepoint's version, but apparently even security updates count too. Sharath points out a few tips on one of my previous blog posts. Thankfully there arent many patches for SharePoint ......
I was browsing through sandbox.msn.com & I found Netscan which seems to a very interesting system that will show you statistics of newgroup usage. So here is the statistics for microsoft.public.sharepoint... http://netscan.research.mic... Darn, its been so long since I've hit the newgroups. Just been too busy these days ......
Ok, you perhaps already know that there are components out there that will let you syndicate the contents of SharePoint sites. Rss Syndication may or may not be a welcome alternative to SharePonit alerts but lets face it for alerts regarding a site I'd prefer the Rss route, I am sure we all hate inbox clutter. So here is a list of few of the Rss syndication systems out there - Syndication Generator from Maurice - Rss Syndicator by Sig Webber - SPSynd by DevHawk Out of those 3 the one I prefer is ......
http://blogs.tamtam.nl/mart... On this note, shouldnt us bloggers get a sneak peak at v.next or its feature list. Or maybe I should ask when this Pow Wow will happen? Further to this I think someone should list out the channels available for us (the SharePoint community) to suggest features, bitch about quirks etc to those at Redmond working on this awesome product ......
Omnisys has 2 neat WebParts for SharePoint Check them out: http://www.omnisys.co.il/IT... ......
Bob Mixon pointed out MoonEdit on his blog. Had an hour of fun with this application. I think it has a lot of potential. Technology similar to this is something I would prefer to have in the next version of Visual Studio (I havent checked out 2005 or Team System yet). But imagine the new twist this capability will give to Pair Programming. Ok Pair Programming might not have been the best example. but there would naturually be quite a productivity boom by 'peer-to-peer-ifying' collaborative application ......
Lately I’ve been puzzled by a hypothetical scenario with regard to SharePoint’s indexing. Consider that you have a bunch of WSS Sites named A, B & C. Now it is understood that the contents of A, B & C will get indexed in their own time. But supposing a WebPart page on A had links to B & C. Now would the crawl follow those links to B & C, index the contents of those sites and then return to indexing the contents of A? Or would B & C just be queued and processed in their own time. ......
OK; I have been holding out on you guys. A couple of months back I was talking to Sig, and we were discussion how the entire navigation story in SharePoint can be improved. This was the discussion that started this off for me. But he happened to show me a couple of alternatives that he was working on. And this one really caught my eye. I'm talking about the 'Go To' menu on the top left. Now Sig's version there is a DVWP with some super JavaScript to crawl the DOM and build the contents of the Quick ......
<WebPartPages:DataViewWe... webpart="true" runat="server" __WebPartId="{4587D743-B2CB... xmlns="http://schemas.micro... xmlns:dvwp="http://schemas.... <dvwp:XSL><![CDATA[ <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/... xmlns:d="http://schemas.mic... version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl ddwrt msxsl" xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas... ......
Mads has an initiative going to collect reports of browser incompatibility issues with SharePoint. Sig mind sharing your knowledge on tweaking those javascripts to get SPS to work A-OK on FireFox ;) ......
namespace Test { /// <summary> /// Summary description for MainStream. /// </summary> public class MainStream { // 3=Width2=Yield1=Zorder|& // W3=Y2=Z1=|& const string cond = "( ( F1 = 3) & ( ( F2 = 2 ) | ( F3 = 1 ) ) )"; public static void Main() { ArrayList conditionList; conditionList = Parser.SanitizeCondition(co... conditionList = Parser.PrepareConditionList... string caml = Parser.CreateCaml(condition... Console.WriteLine(caml); } } /// <summary> ......
I remember seeing a tool like this before, but I couldn’t find it. Searched the net for sometime, and eventually gave up and did my own one. It’s pretty primitive at the moment, but it lets you execute CAML queries against a SharePoint list. Here is a few screenshots I’ve shared it here p.s No limitations on the code or app, do whatever you like ......
When I first started with SharePoint I was pretty much surprised that the ability to create tabs was only available on meeting workspaces. I have no explanation as to why there is such a limitation. I am also currently unaware of a hack to make that system available across all WSS Sites, but here is something that I was able hooked up, and I am actually pleased with it (the main reason I am pleased with it, is because it’s nothing more than a DataView WebPart). What I wanted was a system of ......
<WebPartPages:DataViewWe... runat="server" WebPart="true" __WebPartId="{8054042D-D31F... > <WebPart xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.or... xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.or... xmlns="http://schemas.micro... <Title>Tabs</Title... <FrameType>None</F... <Description /> <IsIncluded>true</... <PartOrder>1</Part... <FrameState> Normal </FrameState> ......
Something I came across today. I have a bunch of stsadm backups of WSS sites. Today when I tried to restore one of them after re-installing SharePoint this error screamed at me “Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version.” Guess what – STSADM backups are not version independent. My scenario was a SP1 backup to be restored on a non SP1 box. I do not know if a Pre SP1 backup will restore on a SP1 machine. I haven’t ......
Yes its true, take a look at any of the default WebParts or ListViews in SharePoint and you can learn a thing or 2. For instance recently I wanted to find all the related items in an issues List. I was stumped until I took a look at the CAML in the default Issue Item Edit form, which goes something like this <Where> <And> <Eq> <FieldRef Name="IsCurrent"/> <Value Type="Boolean">1</Val... <And> <Neq> <FieldRef Name="IssueID"/> <Value ......
Was doing a google search to find something about SharePoint’s CreateWS.aspx page. The search results returned were interesting. Here some sites that are listed, all running SharePoint. - Destination Desktop - ISC Consulting - Eushe.org Heres the search results I got ......
Maurice shares some thoughts on what most probably might be with the next Version of SharePoint. He also mentions vaguely the nuance of developing and deploying WebParts. The fact is SharePoint v Next will built on the next version of Asp.net. I am sure that most of you would agree that WSS is today what it is because of Asp.net. The move up from SPS 2001 or STS to SharePoint 2003 was phenomenal. All that productivity capabilities just opened up with the 2003 versions. I suspect that we can look ......
Ian has enumerated a series of Site Templates here. This is awesome. Whats even more cool is that SharePoint Customization has sites up based on some of those templates like below. Contoso Lives!! mohahaha!! (<-evil laugh) - The site using the PM template - The site using the High School Template - The site using the HR Template - The site using the Real Estate Template - The site using the Sales Template - The site using the Doctor Template - The site using the Hospital Template - The site using ......
Hey guys, check out James Muellers SharePointCommunity.com yes another site running on WSS. This one is more of an aggregation of SharePoint resources.
Personally I hope this effort gets absorbed into Amanda's Virtual UserGroup.
As a developer wanting to create a WebPart that needs a date picker everybody will tempted to use SharePoint's date picker. Unless you know how to use it you are going to run into a couple of gotchas. Basically everybody initially stumbles, trying to find a way to get it to display. What you should ideally do to use the OWSDateField is OWSForm frm1 = new OWSForm(); OWSDateField df1 = new OWSDateField(); frm1.Controls.Add(df1); If you are creating an ASP.NET form, you would need to have the following ......
Here is the TOC of Scot Hillers book 'Advanced SharePoint Solutions' About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii About the Technical Reviewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......
Right now I think Raymond Mitchell is the bravest amongst us. Thanks for going through the pain of tolerating the exams Ray. Have anyone else of you sat for the exam yet. If so here is some queries I guess all of us would like to have answered. 1. What percentage of the questions are about SPS? 2. What percentage of the questions are about WSS? 3. What percentage of the questions are about .NET Development for SharePoint 4. Any questions on Frontpage customization of SharePoint? 5. What percentage ......
Scott Hiller's book 'Advanced SharePoint Services Solutions' will be available at Apress. Here is a look at the TOC courtesy of Apress. CHAPTER1 CollaborativeApplication Markup Language CHAPTER 2 Databases,WebServices, and Protocols CHAPTER 3 Advanced Web PartTechniques CHAPTER 4 Advanced SharePointPortal Server Solutions CHAPTER 5 The InformationBridge Framework CHAPTER 6 The Business ScorecardsAccelerator CHAPTER 7 SharePoint andBizTalk Server 2004 CHAPTER 8 SharePoint andMicrosoft Content Management ......
At last; a hack that I really appreciate. Neowin has a snippet posting on how to Get Windows Media Player 10 to install on Windows 2003. Link here. Why do I appreciate this hack so much you might ask? Well I work on SharePoint, and I currently cant see it running on Windows XP, or justify having an extra test environment for me to play around with it. Next hack to look forward to is to install MSN desktop search on Win2K3. What I know so far is that the contents of the setup (exe) can be extracted. ......
I had to reinstall SharePoint Portal Server today; today because it seemed like a good day to do it. My SharePoint Portal Server got zapped long time back after IT decided to rename all the machines to some finky naming-convention. Zapped as in the Search went down and never came back. So I was installed SharePoint, configured it, and then created the first portal, everything went OK. Once the Portal was created it normally presents a screen providing you with several options like to visit the site, ......
I am not sure if this has been already done, but I think it’s about high time someone started consolidating a list of tools that are out for SharePoint. I am thinking of something similar to the SharpToolbox. Of course the list will not be huge like the CSharp list at SharpToolbox, but I think we’ve got enough to go around. So let me start it off by providing the ones I know, you guys can contribute by adding the ones you know to the comments system of this post, and I will update the ......
Was catching up on my Rss feeds and noticed that there we a bunch of SharePoint tools released, almost as if it was Christmas already. Here is the list with my first impressions SharePoint Explorer This is a neat tool except for one annoying issue i.e.; the lack of validation specially for entering the ‘SharePoint Url’ in the Settings tab. If the URL is entered without a trailing ‘/’ it throws an exception, and oh yes when you enter your credentials for the WebService to use make sure nobody is looking ......
Just one of those fyi items Checkout McAfee Portal Shield for SharePoint ......
Here is a basic tip If you have a calculated field contains numeric data, SharePoint by default formats the field and displays it comma to separate the thousands. This behavior can be overcome if you concatenate a string portion (or even a blank string i.e. &””) to the calculated field. So using the example Michael Helland spoke about in the above link even =Year(Date)&”” will work too ......
Got this scoop from Microsoft Watch There is a new server codenamed R2 that’s destined to be released sometime in the near future. Apparently it looks like an upgraded version of Windows Server 2003. Here is what got me interested “Microsoft officials have talked publicly a couple of times since this spring about which of the more than dozen feature packs that it plans to fold into R2. Among the ones that are definites, according to partners: Active Directory Federation Services (a k a "Trustbridge") ......
Navigo who provided the free SharePoint explorer tool also provide a product called ONTOLICA that provides a series of webparts that provide more extensive search capabilities for SharePoint. Ontolica Search Features Support for all standard search features Intuitive SearchAssistant AND / OR / NOT support Wildcard (*) search Configurable search properties Context sensitive search properties Custom properties in the search result. Respects the SharePoint security model Personalization Reusable Web ......
If you havent already, you need to check this out Source http://weblogs.asp.net/soev... "Great SharePoint Explorer tool Have a look at http://www.ontolica.com/Eng... for a great explorer tool with the following capabilities (quote from website):WSS Features View and modify the object properties of Virtual servers, Sites, Lists, List templates, Document Libraries, Files, Folders, List items and List fields. Delete site collections, sites, ......
Hey look what I found. Someone is actually using the Afternoon (banana yellow) SharePoint theme.
Hey checkout Erol's SharePoint blog. I knew Erol was deep into SharePoint in france , but I didn’t know he was blogging. Btw it’s the first bi-lingual blog I’ve seen. J ......
Technet has a couple of usefull articles on SharePoint Portal Server Installation and Migration. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/te... ......
Heres a patch for SharePoint that I didn’t know existed. Its pretty old too (dated 10/15/2003) and that’s the bit that has me puzzled. Wasn’t SharePoint released in October 2003. That would mean this patch came out 15 days after the product release ......
A good tip from Mads about speeing up SharePoint alerts.
Bryant has a good post on a SharePoint database hack related to installing WebParts. Even though you may never have to use this, its always handy knowing it can be done.
If you’ve seen my earlier posts on SharePoint Single Sign-On, you would remember that I showed some curiosity regarding the role of the Canary in SharePoint. So here is Chris’s (the nice chap I mentioned in those posts) take on it. The “canary” was implemented to thwart a variety of cross site scripting / single click attacks. Examples include receiving a mail with a link to a malicious web site that then tries to either redirect you to another page or otherwise use your identity ......
Is it just me or is there something funnily wrong with the archived WebCasts on Microsoft.com For example click on the link SharePoint Implementations in the Real World - Level 200 on this page. What I am currently getting is an error message saying “The Event you are searching for does not exist. …” ......
A couple of neat thoughts at SharePointblogs shared by Bob Mixon and Dustin Miller on how to fix the ‘Show it all’ UI of SharePoint. Daniel McPhearson also points to this post on Point2Share about options available to alter the UI. Radical thought of the moment: There’s no way I am writing JavaScript to this. I don’t even want to imagine going through all the trouble of debugging the script. Although I do agree with Bob, I would have preferred the adaptive interface to be ......
If you are into WebPart development then you would find Maurice Prathers post on changing a WebPart title programmatically informative, especially from the point of view of the WebPart framework event model.
If you are into WebPart development then you will find Maurice Prathers post on changing a WebPart title programmatically informative, especially from the point of view of the WebPart framework event model.
Bill English the CEO of Mindsharp (a SharePoint training & consulting company) pointed to this article in one of his mails to the sharepointdiscussions yahoo group. Even thought the article keeps mentioning Portal, I think its more of WSS than SPS. But here is another interesting bit from that article “The portal is a prototype of a communication and alert Web portal being developed by the Missouri Department of Homeland Security that's scheduled to go live Nov. 1. The state's $1 million portal, ......
Ian
points to a utilityto show contents of
LotusNotes/Domino contents on a SharePoint page.
I was looking for a list online to use as some testdata for a certain SharePoint tool I use internally when I came across this link. The site gives you a run down of the F1 championship history. What interesting is you can see what engines the teams have been running way back then, and what teams are now non-existent. For instance - Mc Laren were running on Ford and Porsche way before they were on Honda engines. - Williams were using Ford and then Honda engines - Lotus used to compete in F1 ......
Some things I got burnt by recently. Hope you guys are aware of these. 1) If you right click on a WebPart Page on a document library and say Save Target As (i.e. from IE’s context menu) what you are going to get is the HTML normally sent to the browser and not the WebPart composition. It makes perfect sense actually since the browser is requesting for a ‘Smart Page’ from SharePoint and there for SharePoint sends it HTML. Now having said that even though it makes perfect sense it is not too obvious. ......
Recently a colleague of mine was faced with the problem of moving content from one WSS Site to another, with almost all the lists you can save the content in a template and recreate the list, but that is not possible with the Issues List. For some reason beyond my comprehension the Issues List does not let you save the content to a template. Here is a small tip on this, but I do not recommend it. The SharePoint ‘_Site’ database contains a table called UserData that stores the contents of all lists. ......
My earlier frustration with a programming issue I had with SharePoint Portal Server Single Sign On (SPS SSO) came to the attention of very nice chap inside Redmond . All I can say about this chap is that he is very nice, goes by the name of Chris, and works with SharePoint Portal Server; Did I say he was nice guy already? Well anyway he is a nice chap. He was able to throw a suggestion at me that actually bowled me over. It was one of those things that go totally un-noticed until someone points it ......
Actually I am complaining about very simple bit of code. It is so simple that even I could write it (or copy and paste it) a million times. All I want to do is to set a user’s Credentials into the Single SignOn database from a WebPart, but the frigging thing keeps failing. string[] rgSetCredentialData = new string[2]; rgSetCredentialData[0] = "2ser"; rgSetCredentialData[1] = "rb26dett"; Credentials.SetCredentials( 1, "TestSSOAPP", rgSetCredentialData); The error returned is SSO_E_CANARY_VALIDATION_FAI... ......
I found out today to my surprise that you can actually use the DataView WebPart (and all all the other SharePoint WebParts) as a control in a WebPart that you are creating. Isn’t that sweet? Its also remarkably easy to use. It goes something like this class YourWebPart : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPar... { ... private DataViewWebPart dvwp; ... protected override void CreateChildControls() { ... dvwp = new DataViewWebPart(); dvwp.DataFields = DATAFIELDS; dvwp.DataQuery = QUERY; dvwp.Xsl = ......
Bob Mixon points out to this up coming MSDN WebCast on the power of DVWP. I am sure Ian will be pleased ......
Greg Hughes points to the following SPS Portal on the internet. It is almost what I’ve wanted to see for a long time. What I mean I’ve seen my fair load of WSS Site samples on the net, and SharePoint customization hosts a good series of WSS samples too, but what I also want to see is a full blown SharePoint Portal Server sample J ......
This may be old news but… It’s nice to see a technology that was in SharePoint for sometime finally find its way in to ASP.NET. When I first got my hands on SharePoint 2003 in its early Beta stages I was totally in awe about the WebPart Framework. On this note does anyone have an idea when we will get to see what killer features would be present in SharePoint Version Next (perhaps it’s too early to ask) ......
Patrick Points to the fantastic resources for SharePoint that are hosted on GotDotNet. What I want to know is when did this page get published? If I had known about this stuff earlier it wouldn’t have been easier to develop a tool (A Parser for STSLogs) that I already have – grrr! I perhaps need to keep a closer watch on the MSDN technical articles section in future. It would surely help if you could Subscribe to an RSS feed for a particular section in MSDN (wishful thinking J ) Hmmm looks like there ......
Do you guys know about these bugs? - 320439 - 817036 Well theres a simmilar issue with SharePoint, and I suspect that its ASP.NET at play underneath. Try this create a webpart that tries to transfer control onto another page in SharePoint. for e.g. protected override void RenderWebPart(HtmlTextWriter output) { try { Context.Server.Transfer(def... // Context.Server.Execute(defa... } catch (Exception e) { output.Write(e.ToString()); } } What you should see on the WebPart page is error ......
With regard to my post on SharePoint field names you might find the following code snippet useful. // Initialize the list service Lists listService = new Lists(); listService.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.... // Get the list schema XmlNode ndList = listService.GetList("ListNa... // Iterate through each field foreach (XmlNode ndField in ndList.FirstChild.ChildNodes) { string name = string.Empty; string displayName = string.Empty; // Obtain the nodes name name = (string) ......
Another one of those SharePoint Portal Server mysteries. Recently a colleague of mine was facing this dilemma. After a restore of a certain teamsite on SPS, the Search results weren't showing the contents. When she tried checking the gather log for the NonPortal Contents index it contained the following error. “The address could not be found, (0x80042616 - Error in the Site Data Web Service. ) Value cannot be null. Parameter name: uriString” Unfortunately there is a very non-relevant MS KB article ......
Got this scoop of Neowin
Apparently there is a build of Windows 2003 SP1 available for Beta Testers. I am just wondering what changes have been made to IIS6, and if they would affect SharePoint in anyway (good or bad)
Ping-back if you guys know about SP1 for Win2k3
Tim pointed out to this SharePoint toolkit. I played around with the url a little, and found that bluedoglimited.com is a SharePoint Site, and whats better still is there's a good SharePoint blog there too. I believe it is Maurice Prather's. The blog looks really cool. Nice theme, Sig might actually have some competition after all ......
I did link to this the other day, but I just wanted to repeat it. Of course there is no harm in linking to this a second time now is there? I learnt a lot from it so just wanted to point it to you guys (SharePoint admins/wannabes) again. This resource kit is fantastic, it is very detailed, and by that I mean very very very detailed; detailed as in it would teach you your ABCs too if you didn’t know to read. The resource kit goes into explicit detail on how you can expose SharePoint to the extranet, ......
Just in case this one skipped you, there a resource on a ISA Server 2000 SPS Deployment Kit on Isaserver.org.
I am in the process of installing VC# Express edition. For some particularly wierd reason its taking an awful long time to install for me. The .Net Framework 2.0 Beta has already been installed, and now its continuing with the setup after restart. What was interesting to note was that after the Framework 2.0 was installed my Sharepoint configuration didn't work. It complained quoting the famous error "Server Error in '/' Application." followed by a runtime error, and something to with the custom ......
Austin Wheats has a good SharePoint Blog. Heres the link
A couple of days back I ran into an issue regarding the DevHawk Rss Syndicator and access rights on lists. Here is a link to that post. Since it was a requirement on a portal implementation effort I was occupied for the last couple of days to find a work around for this, coz it could be a serious issue depending on how you've setup security on your SharePoint sites. Fortunately Philip Colmer came to my rescue by pointing me out to this entry on Austin Wheats blog. Austin explains all the issues with ......
A friend of mine at work got an internal POC working that lets SharePoint index the files contained in a StarTeam repository. I was totally impressed when I saw it working.
Kudos Ruks
Its basically a web-front providing the content of StarTeam thus providing an content source for SharePoint to index. On this note has anyone played around with StarTeam's WebConnect?
I came across SPSRssGen today. OK so this is another one that needs to go onto the list of SharePoint syndicators. Strangely enough it was DevHawks SPSynd that led me to this tool. I was looking to overcome a small issue, where when a user is requesting a feed for a SharePoint site, and if the user does not have rights to view a list, SharePoint throws an UnAuthorizedAccessException (which as far as I know cannot be swallowed), and this spoils the entire feed. So spent an entire day fuddling over ......
OK I admit it,I am a big fan of the 'run command' (Win Key + R). In fact I probably use it much more than the Start Menu. I mean for all those programs that are so deep into start-menu, the 'run command' becomes so very convenient for day-to-day work. for instance - IIS Manager is : Win Key + R -> InetMgr in contrast to Start -> [All Program] -> Administrative Tools -> IIS Manger - Visual Studio is : Win Key + R -> devenv in contrast to Start -> All Programs -> MS Visual Studio.Net ......
I will be at DevDays Sri Lanka tomorow.Good news there is one presentation on InfoPath, and I assume that it will cover SharePoint as well. Anyone out there who will also be there, send me a shout :D
Didnt know Microsoft had a dedicated section for SharePoint on Office online.
Check it out: http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX010909721033
Theres a lot of links to white papers, tools, etc.
Will be going to one of our clients site over the week-end for a few weeks over the week-end. I'll be in the Boca Raton area, so if you know of anything SharePoint or .NET-wise is happening in the Florida area pls let me know.On a related but dissimilar track, the US embassy in Sri Lanka needs to provide better seating arrangement (i mean chairs) for its visa-applicants. After sitting on those chairs for a couple hours my back was being strained. And just think, at office I'm stuck in a chair (i.e. ......
Just FYI if you didnt already know,
Lamont Harrington's Blog hasan excellent
list of SharePoint resources.
First to fend off any SPS discriminations I might be accused of- Mike I am writing this with my knowledge of SPS, do not know if it applies to WSS, since I do not have a WSS Configuration to try it out on separately. Secondly fiddling with SPS database is not recommend, do it at your own risk K OK, I had this scenario recently (actually about 2 weeks back). An intern colleague of mine had to do a bulk upload of a bunch of documents to a SharePoint team site, which is not very unusual if you are trying ......
Its been some time since I've been to MSDN to refer the SharePoint class library, but I was pleasantly surprised today.
It looks like code snippets are finding their way into the SharePoint class referece. (sigh - At Last!) And about time too. I'm sure this will atleast cut down a little time off all that R&D work needed to use the API.
This is another page that Microsoft needs to update on their site.
Found this whitepaper today.
Should check it out later when I get some fre time.
GothamWeb have several online manuals for Windows Server 2003.
this one caught my eye. Its the SharePoint Help
Here are a couple of links in relation to performance. James Edelen's response to a query about SPS Performance Paul's stress tests and scenarios. Microsoft's clustering FAQ SharePoint Capacity planning - MS Should update this, atleast remove the Beta bits from the content I know there must be a bunch of more interesting newsgroup posting regarding this subject, so if you know any one that is noteworthy please post a comment pointing to it ......
Check out Paul Schaeflein's blog
He has a lot of information published that my team learnt the hard way, through experimentation during our project's development cycle.
This is going to be a great benefit to WebPart developers old and new.
For those of you who want to a scheme to get documents out of SharePoint on a scheduled basis, check out Jim's
SPSExportTool
I had this requirement recently; i.e. the need to restore a single deleted file from a backup.Heres the newsgroup thread discussing the options available for such a scenario.But heres the update. AvePoint have released a backup solution for SharePoint 2003 that can provide per item backup and restore ......
Thanks to WebDAV it is possible access SharePoint sites as NT Shares in the form of \\<ServerName>\sites\<SiteName>
But just fyi it doesnt work on the Windows2003 box, and sometimes not on the rare WinXP box. The usual resolution is this.
SmartLibrary from Nintex looks quite good.
Their product gives some cool extensibility to SharePoint. They also have the neat feature of defining workflow within SharePoint's web gui.
Check out their screen shots on the site.
Hey, Good news, SharePoint customization is back up. And they have got a whole load of new resources. Here are the list of the site Cascading Style Sheet Guide for Windows SharePoint Services Code Library and Samples Demos, Presentations, and Webcasts Free Trials and Developer Resource Kits Frequently Asked Questions How-to Articles Product Information RSS Newsfeeds SDKs Templates and Tools Tips and Tricks Tutorials and Training Web Parts and Packages White papers ......
Came across Thom Robbins' blog titled SharePoint Tips & Tricks blog today.
This article was in Windows Platforn newsletter today (could be older, but I only read the mail today).
Its a very good resource to give a quick heads-up orientation of SharePoint
Mike Gunderloy has a nice article describing the use of the WebServices of SharePoint.
There is also this MSDN article on the usage of the List Data Retrieval WebService
Isnt this cute, Monty & Susan's personal site runs on SharePoint 2003.
Nice work with template guys - ;)
This blog has a lot of cool SharePoint information.
Plus his WebPart tool looks cool.
Here's Microsofts directory of Webcomponents for SharePoint
Things just keep getting better [Via Jan Tielens' Bloggings]Now thats one item off my SPS Wishlist.I am still overwhelmed by the great sense of community around this product. The newsgroups are great (well, yes theres the odd 10 or 20 posts that go unaswered everyday, but hey so few experts, so many questions) And the folks on the SharePoint mailing list are really cool too, plus all those SPS community sites like MSD2D.com etc ......
Patrick's points to Sig Webber's blog that shows you different possibilities with the default WebParts and a little "frontpage"ing.
He has got a neat set of WebParts that I should checkout on the bottom right of the page.
Btw this is the most blog-like "blog running on Sharepoint" I have seen
I am not really sure if I've posted anything on this topic before. I feel like I have, but if so I couldnt find the post in the archive. So I am risking a second post. However I did asked a similar question up on the sharepoint newsgroup some time back.Over the past few months my team has been building an intranet application based on SharePoint. We've basically being rolling out our own custom WebParts.Whats very odd about managing a WebPart development project is that, versioning is a pain.To increment ......
One of the nice things about SharePoint is that there are many ways of accessing the data. The most obvious is of course the web interface, but to accomplish thight integration with for example Office 2003, SharePoint offers a bunch of web services. These web services provide identically functionality as you get using the web interface; everything you can do in the web interface is possible using the web services! A nice example of the use of these web services is the integration with Office 2003. ......
Have any of you seen WSS FAQ? Yeah? Which one? Today I discovered there are 2 sites that go by the same name, both running on SharePoint (Can the net get any nicer?) One is the very informative WSS FAQ by Collutions and the other is the WSS Demo Site The latter I came across today whilst trying to do a google search for the former (talk about stealing someones thunder). Anyways I was flattered to see me on their blog roll along with LauraJ, but my first thought on this was, where are the others, ......
Here are a few links that I found recently. SharePoint links Microsoft Whitepaper on Extranet access to SPS using ISS Server Portal on the web @ SharePointSollutions Non-SharePoint (i.e Fun Stuff) ... Modified Mag NFS community. device from Tight Audio ......
This is one feature in SPS that sounds so cooool. Kudos to the SPS team for having this feature. I can just imagine the potential around this feature for portals, especially if you have some system built around SPS. Imagine the convenience of just having to send a mail to SPS rather than fill out an upload form. Heres a MSD2D howto on the subject that came by mail today http://msd2d.com/newsletter... ......
This site runs on SharePoint, its got a neat list of links, and also a blog.
My my - I've heard about blogging on SPS, but never got about to doing it.
Recently I had the issue of dealing with SPS2003 and Extranet access. The issue is ofcourse no issue at all, but just the problem of how to add external users (i.e. ppl outside your Windows domain) and users of the Portal. Here are a couple of links that would aid anyone else who wants to achieve this. Google indexed discussion @ microsoft.public.sharepoint... Whitepaper on how to Expose WSS through MS Small Business Server. And there is a whole email thread on this subject at sharepoint@yahoogroups.com ......
Looks like GotSharePoint.com got recently updated with a bunch of hot news. Here is a rap of the recent headlines.
- SharePoint 2003 beats Plumtree for Portal Product of the Year
- HP Drives SharePoint Performance
- CorasWorks Releases New WebParts for a true connected workspace
- Dell selects SharePoint Technology
Deploying WebParts after you make a build is a bit of a hassle especially because you have to leave you IDE to do a couple of things. The basic process is you need to 1. Compile 2. Install the assembly to the GAC 3. Copy assembly to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\bin 4. Recycle the MS SharePoint default app pool - to invoke the new instance of the assembly -> Typically you will have to switch between VS.NET, InetMgr, and the command prompt. So here’s what I do. 1. My WebPart projects have their default ......
Just wanted to bring the Quilogy Atomic site to your attention.
Theyve got a bunch of .NET resources, and a couple of pointers to some good WebPart articles on MSD2D.com
Got more links for you This one is courtesy of Robert K.In his own words "Here are a few more excellent WSS/SPS/Web Part articles that are usually missed by most people! http://www.fawcette.com/sea... I have to admit, I had no idea there were articles on SPS at FTPOnline. Thanks for the links Robert. Also worthy of subscribing too are the MSD2D.com newsletters, atleast the SharePoint one. You might learn a thing or two from them. And if you haven't already been ......
Paschal has a post at dotnetweblogs on a couple ASP.NET lessons learnt. Just a note to SPS Developers. Dont you think this does not apply to you. One thing you should learn if WebParts are your game, pay close attention to anything that happens in the ASP.NET Custom Server control arena, because they both share the same bloodline. I took a different approach with regard to sharing SPS lessons learnt. What i did was Got the team to put up a SharePoint Social Meeting workspace. Created tab pages for ......
No no no; I am not copying the Mobile Minute or .NET Nightly. For all i know this might be a once off thing. Nevertherless Nino and J Avery sure are an inspiration (if this becomes more than a once off thing you guys are acknowledged) Anyway just wanted to publicize some links i found 1. SharePoint free online trial 2. SharePoint on TechNet 3. SharePoint Developer Center on MSDN 4. Michael Greth's Sharepoint Weblog - probably more concise and less confusing than points 2 & 3. Best if you know ......
Looky here, got a link for to a SharePoint customization site in the mail.
Thanks for the link Bil Simser, and Don Wilson.
Andy Santo has a tip for SharePoint on weblogs.asp.net If you dont mind Andy, I'd like to add a couple of thoughts to that. 1. If you want the code you write to be useful across many sites, theres one simple solution instead of adding multiple web references(i.e. for every site you want to change). If you peek into the constructor of reference.cs, which is generated when you add a web reference by VS.net you'd see that it has the path to the SharePoint site hardcoded. All you have to do is change ......