File or arguments not valid for site template

I was trying to use stsadm to create a SharePoint 2007 site collection using the createsiteinnewdb operation. I specified the site template name using the -sitetemplate switch but I kept getting the following error:

File or arguments not valid for site template [template name]

Here’s the full command I was using:

Fault Handling In SharePoint Workflows

Handling faults in WorkFlows is an important concept to consider because sometimes a routine that your workflow is inherently calling will just fart out. It just happens, sucks, but happens. It happens with generic .NET development, it happens when building custom workflows. An error will occur with your workflow, bubble up, and it must be handled appropriately.

Elevated Code In SharePoint Workflows

Lately, I have been immersed in SharePoint WorkFlows, which in itself is not really a bad thing, however I am finding my own quirks as I run through it. And by some I mean a lot. For example, I was looking for an elegant way to run my work flow code with elevated privileges where I could separate my SharePoint work flow code method and call it with the relevant privileges to execute.
In order to do this, run the work flow code as elevated within the overriden ActivityExecutionStatus execute method. I spaced this for a while, and man it was driving me nuts. In order to get to this to work, you need to setup your activity class to run elevated code appropriately with the relevant method.

Thinking of a Hosted SharePoint Deployment?

f you’re thinking about having your SharePoint deployment hosted, then this post may help you during discussions with SharePoint host providers by giving you some understanding of the type of questions you should be asking, along with upfront considerations – such as the differences between a hosted Windows SharePoint Services-only (WSS) environment and a hosted SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) environment!

How to connect Web Parts programmatically in WSS 3

Web parts are usually connected on the UI as part of customization. There are times better to connect Web parts using code on the fly. For example, we have a site template with a page containing two Web parts working together. Making the connection during site provisioning would be more user friendly. Actually it becomes a must for the template I am working on currently because huge number of sites will be instantiated based on it. Thanks for edhild’s post giving me great hints and a good start. The following is what I have come up with for this topic.

SharePoint Egg Timer #1: “We want a SharePoint site that doesn’t look like a SharePoint site”

If there was a novelty egg timer for SharePoint consultants (a bit like a magic eight ball) without doubt it would feature questions such as “can I do that SSP stuff over the WAN?”, “can I have sub-minute inter-data center failover?” and “does it work OK with Office 1974?”.

Evaluating and Customizing Search Relevance in SharePoint Server 2007

Summary: Learn about settings you can adjust to improve relevance in Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and how to implement an evaluation process to determine the impact your adjustments make on relevance. (16 printed pages)

SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server Job Submission Sample

This download contains the SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server Job Submission Sample and supporting files.

SSRS in SharePoint 2007 site using Forms Based Authentication (SharePoint Integrated Mode)

This is just a post to inform all the people out there who may be struggling to implement Sql Server Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS) in a SharePoint 2007 site using Forms Based Authentication (FBA), when configured in the new SharePoint Integrated Mode (SP2).

After months of trying to get this working and dealing with Microsoft and getting bounced back between the Sql and the SharePoint teams, we finally have an admission that this is a Microsoft bug on the SQL side. Believe me guys, this is not an easy thing to come by…

Impersonating the “All Authenticated User” User in WSS/MOSS

Within WSS, items can be unsecured (available to the anonymous user), secured to specific users or groups, or generically secured to All Authenticated Users. If an item (or list) is accessible to All Authenticated Users, in most intranet cases it is a near equivalent to unsecured.

FCG announces Firstpoint for SharePoint!

Exciting announcements in the Health and Life Sciences space around Sharepoint!  First Consulting Group, well known in the Enterprise Content Management space, has announced a full suit of applications that provide a FDA regulated solution for content management, collaboration and electronic submission automation. All running on MOSS 2007 and Microsoft Office.

Official announcement here.  Bloomberg is also running an article here.

Announcing three CodePlex projects for community developed SharePoint WCM components

There’s been some buzz about the Community Kit for SharePoint during the past few days, but it’s not the only exciting and useful SharePoint oriented shared source project on CodePlex. The SharePoint Governance, SharePoint Features, and SharePoint Learning Kit projects are definitely also worth a good look.

SharePoint gradual migration “gotcha” to be aware of…

When installing MOSS 2007 into an existing SPS 2003 environment, you undoubtedly have already decided on a migration strategy i.e. In Place, Database or Gradual.One of the little gotchas to be aware of if you decided to choose the Gradual migration strategy affects pre-existing web applications. If you look at this screen shot:

Using Javascript to Manipulate a List Form Field

Hi, my name is Rob Howard, and I’m a Program Manager with the SharePoint Designer team. Like several of the other people posting here, I also built many of the Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services.

If you’re familiar with them, you may have noticed that in several of the application templates we use a bit of Javascript to set default form values based on the query string. Because we found this to be useful in many different cases throughout our applications, I wanted to share our method with you guys so that you can include it in the applications you develop.

Modifying the Workflow Association Data in SharePoint 2007 Pre-Initiation

One of our customers wanted to use the out-of-the-box Approval workflow but wanted to pre-fill the Approvers field with users from the items metadata.  In another words, each document in a document library can potentially have a difference approver so rather than have the Approvers field pre-filled from the initial Association data, they want it populated from the Approvers field on the initiated item.

Capacity Planning for SharePoint internet Site…

The “official” guide is available at this URL : http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library…

under the name “Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Internet environments (Office SharePoint Server)”

You stil have access to other capacity planning guides from here :