Quickie: Broken web part page? We can help!

I’m called upon to troubleshoot numerous errors with SharePoint on a day-to-day basis, and some of the most frustrating are “Unexpected Error” messages which occasionally crop up on web-part pages. This is worst for administrators when they occur on hitting ‘edit page’ - worried admins can’t then edit the page and end up running round in small circles, flapping their arms and screaming.

Well, there’s an easy trick to get to the web part maintentance page.*

Let’s say your malfunctioning page is:

Estimate MOSS Search Disk Space Requirements:

I have been asked many times about storage requirements around MOSS Search. By this I mean, what estimates can be made on the disk space requirements for Index server, Query Server and Database Server.

Below I have pasted in content that is included in the whitepaper on TechNet on this. I pulled this out because many people miss this information:
Index server disk space requirements:

How to create SearchAlert Programmatically?

Note: Make sure that you have enabled search based alerts SSP-> Search Settings -> Search Based Alerts

SPSite spSite = new SPSite(”http://nishand:300/sites/PubSite/Search/”);
SPWeb web = spSite.OpenWeb();
Query alertQuery = new KeywordQuery(spSite);
alertQuery.QueryText = “Hello” // Keyword
SearchAlert searchAlert = new SearchAlert(spSite, alertQuery);
searchAlert.InnerAlert.AlertFrequency = SPAlertFrequency.Daily;
searchAlert.InnerAlert.Title = “Alert#2″
searchAlert.InnerAlert.User = web.Users[”domain\\user”];
searchAlert.Update();

Building professional internet sites using MOSS 2007 - Metatags (Part 1)

When building professional internet sites using MOSS 2007 and its WCM features, you should also think about two major things that will make your site better found when using search engines:

1. Self-speaking, keyword-dense page titles
2. A full set and keyword-dense set of metatags

How to convert a class library project type to a SharePoint Solution project type

You might wonder who cares about this - or even what this post is all about.Imagine that you are developing SharePoint custom web controls. However, since working in the SharePoint environment always takes lots of time for deployment, application pool recycling etc., you would like to try and debug your control in a “clean” asp.net environment before going for the big thing. Of course, you want state-of-the-art deployment, so you decide to go for a SharePoint Solution project type for your web controls library.

Considerations when using Features to deploy SharePoint files - ghosting

In some of my earlier articles I talk about how to deploy various SharePoint artifacts as a Feature. In particular, ‘Deploying master pages and page layouts as a Feature‘ discusses the idea of deploying these types of file (used in Publishing sites), but the concept applies to any file which will appear somewhere in a SharePoint list of some kind. In addition to the Master Page Gallery, other examples could include CSS/XSLT files being deployed to the Style Library, images to a picture library, and many other similar scenarios.

SharePoint Upgrades and Migrations there is no “Silver Bullet”

This post will be of interest to most of you who are doing migrations and upgrades from WSS V2, SPS 2003 to WSS V3 and MOSS 2007. I previously talked about how to plan and get your migration strategy right the first time around. This post is an extension to that with a few real world scenarios relative to a few projects that I have been working on.

If you are in the process of planning a migration and upgrade make sure that you have identified these. I am writing this in the context of a WSS V2 to WSS V3 data migration and upgrade.

SharePoint: Setting Permissions

A few readers requested me to illustrate this post in pictures. This is specially for them.

Another nice news for me: Icefire PointFire MUI solution for MOSS

IceFire is pleased to announce that we have released support for 8 new languages as well as fully supporting 64bit servers. The new languages available are: Arabic, Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional), English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Portuguese (Portugal) and Spanish. We hope everyone will download and try the newest and greatest Multilingual solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

SharePoint Farm Least Privilege and hotfix packages

SharePoint Farm Least Privilege and hotfix packages: “As previously discussed, it is possible to configure your SharePoint Farm to abide by the principle of least privilege. However there are some additional steps required if you have deployed any of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix packages dated later than April 12th 2007.

A must-read: Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System by David Mann

Workflow - how many times did I hear this word in the last 4 years. SharePoint and workflow - oh yeah, even more .

With Windows Workflow Foundation, SharePoint Designer and even the built-in workflows of WSS/MOSS (yes, the three-state is also available in WSS!) we do now have a wonderful playground to really start creating fully integrated workflows in SharePoint. Since I still have the habbit to learn things from the very beginning, I was looking for a book (and yes, here I’m old fashioned too) that covers workflow in the Office System context.

KB Articles:

Users who are color-blind cannot distinguish between the red presence icons and the green presence icons on a SharePoint Server 2007 site

Finding all references where a master page, page layout, or other file is used in a MOSS 2007 Publishing (WCM) site

Seems to be quite a common question popping up recently… people are trying to delete their master page or page layout (or some other file) from the Master Page Gallery but keep getting the following error:

Debugging Feature in SharePoint 2007

This posting is a little old, but relates directly to an older posting of mine on how to debug a SharePoint web part.  The post details a feature that can be installed in a development MOSS installation that will easily allow for the attachment of a debugger.

Defining multiple authentication providers to a single MOSS 2007 web application

wrote this some time ago but never got around to blogging it.  Much of the content is similar to information already out there but I think there is enough that is different to still warrant a quick blog…

The Small to Medium Business (SMB) market is large. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) is taking a foothold. SMBs, especially those that make use of the old Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) product which is now encompassed in MOSS 2007 and not available as a separate product, will increasing be looking to MOSS 2007 as a natural progression. These smaller businesses are looking to deploy a single MOSS 2007 server farm to provide access:

How to implement debug option in SharePoint Application within VS 2005 with complete call stack instead of custom error page

Here are the steps to implement debug option in your SharePoint Application:

1. Browse to the set of virtual directories for Windows SharePoint Services. Just remember, you cannot access the web.config file via your web browser as security restrictions set by IIS.

For example, c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories.

For each virtual directory

Open the web.config file contained in the virtual directory.

change the line <compilation batch=”false” debug=”false“> to <compilation batch=”false” debug=”true“>.