Archive for November, 2007

22
Nov

Update

Sorry for the minimal amount of posts the last couple of weeks. I’m currently working on 2 SharePoint projects:

  1. Moving my blog to SharePoint
  2. A new website for the company I work for

In the next couple of days I hope to share the details with you.

19
Nov

SharePoint 2007 Link love: 11-19-2007, part four

Free download: SLP - InfoPath extension for custom lookup pages

Set the return page when InfoPath form is closed on the browser

Monday Morning SharePoint Reading

Unable to add UNC path mapping for a WSS document library - ‘System error 67 has occurred’

PlaceHolderPageTitle is the root of all evil

CSS causes JavaScript error while moving Web Parts in edit mode

Deleting a site that has subsites (yes, you can, despite what the error message says)

Another simple code snippet - using the user field

The Content Long Tail and SharePoint Technology

Using named anchors in SharePoint Wiki pages

SharePoint Portal administration service was not starting

KB Articles:

You receive an HTTP 404 error message when you browse the SharePoint site collections after a hotfix package or a public update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is applied

Error message when you try to configure the SSO service on a computer that is running SharePoint Server 2007: “Failed to connect to the database server”

19
Nov

SharePoint 2007 Link love: 11-19-2007, part three

Some comments on common Variation problems

BDC Meta Man new release

Lesson Learned While Customizing Newform.aspx

Upload a File to a SharePoint Document Library - Part II

Talking about BDC ADF and your friend, CDATA

Overriding core.css in MOSS 2007

SharePoint Blogs: What is the difference between a file server and SharePoint?

How delete webparts from a page using the browser (spcontnt.aspx)

Another Internet facing website based on SharePoint 2007

Vlog Mashups in SharePoint for Team Building, Fun, and PR… plus the CW Smallville Example

Deployment solutions in MOSS

Wednesday Morning SharePoint Reading

Announcing the SharePoint Toolbox shared source project on CodePlex along with CopyTimer and SPAlertPipeline

Using disposable object in SharePoint

Creating Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Getting Search Crawl Details from the DB

Create Custom E-mail Alert Templates for SharePoint Workflows

High Confidence Results in MOSS 2007

Planning for *Additional* Storage with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies - Recycle Bin

MOSS KPIs

List does not exist. AccessDenied.aspx. I finally figured it out…

Functional Example: BDC ADF that connects to SQL database with embedded user id and password

Update: Sharepoint 2007 theme generator

How we dit it: migrating a large Sharepoint 2003 environment to Sharepoint 2007

Master pages/page layouts deployed as Feature not updating

Setting up Windows 2008 with MOSS

The Importance of MetaData in SharePoint

19
Nov

SharePoint 2007 Link love: 11-19-2007, part two

News Site Content Summarized Anywhere

Can I Map a Document Library as a Mapped Drive?

Creating a Custom WSS Site Definition

My Top 5 SharePoint Resources to Bookmark

Exception thrown when logging into SharePoint via FBA against a SharePoint List

The life of a SharePointer is hard (sometimes)

Social Networking, ECM, KM, and Lawrence Liu’s Theorems

Friday Video: Fix IE User Logon Prompt

How to Remove Unwanted Top Sites

Convert template title to internal name

Great SharePoint Designer Workflow How To’s, Tips and Tricks

For the love of [fill in your most loved person/higher being], don’t change the ‘Title’ site column.

SharePoint Learning Kit: Source Code

Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS)

Sharepoint Application pool settings: update

Telerik Controls in a Web Part

When a Feature Isn’t the Same Thing as a feature

Sharepoint Application pool settings: update

Expanding the Global Navigation in SharePoint

19
Nov

SharePoint 2007 Link love: 11-19-2007, part one

PlaceHolderPageTitle is the root of all evil

Branding Intranets with SharePoint (MOSS) 2007

New release: SharePoint Designer Workflow Extensions (string manipulation functions)

Fly Buys is online powered by MOSS

Updated colour (color) calendar for SharePoint 2007

Content By Type webpart v1.1 released

Using Cookies with SharePoint’s Data View

Using parameters from URL as variables in XSLT Data View

SharePoint Performance in Remote Offices

WSS FAQ additions and corrections LXXX - 11th -17th November 2007

Use a web part to filter the display in another web part

The Many Faces of SharePoint Solution Package Creation

New KB article 944267: How to troubleshoot common errors that occur when you run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard

Migrating SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint (MOSS) 2007

SharePoint random link collection

SharePoint error messages: “Unknown Error”

ASP.NET events can cause troubles

A BDC runtime error explained

12
Nov

SharePoint 2007 Link love: 11-12-2007

New Tools for Anyone Who Uses SharePoint

Debugging in the GAC

More on WSS (MOSS) Backup and Recovery

Hidden SharePoint Gems - Forms Controls

Using Event Handlers to Assign Item Level Permissions to a Document Repository

What Not to Store in SharePoint

Change a SharePoint site’s URL

Web Usage Reporting Tools

Setting item level security in an eventhandler

So what’s the good reason you can’t access sites in another site collection in SPD 2007’s Data View?

An Introduction to Conditional Formatting

Windows 2008 and WSS Roles Correction

Re-Skin Your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Site in Less than a Minute

Querying SharePoint for content - using SPSiteDataQuery and CrossListQueryInfo

WSS FAQ additions and changes LXXIX - 4th - 10th November 2007

CKS:EBE causes SPD to fail

SPD custom workflow actions — string manipulation enhancements

Scripts (.bat) I Promised at Dev Connections for Backup and Restore of SharePoint Server 2007

Organizing and navigating your SharePoint site

Site definitions vs. Site templates

Customized Forms and the Attachment Button

Windows MSN Live Instant Messenger (or whatever it’s called) in a SharePoint web part

Details and manual monitoring of the Content DBs

MOSS Backup and Recovery

Windows SharePoint Services Search – No Results and Errors

Announcing SharePointPedia — community driven content recommendations and requests!

Change the width of TreeView navigation in SharePoint

SharePoint (MOSS), Browsers and PNG Transparency (or non-transparency…)

Make sure that all the paths are the same on each web front end

Problem Creating a SSO Database in SharePoint 2007

Hide the View All Site Content link in SharePoint

How To: Modify the web.config file in SharePoint using SPWebConfigModification

SharePoint (MOSS) Pages: Embedding JavaScript

SharePoint Records Management – E-mail File Formats (TNEF or MSG) and Search Considerations

Using SharePoint 2007 to implement Enterprise Social Networking

The best way to explain SharePoint Content Types

Incorporating Claims Based Authentication

Lesson learned when create list instance in Sharepoint solution

Keep your SharePoint rich text editor toolbar in view

Fixing page layout URLs after importing a publishing site in SharePoint

SharePoint caching in the BaseFieldControl

Easily print SharePoint lists using your own template

Speed up your SharePoint site using cache-control

Extend your CKS:EBE blog with no code

Float the Rich Text Editor in SharePoint

Using custom Site Templates with MOSS Variations

Importing posts into the CKS:EBE

Sample CustomActions for SharePoint

Using the ‘Reusable Content’ list on a public website

Using the ContentTypeID to query child content types in SharePoint

Internet Information Services 7.0, Application Pool Modes and SharePoint Products and Technologies
 KB Articles:

The 2007 Office documents are not found when you try to search for the documents in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection

08
Nov

SharePoint 2007 Link love: 11-08-2007

Deploying Assemblies to BIN Versus GAC

Self Service Site Creation

Scripting STSADM commands

Where is My Picture stored? What if MySites are off?

STSADM Restore issue

John Holliday’s Custom Action Identifier List

Returning approved SharePoint list items from a console application

Is the hotfix or service pack going to break my SharePoint pages or deployment?

Using external data in Excel Services

Quick and easy: Embed a hyperlink into data view web part XSLT

Apply a Theme to all sub sites in SharePoint 2007

Codeplex Project that Adds Custom Actions to SPD

SharePoint: Data View Controls: Form Action Button and Dynamic Redirect

Whitepaper: Upgrading SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customizations to SharePoint Server 2007

SharePoint: Great articles on SharePoint Design

SharePoint Resources Uber Listing for November

MOSS 2007: Exception when handling a document renaming event

Enable SharePoint Designer workflow to update an InfoPath form

Upgrade Customization Articles Posted

MOSS 2007: Programming Security!

Overview of all the WSS/MOSS KB’s

Mapping a drive to a SharePoint document library

Opening a Closed Web Part to Properly Delete a Web Part

Architecture of MOSS Web Application Separation

Comprehensive list of WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Resources

Make sure that all the paths are the same on each web front end

An easy way to change the SharePoint index file’s location

Let PSConfig and STSADM setup your MOSS

KB Articles:

After you install SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1, the maximum disk space that is used on a query server or on an index server increases to 2.85 times the physical size of the index

An error message may be logged in the STSADM export log file after you install Forefront Security for SharePoint on a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: “Access Denied”