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Employee Training and Scheduling Template - a couple fixes Part 3

dink — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:04:00 GMT

Took me long enough to get this post up, but it's finally done (hopefully - please let me know if you come across any errors in the walkthrough). Refer to the previous two articles in this series for additional customizations necessary to make this template function correctly. Employee Training and Scheduling Template - a couple fixes Part 1 Employee Training and Scheduling Template - a couple fixes Part 2 In this walkthrough, we'll be covering how to set permissions and make additional customizations...(read more)

EndUserSharePoint.com: Stump the Panel - Q&A Forum Exclusively for SharePoint End Users

End User SharePoint — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:05:33 GMT

Stump the Panel, a Q&A forum for SharePoint End Users did a soft rollout last week and is now ready for public access. The forum is moderated by the authors at EndUserSharePoint.com. There are two boards: “End User and Information Worker” Read More......(read more)

Recent (or missed!) readings of SharePoint

jleung — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:21:00 GMT

Been away from the SharePoint world for 3 months and a lot of information missed out (wow *o* !)

A very COOL silverlight site for .NET developers to learn SharePoint

Disposing SharePoint Objects from Chris O'Brien

VHDs from Microsoft TechNet mentioned by Joel Oleson

I am sure there are lots more that I have missed......

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twitter has lost my followers

konfabulieren — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:57:16 GMT

ich bin weit nicht der einzige, jedenfalls hat twitter - neben sonstigen problemen - nun auch fast die hälfte meiner follower verloren. also wenn das nicht temporär sein sollte, dann hat sich das experiment microblogging für mich entweder erledigt, oder Read More......(read more)

Press seems to focus on two pages of Forrester's reports.

Kit Kai's Tech Blog — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:37:36 GMT

Do a google on "Now Is The Time To Determine SharePoint’s Place In Your Application Development Strategy", you will find two links on top of the search results to buy the papers, and followed by many reports that says BEWARE, WARNING, Read More......(read more)

Wordle - Word Clouds Generator

Sharepoint 2007 (el otro blog) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:22:20 GMT

Una herramienta On Line muy interesante ha creado Wordle , es un generador de Nubes de Palabras, las cuales podemos generar en base a nuestra propia lista de Tags o solicitarle que se conecte a nuestro Blog y desde ahí el toma los tags disponibles Read More......(read more)

From the Beach: SharePoint at the Olympics Case Study, Mobile Posting, and Facebook

Michael Gannotti on SharePoint + — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:54:55 GMT

Body: Wow, I thought this was really cool. So I am sitting on my balcony watching the waves roll in here at Myrtle beach this morning and cruising the web from my Windows Mobile phone when I popped... Category: Blogging;Search Technologies;SharePoint Read More......(read more)

From the Beach: Check Out Joel Oleson's Latest

Michael Gannotti on SharePoint + — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:54:53 GMT

Body: Okay, I was going to sign off but after a late night the Mrs. and the kids have not yet stirred so I quick took my Windows Mobile device for a cruise by Joel Oleson's blog Category: Blogging;SharePoint Technologies Published: 7/24/2008 8:15 Read More......(read more)

Teaching WCM in LA week of August 4th and Two User Group Talks in So Cal

Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS] — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:59:01 GMT

I'm teaching my WCM401 Developing Publishing Sites with SharePoint Server 20007 WCM the week of August 4-7 at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Irvine, CA. There are still a few open seats available, so if you're interested, go here to Read More......(read more)

ISPA - For the community, by the community

Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS] — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:38:01 GMT

Last week Bob Fox announced the International SharePoint Professionals Association ( www.sharepointpros.com ). Best explained on the homepage... The International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”) is the first independent, community-run, not Read More......(read more)

SharePoint (WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007) Infrastructure Updates Available

Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS] — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:34:18 GMT

In case you missed it, last week Microsoft released something they call the Infrastructure Update for WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007. This update adds some search features to SharePoint that were introduced in the Search Server products, fixes a lot of performance Read More......(read more)

SharePoint 2007 : Nouvelle version du Stramit SharePoint 2007 Caml Viewer sur Codeplex

Philippe Sentenac [MVP SharePoint] — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:00:36 GMT

Je vous en ai souvent parlé, j'utilise dans tout mes développements en rapport avec le CAML, ce super outil qu'est CamlViewer. Le seul défaut que je lui trouvais à l'époque, était que les valeurs de l'url, login, password et domain était en dur dans l... Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs...(read more)

Sorry for my typing Dyslexia

Ian's SharePoint Blog — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:50:59 GMT

I have done that twice now. If you don't know what I'm talking about then all the better. Both times I have done this when adding an entry in a rush before heading to the airport. For my punishment, the Wellington airport closed today just after Read More......(read more)

New look SharePoint Forums

and the Point is? — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:54:59 GMT

All of the SharePoint forums have recently been migrated to new homes and are now hosted on the latest Microsoft forum platform. There has been a slight reorganisation but all have nice new URLs and I have included details below and split between Read More......(read more)

Couple of useful JavaScript global variables in SharePoint

Web BorG — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:47:05 GMT

If you're using custom JavaScripts with SharePoint some global JavaScript variables may come in handy. These variables work if you're using SharePoint's default or any other custom master page. L_Menu_BaseUrl - the base URL of the site / subsite Read More......(read more)

EndUserSharePoint.com: Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Customizing a Task List (Part IV)

End User SharePoint — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:00:07 GMT

Dessie Lunsford Points-of-Sharing If you haven’t read through the previous three articles in this series (Part I, Part II, Part III), I would encourage you to read them first as we’ll be continuing on with the use of an Excel spreadsheet developed Read More......(read more)

KB: When is the SPContext.Current available ? (SharePoint dev)

Daniel Larson's Developer Blog — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:24:59 GMT

We always assumed wherever you have an HTTP Context (i.e., wherever SPContext.Current is not null), that you could access the SharePoint context through SPContext.Current. This was the case with MOSS 2007 RTM and SP1, but this changed with the recent Infrastructure Update. The following update to when SPContext is supported has been confirmed by Microsoft PSS. (Props to Nishand for confirming this behavior change.) Prior to the IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest method, the SharePoint application runtime...(read more)

Rounded web parts

Bazztrap — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:49:00 GMT

Heather Solomon has obviously the best branding post on her blog and here she talks about rounding web parts

http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/brandsppart3a.aspx

I use a lot of XSLT and Javascript framework to modify web part and UI elements and find it usueful to not go to photoshop for rounded corners and bit of JS CSS let you do that without image files..

here is a post of using Nifty corners as alternate for rounded webparts and other UI elements

http://cakriwut.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/moss-2007-rounded-web-part-a-nifty-corners-cube-hacks/

is it efficient.. obliviously not

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SharePoint MSDN Forums and SharePoint Community Trends

wss.made4the.net: by Jeremy Thake — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:12:00 GMT

I'm really impressed with the new forums that have been migrated to MSDN Forums v3.0, changes are listed here. One thing to note is the "proposed answer" functionality which I think will help people mark answers easier than the last interface Read More......(read more)

Hide Open in windows Explorer options from Action menu

Bazztrap — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:12:00 GMT

I was looking for JavaScript to hide this "Open in Windows Explorer" for document library. I found quite a few posts with javascript, which I tried and no success. Then I went back to my ideal JavaScript framework J query( Yes I dont like learning all script details when I got J query's accessibility functions) anyway still no luck and then I found this post about hiding "upload Single Documents" options

http://asadewa.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/removing-single-file-upload-menu-from-document-library-toolbar-moss-2007/

And I figured the problem I had with my code. I was not adding the script during the onload event. Anyway below is the modfied code to use for hiding "open in Windows Explorer" and also using spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames to push Function for onLoad event.

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Note :

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Master Page Error from Exporting file from SharePoint Designer

Heather Solomon - MVP, WSS - SharePoint Branding and Design — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:51:03 GMT

If you are using SharePoint Designer (SPD) to create a master page file that will then be placed on the web server for use, such as with a custom site definition or custom Feature, you may run into the following error when viewing or creating a new site: Cannot convert type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.ScriptLink' to 'System.Web.UI.IAttributeAccessor' This may be caused by the method you used to get your custom master page file out of the content database. If you used the Export...(read more)

The ribbon wars

toni — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:24:00 GMT

When I am advising customers about potential SharePoint to implementation I often hear questions like this one:

Q: Toni, we would like to use SharePoint 2007 but we are still using Office 2003, what should we do?

If you ask our friends at Microsoft the easy answer is: Upgrade to the latest version now!

Bear in mind, that although this is the correct answer will probably encounter many problems along the way. Office is used by end users; they are not IT guys so most of them hate new versions of any program.

In many aspects Office 2007 is superior to Office 2003. It uses new formats, it is easy to use, it gives you numerous new features… It also poses a big problem for an end user. The biggest problem is the new interface (ribbons). End user got used to classic menus so they will hate (will not use properly) new interface for months.

Here are some advices for companies that are going to implement SharePoint 2007:

If you are going to implement SharePoint you should also upgrade your current Office to the latest version.
There are some 3rd party solutions that can make your Office 2007 look a like Office 2003. I would strongly advise you against these solutions. Old Office is history and your users will face even more problems with Office 2010 if they do not get use to the new interface. Ribbons are becoming standard part of various office suites like MindManager and others. Ribbons are here to stay
Prepare your end users for the upgrade; invest time in educating and supporting end users. Period after migration will be stressful and hard for them so plan some time for learning and adjustments.

In the following posts I will try to explain what are the potential problems is you stick to Office 2003 (or older).

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Commerce Server 'Mojave'

Mark Harrison — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:43:00 GMT

From Tom Schultz ... The Microsoft Commerce Server Product Team is very excited to inform you about our upcoming release of a new multi-channel retail accelerator to Commerce Server 2007, code-named 'Mojave', which is being designed specifically Read More......(read more)

Using Wireless with Hyper-V

Mark Harrison — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:41:00 GMT

Wireless networks are not supported with Hyper-V. John Paul Cook explains how to implement a workaround by bridging network connections. Virtual PC Guy clarifies how the Hyper-V networking works. Mark Harrison Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Read More......(read more)

SharePoint Forums on TechNet have moved!

Craig Lussier — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:08:00 GMT

Please be advised that the Microsoft TechNet forums for SharePoint Products and Technologies have been moved to a new location. The specific location for the SharePoint Products and Technologies forums is http://forums.technet.microsoft.com/en-US/tag/sharepoint/forums/. So update your Favorites/Bookmarks!

The general path to the new style TechNet forums is http://forums.technet.microsoft.com/en-US/forums/ where you can find all categories. All forums have not been moved to the new location yet and you can visit the 'old' (but still running) location at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet. For completeness, if you visit the 'old' location and click on a SharePoint forum, you will be redirected to the new area.

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Must Read SharePoint and More Blog Posting with Windows Mobile

Michael Gannotti on SharePoint + — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:36:23 GMT

Body: Halfway through my year end vacation here at the beach with the family and I am sitting on the balcony watching the waves roll in and doing a little check up on email and web surfing on my Windows... Category: Blogging;SharePoint Technologies Published Read More......(read more)

New Release of ERTE for SharePoint now supports localizations.

Web BorG — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:18:35 GMT

The new version is released. If you've downloaded the first release, just download the new one from CodePlex and replace the .js file in the /_catalogs/masterpage gallery in your site collection. The project is still under Beta, so if you find some Read More......(read more)

EndUserSharePoint.com: The Road to Performance Management - Part Two

End User SharePoint — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:09 GMT

Paul Grenier AutoSponge Paul Grenier has written a set of articles for EndUserSharePoint.com on performance management, The Road To Performance Management. The first article, Part 1, lays the ground work using a series of "Why" questions to setup Read More......(read more)

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The Art of SharePoint Evolution — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:30:26 GMT

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NJ SharePoint Users Group Meeting for July 23

Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog: Posts — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:21:43 GMT

Body: Please join us on July 23rd for the monthly New Jersey SharePoint Users Group meeting. This month we will be looking at NewsGator's Social Networking capabilities. If your interested in bringing Social Networking into your environment then this Read More......(read more)

Public-Facing SharePoint? Here's something scary... Please activate ViewFormPagesLockDown!!!

Rich Finn — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:30:27 GMT

Recently, I've seen a bunch of announcements about new public-facing Internet sites being released out into the wild running on SharePoint. This is awesome because it's great to see people catching on to the web content management features in the product . I do need get something off my chest, though... If you've got a public facing SharePoint site that allows anonymous access, ACTIVATE THE ViewFormPagesLockDown FEATURE !!!!!!! This is especially true if you've spent any amount of...(read more)

WSPBuilder Extensions 1.0.3 - Visual Studio Addin

Carsten Keutmann — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:47:00 GMT

A new version of WSPBuilder Extensions 1.0.3 for Visual Studio has been released on codeplex . Now uses the WSPBuilder 0.9.8.0408 version. The Addin has been totally rewritten and should now work properly. A number of bugs fixed. The WSPBuilder menu is Read More......(read more)

Instalando el SharePoint Infraestructure Update

Sharepoint 2007 (el otro blog) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:22:00 GMT

Como había anunciado hace unos dias Aquí , están disponibles los parches para Content Deployment & Infraestructure. La instalación, es bastante simple, y NECESARIA en los servidores del Farm, para Moss, ocupan aproximadamente 200MB Read More......(read more)

SharePoint Web Services

Mirjam — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:11:08 GMT

Building custom applications for the SharePoint 2007 platform can be done using the WSS and MOSS object model. However, if you can't or won't deploy your code to the WSS server you can also use the WSS Web Services. I must admit that I hardly ever use them, and that I always thought they were not very well documented, but I found some great information here.

The WSS Web Services are part of the Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer namespace. The web services include methods to accessing and customizing SharePoint site content such as lists, site data, forms, meetings, document workspaces, and permissions. The table below shows the WSS web services, including a description of what they can be used for and the reference.

MOSS 2007 also exposes a series of web services. The MOSS web services allow you to use the Business Data Catalog, document management, Enterprise Search, Excel Services, InfoPath Forms Services, and Web content management (WCM). The table below shows most of the web services, there use and the reference you need to use them.

If you want to use one of the SharePoint web serrvices in your visual studio project you can simply add a Web Reference using the path of the SharePoint site for which you want to use the Web Service and add the web service reference to it. Your reference will then look something like this http://[servername]/[sites]/[sitecollectionname]/[sitename]/[subsitename]/_vti_bin/[webservicereference].asmx.

For more information on WSS Web Service look here.

More information on MOSS Web Services can be found here.

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Coca Cola Cambia Lotus por SharePoint!!!

Sharepoint 2007 (el otro blog) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:27:00 GMT

Esta es una importante noticia, el anuncio esta disponible AQUI Resumen de la noticia : En el curso de este año, la mayoría de los 35000 trabajadores del conocimiento a Coca-Cola Enterprises, conocido como CCE, se han trasladado de IBM Lotus Read More......(read more)

C#: String.Inject() - Format strings by key tokens

mo.notono.us — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:11:36 GMT

I generally prefer to use String.Format() instead of doing a bunch of string additions, but constantly find myself splitting the code onto multiple lines with an appended comment to keep track of the indices: string myString = string .Format( "{0 Read More......(read more)

Where did my horizontal line go in my search results after I installed the Infrastructure Update?

Corey's .NET Tip of the Day — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:10:27 GMT

I have been really enjoying the new features of the Infrastructure Update , but I noticed that something didn't look quite right about my search results. It finally occurred to me, that the horizontal line separating the description and the URL was Read More......(read more)

SharePoint Layouts Page - Exception Message: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: g

georgebonney — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:19:49 GMT

Having just wasted over an hour, I felt it worth sharing my resolution to this gem of an error. Typically, the error is quite generic, but in my case, the problem was caused by including SharePoint controls that relied upon particular querystring entries existing – namely, List=GUID.

So – a bit of background… I am creating an additional list settings page for managing some custom developed stuff – and so I took a copy of an existing list settings page so that I could use the same controls and formatting to get the section effect. In doing this, I left the main content in there (just to prove that I could see my page and it was happy with my code-behind reference), deployed the layouts page to the 12 folder and then pointed straight to it in the browser. In theory this should just work – it was, of course, a simple initial test … but – after adding the OK button event handler to my code-behind class, among other things, I ended up with the error above. After an amount of fiddling around I worked out that the “SharePoint:FormattedStringWithListType” control relies upon the List= querystring entry but doesn’t provide any kind of appropriate message to let you know that’s what the problem is.

I hope this saves you someone some time!

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Advanced Search Form and Preselected Scopes

AutoSponge: SharePoint — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:16:16 GMT

Advanced Search pages don't seem to do what they're told. If you want to narrow the Advanced Search results to a specific scope: Go to your Advanced Search Page. Edit the Page. Expand the Scopes portion of the menu. Check the box "Show Scope Read More......(read more)

WSS Alert Failures

SPRobot — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:10:00 GMT

Maybe some of you brainiacs know why, but yesterday, I turned on the Remote Procedure Locator Service on my Server 2003 and restarted the timer service and, now, all of a sudden, my alerts have started working.

In the past, the "You have created an alert" message would go out but the alerts would not.

I think I have both immediate and scheduled alerts working for the first time.

-robot

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Check Out the Re-Done SharePoint Blog by Heather Waterman!

Michael Gannotti on SharePoint + — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:22:22 GMT

Body: So I am getting a short 30 minutes of PC time this morning, all the Mrs will allow while on vacation, and rightly so (reason she is called my better half) ;-) At any rate I see that my friend... Category: Blogging;SharePoint Technologies Published Read More......(read more)

Customização da Master Page :: Application.master FAQ

Sharepoint Brasil .NET: Postagens — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:14:46 GMT

Corpo: Olá pessoal, Estou escrevendo este post em resposta a uma série de dúvidas relacionadas ao modelo de customização dos sites Sharepoint - mais especificamente a customização visual do site através das Master Pages. O discurso sobre a customização Read More......(read more)

Social Bookmarking 20,000 bookmarks. 2,000 users. 30 days - Check It Out

Michael Gannotti on SharePoint + — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:09:28 GMT

Body: This past month I had the pleasure in taking part in the beta testing of a great new service on the Internet from Microsoft, Socila Bookmarking. Social Bookmarking allows you to track online content... Category: Blogging;Internet;Technology Published Read More......(read more)

Memorable Pics!

Sharepoint 2007 (el otro blog) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:54:00 GMT

Bueno, no todo es trabajo, hay que tomarse un tiempo para la diversión también, así que aquí les traigo una serie de imágenes que seguramente nos pondrán a reflexionar y nos sacaran una sonrisa :) Muy Cierto no? Otra Read More......(read more)

SharePoint Performance Tip #1

Sharepoint 2007 (el otro blog) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:44:00 GMT

Muy Breve, un tip de Performance para MOSS 2007 es la utilizacion del BLOB Cache, la idea es modificar el web.config en los servidores Front End. Lo que tenemos que hacer es encontrar la linea BlobCache location="C:\Cache" y parametrizar la Read More......(read more)

LINQ4SP: Query Evaluation

Agnes Molnar — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:29:00 GMT

One of my colleagues, Daniel Leiszen is the lead developer of LINQ4SP project. He started to write a developer series about LINQ4SP. His first article is brand new, published a few minutes ago: LINQ4SP - Query Evaluation : "The evaluation of a Linq query is quite straightforward. The provider of the query source creates a new query object based on the given query expression, and returns it. When the client code tries to iterate through the results, the query object triggers the provider to evaluate...(read more)

Authentification "Forms" et page de login en boucle

SharePoint of View : Messages — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:28:20 GMT

Corps: Petite astuce aujourd'*** concernant l'authentification par formulaire dans SharePoint (aussi appelé FBA pour Forms Based Authentication). J'ai eu besoin aujourd'*** de passer les applications web du site d'administration des Read More......(read more)

So what's new ?

Steven Van de Craen's Blog [MVP] — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:42:00 GMT

I've been out of the game for somewhat a month now and it seems I've been missing quite a bit. I'm not going to make another annoucement about the Infrastructure Update (Oops... I think I just did) because it has already been widely blogged Read More......(read more)

MOSS User Search (Vers. 2)

Sharepoint 2007 | InfoPath 2007 | Project Server 2007 | C# | VB.NET — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:44:00 GMT

He implementado otro webpart, que se basa en el primero que hice y que me devuelve los permisos que un usuario tiene en los diferentes Sites y Listas (bibliotecas) de la aplicación. Más adelante lo implementaré a nivel de items, que como todos sabeis, disponen de permisos también. El aspecto del webpart es el siguiente: Para buscar los permisos de una determinada persona la insertaremos en el PeopleEditor y la validaremos para asegurarnos de que existe: Una vez validada pincharemos en 'Search'...(read more)

EndUserSharePoint.com: Can I sort at multiple levels within a hierarchy of folders?

End User SharePoint — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:00:32 GMT

Tanya GegareQuad/Graphics Tanya Gegare is a frequent reader of EndUserSharePoint.com. She has offered a solution to a problem when trying to sort within a hierarchical folder structure and was kind enough to document her solution with screenshots. Problem Read More......(read more)