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Add Alerts to All Sites

I recently had a request from a client that would allow them to automatically display a Notification on all Sites and Pages. This was easy enough to do because I was already stapling a custom page layout to the publishing infrastructure along with a custom...

Published 05-13-2009 2:48 PM by Jeff Holliday
Hide Custom Actions

I recently learned about hiding items in SharePoint using the HideCustomAction element. I had requests to hide items such as the Site Theme, Site Features, and Site Collection Features in Site Settings (I hide all three in my example below). It is as...

Published 01-31-2009 12:34 PM by Jeff Holliday
Programmatically Apply a Master Page and Theme to Specific Managed Path

I recently had a request from a client that required programmatically applying a master page and theme to all new site collections (and sub sites) under a specific managed path. I created a feature to deploy the master page and one to automatically apply...

Published 01-27-2009 1:29 PM by Jeff Holliday
VMware and SharePoint

So it looks like Microsoft is finally providing support for virtualization products. I have included some links specific to VMware since I had to perform some research for a client. This link from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909840 states...

Published 09-25-2008 1:27 PM by Jeff Holliday
Updated: Antivirus Solutions for MOSS

I have rewritten this post now that there are more solutions available on the market. See links below: Microsoft ForeFront for SharePoint (with SP1) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/eval/fssp/default.mspx TrendMicro PortalProtect http://us...

Published 06-04-2008 3:46 PM by Jeff Holliday
Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))

I started running into this error when attempting to create a site collection in a different language. I would browse to Central Administration and choose a different language and immediately receive "there was an error in the callback". If...

Published 04-25-2008 2:10 PM by Jeff Holliday
Redirect SharePoint Site to New Location

I recently had a request to move a SharePoint subsite to a new location under a different site collection. The site was moved over after performing the standard import/export stsadm commands. However, the customer also wanted the old location...

Published 03-20-2008 2:27 PM by Jeff Holliday
WSU Windows Mobile Theme - Go Cougs!!

In the spirit of my alma mater, Washington State University, and the great basketball season they are having I am posting the Windows Mobile theme I created. It has the Cougar logo on the vertical today screen and a shot of Pullman with Bryan Tower on...

Published 03-14-2008 6:26 PM by Jeff Holliday
Patch to Fix Presence in SharePoint and Outlook 2007

I ran into presence not appearing in SharePoint or Outlook 2007 after my upgrade to Communicator 2007. Microsoft recently released a patch to fix this issue. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1ad57f8f-78f7-45f6-a8c0-805936f46645&displaylang...

Published 03-13-2008 11:19 AM by Jeff Holliday
Crawling a Content Source Requiring Basic Authentication

As much as I fight basic authentication, there are still people out there who want to use it. SharePoint Enterprise Search can crawl a site requiring basic authentication through the use of Crawl Rules. Browse to the Shared Services Provider page within...

Published 03-07-2008 10:07 AM by Jeff Holliday
Who Doesn't Love Free Online Disk Space?

So I was just playing around with Windows Live Writer to test it out for posting to my blog and discovered Windows Live SkyDrive . Free 5 GB worth of disk space and you can store personal files, share with your Live Messenger friends, or share out to...

Published 03-07-2008 7:38 AM by Jeff Holliday
Hide Edit Page in Site Actions Menu

I had a request from a client to hide the Edit Page option under the Site Actions menu for all users without Full Control permissions. I performed the following steps to remove the edit page option for user's without the managesubwebs right. Open...

Published 01-14-2008 12:49 PM by Jeff Holliday
MOSS/WSS 2007 SP1 Released!

Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office Servers 2007 has finally been released! The updates apply to: Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Project Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Forms Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Groove® Server 2007...

Published 12-11-2007 3:36 PM by Jeff Holliday
Adoption of SharePoint

This post is more in and around business analysis and adoption of SharePoint. Business units typically know they need some type of communication and collaboration tool (or an upgrade to an existing one), but have no idea what to ask for or how to get...

Published 08-07-2007 10:46 AM by Jeff Holliday
Display CSS Classes within SharePoint

I'm posting this just because I'm getting tired of losing the script... This is a great script written by Microsoft to reveal CSS classes within SharePoint. Taken from: ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms438349.aspx ) <script language...

Published 07-26-2007 7:55 PM by Jeff Holliday
Creating a New Document Template

When multiple content types are used, Document Templates are managed one per content type. The following steps walk through uploading a new document template for a content type and assigning it to a document library. Go to Site Actions à Site Settings...

Published 07-26-2007 3:20 PM by Jeff Holliday
Delete Files with Workflow Using Duration

This is just a quick little tidbit. Out-of-Box workflows in MOSS, unless manually kicked off, require an event to be triggered. I was trying to figure out a way to automatically delete files from a document library 3 days after they were uploaded. The...

Published 07-26-2007 1:43 PM by Jeff Holliday
Changing Custom Site Definition Template IDs - SharePoint 2003

The following steps walk through changing custom template IDs so they are greater than 10000 per documented best practices. Always make sure to backup all databases and files prior to making any changes. NOTE: Microsoft does not support editing SharePoint...

Published 06-19-2007 2:15 PM by Jeff Holliday
Restore Production SharePoint 2003 Databases to Test Servers

This entry is designed to walk through the steps needed to backup and restore production SharePoint 2003 databases to test servers. These steps have worked well for me especially when preparing for a SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007 Upgrade. ( This example...

Published 06-19-2007 2:13 PM by Jeff Holliday

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