Jul3
Today while working on an SP1 MOSS installation our content editor web part started raising an error on key down. The only difference that we could determine is that this build was part of a slipstream installation of MOSS rather than RTM, then WSS SP1 and MOSS SP1. It appears that the JavaScript files BFORM.JS and FORM.JS did not get updated by the service pack. Internet Explorer Script Error...
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Thursday, 3 Jul 2008 10:42.
Jul2
For those of you attempting to use Content Deployment in MOSS there has been a significant effort on the part of the folks at Microsoft to fix the many, many issues with the feature set. Content Deployment or Prime, is primarily used for publishing content from one site to another but has many other uses. The KB articles are here: WSS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952698 MOSS: http://suppor...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 2 Jul 2008 05:59.
Jun27
This post is for the folks who want to deploy MOSS without changing the default master page for Blue Band. Please change just one thing...the search button hover state: Normally it looks like this: ...and when you hover... Somebody forgot to set the GoImageActiveUrl on the SearchBoxEx control...set it like this: GoImageActiveUrl="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/Images/Sea...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Friday, 27 Jun 2008 07:44.
Jun24
I have often been asked how to add the name of the person who updated a page and the date to the footer. This is the first time I have had to do it. Though it is not obvious there is a control that helps with the display of any list column. The control is ListItemProperty. So for “Modified By” and “Last Modified” the fields are “Editor” and “Modified” respectively. Here is one way to add the Edi...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 12:47.
Jun16
Recently I noticed on a situation where the sync jobs were failing on a MOSS implementation. Everything else was working great except for the features that surface the "Sites that you are a member of" and "My SharePoint Sites" in office. Looking into the ULS logs I found: OWSTIMER.EXE (0x07E8) 0x040C SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 16 Jun 2008 07:11.
Jun14
One of my favorite stories from the 2008 SharePoint Conference happened during Dustin's presentation "SharePoint Designer: I didn't know you could do THAT!". Dustin was running through his patter and zooming the screen in and out. Every so often for emphasis he would zoom in and then draw a red circle for emphasis. One of my coworkers waved me over (for what I thought was a technical ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 14 Jun 2008 08:50.
Jun4
I am very pleased to announce that Andrew Connell, MVP has released a book dedicated to the topic of Web Content Management Development. This book was a labor of love (you never hear that writing a book is easy…) by AC and a couple contributing authors like Spencer Harbar, Bob German, John Holliday and me. The content is great, here is a peek: Embarking on Web Content Management Projects ...
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Wednesday, 4 Jun 2008 08:02.
Jun2
I'll be presenting my Social Networking talk at the Austin SharePoint User Group meeting June 11th, 2008 from 6 to 8 pm.
Social Networking and User Profiles for Business
SharePoint offers many features that facilitate personalization in the corporate environment. Organizations are often eager to adopt the features yet spend little time exploring the extent to which personalization and profi...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 2 Jun 2008 09:57.
Jun1
Every time I review Preupgrade reports I wish that I had a better way to review the results. I finally wrote a stylesheet to help. The intent for this tool is to apply it to your upgrade reports after your first prescan run to test the results before you actually run the upgrade. Then keep the reports around for evaluating your upgrade after you upgrade the sites. Here is what the results look l...
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Sunday, 1 Jun 2008 09:31.
May30
There is a LOT of great information on how to configure SSO for SharePoint. If you are still jaded because of the limited capability of SSO in 2003, you have to take a fresh look at SSO in 2007. As far as I can tell the service has not changed substantially (if at all). The biggest change is that SharePoint Designer now understands SSO and you can use it for your Data Form Web Parts and the BDC. ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Friday, 30 May 2008 04:28.