Dec9
When installing WSS or MOSS the setup program and the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard will complete most install operations for you, but there are several things that should also be completed that the wizard will not do and is also not included in the Microsoft documentation. This post will outline some additional configuration tasks that should always be completed w...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Wednesday, 9 Dec 2009 03:11.
Nov5
The publishing features of MOSS allow you to create tables on publishing pages. Out-of-the box, MOSS comes with a set of predefined table formats that control the style of the header row, first column, alternating line-styles, etc. Most likely though, none of these styles are what you are looking for. Customizing these styles is quite easy once you create some CSS classes that conform ...
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Thursday, 5 Nov 2009 04:52.
Nov5
While trying to configure MOSS in a secure environment that will be used for a DOTCOM site where the WFEs are in a different subnet than that of the SQL Server, CA, and Indexer we ran into some trouble administering services running on the WFEs. It turns out there are some ports that need to opened to allow communication through the firewall that sits between the subnet where the WFEs sit an...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Thursday, 5 Nov 2009 04:35.
Aug26
The recommendations described in this section are general guidelines and best-practices to apply to a SharePoint implementation. The majority of the items listed here are not of my own discovery, but rather a summary of the information that can be found in the whitepaper Scaling SharePoint 2007: Storage Architecture (R2) created by Russ Houberg and KnowledgeLake.
Virtualization
In reality, a...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Wednesday, 26 Aug 2009 11:17.
Jul31
While working on a project I recently created a web part where I could specify a set of criteria and it would display hyperlinks to all site collections that matched. The nice thing about this web part is that you get a list of site collections that match a wide variety of criteria. Some of the criteria that could be specified was the template type, URL wildcard matching, web application, etc...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Friday, 31 Jul 2009 10:57.
Jul29
The data view Web Part I must say is probably my absolute favorite thing Microsoft included with SharePoint. It also has some really nice filtering capabilities built-in. Most of us are probably familiar with the Sort and Group dialog that is part of the Common Data View Tasks shown in the image below.
What most people don't realize is that the Data View Web Part has a very nice toolbar ...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Wednesday, 29 Jul 2009 09:16.
Jul27
This weekend I made the 4 and a half hour drive up to Dallas for the SharePoint Saturday event. This was the first SharePoint Saturday that I have attended and overall, I was really impressed. I have to give Kudos to Eric Shupps for organizing the event. I also want to thank those who attended my presentation and I hope that you enjoyed it. I know all of you are spending your Monday eager...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Monday, 27 Jul 2009 11:58.
Jul23
Uses of Custom Field Types WSS 3.0 and MOSS have a rich set of field types that ship from Microsoft which can probably handle all of your needs. There comes a time when you just want a little more though. Allow me to introduce you to custom field types. With custom field types you can do more than store text, numbers, dates, and even some HTML. You can store, display, and int...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Thursday, 23 Jul 2009 08:43.
Jun26
Not all classes in the SharePoint API are CLS-compliant types. While using a language like C#.NET it does not matter since the .NET framework knows how to work with these classes. Working in PowerShell is a completely different story. PowerShell does not differentiate between the various cases of names of objects, properties, or methods. This can become apparent rather quickly when, for ex...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Friday, 26 Jun 2009 02:21.
Jun5
I recently created a series of SharePoint features that when activated would produce a highly customized SharePoint site. These features are highly dependant on each other so they must be activated in order or there might be problems. I also wanted to make provisioning of the sites as easy as possible for end users so that they would not have to manually activate these custom features. To a...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Friday, 5 Jun 2009 12:11.