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.
Dec7
Using the default behavior of forms services to save to a document library, the user who is filling out the form would need to click the Save or Save As… button on the InfoPath toolbar and give the file a name. I’m going to show how to auto generate a file name and provide a form button that will save the form. This will also work when the form has been re-opened for modification and saved back...
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Monday, 7 Dec 2009 09:37.
Nov17
I ran into an issue recently on a 64-bit Server 2008 R2 machine running on VMware. The problem started after trying to do a Multicast Windows Network Load Balancing setup. The system would constantly hang or would freeze after making ANY network changes. I found Aaron Saikovski’s blog and the steps that he outlined seemed to solve the issue.
Basically, you need to make sure that when adding...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Tuesday, 17 Nov 2009 09:10.
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 ...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
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.
Oct12
SharePoint and Microsoft Office applications are designed to work together, but what if something goes wrong? I recently ran into an instance where the datasheet view for a list would no longer work. As a matter for fact it, was not even presented as a option in the actions menu, but rather a new item label Open In Client appeared in its place. Furthermore, I was also getting an error message o...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Monday, 12 Oct 2009 10:12.
Sep15
Today I wanted to edit a previously created PowerShell script. This is the first time I had done this since switching to Windows 7 so I was really surprised when I right-clicked the .ps1 file and selected Edit. What I was expecting was for the script to open in Notepad, but when it opened in a PowerShell editor I was completely taken by surprise.
As it turns out, PowerShell v1.0 that ships w...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on
Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009 02:09.
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.