-
One of my collegeas at Logica is working on a great tool for generating features in MOSS. As he states on his blog: "The MOSS Feature Generator generates features out of existing functionalities on a MOSS 2007 site. This includes Site Columns, Content Types and ListTemplates (including schema.xml and forms). The tool will be expanded in two ways: a build tree will be created to make it possible to create dependant features in an organized way, and the number of supported features will be expanded...
-
At the moment i'm doing a lot of web farm installations at different customers. What i noticed is that in some cases suddenly functionality stopped working within Central Administration like changing authentication providers, creating web applications or site collections and more. The following is shown and just doesn't tell you much. The path specified cannot be used at this time. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070094) I tried to figure out whats causing this but got strangled in unreadable...
-
If you have for example installed a SharePoint site using the "Collaboration Publishing" site definition, you are able to add pages based on page templates. This list is generated based on the "Master pages and Page Layouts" pages library when the Publishing features are activated. It would be nice if this list of available page templates could be controlled when an user creates a new page. If you select "Create Page" under "Site Actions" you will be able to...
-
You can only delete a SSP (Shared Service Provider) when you have installed SharePoint as a Farm. There are two ways to delete a SSP: 1) Via a browser: http:///_admin/deletessp.aspx?ssiId= <ID> 2) Via Command line: stsadm –o deletessp –title <SSP Title> Thanks to Daniel Cohen-Dumani :) Also keep in mind when you use number 2 it will not remove the two databases created for the SSP and SSP Search. This means you have to go into SQL Server to remove them your self.
-
The last few weeks where extremly busy. In the mean while i was hoping to get to the SharePoint Conference in Seattle. But unfortunally it was already overbooked. Luckely for me there are two short conferences after this one. One is in Istanbul and the other one in Dubai. I will be at the one in Dubai :). For the people who are also going and want to contact me, i'm staying in the Al Bustan Rotana Hotel. I will try to be online as much as possible. Drop a line if you wanna meet :) See you there...
-
There are a lot of ways to backup your MOSS environment. When it comes to Farms you will even need more then one backup and restore system. Some backup and restore mechanisms like the inbuild one in MOSS itself depends on how you actually divided your content structure over site collections. I composed the following list of backup and restore tools, based on some great posts like the one of Joel Oleson . Native SQL Server Backup & Restore Native backup & Restore products for all your databases...
-
Find out firsthand how Microsoft enterprise search products make finding information within your organization easier than ever before. Download Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express for free today or try Search Server or Office SharePoint Server for 180 days. Learn more about Microsoft's Enterprise Search products http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/downloads/default.aspx
-
Most customers want to know which browsers are supported by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. So the following information is available at Microsoft. Microsoft says that they support most commonly used Web browsers. But they also say the some browsers causing the functionality to be downgraded, limited, available only through alternative steps or even unavailable. So what is true now? Web browser support is divided into two levels called level 1 and level...
-
Bill Gates announced at the SharePoint Conference that the Microsoft company will offer Microsoft Service to business of all sizes which will be available around the second half year of 2008. This is a big step to software plus services. There is a limited beta trial available at http://www.mosbeta.com As stated: “The combination of software plus services gives customers advanced choice and flexibility in how they access and manage software,” Gates said. “With Microsoft Online Services, businesses...
-
Silverlight blueprint is source code and guidance available for SharePoint developers. It makes it possible to use Silverlight and SharePoint together in business applications and internet websites developed with SharePoint. You can use Silverlight user interface elements in your Web Parts and gives an whole new SharePoint experience to the user. There are samples, screencast videos and Microsoft Visual Solutions available. The product is also gonna be released as open source on CodePlex within a...
-
We came accross two cool trainings which are available for you since 2007. The first training is supposed to be for server administrators to install on an Office SharePoint Server site. The second training is designed to help you learn to use the features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=673DC932-626A-4E59-9DCA-16D685600A51&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7BB3A2A3-6A9F-49F4-84E8-FF3FB71046DF&displaylang...
-
Microsoft has announcement the availability of two new exciting tools that will help IT to engage users and stimulate SharePoint to be used in organisations. Internal Buzz Kit: this kit provides sample materials and training to help customers kick off SharePoint deployments. It includes demo videos, e-mail scripts, scripted brownbag presentations, posters, training links, a guide on how to hold a training session, information about building online community and encouraging super users, training completion...