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Restore Site Collection to same server - SharePoint 2007

When backing up a site collection and restoring it in the same SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) web application, I received the following error message: No content databases are available for this operation. Create a content database , and then try the operation again. To create a content database, click "Content databases" on the Application Management page, select the Web application to us e, and then click "Add a content database". However I had a Content database which was in the Ready...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Lookup with Allow multiple values can be filtered after all

Today I attempted to setup a View filtering using the contains operator on a Lookup column which allows multiple values - not as straight forward as hoped: I had 2 lists: Products Categories Products has a lookup column to Categories, which allows multiple Categories to be selected. In the Products list I wanted to have a view for each category, I thought I would be able to achieve this using a filter and the contains operator - however upon saving the view I was prompted with "The filter type...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

SharePoint search is not psychic!

I was at the user group today (well actually it is yesterday now), Andrew Woodward gave a great presentation on Microsoft Search Server 2008. One of the questions he asked during the session was how many people reviewed and acted upon the statistics about what users were searching for. To my surprise only myself and one other admitted to this! Out of a room of 70ish people, most of whom had earlier admitted they had MOSS! I commonly hear from SharePoint users/admins that they can't find things...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Access 2007 and SharePoint 2007

In lists there is an "Open with Access" option, I never thought much about this and continued using Excel. However we have a requirement to build an application with drag and drop functionality on a desktop application but to publish this to our Extranet. So I tried Access 2007, I simply created an Access database and connected a number of lists in a site on our Extranet to it and voila! You can use this in online or offline mode, it understands the links between the lists and will even...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Blog Posts

As many of you will already know a Blog template is just a series of linked lists (+ some fancy bits). There are a couple of interesting observations about the Posts list though: a) You don't have the option to save this list as a template (presumably because the content is related to other lists) b) You can enabled attachments on the list but there is no interface to attach anything Posted on SharePoint Blogs...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Audit reports : Unknown Error

We have a site with a couple of document libraries, one is very large (~16 Gb | 25000 Files | 2500 Folders). We have encountered a couple of problems, one of them is when you run Audit reports it returns "unknown error". It seems the bigger the site/document libraries the more likely you are to receive this. So we had to work out a way of getting Audit reports preferably without moving documents into new small document libraries. So presumably this information is stored in the SharePoint...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Site definitions vs. Site templates

Site definitions are created by doing custom development, usually first copying an OOB template. Site templates are created by saving a site as a template in the GUI. There are advantages/limitations of each: Site definitions have to be updated by a developer or administrator with some XSLT or CAML knowledge Site templates can be created easily If you update a site template (e.g. change the column type) none of the lists based on it will update - whereas for site definitions they will. Only certain...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Mapping a drive to a SharePoint document library

There are two things that need to be setup: Webclient service needs to be started The web site needs to be on port 80, it can have a host header Otherwise you get an error usually, "The network path http://portal/site/doclib/ cannot be found" Posted on SharePoint Blogs...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Save as template with Publishing feature turned on

I came across this when trying to save as site as a template the other day - the option didn't exist. Beware - one of those nice quirks! http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2007/09/19/save-site-as-template-option-and-the-publishing-feature.aspx Posted on SharePoint Blogs...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

Farms, Web Apps, Site Collections, Sites - what is configured at what level?

I have been a bit slow getting started with my blog but here it is my first post! This post covers what features and other items are configurable at each level - I do not believe this list is complete. Therefore if you have more to add to this please comment on my blog or email me jennyeverett215j@hotmail.com and I will add it on. Feature Description Level Data Connection Library Adds Data Connection Library feature Farm Excel Services Farm feature Adds farm-level Excel Services Features to the Windows SharePoint Services framework Farm Global Web Parts Installs additional web parts common to all types of sites. Farm Spell Checking Enable Spell Checking in WSS list-item edit forms. Farm Worker Process isolation Faulty code could bring down applications by web app, this is less likely at any other level. Also security breaches would be per web app. Web App/App pool Office Server Enterprise Search Uses the Office Server Search Service for search over broad enterprise content. In addition to list and site scopes, provides search over people profiles, business data, remote and custom content sources. Uses multiple tabs to display results in the Search Center. Web App Office Server Site Search Uses the Office Server Search Service for site and list scoped searches. Web App OSS Enterprise web application features Features such as the business data catalog, forms services, and Excel Services, included in the Office SharePoint Server Enterprise License Web App OSS Standard web application...