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Friday, January 18, 2008 5:48 PM

What happens when you close web parts rather than deleting them?

So a client came to us today complaining that their SharePoint site was dead. Looking at the performance monitor revealed that the processor was maxed out. SQL showed around 1300 active connections. IISReset and bouncing of the server proved to be of little help. We shut the firewall off to the outside and were able to get the default page of the site to render without any problems. After going back and forth troubleshooting the server for most of the morning, we took a look at the site's default...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, December 28, 2007 5:05 PM

Enable Workflow development in a class library project being used to create a WSSv3 Solution

When creating a WSP in WSSv3, the common development practice is to create a project in Visual Studio using the Class Library project template. The problem with this is that none of the Workflow item templates are present when you try and add a new item, so how can you add a Workflow without having a one-off Visual Studio project just for your Workflow Feature? The answer is that you need to make some changes to the project file in Visual Studio to make it happen. The project file ( YourProject.csproj...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, December 14, 2007 2:23 PM

Send email from MOSS using Outbound Email settings in Central Administration

Being Asp.Net developers, we all know we can send email from within custom code using the virtual SMPT server running on the Web Front End server where our code is running, but what if you want to use the same SMTP/Exchange settings you configured in Central Administration? Luckily, there's a way to do so. I like to create an object I call SPEmail for encapsulation, then within the Send method go dig for the info I need from the SPAdministrationWebApplication.Local and it's OutboundMailServerInstance...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:06 PM

WSS3/MOSS Service Pack 1 Applied Successfully

Recently, I've seen a lot (read: too many ) posts about the release of SP1 for WSS3 and MOSS . I, however, wanted to post on the success of applying the upgrade. Often, people are concerned about patches and upgrades because they may have heard a story of a friend who knew this guy, whose sister's IT department applied an upgrade to a mission critical server and it caused the stock market to crash the oceans to rise two feet. Well, no such luck with this set of upgrades. Everything went fine...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, November 30, 2007 1:34 PM

Get/Set custom profile properties in Profile Provider for MOSS

I'm working on a site which uses Forms Based Authentication, and I want to extend the standard user profile with some of my own custom properties. I knew you could define a ProfileProvider in the MOSS web.config file, but the tricky part was getting and setting the values since the framework is unaware of the provider. You can't access the properties at design-time like a normal Asp.Net Web Application, and I couldn't find any documentation for accessing Profile Provider Properties as...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 2:23 AM

Applying the MS07-059 Security Rollups for WSS/MOSS

Just completed applying the security rollups for WSS/MOSS to fix the Elevation of Privilege security vulnerability as well as fixing the daylight savings time change issues. I followed Shane Young's post on performing the install and it was relatively painless and worked fine. I did see the 'Failure to start service SPSearchServiceInstance...' warning during step 8, but running stsadm -o osearch -action start ( as described on TechNet ) after the configuration wizard completed restarted...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, October 19, 2007 6:23 PM

Install and Configure the Community Kit for SharePoint: Internet/Extranet Edition

The Community Kit for SharePoint: Internet/Extranet Edition (CKS:IEE) is a tool that contains many useful pieces for both users and administrators of a publicly accessible SharePoint site and extends the already powerful Forms Based Authentication functionality of MOSS. Here's the play-by-play for installing the CKS:IEE and creating an anonymously accessible Internet site that has FBA enabled for sub-sites using the CKS:IEE: 1) Go to the CodePlex site for the CKS:IEE project . 2) The CKS:IEE...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:06 PM

Relate to SharePoint as a Database - the two line up pretty well...

With all the talk about SharePoint as an application platform lately, I figured it might be good to post on the way I like to describe to SharePoint to clients. Sure, you get a lot of neat features out of the box with SharePoint, but I've seen plenty of deer-in-headlight looks after people hear everything the product has to offer and the exponential amount of solutions that are possible when you look a little deeper. Even after conversing a great deal about what SharePoint is and how it can help...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Sunday, September 23, 2007 12:42 PM

Creating and deploying a Custom Site Definition as a feature

Ok, so you really don't develop a custom site definition as a Feature in the WSSv3 sense of the word 'feature ', but you can create a solution package which contains all the needed pieces for the custom site definition, including any Features you want activated on the site when it's first created. While there's plenty of documentation around creating custom site definitions out there, I figured it would be beneficial to explain the steps needed to create the solution and deploy...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, August 31, 2007 9:37 AM

Access Denied error creating content crawl schedule

When creating a content crawl schedule in MOSS, after pressing ok, the form came back with an access denied message... Error message: ERROR: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) Resolution: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/926959 Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:14 PM

Create DDF/WSP Tool - now with Manifest!

Yesterday, I released a little tool that creates the ddf and wsp files as part of the vs build process . The downfall was that you still had to manage all those templatefile lines in the manifest file. This morning, I fixed that. The way the app works now is that it looks for a file in your project called ManifestTemplate.xml . Because there are so many different things you can do in the manifest, I didn't want to take control away from being able to customize the manifest file. Maybe you have...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 2:06 PM

Create DDF and WSP by building your Visual Studio project

After wasting so much time by forgetting to add files to the ddf file (and just messing with the ddf file in general) I said to myself, there HAS to be a better way to do this DDF into WSP thing! So this morning I created a little program in an hour and a half that creates my ddf file and then packages everything up into a wsp for me. All I need to do is build my project. I figured I'd share this tool, so here it is... Download executable Download source The most effective way to set up the Visual...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:47 PM

Sample Code for Custom C# MOSS Navigation Using PortalSiteMapProvider

So, The Mossman commented on my post yesterday saying that a little source around the PSMP would be nice, so just for him, here it is. I figured it would be good to build on Andrew Connell's Telerik MOSS Integration Guide , so this example shows how to create your own top-level menu in a custom server-control using the Telerik RadMenu and the PortalSiteMapProvider . I know not everybody will have the license for the Telerik RadMenu, so if you...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:01 PM

Custom C# MOSS Navigation Using PortalSiteMapProvider

I was talking to a client who was having difficulty developing a navigation control using the methods described in most of the documentation out there, which explains creating a custom Site Map Provider which inherits from the PortalSiteMapProvider (PSMP)object. There was just no way they were going to get exactly what they were looking for in relation to what their high-priced 3rd-party designer delivered. After taking some time to do some exploration...
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Monday, August 13, 2007 12:50 PM

Manifest.xml Entries Needed for Deploying Telerik ASP.Net Controls into MOSS

Recently, Andrew Connell published a white paper on the Telerik site explaining how to create WSP files for the Telerik ASP.Net controls . In the document, AC used the RadMenu control as his example, but I noticed that there was a couple of entries in the SafeControls block of the manifest.xml file that were specific to the RadMenu control. This made wonder if there were other controls that needed control-specific SafeControls entries, so I decided...
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