If you are planning to deploy this update to your production environment, pay attention to a known issue that may affect AAM functionality in which discovered after release of Infrastructure Update for WSS 3.0, the KB 951695 has been recently updated...

Note. I want to thank Daniel Odievich for providing the content of this post, a must read! When developing SharePoint workflows, one often needs to send email notification for a task, and then keep sending regular reminders for this task at scheduled...

Update: The External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint (ECTS) is now available exclusively on CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source Web site. To access these resources, visit the Community Kit for SharePoint on CodePlex. http://cks.codeplex.com/ ...

Windows SahrePoint Services 3.0 SP1 Developer VPC image can now be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1BEEAC6F-2EA1-4769-9948-74A74BD604FA&displaylang=en . Note: "This is a time limited evaluation VHD containing...

This is just announced by Paul Andrew: To help drive adoption of SharePoint by Software Developers we have launched a campaign to .NET Developers at http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com . We’re doing advertising at TechEd Developers USA this week and on...

New content on SharePoint workflows recently published on Technet for IT pros: Deploy workflows This article includes procedures for installing, deploying, and starting predefined workflows, SharePoint Designer workflows, and Visual Studio custom workflows...

Mergecontentdbs is a new stsadm extension (part of WSS 3.0 SP1) which allows SharePoint administrators to easily move site collection(s) between different content databases, this is really handy when you migrating a monolithic SPS 2003 content db to MOSS...

A new whitepaper on Workflow titled " Developing Workflow Solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Workflow Foundation " by a good friend of mine Daniel Odievich and truly yours is now published (as of 05/23/08) on MSDN. Update...

Recently I was asked by one of my customers to help them with a solution to allow uses adding link to documents on their shared folder, OOB "Link To Document" contnet type can be used to add a link in document library refrencing documet in another document...

As you may know the security features have been completly revamped for WSS 3.0 comparing to WSS 2.0 ( for good reasons ), as part of this change during migration each WSS 2.0 Site group within a site gets mapped to a custom WSS 3.0 Permission Level and...

By default setup and farm administrator accounts need to have "Security Admin" and "dbcreator" rights so we can setup a MOSS farm, in some cases due to security policies and regulations DBAs are not allowed to give those rights for production SQL which...

MOSS 2007 with SP1 (Trial version) just released and can be downloaded here: Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (32 bit) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2E6E5A9C-EBF6-4F7F-8467-F4DE6BD6B831&displaylang=en Office SharePoint...

Issue: In NLB unicast mode Network card's MAC address gets replaced by a virtual MAC which prevents the servers from connecting to each other if only one network card is installed on WFE/Query machines . By default WFE may reroute the search request...

To set the Workflow status to a custom value add your custom Status values to workflow.xml under <MetaData>: <ExtendedStatusColumnValues> <StatusColumnValue>Rejected</StatusColumnValue> <StatusColumnValue>Failed Verification<...

WF's DelayActivity is best suited for scenarios such as sending Reminders or if you want to force your WF to dehydrate for a batch update on Item's column(s), as you may know a .NET 3.0 hotfix or SP1 needs to be installed so that the Delay activity works...

When using InfoPath to design task forms we can easily use different forms for tasks being created by Workflow instance, all you have to do is to extend the workflow.xml setting by adding additional <Taskx_FormURN> child elements under <MetaData>...

When configuring a Farm or creating Web application using pre-configured databases, psconfig, stsadm -o extendvs, stsadm -o createssp and other related commands run successfully but you will see bunch of 3759 errors in the Event log. Event Type: Error...

I was asked by one of my colleagues on how to have access to the name of the user who is modifying a task programmatically within the Workflow code. Every time a task gets modified by a user ( SPTaskProperties.AssignedTo ) the OnTaskChanged activity populates...

Finally it is out, unfortunately you need to update your BJ from Windows XP or Windows 2000 as the updater executable is not compatible with Vista! http://www.samsung.com/us/i607/windowsupgrade

Issue: You are getting lots of 10016 DCOM errors and possibly related 6482 and 6398 after installing MOSS SP1: Event Type: Error Event Source: DCOM Event Category: None Event ID: 10016 Date: 12/14/2007 Time: 9:54:49 AM User: LITWAREINC\SP_AdmWorkerProcess...

A common task in a workflow is to send a reminder email to a user, if he/she does not complete the task within a timeframe (e.g. one day). One way to implement this functionality in a Sequential Workflow is to leverage EventHandlingScope and Delay activities...