April, 2007

Hi,

Yesterday I started an idea that came to my mind in my trips: create an Infopath form to generate a BDC file (Application definition). The first version (v0.1) that you can download has room for improvement (coming soon :)) and It can generate only model (not resources).

The most challenging node was the TypeDescriptor, as it is a repeating recursive section (and first I forgot to clear the compatibility with forms server ;) [this control cannot be used in browser mode]) and Infopath does not represent correctly without manual action.

Thanks to Nick Dallett !

Please send me examples generated with the tool and bugs!:

• Infopath BDC Creator (attached to the blog)
• AdventureWorks2000 PassThrough Metadata Sample
• SampleWebService Metadata

Screenshoot of the tool 

Cheers!

BDC

Hi,

Web is changing (really? :) when ;)) you can check more and more web sites changing to a new look at microsoft. Maybe one day others will do too.

 See http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ or http://www.microsoft.com/ or http://www.microsoft.com/design/Culture/Master.aspx and on the other hand http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/ or http://office.microsoft.com/

new clean, easy to find and easy to navigate sites but including new 'feeling'.

Yes others Corp have changed, but in my opinion they have upgraded the technology, not a rework of the concept

Check http://www.archive.org/web/web.php for some examples. 

Maybe, this is something Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is going to accelerate:

• Community Kit for Sharepoint
• Customer evidence

Go for it!

Hi,

Here again!.

Last year I have been pretty busy with many MOSS projects, so I will start again with SharePoint Technologies :)

As I usually create VPC, I end up with different customer demo machines. Today I wanted to use one of them, but I thought if it was possible to change domain name/computer name in order to map other customer name.

My environment was a Single Server install (DC+Standalone server:Windows R2 2003 Server) of MOSS 2007 with english+spanish language pack.

The steps I followed were:

1. Raise the functional level of the DC and forest to Windows 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322692/
2. Download the Windows server 2003 Active Directory Domain Rename Tools http://www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads/winsrvr/domainrename.mspx
3. Read the doc ;)
4. install de rename tools, and use rendom with each step in the help.
1. /list /upload /prepare /execute
2. after execute the server rebooted and IIS started crashing.
3. /end (in order to do the unfreezing) and IIS worked again
5. Then run gpfixup (as part of the rename tools)
6. /clean

Finally, I wanted to change the computer name. So I used netdom tool http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/460e3705-9e5d-4f9b-a139-44341090cfd41033.mspx?mfr=true

• netdom computername /add
• netdom computername /makeprimary
• restart
• netdom computername /remove

As the server had DNS Service, a change in the configure entries was necessary too (including a FQDN that resolves to the server).

  After this changes, I needed to change:

• Execute stsadm -o renameserver option
• restart 
• review services on the server and SSP properties
• check site collection admin
• In the User Profile and Properties->View Import Connections Section in SSP, delete the existing and create a new one (default values).
• MySite default uri
• Alternate access mapping

Cheers!

P.S.

If you somehow run /clean before doing the gpfixup, you can use the GPMC http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/gpmc/default.mspx to fix the problem.

Delete the link pointing to the old domain and create a new one (Linked Group Policy Objects)

[I tried  the other steps in a VPC, and didn't work, so I tried the dcgpofix tool too and reboot with this in mind]

MOSS, VPC, DC, GPMC, SSP