Until my dear colleague Joerg announces it I will share the good news, the 2010 April Cumulative updates have been released. Download and installation information: Install SP2 for WSS and MOSS SP2 and for all Language Packs if you have not done...

I have seen many posts filled with myths and legends how this actually works in MOSS 2007. This post is based on information received from SharePoint product group, my own research, debugging and testing to clarify the internals of this feature. In...

It is possible to add more values to the default categories and even add more categories or properties to fill for your users creating subsites or site collections. The customization method is the same for both. Create the new custom columns using the...

Q: If I add multiple site directories which one will be the default for the “Create site” action? A: The first site directory site created will be the default. You can change it in the top level site of your site collection in Site Actions / Site settings...

This is post was created to ease the navigation in the series. Introduction How it works: Site categories form for subsite creation How it works: Site categories form for site collection creation Site Directory: Customization of the categories form Site...

This post is part of the Site directory troubleshooting series, you can access the other posts here . So the focus is on the rendering and submit action of this form on the /_layouts/csignup.aspx page or /admin/createsite.aspx. The major difference in...

This post is part of the Site directory troubleshooting series, you can access the other posts here . So the focus is on the rendering and submit action of this form on the /_layouts/newsbweb.aspx page. This is the pre-requisite check process for the...

I’m writing a 5 parts troubleshooting post series about SharePoint 2007 Site Directory troubleshooting and in order to successfully troubleshoot a feature you need to understand how it works under the hood. This quite long post is part one of the series...

I had to create this script to troubleshoot the anonymous permission setting problem and I though it might come handy for you. Let’s start with the usual SPSite creation [Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture...

I’ve recently come across an interesting issue regarding anonymous permission setting problem on custom lists. Symptoms: Enable anonymous access on the web application’s authentication provider. Enable anonymous settings on the site collection...

Recently I came across an interesting problem on a SharePoint site which is worth a post. Issue: The Content Editor Web Part’s “Rich Test Editor…” button gives “Cannot retrieve properties at this time” error and does not load the content. The alert was...

As I mentioned in my previous post you can override the default behavior of the “Show Quoted Message” link. You need to create a custom list template, it is very easy with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services (VSEWSS...

If you ever wondered why would the “Show Quoted Messages” link disappear once you edited a reply, I have an answer for you. The explanation can be found in the schema.xml at "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE...

I often face the problem of missing documentation of MOSS 2007 operations at high level, it is documented how to configure it and the very low level details in protocol specification . Profile import is using the crawler component of MOSS search. A user...

I have an interesting problem to share with you; I came across a site collection where any authenticated users can log in with their account without giving them explicit permissions in any groups. It is interesting since usually this is the other way...

There are several problems with MCMS 2002 server when you have ASP.Net Framework 3.0 installed on the server. According to official Microsoft documentation .Net 3.0 is not supported with MCMS 2002. Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 with Service...

Hi there, At some point of one's life who solves problems day by day a demand is created to share the collected experience somehow. This time has just arrived in my life. I'm an escalation enginner working with SharePoint Server and Microsoft Content...