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 MOSS 2007 the inactive user profiles are deleted...

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 / Site directory settings. You need to enter...

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 Directory: FAQ

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 the form rendering is the fact that the master 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/newsbweb.aspx page. This is the pre-requisite check process for the form rendering: Get the relative path of the site...

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. Create a custom list, set unique permissions...

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 generated from JavaScript and since we failed to...