MOSS 2007 had an OOB capability of exporting a publishing page to a .cmp file to enable offline translations scenarios. In case your translation team does an offline translation of the WCM site, the exported .cmp contained the required xmls for translation...

  Ever faced with a situation where the wsp job gets stuck on deploying. If yes, please check if all the servers in farm are on the same timezone. I faced a scenario where one of the servers was accidently changed by the developers to a different...

  If you encounter error while opening a word file from SharePoint 2010 Document library, you need to try and uncheck the Protected View setting under word option.

  If you have encountered “Error in PortalCrawl Web Service” when the MySite url (e.g sps3://mysite:567/ ) is being crawled then the most likely cause of the error is due to a) Permission error . Permission needs to be given to the crawl account...

  While working on Profiles and Metadata Service Federation between 2 farms I noticed that the “I like IT” button was missing in the child farm. After spending significant amount of time troubleshooting the Linking I found that I had missed to select...

Admin approved form from MOSS 2007 get deployed as features within the 12 features hive under folders named with GUIDs. These need special handling to be moved to SharePoint 2010. The following steps need to be performed. a) Export the Admin approved...

For the integration of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services with SharePoint 2010 you require the SQL Server 2008 R2 Addin for SharePoint 2010. However it only supported with CU8 update / patch of SQL 2008 SP1 planned for release in May 2010. Please refer...

I was trying to get a silverlight media player webpart working and struggled to find the correct properties to get the video started. So I thought I would share the same with others who are facing same issue. a) Add a silverlight webpart on your page...

The reporting services addin to that needs to be installed on the webfront end servers gave me some grief last week during installation. My customers installation environment was a x64 bit MOSS box, with SQL Server 2008 Entterprise edition on a seperate...

Recently I had to get a feature activated over all 800 MySite of a Farm. The approach I choose was to generate an xml list of all the MySIte URL's in my farm and use a Windows application to read the XML file and generate the appropriate activation script...

SQL Server 2005 SP2 contains Reporting Services -MOSS integration feature. Reporting Services can be configured to run in Sharepoint Integration Modew where in reports can be managed from MOSS and not from Report Manager. After your Reporting Service...

Page layouts can be published and deployed using features. Doing the same using features has advantage as compared to publishing the same using SharePoint Designer. Andrew has a very good post on the same. http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2006...

Feature framework can be used to deploy Page Layouts. After you have deployed a page layout you could configure the Cache Profile that needs to be assigned to the Page Layout using UI. But what if your requirement was to pre-configure the same with deployment...

Delegate controls are a very good mechanism to replace an existing control with another control through a SharePoint Feature. For example a delegate control is declared as <SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="SmallSearchInputBox"...

The default people search in MOSS refines search results based on Department and JobTitle. When a profile property is created it gets automatically added into the Managed Properties collection. If you need to refine people search by additional profile...