How to determine (find) who created a site on a MOSS 2007 One of my colleague had asked query regarding how to find out the user who created the site in sharepoint 2007, obviously nothing in the UI to find out that. So we will have to do it programmatically and the way to get it is to use the...

Site Collection Administrator on a FBA getting Access Denied errorsSite Collection Administrator on a FBA getting Access Denied errors One of my customers was facing an issue with one of the Forms based authentication sharepoint web application where the site collection administrators were getting...

Modifying SPThemes.xml Programmatically to deploy new Themes MOSS 2007 (WSS 3.0) One of my colleague was looking for modifying the SPThemes.xml file programmatically instead of editing it manually on each and every server. So that the deployment of new themes could be very easy thru the Solution Deployment...

Programmatically loop thru Publishing site collection or rather WARMP UP Script for FBA site I wanted to write a WARMP UP SCRIPT For FBA enabled Publishing site for Sharepoint 2007/ MOSS. REQUIREMENT: We have a web-application set up with FBA and we have some of the sites accessible anonymously...

Disable Event handlers during Content Deployment (Sharepoint 2007/MOSS) When we are doing a content deployment in a publishing site and there are lot of event handlers attached to list/libraries then be aware that by default content deployment tells PRIME not to fire events during import. You can change...

MOSS / Sharepoint 2007 Custom Error Page and Access denied Page In case if you are interested in creating your own custom error page and custom access denied page instead of the out of the box MOSS / Sharepoint error page (generally the requirements in Publishing internet site). You can use the following...

We are working on a Publishing portal (MOSS / Sharepoint 2007) and we had a requirement to allow the authors to enter Rich HTML content and that can contain javascript to popup some images that appear as small images in the content or just as a link. Now out of the box the RichHTMLField control rips...

CONTENT DEPLOYMENT, CONTENT EDITOR WEB PART, NOT VISIBLE (MOSS 2007) I was working with today and we did a content deployment of our AUTHORING site to the target site i.e. PUBLISHING SITE. Our Authoring site had pages (web part pages) that were using Content Editor web parts (CEWP) with some static...

Content Deployment and Audience Targeting in sharepoint 2007 (specifically AUDIENCEID the GUID) We had a requirement (and I am sure most of the folks using content deployment and Audience targeting have this requirement) to manage the Audiences on the Publishing site (target site) after the content...

Webtrends and MOSS, How do V do it? Lot of times customer are using Webtrends and they want to integrate the stuff in Sharepoint, so how the H :) we do that. Easy and following are some steps we followed: Some Details that I gathered for the requirement: 1. Master pages will have a SCRIPT block...

Has there been a customer requirement for you where you wanted to create the left or Top navigation based on a custom recordset or from a List (stored in Sharepoint so that easy to update) in a WCM using Sharepoint 2007 / MOSS. Did you have a requirement to Expand and Collapse the menu (server side,...

Content Deployment basics Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS) Following are some of the things that I learned while doing the content deployment for one of my customers: 1. Make sure that when you run content deployment (via Operations tab in Central Admin) the target site is created from a blank site template...

Following are some of the Performance counters that could come handy while doing the Performance/Load testing on your Sharepoint 2007 or MOSS environment. Also Codeplex has a nice tool/scripts for doing the performance testing you might want to leverage that: http://www.codeplex.com/sptdatapop ...

One of my Colleagues happen to ask me how do we show the weather web-part on our Sharepoint Portal. The Solution was pretty simple and thought I should share this with you all. Following are the steps: 1. Add the RSS web-part on your sharepoint portal (MOSS, Sharepoint 2007) site. 2. Give the RSS...

We are working on a Publishing portal (MOSS / Sharepoint 2007) and we had a requirement to allow the authors to enter Rich HTML content and that can contain javascript to popup some images that appear as small images in the content or just as a link. Now out of the box the RichHTMLField control rips...

We had worked on some MOSS portal sites and wanted to make sure the rendering is fine in IE-8 also without making any changes to the CSS, so the best thing we did was we added the following tag to our Master Page just below the HEAD html tag and then it rendered all our pages in IE-7 mode even while...

Wish you All A Very Happy New Year 2009!!! I am working on a MOSS publishing site and thought of sharing some of the basic things that we should always remember while implementing a Publishing site on MOSS / Sharepoint 2007: 1. There can only be one and only one PAGES library in any sharepoint...

As the KB909840 , “Hardware virtualization support for SharePoint products and technologies.” It states: WSS v3 and MOSS are supported in production if they’re on Virtual Server 2005 R2 or later. Also KB897615 states how 3 rd party virtualization is not supported at all if you don’t have Premier level...

When I was trying to load an InfoPath form template (via Central Admin --> Manage Form Templates), and I got following error: “ This form template has not been correctly published to be browser-enabled. Open the form template in InfoPath Design mode, and click Publish Form Template in the Design...

I was facing an issue with my simple CAML query where I was trying to filter the Field inside Sharepoint List and supplying value from the properties.AfterProperties of List Item event handler. This field was of Person or to say People and Groups kind of field. Internally inside sharepoint this value...

Best way to deploy your event handlers in Production environment is thru Solutions/Features. All you need to use is Feature Assembly and basically use Feature Activated and Feature Deactivating events. Following is the code that you might want to refer on Feature Activated: { SPWeb web = SPContext...

I would like to thank my Friend Bob who came up with this issue which led me in debugging and searching for the solution. So what was the Problem: The document Information Panel does not load at all and errors out with following error when used with Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS) document library: ======...

I had a customer requirement where he wanted to add a check-in button on the Edit form of a document library. So that as soon as the required metadata is added to the item, the user can select to check-in the document instead of first clicking the OK button to save and then going back to doc-lib and...

I happen to get a question from my customer asking me that he wanted to add a DESCRIPTION column to the FOLDER created inside a document library. So as when you create a document library you assign a description and other details (some kind of metadata), so how do you do the same for FOLDERS also. So...

Hi Folks, I decided to write this blog for all small doubts/queries that I have observed most of the times. This should come handy to all our MOSS community. I will try and update it whenever I come across something new: Query 1 : OUTPUT CACHE: When you select the option “check for changes” from...