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So I was helping a friend of mine where he reported a problem about the restore: He moved the site collection from a top level site collection ( http://test-moss:6001 ) to a path based site ( http://portal.test.ca/ipo/ ) using powershell Restore-SPSite...

We migrated our SharePoint 2007 WCM Publishing site collection to SP 2010 and we used DB attach in this process. Most of the list made it to SP 2010 gracefully but some of the lists created some issues for us and we started getting this error on the ECB...

I was trying to find details on why my out of the box Content Types (Publishing Pages, etc.) were getting wiped (removed) whenever I was deploying my content types which were inheriting from a Parent content type that was deployed on the content type...

Keywords for search:- SharePoint 2010; MOSS_Export; Full Sync; Out of Memory; FIM; Hello All, I have been struggling with the FULL Sync for USer Profile Application for last 2-3 weeks and all the time the Memory on the Server was peaking out, we...

We have a content Farm and Enterprise Services (ESS) Farm (where UPA is hosted), content Farm consumes UPA from ESS farm (all SharePoint 2010 obviously) Whenever we try to load a Edit Profile Page it gives an error: Error: “The server...

Every Site has 3 Site Groups that are associated Site Groups: Visitors (AssociatedVisitorsGroup ), Members (AssociatedMemberGroup) and Owners(AssociatedOwnerGroup ). These are the 3 types of groups associated with any SPWeb. Now if at all you are using...

We were trying some simple code in SharePoint 2010 and with a Sandboxed solution, the same code worked fine with Farm solution but didnt work with Sandbox solution. After doing some debugging we found that from the following code the following lines never...

Yesterday we were working on one of the site-collection and it was having some issues on the performance side, although we did all the required Performance tunning stuff, we couldnt get it to perform. Also that was in the Stage environment so finally...

Recently there was a question asked on our internal DL around removing the IE 6.0 warning that pops up on the SharePoint 2010 site. Basic error message that we get is: Your Web browser will have problems displaying this web page. Changes to the site...

My customer was trying to do a Multiple Upload of Images in SharePoint 2007 and unfortunately it was always failing with an error: “An error has occurred on the Server”. Unfortunately we were getting “ An error has occurred on...

We were trying to restore a backup of one of our Site collections from PROD onto our TEST VM and restore was successful but we lost all of our SITE COLLECTION SEARCH SCOPES (not Shared scopes defined at SSP but search scopes defined at the SITE COLLECTION...

By now most of us know that in SharePoint 2010 we have Metadata Services which help us manage the cotent types across site collections, web apps, farms. It helps us define a hub site collection (to say it is the place where we define our all content types...

This is a very small and simple blog that I thought of writing for content deployment in SharePoint 2010. I tried to run the content deployment and it was failing for some reason, everytime I was creating a blankinternet#0 portal as the Target site template...

Following are some of the important SharePoint 2010 links: SP2010 End User Training: http://www.point8020.com/SharePointEndUserTraining.aspx SP2010 SharePoint Developer Training: http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ ...

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...

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...

Programmatically provision hostheader site collection (MOSS/Sharepoint 2007) I was looking for a sample on creating a Host header based site collection (programmatically) i.e. using WSS/Sharepoint 2007 API and came across the msdn article, but there...

Audiences in Inter Farm SSP (Sharepoint 2007 / MOSS) We were doing some brain storming on Sharing the SSP (Shared Service Provider) between multiple farms i.e. the Parent Farm will be the provider/source of the SSP and the Child farm will consume the...

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...

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...

Host header (actually Host Named) site collection in MOSS (some details) If you search on the web on how to create a host header (HH) site-collection you will get a lot of results as lot of community folks have written about it. Thanks to all of them...

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...

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...

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....

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...