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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...

Presence indicator problem with Custom Master Page scrolling Problem: I have got a unique problem that when you hover over any contact, the actual presence icon appears several pixels below the actual icon. This only happens when the page is scrolled...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I thought of sharing some of the important and useful links for Publishing sites: Following command can be used to fix an issue with upgraded/ imported site to new farms: http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2007/08/fix-publishing-pages-page-layout-url.html...

Following is the list of out of the box web-parts available in Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS). This list has web parts available edition wise (i.e. WSS, Standard and Enterprise). Thanks to Thomas Rizzo for helping us with this list ("x" means available in that...

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...

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...

So one of my colleagues happened to ask me if we have any public links for end user training on Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS) and I found following are some of things that can come handy: Checkout: http://blog.sharepointhosting.com/Downloads/SharePoint-Tutorials...

Sharepoint 2010 on Resource allocation for Sandboxed Solution The default quota is 300 server resources, how to understand it ? ( or Server Points ?) How to calculate them ?. ANSWER: The default Resourcing system is divided into 14 measures...

Have you ever had a need to explore whats the expiration date of the trial version of MOSS you are using, if yes then the solution for that is the INTERNAL STATIC CLASS: Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.Licensing This will help you in finding out...

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 SPWeb.Authors property...

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...

Following is the list of sharepoint features (out of the box) that are available, I wish I could have compiled it but this great job is done by Robert Bogue (MVP) on his blog here: http://www.thorprojects.com/blog/archive/2007/05/16/list-of-features-with...

I had a requirement to crawl Japanese content and we had an English Install of Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS). Now for some reason the locale was not being identified by the crawler for the HTML (i.e. all the Publishing pages) as 1041 (i.e. the Japanese locale...

I was trying to locate how to check if the Approval is enabled on the Pages library or any other list/library, found this infor: listItem. ModerationInformation .Status.Equals( SPModerationStatusType.Pending )

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....

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...

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...

I wanted to use this method but unfortunately I didnt see any details on the SDK, so decided to find the details from the Microsoft.Sharepoint dll and following is the output hope this helps someone: public uint GetDistinctFieldValues(SPField field...

One of my colleague happen to ask a question (that his customer asked him) about the Site Usage Reporting and logging in Central Admin. Basically some of his site were going to following URL and some of the other sites were going to the 2nd URL when they...

One of my customers happened to ask me if we have some set of service accounts to be created (minimal) for sharepoint deployment. Following are some of them: Following are the accounts that would be required: SPECIAL PERMISSION ACCOUNT: (1...

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...