I wanted to blog this as an FYI... So, I will try to deliver the message short. When we publish an InfoPath 2007 form template to a MOSS 2007 server, we have an option to choose to publish field in the InfoPath template (as content types), which makes...

Some of you might want to make only certain site templates (otherwise called site definitions like STS#0 for team site definition, STS#1 for blank site definition) available for creating sites in WSS 3 or MOSS 2007. Well, there are quite a few ways to...

This incident happened the other day… One of my SharePoint Admin support team counterpart here, asked me a question regarding a strange happening in SharePoint (or should I term it “puzzle” instead of “question”?). Well, the way he sounded, I felt like...

I recently came across a question whether a site column can be associated with a content type using SharePoint 2007 object model? I thought it should be fairly simple. However, it was really a big deal of research. Fortunately, our former buddy, Karthick...

I was recently involved in a case involving SPFileCollection.Add() method. When we use one of the overloads of Add() method the “Created” & “Modified” dates weren’t correct (+5:30 hrs at my end & -7 hrs at the customer’s end – not exactly sure...

Support case volumes coming in for MOSS 2007 is huge. When we try and help customers to find answers to complex problems/questions, many a times we end up learning great stuffs & things that sometime make us yell “Wow, it’s amazing stuff man!!”. Well...

Making BDC (Business Data Catalog) work with FBA (Form Based Authentication) requires a bit of work. If you have a FBA site, drag & drop a BDC web part and reference it to a BDC entity, you might see the below error: There are no Business Data...

Creating sub sites through MOSS 2007 interface, creates a top navigation automatically. You’ll be able to reach the sub site and back to the root page with on click (actually 2 J - to and fro you see). However, this seems to be missing when we create...

Following the post from Make the "Overwrite existing file" check box to be unselected by default in MOSS 2007 , this post is to show how to do the same trick in SPS 2003. Due to the structural change between SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007, it takes a bit...

Content Migration is an important aspect in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This allows Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 application to be upgraded to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing sites. But before you do the actual...

Found something interesting when working on a customer’s request, so thought I’d share it! A customer of mine wanted to get rid of the “Error: Access Denied” message that’s displayed to unauthorized (but authenticated) users in MOSS 2007/WSS V2...

One of our customers wanted a way to *uncheck* the “Overwrite existing file” option by default. For better understanding, here’s what it is: 1. Open a team site in WSS V3. 2. Navigate to a document library. 3. Choose the *Upload* option to upload...

A customer of mine called in with this requirement of embedding a dynamic excel spreadsheet and chart object into a SharePoint (both V2 and V3) web part. After few hours of battle, we came up with the following code sample that works like charm. ...

When updating the "Begin" or the "End" datetime fields in a SharePoint 2003/2007 event list, the error "Invalid data has been used to update the list item. The field you are trying to update may be read only" is seen at the point where Update() method...

Note: Just don’t bother to read further if you have a SharePoint server running on IIS that has ASP.NET 2.0 installed on it already. Ok, so you have your SharePoint server running on IIS that has ASP.NET 1.1.xxxx installed on it and you have developed...

Quota Template is a nice feature that's very helpful for SharePoint administrators. It helps in managing your SharePoint server and having total control over how much your site grows. There was a request to figure-out a way to change the Quota Template...

In WebPart developement, many a times, we'd want to retrieve the context of the current site and do some operations based on it. A simple and most common scenario is retrieving the user information from the site context. There are different ways to...