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SharePoint 2010 is coming
In SharePoint 2010 training this week... a lot of good stuff :-) Read More...
How to hide Send To Records Center menu option in MOSS?
MOSS delivers a Records Center site template which can be used for records managment, but once this is configured every user in the farm will be able to send documents to Records Center by using the context menu Send To -> Records Center. This is usually Read More...
How to start a workflow programmatically in the InfoPath code using Workflow web service
How to start an Approval workflow programmatically in the InfoPath form code? Create a web reference that points to http://yourSiteUrl/_vti_bin/workflow.asmx . Configure an Approval workflow in your form library and capture the template id. From form Read More...
How to sign an InfoPath form template with VeriSign certificate?
VeriSign code-signing certificate comes as 2 files including 1 certificate file (.spc) and 1 private key file (.pvk). The following describes what we had to go through at my customer to digitally sign the InfoPath form template which has the Full Trust Read More...
How to exclude a site collection from being indexed for a global search but not for local search?
Customer creates a Records Center site collection as a centralized place for archived documents and they don't want to include archived documents in the global search results (All Sites search) even when the user has the right permission to access these Read More...
How to create a custom timer job in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)
Came across Andrew's post about how to create a custom timer job in MOSS. I'm working on a Lotus Notes application migration project and I'm planning to recreate some Lotus Notes application Agents (scheduled jobs and notifications) in MOSS using custom Read More...
How to display current user's full name, email and other info in InfoPath?
Itay has blogged the exact steps and screenshots on how to display current user info (email, full name, manager, etc) in InfoPath form by calling UserProfileService.asmx in MOSS 2007, most importantly without writing any code! http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2007/04/05/InfoPath-_2D00_-Get-the-current-user-without-writing-code.aspx Read More...
How to create your own custom 404 error page and handle redirect in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)?
People alway ask how to use their own 404 file not found error page vs. the generic one from IE in MOSS environment. The following example catches the 404 error and sends users to a redirect page. Here's the steps: 1. In your MOSS server, make a copy Read More...
Evaluate partner solutions that support migration from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007
A customer is looking to migrate their SPS 2003 content to MOSS 2007 and also restructure their sites during the migration process. None of the standard upgrade approach from Microsoft would accomplish that and I've been evaluating some partner solutions Read More...
How to restore a portal site from SQL database backups in SPS 2003
Right before the scheduled time for production upgrade from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007, my customer's SPS 2003 production environment was down. The database server was running on SQL Server 2000. The DBA told us ALL the SharePoint datababases just disappeared Read More...
How to migrate SPS 2003 My Sites to MOSS 2007 using the same web app hosting the Portal site
During my customer's migration from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 testing environment, we encountered some challenges while migrating My Sites. With Bill's help, I was able to fix the My Sites in testing environment. During the actual production upgrade, My Sites Read More...
SQL Server 2005 Maintenance Plans and MOSS 2007 Databases
Earlier I saw one crawling error in my customer's new MOSS environment after upgraded from SPS 2003. It's not necessary related to the upgrade though. I saw the following error in the crawl log: sps3://domain.company.com Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040E2F Read More...
Common security related errors in MOSS 2007
Access denied error when clicking Edit Schedule in Content Sources and Crawl Schedules within Search Settings. It's a known issue. Here's the fix http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;926959&sd=rss&spid=11373 Event Error with Read More...
Search Usage Report in MOSS SSP Admin prompts for credentials and .NET 2.0 Fatal Execution Engine Error is seen in the Event Log
My customer's new MOSS production environment has been upgraded from SPS 2003 and went live this morning, yes! Some minor issues remain though. Here's one SSP issue I just fixed temporarily. I went to the SSP Admin site, clicked on Search Usage Report Read More...
People Picker in MOSS 2007 can't find people in non-default domains
Customer is seeing the following behavior: " We went to SSP and clicked on User Profiles and Properties under the “User Profiles and My Sites” section and then clicked on View Import Connections and then added domain1.company.com to the Import Connections Read More...
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