May 2007 - Posts

• Deleting Large Sites and Recovering from the Failed Deletion of a Site

  Apparently you cannot delete a site containing a large amount of content in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Last week I deleted -- or rather, attempted to delete – a Document Center site in our Test environment in order to recreate it Read More... Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 5:28 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 1 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• No Error Displayed When Database Update Fails

  Here’s a nasty bug that I ran into about three weeks ago... If you attempt to modify a view on a list in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, but SharePoint is unable to save your changes to the database, no error is displayed in the UI. It Read More... Posted Sunday, May 06, 2007 7:38 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• Creating Document Center Sites on a Publishing Portal

  Here is another issue I discovered long ago, but haven't blogged about yet. Shame on me. When kicking off my current project back in December, I was convinced that a Document Center site in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 was the best choice Read More... Posted Sunday, May 06, 2007 7:34 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007

• Master Page Not Inherited by Document Center Sites

  This isn't a recent discovery -- I first encountered this in late Februrary -- but I realized that I had not yet covered this issue in my blog. If you happen to be using the Document Center template in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 for Read More... Posted Sunday, May 06, 2007 6:55 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007

• Always Specify <FieldRefs> Element with Custom Content Types

  I came across a nasty bug earlier this week in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 -- especially nasty because troubleshooting it primarily involved trial and error since there were no error messages displayed on the page, in the SharePoint Read More... Posted Sunday, May 06, 2007 5:57 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 1 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• The Case of the Disappearing Hosts File

  Hmmm...how should I phrase this? It has been a very educational couple of weeks on my current SharePoint project. During the rebuild of our Test environment, the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard failed when it was unable to find Read More... Posted Saturday, May 05, 2007 8:18 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 5 Comments Filed under: MOSS 2007