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Here are some tips for debugging your SharePoint web parts and other custom code. 1. How do you debug assemblies that are in the GAC? 2. Is there an easy way of attaching the debugger to the right process? Debugging assemblies that live in the GAC When
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MOSS has many default timer jobs; information about them can be useful to understand the workings of your MOSS farm, and potentially to troubleshoot problems or plan for related types of customizations. The attached document provides a list of all MOSS
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Sometimes you just need a list of things provided by MOSS, in order to plan what kind of things you will make available to users within your architecture. The attached document lists all out-of-box Lists, Web Parts, Site Templates and Site Actions provided
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The site usage reports that MOSS provides are fairly simple, but can be useful if you haven't got any other tools for tracking site usage. One problem with them, however, is that the information they present is not really explained anywhere. Columns are
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MOSS provides some very powerful features to enable the new buzzword "social networking." Discussions about these can be found pretty easily, and I give an overview of some tools near the end of this posting. But specifics about how some of the details
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When developing web parts and other components with code, it's important to remember that operations performed by code may require certain privileges. During development, the code runs in the security context of the developer, who is usually a server
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Important Note: Customers are advised to review the end user license agreement (EULA) for the relevant Microsoft products before using this tool. This blog entry does not authorize or endorse any use of Microsoft products that is not addressed specifically
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MySites are very interesting on many levels. When you start to think about how to architect, deploy or customize them, you may encounter some initial confusion and a lack of detailed information. For instance, did you know that your MySite's Home page
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Often, a request comes to customize some of the text that SharePoint displays. And often, that text is stored in one of SharePoint's resource files, so it's just a matter of finding the right one. But I've noticed that Windows explorer doesn't do a very
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You may know that SPList can return a DataTable type: SPList.Items.GetDataTable(). And if you've worked with this, you may know that the DataTable you get is not databound to the list. This means you can't update the List from changes you make to the
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Have you ever wanted to use stsadm to view or manipulate a site's master page? Unfortunately there are no default commands to do so. But stsadm is easy--and fun, some might even argue--to extend. I wrote a sample project that you can use to perform the
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I was still getting this error on one of my VPCs, and found some blog entries with a little difficulty. Thought I'd post another to make it easier to find. One thing is, there are two possible issues that are known to cause it. StandaloneDCWorkaround
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By default, in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (if you are using the Corporate Intranet Portal template as your default site) when you go to the “Sites” link and click the Create Site button…SharePoint creates a subsite as a member of your portal’s
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This posting contains tips 'n tricks for using STSADM commands within batch files. Note, the primary Microsoft reference for STSADM: TechNet article Stsadm command-line tool (Office SharePoint Server) . Testing results STSADM returns 0 as ERRORLEVEL in
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MOSS user profiles have a property called Picture, which can store the URL of an image file. When this property is filled in, other MOSS features display the user's picture at useful times: in search results, or on a MySite. But where's the image file
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