October 2007 - Posts
We ran across this while installing the KB941422 hotfix on a brand new farm : [SPManager] [ERROR] []: The access control list on C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\layouts\web.config could not be modified
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I've worked a bit on the Visio Stencils I'm using for documenting Site Structures and I fixed the way "text" works with the Site Structure stencil. You can now simply double-click on it and the text will be correctly modified (not added over it) (note:
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I ran into an issue the other day where all content for most pages where missing when viewing a "target variation" (I define a variation as "target" when it's not the source variation). After taking a closer look, we could see the titles and description,
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We ran into a little issue the other day when using an account with only Member rights (yes yes, we are usually admins :)), we were creating a page for the first time in a sub-site and we were receiving a beautiful stack trace of nothingness. We refreshed
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We have automated almost everything about creating a "blank" publishing web site with landing pages, navigation parameters, even content pages. One thing we found out with Features or even code is that you cannot create a list with its GUID; it will be
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We came across this bug lately where we had a EditModePanel in Display using a FieldValue to show the value of a DateTimeField and the time was always incorrect : it was off 4 hours (could be the GMT time but our Regional Settings are set to -5 with DST
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There's a common misconception where some believes that a web site's breadcrumbs are supposed to show how the user got to a page (well the term "breadcrumb" could indeed misleading). Unfortunately, that can prove to be difficult in lots of cases such
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After running the KB941422 on my personal MOSS Virtual Machine, I was getting this error in the Upgrade.log : The specified SPContentDatabase Name=SharePoint_AdminContent_a3efdc71-2455-4b12-8d44-6395d42c9070 Parent=SPDatabaseServiceInstance has been upgraded
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I've put up together a Visio 2007 stencil that I use for creating SharePoint Site Structures and architecture. Update : You can find an updated post with more pictures and updated stencils at http://blogs.msdn.com/maximeb/archive/2007/10/27/updated-visio-stencils-for-sharepoint-2007-site-structures-documentation-version-0-2.aspx
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I came across this error yesterday while testing a Content Deployment for a customer and had this error "The URL "Style Library/en-US" is invalid ..." with the stack trace mentioning that it was updating a File or Folder. The kind of message where you
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I had a discussion with a CMS/SharePoint consultant, Eric Fontaine, and he was asking me about having "Optional content" or fields in a MOSS environment; basically, the idea was to have a content section appear depending on the author. There was something
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One of my co-worker, Philippe Bédard , found a little bug last week that was preventing users to approve images in a French publishing web site. Basically, if you use the "View All Site" and navigate to a library that contains unapproved items, the contextual
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Here's a listing of custom STSADM extensions myself and my coworkers have created. Feel free to ask questions regarding the namespaces for these. I'd like to thank those who contributed to this : Stéphane Perron, Louis Fournier, and Vincent Trépanier
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We came across a random issue lately where a publishing image (RichImageField) does not render correctly in display mode : it shows the IMG tag in Html encoded format rather than the actual image. We had this issue with both the OOB RollupImage as well
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