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Scenario: 5-8 developers WCM portal with lots of sites (SPWeb) and pages, but not a large database Development is focused on Fields, Content Types, Layouts, Web Parts, Controls, HttpModules Typical environments: The general recommendation is for developers
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Hi everyone and sorry for the no-post for several months. My ‘Draft’ list keeps piling but I didn’t take the time to unpile it much. Anyhow, I came across this problem again last week with the out of the box Content Editor Web Part (CEWP).
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I've been looking a little bit more on finding the easiest way to deploy resource files (.RESX) in the App_GlobalResources directory and I found various solutions that includes Features and Timer Jobs to synchronize these resource files. Mikhail Dikov
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This is a follow-up to my Site Definition Helper scripts post . As described in that post, we were looking at making it simple to create multiple webs. While you can use a site definition with a PortalProvisioningProvider to do this, if you have variations,
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My team ran into this last week where I asked to have some properties available to the feature. It was the first time that we were allowing properties in the features and I hadn't given much explanation as to how I was seeing the property definition.
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A couple months ago, when I started reading about Feature Stapling on blogs (I don't recall the MSDN documentation having been updated at the time but it is now), not only did I think that it was a mechanism to attach a feature to a site definition (it's
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The first thing you realize when playing with Site Definitions is that "IISRESET" is your next best friend. However, if you plan on deleting your old site collection and create a new one (to test a RootWeb / Site Collection site definition), it's very
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Summary As you have noticed, I've changed my latest SharePoint focus to look at Site Definitions (and obviously Features but I played with them a lot prior to this). The reason for this is that I was looking at the "best" way to deploy artifacts for SharePoint
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(Last updated June 17th with the Object Reference Not Set to an Instance) SharePoint's Content Deployment feature is a very complex functionality that, unfortunately, does not work all the time. I've had scenarios where it ran very smoothly
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I spent a little bit on time understanding Site Definitions lately, particularly the Publishing ones like BLANKINTERNET. One very frustrating thing is to make sense of all the WEBTEMP* configurations, the site definitions, the features, the features dependencies,
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As you probably have read, I ran into a couple issues lately with Content Deployment ( Slow with SP1? , major/minor versions , AAM on Central Administration , specified file already in used , links not fixed at destination , TCP connection closed , the
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I was doing some research lately on how to have a different "Approvers" group depending on business rule. To make it simple, the following statement had to be fulfilled: Pages under subsite "/site1" have to be approved by group "Approvers1" Pages under
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While I am planning to soon blog on real life SPWebProvisioningProvider and Site Definitions in regards of Variations & Content Deployment, I wanted to comment on a little issue that had been plaguing me the last couple days. First of all, my goal
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It took me a while to come up with everything I needed for this post as I want to make it as accurate as possible with the experience I had on the field. The goal of this post is to provide information on the different ways to work as a team for a WCM
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I ran into some issue on a MOSS virtual machine while installing MOSS SP1. Actually, it was the any SP1 (WSS, MOSS, or one of their Language Pack). One of my colleague at Orckestra pointed me to a registry setting he had to update while installing a service
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