October 2007 - Posts
The method for updating the application.master that I wrote about back in July has been officially endorsed as a best practice along with a second variation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944105/en-us
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You'll recall that back in Blog 4 of this series we created the following hierarchy of virtual hard drives: BD1_SPS03_AD_SQL05 BD2_SqlData (optional second base disk for holding restored Sql databases) DD1_MOSSGradualUpgrade DD2_TestPortalsToUpgrade DD3_RunPortalUpgrades
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This very interesting white paper goes over, in detail, the types of customizations that are supported and those which are not within various levels of SharePoint hosted environments. Definitely worth a read prior to any enterprise level SharePoint development
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If you hit a default page and it throws an error and you're kind of stuck as to what to do next, try navigating to one of the system pages - of which Site Settings is probably the most useful. So if the page throwing an error was: http://<portal>/<teamsite>/default.aspx
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Parts 1 to 8 of this series are in the August archive. NOTE: we're having problems with specifying a custom master page on the v3 Site Definitions that correspond to the SPS Portal Upgrade site definitions (this explains the delay between Bog 8 and 9
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OK, this goes under silly things that should be obvious but... My SharePoint nav widget is not closing html tags correctly, and I wanted to take the blob of html that is pumped out by the web part and see it nicely indented and color coded in SharePoint
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Unfortunately I have seen this error too many times. In my case it is regarding a SharePoint master page customization, and I believe it is related to editing the master page in SharePoint designer. Maybe it only occurs when you edit the page and then
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A note to all those running SPS03 - if you use Site Directories for creating team sites, and you've noticed that the process stalls on the "Add Link to Site" page, then check to see if Security Update 933854 - a security update to .Net 1.1 - was installed.
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