Michael Yeager's MSDN Blog

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Using STSADM to set Form Services Properties

Use the SetFormsServiceProperty operation as follows: stsadm -o setformsserviceproperty -pn...

Author: hvelo Date: 12/01/2008

Reference list for SharePoint internal field names

Much used reprinting of list of fields with internal names for easy reference: Document Library...

Author: hvelo Date: 11/03/2008

Adding an InfoPath Preloader (ProgressBar) for long loading forms

Working on a project with some very large InfoPath forms (700+ fields with hundreds of rules and...

Author: hvelo Date: 07/17/2008

Clearing the InfoPath Cache

When you load an InfoPath form, it is cached in the following location on your machine: C:\Documents...

Author: hvelo Date: 07/09/2008

Process Currently Required for MOSS Variations

Variations is a potentially great MOSS feature. Variations are obviously useful for multi-lingual...

Author: hvelo Date: 06/04/2008

Balancing your MOSS Content Types

I have found that the following two issues can be critically important when architecting a catalog...

Author: hvelo Date: 06/03/2008

Variations without Custom Site Definitions

If you are going to create custom content types and custom layout pages, then for Variations...

Author: hvelo Date: 05/08/2008

There is more info on Content Deployment issues in earlier blog entries here. The main thing is to...

Author: hvelo Date: 05/07/2008

SharePoint Designer Check-in and Check-out and Publishing

Maybe I'm missing a hotfix or something, but SharePoint Designer seems to have a lot of problems...

Author: hvelo Date: 05/06/2008

Style Library shortcut

Particularly when working on a MOSS Web Content Management site, you may find the need to go to the...

Author: hvelo Date: 05/06/2008

Non Obvious Details about Content Deployment

When you have Quick Deployment job, and you edit a page and add it to Quick Deployment, the job...

Author: hvelo Date: 05/06/2008

Content Deployment Failure

Was able to work through an interesting content deployment issue on a medium SharePoint farm with...

Author: hvelo Date: 04/08/2008

New Version of the SharePoint v3 Tools for Visual Studio 2005

As of February 11, 2008, there is a version 1.1 of the SharePoint Visual Studio tools that can be...

Author: hvelo Date: 02/28/2008

SharePoint SDKs Updated to cover SP1

Version 1.3 of the WSS v3 SDK can be downloaded here:...

Author: hvelo Date: 02/28/2008

SharePoint v3 Localized Resources

For localization in SharePoint to work, a particular site must be created specifying the designated...

Author: hvelo Date: 02/05/2008

Multilingual and other interesting MOSS07 Sites

Been working on multilingual for a few clients, and recently did a quick survey of public MOSS07...

Author: hvelo Date: 02/05/2008

Hiding the SharePoint Login (or anything else)

This is one of those extremely useful little tidbits that doesn't seem to be all that well...

Author: hvelo Date: 01/08/2008

Instant SharePoint Memory Usage

Memory usage is a big deal when you are deploying new web parts or applications - mainly because you...

Author: hvelo Date: 12/05/2007

SharePoint Terms: Ghosted, Unghosted and Reghosted

The terms Ghosted, Unghosted and now Reghosted are very difficult to keep straight, and you'll find...

Author: hvelo Date: 11/03/2007

11. Upgrading SharePoint Site Definitions from v2 to v3: DEALING WITH UPGRADE ISSUES

Note: This blog is a work in progress, I will be adding tips as I work through various issues....

Author: hvelo Date: 11/01/2007

Customizing the application.master in SharePoint 2007 - Revisited

The method for updating the application.master that I wrote about back in July has been officially...

Author: hvelo Date: 10/31/2007

10. Upgrading SharePoint Site Definitions from v2 to v3: RUNNING THE UPGRADE

You'll recall that back in Blog 4 of this series we created the following hierarchy of virtual hard...

Author: hvelo Date: 10/22/2007

SharePoint Customization Policy White Paper

This very interesting white paper goes over, in detail, the types of customizations that are...

Author: hvelo Date: 10/19/2007

Tip: Getting around a SharePoint Error Page

If you hit a default page and it throws an error and you're kind of stuck as to what to do next, try...

Author: hvelo Date: 10/18/2007

9. Upgrading SharePoint Site Definitions from v2 to v3: CREATING THE SITE DEFINITIONS

Parts 1 to 8 of this series are in the August archive. NOTE: we're having problems with specifying a...

Author: hvelo Date: 10/16/2007

SharePoint Designer Reformat HTML

OK, this goes under silly things that should be obvious but... My SharePoint nav widget is not...

Author: hvelo Date: 10/15/2007

Cannot convert type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.DelegateControl' to 'System.Web.UI.IAttributeAccessor'

Unfortunately I have seen this error too many times. In my case it is regarding a SharePoint master...

Author: hvelo Date: 10/05/2007

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Site Creation Fails with Security Update 933854

A note to all those running SPS03 - if you use Site Directories for creating team sites, and you've...

Author: hvelo Date: 10/03/2007

8. Upgrading SharePoint Site Definitions from v2 to v3 - UPGRADING YOUR WEB PARTS

The upgrade documentation implies that "most v2 web parts" will simply work in SharePoint v3. You...

Author: hvelo Date: 08/24/2007

7. Upgrading SharePoint Site Definitions from v2 to v3: CREATING A LIST DEFINITION

As with the Master Page, there are many different ways to put together and deploy a new List such as...

Author: hvelo Date: 08/24/2007

6. Upgrading SharePoint Site Definitions from v2 to v3: CREATING THE MASTER PAGES

There are many ways to create and add a custom Master Page to a SharePoint site, site collection,...

Author: hvelo Date: 08/24/2007

/3GB switch not supported in SharePoint - go 64 bit if you need more memory

If you are setting up a 32 bit SharePoint farm, do not turn on the /3GB switch. If you have custom...

Author: hvelo Date: 08/23/2007

5. Upgrading SharePoint Site Definitions from v2 to v3: TEMPLATES VS. DEFINITIONS

What will happen at this point if you just Run Prescan and start Upgrading Sites without adding v3...

Author: hvelo Date: 08/16/2007

4. Upgrading SharePoint Site Definitions from v2 to v3: RUNNING PRESCAN

Before starting to install MOSS on the vpc, add a Differencing Disk - that will be referred to as...

Author: hvelo Date: 08/16/2007

3. Upgrading SharePoint Site Definitions from v2 to v3: BUILDING THE UPGRADE TESTING VIRTUAL PC

Putting together a base Virtual PC for running and "perfecting" the upgrades prior to working on QA...

Author: hvelo Date: 08/09/2007

2. Upgrading SharePoint Site Definitions from v2 to v3: GRADUAL UPGRADE PROCESS

I have already prepared a couple of SPS03 VPCs and run the Gradual Upgrade on a number of sites with...

Author: hvelo Date: 08/09/2007

I am in the process of upgrading a smaller SPS03 portal installation to MOSS 2007. This is in...

Author: hvelo Date: 08/09/2007

Deploying Business Objects to MOSS 2007

Installing Business Objects .Net Web Component Adapter under a MOSS 2007 web application requires...

Author: hvelo Date: 07/12/2007

Office 2003 Disables Search in Office 2007

I accidentally installed Visio 2003 on my corporate pc - because the title on the disc just says...

Author: hvelo Date: 07/12/2007

Building a Security Trimmed Navigation Control for SharePoint 2007

I am in the process of migrating some Portals from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 for a client. The custom...

Author: hvelo Date: 07/11/2007

SharePoint Solution Generator - Deploying to a Production Server

Just a short note on the SharePoint Solution Generator - which is a great little tool! If you don't...

Author: hvelo Date: 06/29/2007

One "All Singing, All Dancing" SharePoint Web Part

When the ProcessVelocity project began a little over a year ago as Approval Manager, it would never...

Author: hvelo Date: 02/01/2006

Web Part Follies

Every development effort of any complexity will pursue a folly or two at some point during the...

Author: hvelo Date: 01/11/2006

Visio and Workflow

As some of you know, I have been spending a lot of my spare time lately working on the...

Author: hvelo Date: 01/10/2006

Software as Systemic Core

Developers/architects of software applications generally think of those applications as tools. Tools...

Author: hvelo Date: 01/04/2006