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MOSS 2007 Rename the Web Application Name 2008-01-31 14:19:16 I want to share how to rename the web application name in command line administration of MOSS 2007 using STSADM Command.Syntax: stsadm -o renameweb -url -newnameExample: Stsadm -o renameweb -url -newname newnameThe above command will rename the web application from oldname to the newname.
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Commerce Server 2007 Integration with MOSS 2007 2008-01-31 14:04:03 MOSS has many inbuilt features. The scope of this POC is to integrate Commerce Server 2007 with MOSS 2007 to provide Portal Integrated e-Commerce ApplicationConfiguring MOSS 2007 to Use the Commerce Server Membership Provider As The Basis For User AuthenticationThe primary tasks are to make the Central Administration and Portal sites hand-shake with Commerce Server. This needs to be done by modifying the appropriate Web.config files for these sites. By adding the Commerce Server and httpModules sections, the SharePoint Central Administration site and the Portal site will be able to create the necessary CommerceContext object. The CommerceContext object enables the Commerce Server Membership Provider to be initialized correctly, and also enables Web parts and pages in the portal to use the
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can be downloaded from MicrosoftPress
Site.Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX by Dino EspositoIntroducing Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 by Laurence Moroney to the site using your passport/hotmail id and Download e-Books for free.
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Content Approval Workflow in MOSS 2007 2008-01-06 10:16:33 In MOSS 2007 Approval
workflow is available in out of the box itself. Just we need to configure only few steps then we are ready with the approval process.If the approval workflow is configured the document will be visible only to the contributor and to the approver.Steps to Configure Content
approval workflowOpen the Document LibraryClick Settings -> Document Library SettingsIn Document Library Settings under Permissions and Management Click Workflow
SettingsDocument Library Settings -> [Permission and Management] Workflow ManagementsIn MOSS 2007 it has some prebuilt workflow templates for the following workflowsApproval Collect Feedback Collect Signatures Disposition Approval Three StateNow Select the Approval Workflow and give the unique name for the workflow instance.Select the Existin
Microsoft Technical Roll Up - January 2008 2008-01-03 12:24:58 Quick Links Security - Platforms - Internet – SQL Server - Unified Comms - ManageabilityThe TRM blog can be found here Security Stephen Lamb. Effective security is all about risk. Measure it. Decide which risks you are uncomfortable with and take steps to mitigate them. It's also about People AND Processes - technological controls alone will not give you Effective Security.Server Security: Less is More Shawn Travers, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft
Corporation Anyone who has spent more than a few days working in information security has probably heard the three core tenets of security: availability, confidentiality, and integrity. This article discusses another well-known, but often overlooked concept--simplicity--and explores some of the ways that we can achieve simpler, more secure se Read more:January
, Technical
Tree View Document Library in MOSS 2007 2007-12-31 10:15:19 Hi Moss Devs,Are you looking for Treeview webpart to display the document library in tree view.There is no out of the box webpart available to display the document library in Treeview.I started googling it when started working on this task. I got few webparts which is using java script to load the tree view. I thought of developing own webpart to render the document library in tree view control.I have created the webpart using .Net 2.0 tree view control and fetching the document library information from the toolpart to render the data to tree view.Use the following code to load the leaf information of tree view from the document library.public void TraverseFolder(SPFolder folder,AspControls.TreeNode node){TreeNode tNode = new System.Web.UI.WebControls.TreeNode(folder.Name);try{if (folder.N Read more:Library
Customizing Site Navigation Bar & Quick Launch in MOSS 2007 2007-12-27 10:16:14 I am giving some inputs on how to play with site navigation bar in MOSS site using out of the box approach.The following is my default quick launch menu in the site. I want to add my custom links to quick launch.To do,Open Site Actions -> Site Settings. Click Navigation
under Look and FeelNow it will shows the navigations in current site.Now we need to add link for the navigation under current site.Click Add Heading under Current Navigation Section Links can be targeted based on the audience. Then Click OK to save the changes. Now the Quick
Lauch Displaying our custom linkTo add menu item in top navigation menu Add the links under Global NavigationNow the link is displaying the Top Navigation Menu.
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How To Create SubSites with Different Templates in MOSS 2007 2007-12-24 04:40:18 If you try to create subsite in SharePoint portal by default it will show only parent site template.Here its showing only Publishing site with workflow which is the parent site's site template.If its required for us to create the subsite with different site template.Follow the below steps :Open Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Modify All Site Settings -> Page Layouts and Site Templates
under Look and FeelSelect the option Subsites can use any site templateNow If you Create Subsite It will allow us to create subsite with any template :-)If you find this articles helps you. Please leave a comment.
Happy Birthday Windows Vista! * Microsoft Offers * 2007-12-24 01:55:45 Happy BirthdayWindowsVista
! As we approach the one year anniversary of launching Windows Vista
® we want to remember you as one of the many people who downloaded and tested one of the Windows Vista Beta or Release Candidates through TechNet or MSDN®.YOU were a significant contributor to the development of Windows Vista. Your participation was extremely valuable to Microsoft
, and we would like to say, “Thank You!” To show our appreciation, we have several special offers exclusively available to you. Offer 1: The ULTIMATE OFFER Just go to your favorite retail or online store and purchase a standalone, full package Windows Vista Ultimate product, full or upgrade version, and we will match that with a second, complimentary Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade product key. We will honor a copy Read more:Happy
, Happy Birthday
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Singleton Pattern Only One Instance is Created in Multi Threading 2007-12-17 12:46:58 while using the singleton pattern, only one instance is created in multi threading?Using threadsafe singleton class will guarantee that only one instance is created.public sealed class Singleton{ private static Singleton singleton = null; private static readonly object singletonLock = new object(); private Singleton() {} public static Singleton GetInstance() { lock (singletonLock) { if (singleton == null) { singleton = new Singleton(); } return singleton ; } }}Issue will raise only when the creation of first instance.Using lock() will provide us the thread safe to avoid execution of two threads at a same time to create instance. Again we are verifying the (singletonobject == null) so it will guarantee that only once inst Read more:Multi
, Pattern
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How to Configure SMTP in MOSS 2007 Site 2007-12-17 12:12:48 To Configure Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Outgoing Emails do the following steps:Open Central Administration Open Operations Tab and Click Outgoing email settings under Topology and ServicesCentral Administration -> Toplogy and Services -> Outgoing email settingsConfigure the Appropriate SMTP Server Settings and click OK.Now you have successfully configured SMTP settings for your MOSS Farm.
Error Opening MOSS 2007 Forms Authentication Site in SharePoint Designer 2007-12-17 11:16:03 If you try to open the FormsAuthentication
enabled site in SharePoint Designer
it will through the following error:The folder '' isn't accessible. The folder may be located in an unavailable location, protected with a password, or the filename contains a / or \.Designer cannot open the site because the site using custom authentication.There is two workaround for this issue.Approach 1:· While login to forms authentication site check the sign in me automatically(it will cache the credential and it will load the Designer)Approach 2:· Extend the Existing Forms Authentication Enabled web application to windows authentication application. Now windows authentication enabled web application can be opened in sharepoint designer using windows authentication. My Reccomandation would be Approach 2
Programmatically Add User to SharePoint Group 2007-12-12 05:06:47 To assign the user to group in MOSS 2007The following code will add the user to site and to specified group.private void AddUser(string strSite,string webGroup
) { SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate() { using (SPSite site = new SPSite(strSite)) { using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) { Boolean allowUnsafeUpdate = web.AllowUnsafeUpdates; try { web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; web.SiteUsers.Add(loginName, MailId, loginId, ""); web.Groups[webGroup].AddUser(loginName, MailId, loginId, ""); } finally
WinCE Update releases for the month of November 2007 2007-12-12 03:53:34 The Microsoft® Windows® CE update rollup will be released the second Tuesday of every month, the latest release occurring on or around December 11th, 2007. The following updates for Windows CE have been recently released and are available for download. More information for each update is provided in the Readme document available after the individual update(s) has been installed.Windows CE 5.0Update
name: Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder Monthly Update (November
2007)Download link: This is a set of updates for Windows CE Platform Builder released during the period of November 1 – November 30, 2007. These Microsoft Windows CE updates are fixes for Windows CE operating system problems you run into during the development and maintenance of your custom platform.Windows CE 6.0 – Update na
MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0 Service Pack 1 2007-12-12 00:33:52 Today Microsoft Released the Service
Pack 1 forMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 & Windows SharePoint Services 3.0Get It here for WSS 3.0 SP1Get it here for MOSS 2007 SP1
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WebCast : Advanced SharePoint Document Workflow with Visual Studio 2008 2007-12-11 04:30:28 Microsoft Webcast : Advanced SharePoint Document Workflow
with Visual
Studio 2008Time : Friday, December 14, 2007 1:30 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)Join Robert Shelton for a 90 minute demonstration (i.e., Very few if any PowerPoint slides) on building Document Workflows for SharePoint (MOSS 2007) with Visual Studio. For this demonstration, Robert will be using the soon to be released Visual Studio 2008 (showing new features for Workflow Developers), however all of the demonstrations could also be accomplished using Visual Studio 2005 with Workflow Extensions.What you will learn:• New features for SharePoint Workflow Developers in Visual Studio 2008• New SharePoint API’s for SharePoint workflow• How to debug SharePoint Workflow’s using the Visual Workflow Designer• The new s
Turn Off UnExpected Error Occurred in MOSS 2007 To Display Exception Detail 2007-12-10 22:07:17 MOSS 2007 by default will display the custom error page for all errors occurred in pageIn Development phase it will be difficult for the developers to understand the exact error. Change the following Modifications with the web.config of the web application. Then it will display the exception details in the error page.Turn the call stack on by searching for and change it to CallStack="true". Turn off the SharePoint error pages by turning off custom error pages: to mode="Off". Dont do this modification with the production site.Coz.....the users may get scared of long errors. ;)
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Programmatically Read List & View Content in SharePoint 2007-12-09 11:24:27 I got a task to work on developing the windows application which will fetch the List View data from sharepoint and process the data in win forms app.Previously i used to fetch the data using Lists.asmx,views.asmx.Now i came to know there is other way to fetch the data from List View.Syntax: Id}&View={View Id}&XMLDATA=trueExample URL: it will give the xml data as response.write the response to xmldoc and process the data.HttpWebRequest myRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(" =System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)myRequest.GetResponse();XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();doc.Load(response.GetResponseStream());
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SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit 2007-12-09 11:21:53 Microsoft Released the SharePoint 2007 Monitoring Tookit Get it HereOverviewThe SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit
helps you manage Microsoft® SharePoint® environments of all sizes with two new management packs for System Center Operations Manager 2007:Windows® SharePoint Services 3.0 Management PackMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Management PackThese packs monitor the health state of the components in your SharePoint environment that affect performance and availability. When there is an issue that may cause service or performance degradation, Operations Manager 2007 uses the management packs to detect the issue, alert you to its existence, and facilitate diagnosis and corrective actions.The management packs monitor: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 related services (Timer, Tracing an
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 VHD 2007-12-04 12:47:17 Hi Devs,Are you looking for the Development Environment to Learn MOSS 2007.Here is the way. Microsoft
Gives Preconfigure VHD for MOSS 2007.Get it hereIf you have any issues in configuring VHD please post here.Download Virtual PC to Host the VHD.
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Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 VHD 2007-12-04 12:46:34 Hi Devs,Are you looking for BizTalk Server 2006 Development Environment.Dont worry(Windows XP is enough for you to host VHD)Get it here for BizTalk Server 2006 VHD.Download Virutal PC to Host the VHD File.
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Increase Upload File size in Moss 2007 2007-12-04 12:12:53 To Increase Upload
File size in Moss 2007By Default Moss will allow us to upload File size up to 50 MB.If you want to increase upload file size.Follow the Below Steps:Open Central AdministrationOpen Web Application General SettingsChange the Maximum Upload Size to Required SizeUpload File size can be up to 2 GBNow you have done with change of upload file size.Enjoy uploading :-)
MOSS 2007 Pricing & Costing Info 2008-03-10 04:35:57 I have consolidated few links from Microsoft for MOSS 2007 Product Costing.Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Related Technologies pricing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 products comparison download 2007 Microsoft Office system pricing and upgrade information
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How to Hide Quick Launch in MOSS 2007 2008-03-09 14:39:50 Do you want to hide your quick launch Bar in MOSS 2007There are two ways to hide the quick launch bar1. You can edit directly in CSS2. Adding Hidden content editor webpartAdd new content editor webpartClick Source Editor in ToolPanepaste the below code in content editor webpart[style].ms-quicklaunch{ display:none;}.ms-navframe{ display: none;}[/style]Use "" instead of "[" & "]"Set the Hidden Property to True under layout section in ToolPane.Now Refresh the Page......You QuickLaunch
Bar is Gone :-)
How to Change the Background Color of WebPart Title 2008-05-16 15:56:48 Hey Guys,I got a requirement from the business to change the Background color of the webpart title for Out of Box webparts. Then i started looking on CSS I found the following CSS class which overrides the style of WebPart Title
..ms-WPHeader TD{border-bottom:0px solid #4e7cb7;border-collapse:collapse;}Change
this class as per your requirement then you are done.....ms-WPHeader TD{height:40px;backgr Read more:Color
MOSS 2007 Patches after SP1 2008-06-06 15:20:41 Some of the Patches released by microsoft for MOSS 2007 after SP1://support.microsoft.com/kb/941274://support.microsoft.com/kb/948945://support.microsoft.com/kb/948957-us-us -us -us-us
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