I'm really impressed with the new forums that have been migrated to MSDN Forums v3.0, changes are listed here. One thing to note is the "proposed answer" functionality which I think will help people mark answers easier than the last interface. Of interest was the fact that the SharePoint topics balance between Answered and Unanswered Threads. Take these examples:
InfoPath - Answered:
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Had a "great" morning this morning involving releasing to our SharePoint 2007 Production environment which has been in place for nearly 18 months now - 6 server farm. Our UAT environment was built by myself last month which "matches" Production as closely as possible in terms servers etc. but it's been hard because the documentation of how Production built is incomplete. So
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OK, so there's plenty of hype at the moment for ASP.NET developers to "leverage the platform"...being SharePoint and a really flash (I mean silverlight) interface for them to click around on with the title "Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint". This made me cringe after the last couple of weeks I've had on my current project and also with respect to these posts I've been
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So the next part in my series will basically show you how to deploy a Content By Query Web Part (CQWP) and also it's associated elements. The screenshot below shows the structure of my project file now. The Solution package can be downloaded here.
Deploying the Content By Query Web Part
As I mentioned in my previous article, there are various ways of deploying the web part but I feel
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Adding extra assemblies to your Solution
Just had to post about this because it's been driving me crazy. I've got various Solutions now that have been built using STSDEV 1.3 in Visual Studio 2008. There are common classes I've been using and was scratching my head to get the dll to deploy with the solution and was hacking it by installing it directly into the GAC! Now I've worked it out an
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As promised I've uploaded the 3rd webcast to show how Chapter 3 is implemented. I've also posted the sample code below for you guys to pick and chose as you please. Click here to watch the webcast (NEW 32MB swf - 40mins) . The .zip of the solution can be downloaded here (1.4Mb) too. Thanks to Paul Culmsee for hosting these for me!
Site Collection Feature.xml
<?xml version="1.0"
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"Previously on 'Prison Break'...I mean 'Solution Packages for Developers'"
My blog got quite a few extra visitors over the last couple of days since writing about SharePoint Development and "doing things the right way". A few people have been giving me "gentle" and "subtle" hints to start a series and based on the success of Paul Culmsee's various part
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I was scouring over my feed reader this morning and came across this post on the MSDN forums asking:"Any one please give me a step by step implementation of deploying a SharePoint application...(Modifying the SharePoint website content and deploying it to the SharePoint server)?"
Now, all platforms are tricky when it comes to development and deploying. I've worked with Interwoven, B
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I attended the Perth SharePoint User Group today and we were lucky enough to have Andrew Coates (Microsoft Developer Evangelist) presenting. Before I begin, I'd just like to say what an amazing presenter Andrew is and that hopefully one day people will say those things about me when I'm out Evangelising.
Andrew was presenting something that had been presented at the SharePoint Forum in Sydney
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I've repeatedly stated that there are certain areas of the SharePoint 2007 stack that are not true Enterprise level features. Workflow is one of them and various other bloggers and reports have stated this, my research links are a testimony to this.
I believe Microsoft have confused the SharePoint community by giving two options with SharePoint Designer (SPD) Workflows and Visual Studio (VS)
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I've read Paul Culmsee's articles with great interest on Project Failure and will be helping him continue his series in the next few days on Development Failures. Joel Olsen, SharePoint God, also has found keen interest in it and has written some of his own experiences with it.
It's interesting to see Joel write externally from Microsoft and it really does show a more open, less reserved appr
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I attended a great Information Management morning in Perth last week and bumped into a fair few clients that I had engaged with in my previous Pre Sales role working for a Solution Integrator before moving to the dark side working internally in a SharePoint team.
One of the guys asked me a question around "What do we need the SI to actually quote on to get SharePoint up and running?"
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The organisation I am working for at the moment has an Active Directory set up of Users and Contacts.
Running a ldifde query to output all Users and Contacts (below) provides me a list of 936 items.
ldifde -f usersindomain.csv -r "(&(objectCategory=Person)(|(objectClass=User)(objectClass=Contact)))"
If I use this query within the Import Connection in the SSP in Central Admini
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Got a beauty of an error on our Production farm every few seconds:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category: General
Event ID: 27745
Date: 23/04/2008
Time: 9:23:24 AM
User: N/A
Computer: CENTRALADMINSERVER
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 27745 )
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These errors are mentioned on the Deploy Software Updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 right down the bottom.
The Error
Finding Cause
Look in the linked log and search for 'ERR' matching case.
04/16/2008 16:37:17 6 ERR Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies. Further information regarding this failure can b
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I was configuring a User Profiles and Properties Import Connection today and kicked off a Full Crawl.
As you can see from the above screen it states 'The operation completed successfully'...but it did not obviously crawl my entire domain as there are only 4 user profiles.
I viewed the Import logs and found this error 'The profile import default access account is set to use the default
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I had an interesting error yesterday regarding access to the 'User profiles and properties' page in the Shared Services Administration stating the generic "Access Denied" SharePoint site access denied.
Now my first approach was to look who was the Site Collection Administrator, which was ... yes you guessed it me! And I can access the front page of the Shared Services Provider Pa
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I've been using the UDCX files for my Data Connections in my InfoPath form and for the Form Submit Action it came up with an error if I resubmitted the form:
A value in the form may be used to specify the file name. If you know the value in the form that specifies the file name, revise it and try again. Otherwise, contact the author of the form template.
At first I didn't know where to start
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I found a post on the MSDN forums because I have the same problem and it recommended the SP1 upgrade to fix the Day Light Savings issue which we have here in Perth Australia. The Day Light Savings actually finished last week before we could get all our ducks in line to test the SP1 patch on our Test Servers and I really couldn't wait for our SharePoint SP1 rollout to happen and needed a solutio
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I've been doing a lot of work around Governance of SharePoint within our organisation and have been hitting brick walls with regards to InfoPath. Especially with regards to Environmental differences when using Forms with Data Sources.
I've found lots of articles pushing Data Connection Libraries with .udcx files which is fine to a point but this is the best one. With this being the best explan
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I was doing some research into InfoPath Forms Server and came across references to UniqueWorld's InfoView and SharePoint Forms product. Following the link took me to a message stating:
Unique World Software (UWS) is changing our focus and will shortly be release exciting news about the work we’ve been doing bringing a VERS compliant ‘add-on’ to the Records Management capabilities of Microsoft
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