SharePoint 2007

Oklahoma City SharePoint User Group Opportunities

Wayne Larimore — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:39:42 GMT

We have two events happening in March that you should be aware of if you are in the Oklahoma City metro area. It will be great time to share what you are doing with SharePoint and struggles you are having. Perhaps there will be someone in attendance that can provide an answer to your problem.

When: March 11th, 2010 11:30am - 1:00pm (please rsvp, see below)

Where:

Dell Oklahoma City office
3501 SW 15th
Bldg A, Hudson Hall on 1st Floor
Oklahoma City, OK 73108

Who:

Eric Shupps, The SharePoint Cowboy will be our guest speaker for this first meeting of the Oklahoma City SharePoint User Group.

Subject:

Overview of SharePoint 2010 and talk further about features in SharePoint 2010 of interest to the IT Pro and the developer.

Please RSVP to: balcock [at] ou.edu or call (405) 325-7307

When: March 29, 2010 6pm - 8pm

Where: http://okccoco.com/

Who:

Corey Roth is a consultant at Stonebridge specializing in SharePoint solutions in the Oil & Gas Industry. He has ten plus years of experience delivering solutions in the energy, travel, advertising and consumer electronics verticals. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, LINQ, and SilverLight. He also contributed greatly to the beta phases of Visual Studio 2005. For his contributions, he was awarded the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE). Corey is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia).

Subject:

Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search

This intro level talk will teach you the basics of Enterprise Search in SharePoint. Here you will learn about the basic building blocks such as content sources, crawled properties, managed properties, and scopes. We will also cover what types of data can be indexed. We’ll use demo search using SharePoint 2010, but all of the topics apply to MOSS 2007 as well.

Hope to see you there :o)

SharePoint Designer Restore fails with "Could not find the file" Exportsettings.xml

Wayne Larimore — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:02:33 GMT

I recently attempted to move a subsite from one location to another on our SharePoint 2007 platform. I received an error upon restoring. The backup seemed to successfully complete, but the restore kept failing with Could not find the file C:\Windows\Temp\[someguid]\Exportsettings.xml.

I found out this happens when the content size exceeds 25MB and it fails to include the mentioned file - Exportsettings.xml. I found a workaround solution at this particular blog.

Here's the jest of what needs to happen:

Recover leftover files from the original backup site location (via Recycle Bin)
Select all recovered files (locate at the root of the site now) within SharePoint Designer and Publish them to a local location via File System.
Change the extension name of all files from *.cmp to *.cab
Unzip the *.cab files into a temporary subfolder
Use the Microsoft Cabinet Software Development Kit's cabarc executable to create one file with all files into a seperate subfolder.
- e.g. cabarc n test-restore.cab C:\testdir\*.*
Rename the new files extension from .cab to .cmp
Use this file to restore the site

[addendum] - I was getting the message “Web site restore did not complete successfully”. My file was around 380MB in size. To get around this issue, I increased the maximum file upload size in the Central Administration. It's located in the following location: Central Administration --> Application Management --> Web Application General Settings --> Maximum Upload Size. It was set to 50MB and I increased it to 400MB temporarily to accomplish this backup / restore request.

Developing SharePoint Applications: Patterns & Practices Update

Wayne Larimore — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:17:33 GMT

[via AC]

An update has been published on Patterns & Practices as related to SharePoint Application Development. This is a great resource to follow as you are developing your custom SharePoint solutions.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203468.aspx

SharePoint Stock Ticker via Timer Job in WSP

Wayne Larimore — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:26:42 GMT

[via Stefan Keir Gordan]

I found a Stock Ticker implementation over on StefanOnSharePoint's blog. He implements a timer job code originally published by AC. We have something similar at the company I work at; however, we pull the stock data directly from within the webpart. Stefan proposes updating a custom list with unlimited number of stock quotes and using a "simple data view" to display the results.

Here's the reference: http://www.keirgordon.com/post/SharePoint-Stock-Ticker.aspx

SharePoint 2010 - Sneak Peek Videos

Wayne Larimore — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:45:48 GMT

Check out some of the new features in SharePoint 2010 coming our way in Beta form (later this year) and RTM first quarter 2010.

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx

MOSS 2007 SP2 Bug Expiration Date Improperly activated

Wayne Larimore — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:51:59 GMT

[via Stefan Gossner]

We have recently discovered a bug with Service Pack 2 (SP2) that affects all customers that have deployed it for SharePoint Server 2007. During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed. The activation of the expiration date will not affect the normal function of SharePoint up until the expiration date passes. Furthermore, product expiration 180 days after SP2 installation will not affect customer’s data, configuration or application code but will render SharePoint inaccessible for end-users. We are working to release a hotfix to automatically fix this issue. A manual work-around is currently available and involves customers re-entering their Product ID number (PID) on the Convert License Type page in Central Administration. For more information and detailed steps please read this KB article. (The KB link is not currently active, it will be available within the next 48hrs) Read more on the official SharePoint Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx

MOSS 2007 SP2 preps for SharePoint Server 2010

Wayne Larimore — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:55:16 GMT

[via Bob Fox]

New additions in MOSS 2007 SP2

preupgradecheck - Bob shows how he ran this new stsadm switch on his test lab. It is available in SP2 to preview readiness in upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010. He provides helpful insight on what this information provides.

Backup, Set your databases to Read Only - "If you run this command on a working environment there will always be a chance for the job to fail if users are adding content to the sites. To prevent this we now have a new feature that allows us to lock the DB and make it read only."

GetSiteLock / SetSiteLock - Example, "A company has multiple organizations that it owns and for some reason one of those companies goes under. The information that was listed on that companies site is still something that other employees want to consume but we don't want any more data being posted to this or have any changes made. Couple fixes come to mind to solve this. We can change the sites security permissions giving everyone read access. This, depending on the complexity of the sites security, can take a great deal of time. We could also archive the data someplace else (perhaps on another portal thats being used for Archive or DR purposes)….both take time and are not alot of fun. OR we can run a simple command and in one sweep render the site in 3 different states using the new command line tool setsitelock."

Virtual PC VMWare Alternative = Virtual Box (VirtualBox)

Wayne Larimore — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:38:53 GMT

If you believe Microsoft's Virtual PC has been abandoned or VMWare is too pricey for your budget, give the free Open Source alternative a try. I have been reading some forums and blog posts from some happy folks using it. Also, as of this posting date, the community is really active in keeping it cutting edge.

Virtual Box - http://www.virtualbox.org/

"VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)."

MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2 has been released

Wayne Larimore — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:51:24 GMT

[via Stefan]

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 including the service packs for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 has just been released. Be sure to read the KB articles below as they contain important information about SP2 including known issues with these service packs.

KB Article Links

Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack SP2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953338

Description of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (SP2) and of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (SP2)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953334

Download Links

Please check the above listed KB articles. They contain the download locations for the service packs and language service packs.

Installation Steps

Be sure to follow the instructions about how to install software update for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007.

Please also check SharePoint Team Blog and Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies when the articles go live.

Related Resources

About Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Product and Technologies

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=148551

Service Pack 2 Overview

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=148374

Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx

The full list of changes in SP2 (Excel 2007 format)
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 Changes
MOSS 2007 SP2 Changes

You can also go to this KB article for a full list of downloads for Office System 2007 SP2 (client & server).
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968170

SharePoint Development Track now available

Wayne Larimore — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:26:59 GMT

I caught this over at Stefan's blog. MSDN's ramp up site has a SharePoint Development Track available, located directly at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/dd221355.aspx.

Some of the tracks include:

Level 1: Web Parts
Did you know that in SharePoint you can build pages as easy as in ASP.NET – and allow end users to create dashboards? Web parts allow for creating components of Web user interface that can be reused on multiple Web pages. These are introduced in ASP.NET and built on in SharePoint where they can be added to pages by end users and managed by IT Professionals. In this topic you will learn about building simple Web parts for SharePoint and how to connect them back to SharePoint site data.

Level 2: Data Lists
Did you know that SharePoint developers can work with data from lists that users get access to too? Data lists provide data storage for end users in SharePoint. End users can create lists with schema all through the SharePoint user interface and they can create, edit, and view the data. All of this data can be programmatically accessed by developers and this topic is all about that.

Level 3: Event Handlers
Did you know that SharePoint developers can automatically process data that your users upload via a spreadsheet? Event handlers (or event receivers) are custom code that runs on the SharePoint server in response to something that happens on the server. Event handlers can be useful for running business logic in response to data being added to the site. This topic shows how to create simple event handlers and investigates ways that event handlers can be used in SharePoint.

Level 4: Workflow
Did you know that you can write WF workflows in SharePoint without having to worry about storage, persistence, or how to interact with the user? Workflow in SharePoint allows for implementation of processes that require interaction such as email approvals or form completion by people in your organization. This topic shows you how to create simple workflows in SharePoint using Visual Studio that involve approvals from people by email and for meeting room resource bookings with an administrator.

Level 5: Silverlight Web Parts
Did you know that you can build rich Internet applications with SharePoint? Silverlight is a new Web user interface technology from Microsoft that allows for each implementation of animations and videos. This topic shows how a SharePoint user interface can be enhanced by using Silverlight in Web parts as part of a SharePoint site.