tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110372992012-01-19T19:16:28.759-06:00My experiences as a SharePoint Architect, Administrator, and Consultant, with a little Office Communications Server (OCS and Lync) thrown in!dggcoopnoreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11037299.post-4172397879917443292012-01-17T10:17:00.002-06:002012-01-18T11:06:49.952-06:00

I know there are many readers of this blog that live outside of the United States, but please bear with me as I address two bills before the U.S. Congress that will have global impact. Instead of addressing the actual bills and the general impact they would have on the internet (you can find information in various other places), I want to look at this issue from the prospective of a technology

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A SharePoint document library in some ways acts similar to a folder when storing documents on your local computer. For example, you can’t have two documents with the same name within a document library (or folder, if you are using folders). If you try to rename a document and give it the same name as another document in the library, you will be given this wonderful error (in SharePoint 2007):

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I recently setup yet another SharePoint farm (this time using virtual machines) and ran into a problem that happens all too often. The scenario is this: I setup MS SQL server in preparation for getting SharePoint installed on a separate server. After setting up your service accounts in Active Directory and installing MS SQL on Server1, I set off installing SharePoint on Server2. When I got to

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Data Views can be a very powerful tool when using SharePoint Designer 2007 in designing pages in your WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 environments (the same is true for SharePoint Designer 2010 and SharePoint 2010). One of the requirements for my project is to display documents from two different SharePoint Document Libraries in one view and have the documents displayed in a specific way. The content is

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Data Views can be a very powerful tool when using SharePoint Designer 2007 in designing pages in your WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 environments (the same is true for SharePoint Designer 2010 and SharePoint 2010). One of the requirements for my project is to display documents from two different SharePoint Document Libraries in one view and have the documents displayed in a specific way. The content is

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Data Views can be a very powerful tool when using SharePoint Designer 2007 in designing pages in your WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 environments (the same is true for SharePoint Designer 2010 and SharePoint 2010). One of the requirements for my project is to display documents from two different SharePoint Document Libraries in one view and have the documents displayed in a specific way. The content is

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If you have installed the 64-bit new version of Microsoft Office, Office 2010, then you will most likely see the following message when trying to edit a SharePoint list using the Edit in datasheet function:The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons:- A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed.- Your Web browser

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After applying a new master page and related theme components, we have been receiving reports that users were being presented with 403 ‘forbidden’ errors when trying to load our intranet site. After refreshing the screen four (4) times, the page would finally load. I checked the web server’s Application log and found that every time a user received a 403 error, there was an “Information” Web

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Today I experienced some issues with Office Communicator 2007 R2 and Live Meeting 2007. First, Communicator was complaining about not being able to update the address book. Then, when I tried to start a meeting using Live Meeting (via the Meet Now function), I received the following error:When I looked to find some hints to the "Live Meeting cannot connect to the meeting." message online, all the

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I created a new Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web Application a few months back and moved our existing sites around to create a new structure in the new Web Application. I did this to move all the project sites under one 'roof' and get things more organized. At the time, we were a little behind the curve on patching SharePoint. We were on version 12.0.0.6327, which is SP1 plus the August 2008

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I recently needed to add an account to an IIS6 Application Pool, but I did not know the password. No one else knew the password either. However, I found out that the account was being used by an IIS6 application pool on another Windows Server 2003 machine. So I loaded the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools, which includes the lovely tool "Metabase Explorer". After I launched the Metabase Explorer

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When looking to allow indexing of OneNote 2007 content (to allow for searching) within SharePoint Server 2007, I was directed toward this Microsoft KB: How to configure SharePoint to let you search OneNote 2007 content on SharePoint sites (KB925765). KB925765 describes the way to enable the indexing of OneNote content on MOSS 2007 using 5 steps: Install OneNote 2007 on the server Add…….

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If you are in the Nashville, TN, USA area and would like to hear wonderful SharePoint presentations, FREE! food, and great discussions with like-minded people, then come join us! The meetings are always free and open to the public. Information concerning the Nashville SharePoint Users Group can be found here: http://NashvilleSUG.com The Nashville SUG website also has copies of the presentations

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Recently I came across multiple WSS sites (v3) that someone else created. These sites are used by everyone in the company and were not provisioned correctly; the permissions were incorrectly setup. So, instead of visiting every site and adding the appropriate permissions, I created a batch file that went through the sites and added several SharePoint groups and individual users to the sites in

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Before upgrading our Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) install to OCS R2, we pushed out the Office Communicator 2007 R2 client to our desktops. As with most software pushes, not everyone received the client successfully. Currently, there are four versions of the Communicator client connected to our R2 server: UCCAPI/2.0.6362.15 UCCAPI/3.5.6907.0 OC/3.5.6907.0 (Microsoft Office

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I recently was trying to create a SharePoint site and was surprised to see a “File Not Found.” error when I submitted the action. After scratching my head for a short amount of time, I remembered that I had created a managed path that was the same name as the site I was trying to create. After removing the managed path, I was able to create my site and go merrily along my way.

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I have recently been having some Address Book sync problems with Office Communicator 2007 R2. A couple things I wanted to share with anyone who cares to listen: -When you turn on logging within Communicator, the logs are placed in your profile directory. So, at the root of your profile (i.e. for Windows XP, it would be: c:\documents and settings\%username%), open the Tracing folder. This is

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I have been trying to install Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 Standard Edition for a few days now without success. During the server install process (after the schema has been extended), a warning shows up in the activation logs of every role (Standard Edition Server, Web Components Server, Web Conferencing Server, Audio/Video Conferencing Server, Application Sharing Server, and

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I have recently been setting up a virtual network to get more experience in upgrading the applications listed below in the same environment. I am utilizing the following Microsoft products:Windows Server 2008 domain controller (version: Server Core)Windows Server 2003 application servers (possible upgrade to Server 2008 in the future)Exchange (version: 2003 upgrading to 2007)Live Communications

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I have been asked several times about removing some of the templates that are available at site creation. There are several reasons you might want to do this and it really is simple to implement.To hide a template from users, open the Webtemp.xml file located in the /program files/common files/Microsoft shared/web server extensions....../template/1033/XML folder. Change the Hidden parameter of

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One great feature for WSS 3.0 is the e-mail enabled libraries. It can really get you using SharePoint beyond just a normal web site. But did you know that you can have e-mail-enabled document libraries using WSS 2.0? Yup, you sure can. It actually isn't anything new for the recent version.Here is the information on TechNet: Configuring E-Mail-Enabled Document Libraries (Windows SharePoint

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I recently ran across a little gem on the TechNet website: "Solutions Using the Microsoft Office System: Learn how to use the Microsoft Office system to solve your business scenarios"This page includes over 40 large Visio diagrams detailing the Microsoft Office system, over 30 of which specifically reference SharePoint as a central topic.The topics include InfoPath and Forms integration,

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It would be great if we all had a detailed guide to show us the upgrade steps specific for us. A step-by-step guide is a little more complicated than you might think. Without knowing your environment, any plan anyone will give you will be at least a little generic. However, Microsoft has done a pretty good job at providing the steps. You will need to make your decision on how you will upgrade

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There are several items that need to be part of your SharePoint backup/restore plan. SharePoint Application FilesCustom Applications (such as webparts, add-on "features", etc.) IIS InfoDatabasesIf you are performing a complete, exhaustive backup of each SharePoint server, then the first two should be fine (some custom apps will need dlls, etc. on the file system), as well as some of the IIS Info

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Microsoft has released the first service pack for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) .The 'bug' I posted about below titled "Mobile View Doesn't Work on SharePoint ( WSS 3.0) List" does NOT appear to be fixed with the service pack. However, another bug I have encountered is listed in the " Downloadable list of issues that the service pack

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I get the quesiton of how to switch the service account for MOSS and WSS 3.0 fairly often.   There are many reasons why one would want to change the account or the password to the account used for SharePoint. Microsoft has now put up a KB article on exactly how to do it. They even included a sample script!   Check out the KB article here: How to change service accounts and service account

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I recently ran into a situation where I couldn't get the 'Mobile View' in WSS 3.0 to work on a list that I had created. I went into the view of the list and selected the Mobile checkboxes ('Make this a mobile view ' and 'Make this the default mobile view'), but it still was not showing up on my SharePoint site's mobile homepage. My first thought was "What makes this list different than the other

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    SharePoint 2007 allows for emails to be accepted into discussions, document libraries and lists. To enable this functionality, a few steps will need to be followed. One thing to note: integrating SharePoint with Exchange is NOT needed for this functionality, but if you do choose Exchange, you will get some added benefits.   -SMTP Service You will need to install the SMTP Server Service on

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I run an instance of WSS 3.0 on a machine at home for testing. I don't use it much because it is so slow unless you are on the LAN. I always knew it was because of SQL, but I didn't really have time to look into fixing it. See, I don't have the option of having two separate drives in the machine. NOTE: You should never run SQL databases on the same HD spindle where the OS is located due to

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In the SharePoint version 2.0 products, to exclude a directory from SharePoint "control", you add an Explicit Exclusion to the Managed Paths for the site using the Central Administration Website. You also add Explicit Inclusions and Wildcard Inclusions at the same location. However, in SharePoint version 3.0 products, it is a bit different. You still create Explicit Inclusions and Wildcard

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The question comes up pretty often: "Which product is right for me?" Honestly, there are many factors that come into play to answer that question: -Usability -Cost -Scalability -Flexibility   Microsoft has an article giving the feature differences between WSS and SPS 2003. Microsoft also has a white paper titled Implementing Rich Collaboration Infrastructure Using Microsoft Windows SharePoint

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I think it is always good to remember the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit has chapters online that are free to access. But, most people don't know how this book can help them. So, here is the chapters listing along with some of my thoughts on the chapter. Remember, my advice is to read the whole book BEFORE you deploy SharePoint into production! You will thank me later

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I was just reminded today about the limits on how many items you can have on a list. The limits are divided by the type of fields as dictated by the Microsoft article titled "Column Limit Exceeded" Message When You Add a New Column to a SharePoint Services List . Part of the article: With Windows SharePoint Services, you can create the following numbers of each column type for each list or

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ChangePasswordControl Webpart for Sharepoint from Tom van de Kerkhof I haven't implemented it yet, but it sounds great.

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Many times I have needed to get a copy of the dll that is in the GAC for a webpart. I have been trying the different methods to get to the dll without the possibility of moving the reference to the GAC entirely (which you can do with the xcopy command! :-/ ) Here is a method I like: To view the physical file structure of the GAC, add a DWORD value named 'DisableCacheViewer' to the registry key

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Changing the web part menus in SharePoint could be really valuable,especially in branding your site.How to create web part menus in SharePoint

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Found this SDK article on how to "Customize the Shortcut Menu for List Items"

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I recently installed the beta Windows Server R2 release, which comes with WSS SP2.You can find the overview of the new features here.The first thing you will notice that is different when you install WSS R2, is the option to use NTLM or Kerberos:Also, you will notice that the site versions are different that those of previous versions. The following is a comparison of WSS with no service pack and

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A really good write-up on how to do custom sitedefinitions by Kris Syverstad .

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I have been asked several times how to get to that page that displaysthe web parts that are active on a WSS page.Usually, you only see this page if one of the web parts loaded on thepage is giving an error when loading.What we are looking for is called the Manage Web Part Page.To get to it, use the following url:http://VIRTUALSERVERNAME/_layouts/1033/spcontnt.aspx?&url=default.aspxThis will give

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Here is a overview of the features planned for WSS 2.0 Service Pack 2 .Some of the new features:-Support for IP-bound virtual servers-Kerberos enabled by default-Support for advanced extranet configurations:--->SSL Termination--->Host Header Modification--->Port Translation

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One of the most asked questions concerning SharePoint is backup andrecovery. One step further is restoring individual files that usershave deleted off the site.Here is a list of backup/restore options for individual documents:- "Add a Recycle Bin to Windows SharePoint Services for Easy DocumentRecovery" from MSDN - "PowerRecycle™- "DocAveBackup for Microsoft Office SharePoint Products and

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If you would like to know what template a site is using (very usefulwhen you must move that site to another server; the same template willneed to be on the destination server), you can check in the contentdatabase where that site resides.-Open the database in SQL Enterprise Manager, and return all rows fromthe 'Webs' table of the content database.-Find the site using the 'FullURL' column; the

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I thought it would be helpful to have the locations of the files thatmakeup a site definition on a SharePoint server.Why post this: several times, I have had to copy/move sitedefinitions, that I did not develop, to other servers.Things to note: --> c:\...\ means c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\webserver extensions\60\TEMPLATE--> Each language pack uses a different folder name (i.e

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I also found a post on PrinceJoel's Weblog with someone's answers (I am not sure who gave theanswer). However, there are some things I disagree with, but most ofit is correct when thinking of SharePoint when it comesout-of-the-box.

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I found these questions on Tim Heuer's Weblog----------------------------------------------------------------------------------What SharePoint consultants Ought to Know Everyone who can spell SharePoint * what is SharePoint? * what is the difference between SharePoint Portal Server andWindows SharePoint Services? * what is a document library? * what is a meeting workspace? * what is a

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Found this pretty good blog entry about displaying usernames onSharePoint pages:MSDNBlog on Username display

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Discussion on how opening/editing a WSS or SPS2003 site in FrontPage2003 un-ghosts the site (places the site's definition into the SQLdatabase instead of keeping the reference to the one on the server).This can be very bad for performance!SharePointUdiscussion

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Good TechNet article on how SharePoint uses access logs (it isactually a chapter from the Microsoft SharePoint Products andTechnologies Resource Kit which you can find here:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/reskit/default.mspx):http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/reskit/c2961881x.mspx

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Short article about custom templates: Microsoft support article Thanks lffiby!Ref. post

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You can tell if the users have been deleted from the site collectionby looking at the UserInfo table of the content database. If the valueof the tp_Deleted column is 0, then the user is active in the sitecollection. Otherwise, they have been removed.SharePoint keeps this information around because it needs it to linkto the items placed on the sites. If it removed the users completely,the items

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A great article on conditional formatting:WSSDemo articleThanks Mark!Ref. post

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The article is a little hard to understand, but it has some prettygood information about creating additional buttons in libraries so youcan say "New Excel file" or "New Word file" no matter the defaultdocument library's new file type:http://msd2d.com/newsletter_tip.aspx?section=sharepoint&id=cd3fd32d-b989-4bff-aae7-a65846b795b6

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There are some who want to find the least amount of privileges forSharePoint to have in SQL. So, to help out, here is what I have sofar:The account the SharePoint Application Pool is using needs to haveread/write privileges on the content database. It also needs to haveexecute privileges on stored procedures.

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Some info on how IIS works with host headers and SSL:You shouldn't have two sites setup with the same host header (even ifthey are on different servers, UNLESS you are using load-balancing!).A suggestion might be to call it site.dev.domain.com , site.qa.domain.com,site.domain.com as you go through devlopment, testing, and productionenvironments.Also, you have to understand how IIS works. It

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To change the application pool for an existing Windows SharePointServices site (IIS virtual server):-Ensure that the new application pool is running under the sameidentity the old AppPool is running as. (if you don't, then SharePointmay not be able to connect to the content or configuration database)-In IIS, expand Web Sites.-Right-click on the virtual server you want to change and select

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You can map a network share to a SharePoint site (or individualdocument library) doing the following:net use s: http://sharePointserver/somesite/doclibNote that if there is a space in the path, you need to use quotesaround the url:net use s: "http://sharePointserver/somesite/shared documents"Also need to ensure the WebClient service is running.This would be really useful for automated uploading

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1-Copy the databases from the old SQL server to the new one.2-Then, in the config database on the new SQL server, open the Serverstable in the config database.3-Change the Name and Address fields that have the old SQL server nameto the new SQL server name.4-Open the SharePoint Central Administration page and click on "Setconfiguration database server" under the Server Configuration section.5-

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Here is a little info on setting alerts using the STSADM command (from the Windows SharePoint Services Admin Guide). It can also check/change many other settings. Take a look:You can manage alerts from the command line by using the GetProperty and SetProperty operations with Stsadm.exe. You can set the following properties to configure how alerts work.Property ----> Descriptionalerts-enabled ----

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