Configuration Wizard An exception of type System.UnauthorizedAccessException was thrown.

Configuration Wizard An exception of type System.UnauthorizedAccessException was thrown. Additional exception information: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Facing this problem while running the Configuration wizard after installing the MOSS 2007. Do anyone have fine solution to over come this problem?

One of the solution is : The technique to reset passwords is exactly the same as resetting the accounts used. It gives you an understanding of what accounts affect each service.Also, in some cases resetting the password for domain accounts triggers Sharepoint to reset permissions which can fix odd issues like this.

Even this doesn't solve in another environment!

Microsoft® Enterprise Desktop Virtualization V1

Microsoft® Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V, formerly known as Kidaro) enhances deployment, management and user experience for Virtual PC images on a Windows® Desktop, independent of the local desktop configuration and operating system (OS). MED-V leverages Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to provide an enterprise solution for desktop virtualization streamlining OS upgrades, and increasing IT control and user flexibility in enterprise environments. MED-V solution for Application-to-OS incompatibility accelerates the upgrade path to Windows Vista®. Applications that cannot be installed on Windows Vista® or have not been fully tested on Windows Vista® may be installed by the administrator in a virtual machine that runs a previous version of the OS (e.g., Windows XP or Windows 2000) and operate in their native, supported environment. Learn more!

My 15th article in the Codeproject.com

My 15th article in the Codeproject.com

Title: Building SharePoint Web Service Dynamically and Accessing the Documents
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/Dynamic_SharePoint.aspx

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Windows Azure
Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft® data centers.

Cloud computing with…
Ability to run Microsoft ASP.NET Web applications or .NET code in the cloud
Service hosting environment that includes Internet Information Services 7.0 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Security supported by flexible Code Access Security policies
Small runtime API that supports logging and local scratch storage
Web portal that helps you deploy, scale, and upgrade your services quickly and easily

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Microsoft Certified Master

How to become a Microsoft Certified Master

Do you have what it takes to achieve the highest level of technical certification for Microsoft server products? Successful applicants are able to demonstrate their expertise through hands-on experience and prerequisite exams. Complete the following requirements to achieve your Microsoft Certified Master credential.

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Visual Studio 2008 in Tamil language interface!

CLIP (Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam) for Visual Studio 2008
The Captions Language Interface Pack is a tool that uses a tooltip caption and/or a small discrete dialog to display translations for user interface items in Visual Studio 2008. The user hovers with the mouse on top of the UI elements to see an instant translation. For version 1.0, the CLIP offers partial localization, i.e. covers only most of the core IDE of the product.

I am very happy that, I have done my small contribution by testing the localization for Tamil Language before this release.

For Tamil http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4e5258d2-52f4-46b8-8b74-da2dbec7c2f7&displaylang=ta

Manual steps to re-create the Show Desktop icon

Manual steps to re-create the Show Desktop icon on the Quick Launch toolbar
The Show Desktop icon is not an ordinary program shortcut. If the icon is deleted, the procedure for re-creating the icon is not obvious.

To manually re-create the Show Desktop icon, follow these steps:

1. Click Start , click Run, type notepad, and then click OK.

2. In Notepad, type the following text on individual lines:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

3. On the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file to your desktop as Show Desktop.scf.

Note Notepad might automatically append a .txt extension to the file name. Remove this extension if present. The file name should be Show Desktop.scf.

The file must now be moved to the correct folder in the user profile to appear in the Quick Launch toolbar. To manually do this, use one of the following methods.

Ref: MSDN

Read SharePoint documents using SQL Server query

Retrieve documents form the SharePoint website and display the same in your Windows forms application. No need to use SharePoint webservices or SharePoint Object model. Just run through the query to fetch the documents from the SharePoint using SQL query.

Sample Code:
private void btnload_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string RootSite = txtsharepointsite.Text.ToString(); // "http://w2czbmlg01:12345/";
// Opening SQL connection for Microsoft SQL Server 2005
SqlConnection MySQLConnection = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=W2CZBMLG01;Initial Catalog=WSS_Content_12345;Integrated Security=True");
// Passing SQL command text
string strSQLcmd = "SELECT CONVERT(nvarchar(36), Id) AS ID, '" + RootSite + "'+ DirName + '/' + LeafName AS Name, LeafName FROM dbo.Docs WHERE (LeafName NOT LIKE 'template%') AND LeafName LIKE '%.doc' ORDER BY DirName, LeafName";
SqlCommand MySQLCommand = new SqlCommand (strSQLcmd, MySQLConnection);
MySQLConnection.Open();
MySQLCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();
// Dats set
DataSet Docds = new DataSet("Docs");
SqlDataAdapter MySQLAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter();
MySQLAdapter.SelectCommand = MySQLCommand;
MySQLAdapter.Fill(Docds, "Docs");
for (int i = 0; i < Docds.Tables["Docs"].Rows.Count; i++)
{
// list populates
lstdocuments.Items.Add(Docds.Tables["Docs"].Rows[i].ItemArray[2].ToString());
//lstdocuments.DisplayMember = Docds.Tables["Docs"].Rows[i].ItemArray[2].ToString();
//lstdocuments.ValueMember = Docds.Tables["Docs"].Rows[i].ItemArray[1].ToString();
}
}
}

Just create a Windows Form application and add this code in the form load or button click to get the result.

Image Composite Editor from Microsoft Research

Image Composite Editor from Microsoft Research

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution.

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Visual Studio 2008 Express is available

Visual Studio 2008 Express is now available


Get started creating cool fun projects with one of these Express Edition products.
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Shrink Database files in Sharepoint Database

Let's see simple steps to shrink the database files for the SharePoint environment.

First check out the properties first for our SharePoint database files.

Now let's run the SQL command to shrink the database data file

Now let's run the SQL command to shrink the database log file

After these execution look at the property again to check the difference of after shrinking the files.

Rapid Tools for SharePoint -- Developer productivity tools for the SharePoint platform.

Rapid Tools for SharePoint from Google Code

Rapid Tools for SharePoint is a set of developer tools that are dedicated to making SharePoint developers more productive. Rapid tools enables developers to build SharePoint custom applications using the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Traditionally using the SDL with the SharePoint platform has been a painful and awkward process, but with Rapid Tools for SharePoint application developers are now in full control of SharePoint development and deployment in a way that was not possible before.

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System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Packs for SharePoint 2007

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Packs for SharePoint 2007
These 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 and Search)
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 related Events
Web server applications such as Internet Information Services (IIS)
IIS-related Events
Microsoft SQL Server® database-related events
WSS Server performance
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Debugging an VSTO and InfoPath 2003 Solution from .Net 1.1

To get the InfoPath to default back to .NET 1.1, you need to update or create a file named INFOPATH.EXE.CONFIG, add it to the same directory as your infopath.exe and add the following:

<?xml version ="1.0" >

<configuration>

<startup>

<requiredRuntime version="v1.1.4322"/>

</startup>

</configuration>

Apparently this goes for any old .NET applications.

Please copy the created file “infopath.exe.config” to your Office11 Folder

(eg: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11)

This will force InfoPath.exe to be run in the context of .Net 1.1 and not .Net 2.0

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"The page cannot be displayed" in MOSS 2007

After the successful migration of my current SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007, some of my users are facing the "The page cannot be displayed" in SharePoint 2007 migrated site. After some analysis I found out the solution which solved my problem.

Solution: If the domain is not listed in the Shared Service Provider (SSP) this error may occur for the user under that domain. Shared Service Administration select the share services for your server then User Profile and Properties then Configure Profile Import in Source section click the view import connections. You will see a list of the connection your SSP is using. Try adding the other domains as separate connections rather than adding the forest this way you have more control and do not replace your current settings.
Else if your DHCP assign a public DNS server, change DHCP to assign only to your DNS server and not the commonly used public DNS server

Migrations from both Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources

Microsoft Transporter Suite

Microsoft Transporter Suite is a set of interoperability and migration tools to migrate content from Lotus Domino servers or Generic POP/IMAP servers.Transporter Suite contains a set of tools for migrations from both Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources. For Lotus Domino the suite contains a set of tools for Directory and Free/Busy interoperability between Lotus Domino 6 or 7 and Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. In addition for Lotus Domino the suite contains migration tools to migrate users, groups, personal address lists, mailboxes, personal mail archives, and applications from Lotus Domino 5, 6 or 7 to Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For generic POP/IMAP servers the suite contains a set of tools to bulk migrate mailboxes from any generic email servers that support the POP3 or IMAP4 protocol to mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007.

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Virtualization and Consolidation with Hyper-V

Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, has now released to manufacturing (RTM) and is available for deployment into production environments.

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, allows you to make the best use of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine. With Hyper-V, you can also efficiently run multiple different operating systems—Windows, Linux, and others—in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing.

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Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation using .Net Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008

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SharePoint 2007 Document Library ContextMenu Hiding

SharePoint 2007 Document Library ContextMenu Hiding

First locate yourself to the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033 fine the core.js. From where the context menu item script runs for SharePoint 2007 Document Library.

Lets hide the "Download A Copy" menu under the "Send To" Context menu. Open the core.js file in best .js file editor. And search for the function function AddSendSubMenu(m,ctx).

Where you can see

menuOption=CAMOpt(sm, L_DownloadACopy_Text, strAction, "");
menuOption.id="ID_DownloadACopy";

these lines of code which will display text "Download A Copy" and call the menu operation, just comment those lines and save.

This is the simple way to hide the contextmenu item in the document library.

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Character limits in SharePoint 2007

List of names and other parameters with the maximum allowable size on each entity of SharePoint 2007

None of the selected features can be installed or upgraded. Setup cannot proceed since no

While installing Microsoft SQl 2005 you may face this message...

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Setup------------------------------
None of the selected features can be installed or upgraded. Setup cannot proceed since no effective change is being made to the machine. To continue, click Back and then select features to install. To exit SQL Server Setup, click Cancel.
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.06&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=SQLSetup90&EvtType=28108
------------------------------BUTTONS: OK------------------------------
To solve this problem:
To get around this issue, run the setup.exe from the SQL installation source from your Run command with the parameter SKUUPGRADE=1 or UPGRADE=1.
For more ref
Hope this helps you people!

Microsoft Research Worldwide Telescope

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Microsoft’s research and launch of Worldwide Telescope, Microsoft is tiring to do something similar to Google's Earth, Moon, etc. ?
Go check out Telescope
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Microsoft Research Worldwide Telescope make your computer to function as a virtual telescope.

Radial Racing Programming support

Recently I have launched the Radial Racing Programming support to support all developers across the global by submiting reuseable codes and tools

My first launch was in CodePlex.com TabControl WebPart

Deploying Office Solutions Using Windows Installer

Deploying Office Solutions Using Windows Installer

How to deploy a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office system (also known as Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition, or VSTO 2005 SE) solution using a Visual Studio 2005 Setup project to create a Windows Installer package.

More on that...

This article demonstrates how to use the installer

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Wonder Microsoft Web Developer Kid

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Retrieve File Security Information using C#

Retrieve File Security Information using C#

Verify if file exists in the directory using the System.IO namespace. And retrieving the security information and other details. This as been demonstrated using the Windows forms application.

if (File.Exists(openFileDialog1.FileName))
{
//MessageBox.Show("File exists!");
lbl_existstatus.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.SeaGreen;
lbl_existstatus.Text = "File Exist the directory";
}
else
{
lbl_existstatus.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
lbl_existstatus.Text = "File Missing in the directory";
}

Query the secuirty inforamtion of the file using the System.Management.

using (ManagementObject o = new ManagementObject(@"Win32_LogicalFileSecuritySetting.Path='" + fileName + "'"))

for more download the sourcecode.

Enterprise Microsoft® SharePoint® Products and Technologies hosting environment Document

This policy document outlines the items and processes for managing customization within an enterprise Microsoft® SharePoint® Products and Technologies hosting environment.

One of the very usefull document for any sharepoint developer.

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Complete list of built in out of the box web services available in the SharePoint 2007 and many more...

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions - Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions - Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts

Tools for developing custom SharePoint applications: Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts, site definitions, and list definitions; and a stand-alone utility program, the SharePoint Solution Generator. Please also download the User Guide and Samples listed in Related Resources.

1. Visual Studio 2005 Project Templates
   Web Part
   Team Site Definition
   Blank Site Definition
   List Definition
   Empty SharePoint Project

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.NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit containing Labs, Demos and PPTs

The .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the .NET 3.5 Enhancement features including: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX History, ASP.NET Silverlight controls, ADO.NET Data Services and ADO.NET Entity Framework.

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Microsoft 2008 Most Valuable Professional for SharePoint Server

I'm very glad to inform you all that, I have been awarded as Microsoft 2008 Most Valuable Professional for SharePoint Server by Microsoft.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions Visual Studio 2005 Project Templates
Web Part
Team Site Definition
Blank Site Definition
List Definition

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Windows Live Authentication in MOSS 2007 - Configuration and Integration Live Authentication in SharePoint 2007

Windows Live Authentication in MOSS 2007 - Configuration and Integration Live Authentication in SharePoint 2007

Windows Live Authentication 1.0 which is available in CodePlex. Download and install the .wsp file to SharePoint server 2007. Download Link

While installing these are the three main initial steps to follow.

Step1:

Step2:

Step3:

These three steps as to success, then only the installation completes.

Next is live ID registration in https://msm.live.com/app/default.aspx

Now the registration page appears.

After click submit, you will redirect to a page displaying the important information to be noted.

Now click on the manage the application to do the maintain the application.

Next the important configuration using the command window.

Finally you need to add the defaultProvider for the Web Application that will authenticate Live ID users, you will replace the following in the web.config for the Web Application: with You can find an example portion of the complete web.config herePerform an IISRESET and you are done

Finally the configuration file changes for your web application

Now when you try to login to your site using Windows Live ID, you may face this error "Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. "
To solve this first try this operation

stsadm -o upgrade -inplace

If not solved, try out this option Try installing the Service Pack for SharePoint Click Here
When i logged in using my Windows Live ID it says that

Error: Access Denied
Current User
You are currently signed in as: ac592e0e0b189909163bccfeff41cace

This means the feature WindowsLiveAuthenticationSettings is not actived in your site, we need to active this feature. Lets see how.

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\WindowsLiveAuthenticationSettings

After activating the feature using stsadm.exe (for more ref:)

After activated

Other reference:

Setting Up the Domain Name System for Active Directory

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

This solution accelerator is a collection of software and guidance that you can use to easily deploy a SharePoint-based environment for collaboration with people outside your firewall. The accelerator allows users to create collaboration environments that use the familiar SharePoint interface.

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'joelo' as blogged External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint in detail in his blog site

Developer Map for the 2007 Microsoft® Office system

Developer Map for the 2007 Microsoft® Office system

One of the very usefull poster for office developers

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InfoPath cannot open the selected form because of an error in the form's

'InfoPath cannot open the selected form because of an error in the form's. Policy settings prevent opening Internet forms with managed code. To fix =this problem, contact your system administrator."

When i tried to run the InfoPath Solution from Visual studio 2008, i'm getting this above mentioned error. When i googled also i don't find any good solution. After that i changed the security setting of the form to fully trusted, then it worked for me. I don't know this is the right solution but it also solve the problem :)

Step: go to tools>Form options>Security and Trust> select Fully Tructed radio button

Microsoft Office InfoPath does not recognize some or all of the command line options. Exit and restart Microsoft Office InfoPath with ...

"Microsoft Office InfoPath does not recognize some or all of the command line options. Exit and restart Microsoft Office InfoPath with the correct command line options"

As usual when I step into Microsoft’s latest tools I have been attacked with some irritating error messages. To solve this error and to win this bug war same old trick was used to attack Microsoft errors in reply, I tried installing Service Pack for InfoPath 2007 and it worked for now. More importantly this error got solved but I don't know what the new things to raise mean while :) …

SP1 Download Link which i used

Error: this template attempted to load an untrusted component 'Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Vsta, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9b

---------------------------Microsoft Visual Studio---------------------------

Error: this template attempted to load an untrusted component 'Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Vsta, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c, processorArchitecture=MSIL'. For more information on this problem and how to enable this template, please see documentation on Customizing Project Templates.

---------------------------OK ---------------------------

When i try to create new InfoPath Form Temaplate project using Visual Studio 2008 i got the above mentioned error mentioned error message. After some analysis i found that InfoPath 2007 as be installed in the development machine.

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I received the Heroes happen here certificate from microsoft!

_getCursorIndex for FireFox and Internet Explorer

_getCursorIndex for FireFox and Internet Explorer

getCursorIndex function works for FireFox. Hope this works for Internet Explorer also

_getCursorIndex: function() {
return this.get_element().selectionStart;
},

getCursorIndex function works for Internet Explorer

_getCursorIndex: function() {
return o.value.lastIndexOf("Your String")
},

System Center Capacity Planner 2007

System Center Capacity Planner 2007 is a pre-deployment capacity planning and post-deployment change analysis solution that provides best-practice guidance and hardware-specific knowledge to help information technology professionals make solid architecture decisions when planning a new deployment or changes to an existing deployment for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and other Microsoft server products as add-in application models become available. Before installing System Center Capacity Planner 2007
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This disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an operating system that supports the ISO-13346 "UDF" file system specification.

Problem: This disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an operating system that supports the ISO-13346 "UDF" file system specification.

Cause: When i tried to extract Visual Studio 2008 ISO file, only one txt file get extracted saying "This disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an operating systemthat supports the ISO-13346 "UDF" file system specification."

Solution: Refer the following microsoft support which solved the problem for me.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321640
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899527

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Some usefull Information about File Systems

Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System
The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories such as MS SQL, registry, metabase and performance monitor. Once collected, a set of comprehensive ‘best practice’ rules are applied to the topology. Administrators running this tool will get a detailed report listing the recommendations that can be made to the environment to achieve greater performance, scalability and uptime.

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New SharePoint 2007 article on CodeProject.com

New SharePoint 2007 article on CodeProject.com

Article that discusses how to use content types to define and manage the metadata and behaviors using SharePoint 2007.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/publishingtemplates.aspx