Simple look and feel changes in SharePoint 2007

How to change the theme for SharePoint 2007 site

1) Click on the site action and select the site settings
2) Under the Look and Feel you can see Site Theme in the option, click on the Site Theme
3) Some themes will be listed, which is preload in the SharePoint. By default the default theme is selected.
4) Select the theme you want to apply and click the apply button
5) Thus the them applies to the site successfully

How to change the logo in the header for SharePoint 2007 site

1) In the left navigation panel you can see the view all site content, click on that and continue
2) Under the Document Libraries you can see a library named images available. If not create one as per you needed.
3) Upload the Logo image into that image document library
4) After uploading right click on the image file in the document library and copy the shortcut of the logo file
5) Now go to site actions site settings
6) Under Look and Feel click on the Title, Description and Icon
7) In the Logo URL and Description, in the URL text box paste your copied path
8) Click ok and continue. The logo is successfully changed

Enabling Drop down menu for multi level in SharePoint 2007 sites Top Navigation bar

Let’s check how we can enable the drop down menu in SharePoint 2007 site in the top navigation bar.

Here you can see the top navigation bar of a SharePoint site, the securesite is the parent here for site1 subsite and under the site1 we site1-1 as its own subsite. Let’s see how these subsites are shown as dropdown menu in the top navigation bar.

Go to site actions and select site settings,

Under the Look and feel select Navigation to proceed.

In the subsites and pages check the check box show subsites and click ok to continue.

Now you can see the drop down menu for single level is enabled.

By default SharePoint as single level of drop down menu. To enable multi level we need to do small change in the master page of the particular site using Microsoft SharePoint Designer.

Open your SharePoint site in SharePoint designer and navigate through the folder and open the default.master page.

Check out the code snippet screen shot.

The MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels=”1” is the attribute which as default value of one, this is where you need to change, enter as much level you wanted in your drop down menu. In our explanation we will set it as two.

Now the save the changes and close the master page and close the SharePoint site in the designer. Now open your SharePoint site in Internet Explorer

Now you can see the second level in the site drop down menu is enabled and it shows successfully.

Office communication server 2007 Enterprise Edition

Office communication server 2007 Enterprise Edition

Deploy pool in consolidated topology:

Deploys an enterprise pool and install all enterprise edition components.
10 steps to be followed
Step 1: Prepare active directory
7 steps to be followed
Step 1.1: Prep Schemas
Step 1.2: Verify replication of schema partition
Step 1.3: Prep Forest
Ref: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322692
Step 1.4: Verify replication global settings and global catalog
Step 1.5: Prep current domains
Step 1.6: Verify replication in the domain
Step 1.7: Delegate setup and administration
Step 2: Create enterprise pool
Prerequisite: Mini mum SQL 2000 with SP 4 or SQL 2005 with SP1
Ref: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cb6c71ea-d649-47ff-9176-e7cac58fd4bc&displaylang=en for SP1
Step 3: Deploy Hardware Load Balancer
Step 4: Configure pool
Step 5: Add server to pool
Prerequisite: MSMQ requirement add this component.
Step 6: Configure Certificate
Sample Certificates: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa362729.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751503.aspx
Step 7: Configure web component certificate
Step 8: Verify Replication
Step 9: Start Services
Step 10: Validate Server and Pool functionality

Configuring the Out of the Box Approval Workflow for a Document Library

Configuring the Out of the Box Approval Workflow for a Document Library

Step 1: Create a Document Library in your site as per your requirement.
To create a document library, go to all site content and click on the create button.

Now click on the document library to create it.

Next you will be redirected to another page where you need to fill it with some information to create the desired document library.

In the Name text box enter the name of the document library and description you can enter something about your document library which is not a mandatory field.

In this dropdown select the document type you want to be used in this document library. For example if you want to all types just select none.

If you select yes here the document library will have versioning enabled.
Now let’s check how the approval workflow can be configured with this document library.

Click on the Setting and select the Document Library Settings.

Click on the Workflow settings under Permissions and Management to continue.

Select the Approval Workflow in the workflow template list and enter some unique name for your workflow and select the list in which the workflow created tasks should list under. And other setting like workflow history list, when the workflow should start and how it should start etc.

How the workflow should run parallel or serial. Parallel is like you give more than one approver and make them approve it parallel. We have reassigned the task to another person option.

These are the option available in the workflow settings. Now click ok after setting all the details. Workflow is configured in the document library.

Now let’s check how the workflow works, let’s see a small demo...

Go to the document library and click on the new document and add to the library.

Now you can see that the workflow has been started, says that In Progress.
When you logged in as assigned user credentials you can see the workflow task that should be completed by that user in the task list.

You can see now the assigned user gets the task with title and status is not started.

To approve or reject the workflow click on the view item and continue.

Here in this screen write the comments and approve/reject or reassign it another user.

After approving it states that status is completed.

Now you can see the document is approved successfully.

Create a simple WorkFlow For SharePoint 2007 using VSTS 2008

Create a simple WorkFlow For SharePoint 2007 using Visual Studio Team Suite 2008

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Now. after setting up the VSTS 2008 environment, open the Visual Studio 2008 and click on the create project.

Now select the workflow type you want to create. Here in this demonstration i'm creating the Sequential WorkFlow.

Here the next screen display with two text box. One the first one is enter your WorkFlow name and the seond one to enter your SharePoint Site address.

Next is the assigning the WorkFlow to the desired place. We have option for automatically associate workflow to selected Document Library or List. And Other option like Task list assigning and etc...

Next is how the workflow should be started and other options.

and now just run the workflow you will get the output.

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Virtual PC Console - Maximize option disable

Virtual PC Console - Maximize option disabled

Edit options.xml file located at %appdata%\Microsoft\Virtual PC (C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Virtual PC) folder .In this file under verify values for and . (You can change these to 10,10)

<window> <console> <height type="integer">254</height> <left_position type="integer">10</left_position> <top_position type="integer">10</top_position> <visible type="boolean">false</visible> <width type="integer">359</width> </console>

This may caused because you may changed your display settings.

Office Communication Server 2007 - Errors and Warnings

Office Communication Server 2007 - Errors and Warnings

Failure[0xC3EC796C] One or more errors occurred during execution of the wizard; the wizard was unable to complete successfully. Please check the log file for more information
http://blogs.lanlogic.net/blogs/tom/archive/2007/08/24/ocs-activation-error.aspx

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Failure[0xC3EC78B4] Office Communications Server Archiving Service is not installed on the server.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=52627734-b354-4f74-a6ed-e298259cda19&DisplayLang=en

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Failure[0x800706BA] The RPC server is unavailable.
If you solved this problem correctly Failure[0xC3EC78B4] Office Communications Server Archiving Service is not installed on the server.This won't occur.
Else try this way Change your Remote Procedure call service log on to Local System account.

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Warning[0x03EC78E3] No DNS record is found for the pool FQDN. Please register the pool FQDN with DNS before deploying Office Communications Server in the pool.
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Error: Service : Office Communications Server Archiving and CDREventLog Error: The Office Communications Server Archiving and CDR service terminated with service-specific error 3222142979 (0xC00E0003). Failure[0xC3EC79E6] Service failed to start as requested.
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Install MSMQ on Windows Server 2003

Install MSMQ on Windows Server 2003

Simply we can say this way.

Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Add/Remove Windows Components -> Application Server -> Message Queueing

For step by step process follow these

• In the Control Panel, double-click Add or Remove Programs.
• Click Add/Remove Windows Components in the left pane.
• In the Windows Components wizard, select Application Server, and then click Details.
• Check Message Queuing, click OK, and then click Next to complete the installation.
• In the Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
• Expand Services and Applications, and then click Services.
• Right-click Message Queuing in the services list, and then click Properties.
• Note Be sure to right-click the Message Queuing service in the services list on the right side of the window. Do not confuse it with the Message Queuing folder in the tree view.
• Click the Recovery tab, set the first, second, and subsequent failures to Restart the service, and then click OK.

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Almost every major update to an API or framework involves both changes to existing features and new features and enhancements. Some of the key new features available in ASP.NET 2.0 are

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Microsoft Announces Popfly Beta and Mashup and Win contest

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Microsoft is announcing today the Popfly will be going into beta. What really makes this exciting is that unlike the early preview of Popfly, this beta is open to the world - no more "invitation only" access.

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Visual Studio® Team System Code Name "Rosario" August 2007 CTP

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Now available the most awaited Visual Studio® Team System Code Name "Rosario" August 2007 CTP for download in VHD.

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Enabling IntelliSense in Visual Studio - Feature in SharePoint

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Inside the TEMPLATE directory there is a directory named XML that contains several XML schemas, including one named wss.xsd. If you associate this schema file with feature files such as feature.xml and elements.xml, Visual Studio will provide IntelliSense, which makes it much easier to author a custom feature. You may also copy these XSD files into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas\.

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