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 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

.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

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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.

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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.

Heroes Happen Here. And I'm the one

Heroes Happen Here. And I'm the one

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

More ref: Download1

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

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