SharePoint Server 2007

Related to both SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services

SharePoint Training Resources–Update

A couple of weeks ago I taught a SharePoint Designer 2010 class. During preparation for the class, and working with 2010 for six months, I’ve collected the following training content (some of these might be 2007 related): http://www.sharepoint-video... http://www.youtube.com/user... http://www.microsoft.com/le... http://msdn.microsoft.com/e...

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Posted On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:09 AM | Feedback (0)

Tip: How to determine which SharePoint web front end you’re hitting

Have you ever set up a SharePoint farm with multiple WFEs (web front ends) and then wondered later which server you were hitting? Ever have a user get an error but you can’t recreate it, only find to find out much later it’s because the user was hitting a different WFE than you were and that particular WFE was the only one with the error? Or have you ever had a misconfigured hardware load balancer that is directing all of the traffic to just one poor overloaded WFE while the others sit there idle?...

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Posted On Friday, October 29, 2010 10:25 AM | Feedback (0)

Integrating Windows Form Click Once Application into SharePoint 2007–Part 4 of 4

(This is a series of posts covering how to include a WinForm app inside a SharePoint 2007 application, which allows users to upload batches of files to a SharePoint document library. For further info, please see Posts One, Two, and Three. All of the code can be downloaded in Post Two.) Just a quick review of our solution, as detailed in the first three posts of this series: a Custom Action adds a menu choice to a document library’s Upload menu, which links to a Windows Form application deployed using...

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Posted On Monday, September 06, 2010 8:30 PM | Feedback (0)

Integrating Windows Form Click Once Application into SharePoint 2007–Part 3 of 4

(This is a series of posts covering how to include a WinForm app inside a SharePoint 2007 application. For further info, please see Posts One, Two, and Four. All of the code can be downloaded in Post Two.) As I promised several months ago, I’ll cover the Custom Action piece of our solution. The custom action is used to allow the users to launch our Windows Forms application using Click Once deployment. Our custom action adds a new link to the Action menu of a document library’s toolbar: Adding a...

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Posted On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:13 PM | Feedback (0)

Access denied error when adding new server to existing SharePoint 2007 Farm

I recently got an error when adding a new SharePoint 2007 (SP2) server to our existing MOSS farm. I had run the installation fine, and was walking through the SharePoint Configuration Wizard, when I got an error on step 2: “Resource retrieved id PostSetupConfigurationFaile... is Configuration of SharePoint Products and Technologies failed.” I searched the net, but didn’t really find anything. I then remembered that I had forgotten to run the latest SharePoint updates (for us, the latest applied...

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Posted On Saturday, May 01, 2010 8:08 PM | Feedback (1)

Integrating Windows Form Click Once Application into SharePoint 2007 – Part 1 of 4

(This is a series of posts covering how to include a WinForm app inside a SharePoint 2007 application. For further info, please see Posts Two, Three, and Four. All of the code can be downloaded in Post Two.) Last year, I had the opportunity to build a solution that involved integrating a Windows Form application into a SharePoint 2007 (WSS version 3.0). In this post, I’ll layout our architecture thinking and in part two, I’ll describe the technical details. Business Case Our challenge was this: we...

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Posted On Saturday, April 17, 2010 11:59 PM | Feedback (3)

SharePoint 2007 Parser Error after updating master page

A few weeks ago I was updating the master page for a SharePoint 2007 (WSS) site. The client wanted the site updated to reflect the new look and feel that is being applied to another set of sites in the organization. I created a new theme and master page, which I already wrote about here and here. It worked well, except for a few pages on a subsite. On those pages, I got the following error: Server Error in '/' Application. Parser Error Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource...

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Posted On Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:46 PM | Feedback (2)

Deploying a SharePoint 2007 theme using Features

I recently had a requirement to update the branding on an existing Windows SharePoint Services (WSS version 3.0) site. I needed to update the theme, along with the master page. An additional requirement is that my client likes to have all changes bundled up in SharePoint solutions. This makes it much easier to move code from dev to test to prod and more importantly, makes it easier to undo code migrations if any issues would arise (I agree with this approach). Updating the theme was easy enough....

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Posted On Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:03 PM | Feedback (2)

Can’t eject external USB or Firewire drive in Windows 7

As a SharePoint developer, I work a lot with Virtual Machines (presently using Windows Virtual PC, with Windows 7). I’m using these VMs with my laptop, and in order to get better performance, I’ve moved them to external hard drives. (These drives have faster RPMs, larger caches, and a larger capacity, than the internal drive.) I have one large external drive at home, another similar drive at the office, and a small, slow portable drive that I carry with me. So, at the end of each day at the office,...

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Posted On Monday, March 08, 2010 3:07 AM | Feedback (0)

SharePoint 2007: “Failed to extract the cab file in the solution.” when trying to perform addsolution

I ran into an error today, while trying to execute the following: stsadm –o addsolution mySolution.wsp . The error was “Failed to extract the cab file in the solution.” A quick search found blog entries stating that either a file in the WSP contained an illegal character or two files were named the same. I looked through my files and found a couple of graphics files with names containing a parenthesis. Since all of my file names were unique, which ruled out the one suggestion, I decided to try renaming...