If you ever find yourself in a situation where SharePoint Designer insists that a master page, page layout, or CSS file is checked out and the same file in the SharePoint Gallery is shown as checked in then there is a problem with your SPD web cache. Attempting to check the file in through SPD [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft SharePoint’
SharePoint Designer and SharePoint Out of Sync
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on December 14, 2007 | 10 Comments »
MOSS – Save Publishing Site as Template
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on December 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Those of you who like to use the “Save Site as a Template” functionality in SharePoint might wonder where the option disappeared to; when the site you have in mind for your template is a Publishing Site (Web Content Management)… The official word from Microsoft is that this functionality is not supported for publishing sites [...]
SharePoint Fixes and SP1
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sure I’m not the first and I’ll not be the last to mention that SharePoint SP1 is now available – think of this post as Rob’s own personal reminder. If you know about this news then all is good, if not then you learnt something today. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx In addition below is a neat blog post with a whole [...]
Speaking Engagement – SharePoint User’s Group DC
Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on October 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I shall be speaking at the SharePoint User’s Group for DC (http://www.sugdc.org) on October 28, 2007. If you’re signed up then I hope to see you at the event, otherwise it is not too late to get your ticket: http://www.sugdc.org/events/conference.aspx I shall be introducing the audience to Web Content Management in Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007. [...]
SharePoint 2007 – Lock down your site
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on October 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Scenario: You have a public facing web site in SharePoint 2007, and you have added form-based authentication for access to the secure areas of your site. The problem with SharePoint 2007 is that out of the box behavior assumes access to the application pages (_layouts) for authenticated users. Security trimming will prevent access to pages that [...]
SharePoint 2007 Web Services and Forms Authentication
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on September 18, 2007 | 7 Comments »
It is probably no secret to most SharePoint developers that Microsoft provides web services to access SharePoint services. Unlike the traditional, object model approach, these web services provide a level of flexibility – client code does not have to execute on the same server as the queried SharePoint site. Client code can query SharePoint services [...]
My Five Minutes of Fame
Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged Blogging, Microsoft SharePoint on August 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
They say that everyone has at least 5 minutes of fame in their life…. I am pleased to announce an article I wrote, featured on http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/ about a recent project I worked on with my peers at Portal Solutions for our client – Conservation International. Please read on and enjoy my 5 minutes of fame: [...]
Adding to SharePoint List from a Web Service
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been racking my brain for the last couple of days trying to figure out how to add a list item to a WSS 3/MOSS 2007 list via the object model from an anonymous web service. At first I ran into access permissions, as one might expect, which led me down a path of setting [...]
Deploying a WebPart in SharePoint 2007
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged ASP.NET, Microsoft SharePoint on June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is one of those topics, which I frequently look up, and so what better place to put the information than this blog? Scot Hillier has explicit instructions in his book (Microsoft SharePoint – Building Office 2007 Solutions in C#) on page 404 to deploy a webpart using a solution package. The following instructions are [...]
SharePoint Conference 2008 – March 2-6, 2008 in Seattle
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Microsoft SharePoint on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wooho, a whole conference dedicated to SharePoint!!! I hope to be there and with any luck speaking, watch this space. Go to http://www.mssharepointconference.com and submit your e-mail address, so you can be notified with important updates like when the conference website goes live on MOSS 2007.
