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Tag Archives: Tips
Design Tips for MOSS 2007 (and 2003)
Heather Solomon is maintaining an excellent resource on customisations and design of SharePoint. The MOSS 2007 information can be found here and includes a CSS Reference Chart a CSS options when using Master Pages. Probably the best place to start … Continue reading
Site Collection Sizing – a pragmatic view
Joel Olseson has posted more wisdom from MSIT, this time related to the common theme of site collection sizing, database sizing, the number of site collections per content db and the number of content dbs per active SQL instance. Read … Continue reading
No wildcard search in MOSS 2007
Patrick Tisseghem has posted a good rant (with useful update) on the fact that MOSS 2007 cannot do wild card searches ‘out of the box’. ..also looks like Patrick continues to enjoy his beer! – I for one am looking … Continue reading
IIS Metabase and SharePoint configuration database
Joel Oleson has put together a really good article on the relationship between IIS Metabase and SharePoint configuration database The key message to take from this is that in WSS V3 when you stop and start the WSS Web Application … Continue reading
Office 2007 Beta 2 Removal
In order to remove/uninstall Microsoft Office 2007 Beta2 or Beta 2TR you will need to go through the Microsoft Knowledgebase article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218 If you dont do this you will get the error below when trying to install the RTM version. … Continue reading
Email transfer from PC to Mac OS-X
To transfer emails and contact details from Outlook or Outlook Express on the PC to iMail on the Mac download and install Thunderbird. This will import all outlook emails into standard ‘mbox’ format and allow contacts to be exported as … Continue reading
SQL Server Surface Area – Quick Tip
One of those quick posts that will save me a few hours in a couple months time. If you install SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition it is configured by default to only allow local connections. Testing in ODBC connections from … Continue reading
VSTO – ActionsPane.Clear causes ExpansionPack dialog to pop up
Eric Carter appears to be the only one who has blogged on the problem with ActionPanes.Clear presenting the user with an XML Expansion Pack dialog. Usually people will want to call ActionsPane.Clear themselves when their customization starts up if their … Continue reading
Adding Hyperlinks programmatically to a list in SharePoint
A common problem, how do I add Hyperlinks to a list programmatically in SharePoint The documentation (SharePoint SDK) does give a clue to the answer but no real examples. You will see that the Hyperlink field is a System.String, System.String. … Continue reading
Why is everyone called Public.aspx
During a recent SharePoint Portal 2003 customisation project we discovered that one of the portals was showing “Public.aspx” instead of the persons name when doing a people search. The problem was caused by a change to the profile settings, in … Continue reading