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Provisioning a solution to a SharePoint server can be done using several methods, however the only correct methods are to use templates and solution packages. In my series of posts on provisioning, discussed the relevance of provisioning, if this...
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Deploying your features, sites to should not be done using a file copy as this may be an issue when you have multiple servers in your farm. The correct way to deploy them is to create a solution package. A solution package is a single file...
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Lists and libraries can be defined either to use a set of columns or it can be defined to use a content type which was introduced in WSS 3.0. The content type defines the columns for a list item or row and a list can be set to use one or several...
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Content types are little gems within SharePoint with many useful characteristics. The one characteristic is that content types support inheritance. For the non programmers; inheritance is when you define a content type it must be based on...
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In my previous post SharePoint - How to provisioning a site column with CAML I showed you how to provision a general site column using CAML. In this post I will show you how to provision a site column with choices choices. The basics steps are to...
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A SharePoint list can be thought of as a data table with columns describing the fields and rows for each record. The columns (or fields) are defined within the list and are only defined in a single list instance. The are many business cases...
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In the past few weeks I have been doing some consulting and giving advice to development teams starting SharePoint development. In this process I have found it a common problem that several developers misunderstand what are site pages, applications pages...
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In order for you to use your own custom assembly with your web parts and other little bits, you will need to add your safe control to the web.config file. However, you need to think "WEB FARM" with many servers hosting the web application...
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In Internet Information Server 6.0 there is a new user group IIS_WPG which basically gives a minimum set of permissions required to start and run worker processes on a web server. By default, the group contains the following user accounts Network...
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Exam news The Technology Specialist (TS) exam, Exam 70-541: TS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development, was released in March 2007. This exam is available in English, Chinese [Simplified], French, Japanese, and Spanish...
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As a developer learning how to provision your custom solutions to SharePoint, you will come across the TEMPLATE directory within the 12 hive. It is exceptionally important that you master what is in the directory and where to put your own resources. This blog post will attempt to help you master what is in the TEMPLATE directory structure.
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This post lists a table of LCID's, the short name and full name of each locale. Windows uses a Locale Identifier (LCID) to determine the language and culture to use when displaying information to a user. The users LCID is picked up from his/her regional settings within windows or from the language settings for the browser. The application then displays resources, number and date formatting according to the the local.
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The 12 hive is where everything in SharePoint happens and is where all the binaries, configuration, web pages, web controls, help files and other resources reside. As a developer writing your own features for SharePoint, it is vital that you learn where things go and where you should be targeting your resources. Without having an understanding of this, you have lost the battle before you have even started.
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This article forms part on the "Series of posts on the art of provisioning in SharePoint". In this post I will discuss the different ways you as a developer or administrator can package and deploy your content to SharePoint.
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In the past year, I have come across many in-house custom solutions in SharePoint. The most striking and common trend I notice is how the developers / administrators are provisioning their sites. In almost all the cases they have completely missed the point of SharePoint and the power of its provisioning engine. This prompted me to write a series of blogs on provisioning correctly to SharePoint.
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Using a feature or site definition, you are able to provision different content to a SharePoint site. This post gives a high level overview of what elements can be provisioned through a feature.
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In a previous post Creating a simple SharePoint Feature.xml file I went through what is in a feature.xml file; however I did not go through the child collection elements such as the ElementsManifests.
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The Feature.xml follows the Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) convention to define a feature. <? xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " ?> < Feature xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint...
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I have tried to figure out exactly when the DCOM Error occurs when installing SharePoint and have found it to be when installing an new machine with SharePoint on it. However interestingly it does not occur when applying other applications like...
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Anonymous access basically allows users to access the web site and view content. You are also able to give anonymous users rights to contribute to lists, complete surveys on the site, with one restriction in libraries such as a document library...
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A client has just asked me to help them setup a WSS server that will be hosted on the Internet, they do want to create a membership based portal and I suggested that they use the ASP.NET membership system and I would demonstrate a prototype. ...
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In a discussion in class this week, I had a chat with a few of students regarding the editions of SQL Server that are installed. This prompted me to write this blog as this comes up quite often. The information on the SharePoint site is limited and therefore...
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Understanding the structure of SharePoint is vital to any successful installation and future administration to the product. The future success, scalability and reliability of the product depends on your initial understandings of how the product is placed...
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When starting to brand a SharePoint site, there are 29 Placeholders to get to know in the default.master. This can be a daunting task especially if you are new to SharePoint, which is normally one of the first tasks assigned as the corporate image is...
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In a previous post, I chatted about the goals of ECM and the business problems it aims to resolve. This post describes how ECM is architecturally viewed from a MOSS perspective. The diagram below highlights the components within the ECM architecture....
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