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SharePoint RSS Reader & Yahoo Stock Quote Web Parts - Free Download

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:58:57 GMT

"RSS Reader" and "Yahoo Stock Quote" Web Parts for WSS 3.0 now available for Download ...

Links List May 2009

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:02:06 GMT

I decided to share all my interesting reads and resources month by month with my blog readers. You can find these posts by searching on the label Links. I'll try to order the resources in logical categories. If you would like to see some interesting stuff added in the next month, don't hesitate to post a comment. So this is my Links post for May 2009.

Getting jQuery into SharePoint

Thu, 21 May 2009 07:16:57 GMT

How to use the ClientScriptManager to include jQuery for use in SharePoint webparts.

The MOSS Show

Sun, 17 May 2009 17:39:44 GMT

Hilton Giesenow, the well known South African MVP has launched a new podcast called the MOSS Show, covering the SharePoint platform through hosting interviews with some of the more well known, and lesser know SharePoint experts in the world. I have a look at the first 3 episodes and really recommend everyone involved in SharePoint to subscribe.

Integration MOSS 2007 â?" Dynamics AX with BDC through a custom field

Sun, 17 May 2009 05:52:44 GMT

In this series of post, I'll show how you can integrate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with another line of business system, more specifically Dynamics AX. The purpose is to create a custom field type, which can be added as a column to a SharePoint list. This SharePoint column renders a dropdown box with values from a Microsoft SQL Server table's column. As such, in stead of duplicating the possible values on your SharePoint box each time new values are added in your line of business system, the available values for this SharePoint column are always in synch with your line of business system.

Links List April 2009

Sun, 03 May 2009 05:00:55 GMT

Add url to the Description of a SharePoint Column

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:38:13 GMT

If you want to add a url to the Description of a SharePoint Column, this cannot be done by adding HTML tags in the Description field of the Additional Column Settings of a SharePoint Column. HTML tags added in the Description of a column are rendered in plain text, so that is not an option. You could achieve this though by use of the Content Editor Web Part and some JavaScript. In next example, I have create an Issue Tracking SharePoint List. In this list, I have a Lookup column called Contact, which points to a Contacts SharePoint List, located in the same site, and at the same level as my Issue Tracking List. I want to add a hyperlink in the description of my Contact Lookup column of my Issue Tracking list to the NewForm.aspx page of my Contacts list to make it more user-friendly for end-users to find where they can add values for that Lookup column.

Using the SPFeatureReceiver to delete WebParts on deactivation

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:46:46 GMT

I struggled for a while to find a way to remove the WebPart entries orphaned by the deactivation and rectraction process in SharePoint, and found a neat way to this using the SPFeatureReceiver. After some testing I posted an article about it in the SharePoint section.

European SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2009 Rundown...

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:55:40 GMT

Rundown of the 'European SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2009' which took place in London earlier this week...

Problems after farm restore

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:11:18 GMT

I had to do a topology change for a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 installation. The MOSS 2007 installation was currently on one physical server. The change implied splitting off the Database Server to another physical server, and keeping the original physical server as Web-Front End Server and Application Server. So I started a set of taks: I performed a farm level backup using the backup utility in SharePoint Central Administration. I ran the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to disconnect the server from the configuration database. I ran the Wizard again to create a new SharePoint farm. I launched the Office SharePoint Services Search and Windows SharePoint Services Search services. I restored the farm backup. All of which went pretty well, till I started doing some test: I ran into several problems.

SharePoint and custom 404 Page Not Found and UTF-8 issue with Firefox

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:07:55 GMT

This article decribes problems when deploying a custom 404 error page in SharePoint 2007 WCMS. There may be a 404 Page Not Found issue with FireFox since because of the UTF-8 encoding.

MOSS 2007 / WCMS development: ProvisionedFiles.xml & WebPart problems

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:06:31 GMT

This article shows problems that can occure in SharePoint 2007 WCMS when using ProvisionedFiles.xml to automatically deploy WebParts on a SharePoint publishing site.

Links List March 2009

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:14:17 GMT

Tutorials

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:56:20 GMT

List of interesting, mainly SharePoint links.

Wrong urls in SharePoint alert messages

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:44:03 GMT

Recently I ran into a problem with the automatic generated urls in SharePoint alert messages. For some users logging in using the Web-based form (and hence entering the Forms Based authentication Web Application, http://extranet url), the hyperlinks in the generated alert messages started wrongly with http://intranet. This was not the case for all users entering the Forms Based Web Application: for some the hyperlinks in the alert messages started correctly with http://extranet.

Sharepoint 2007 alerts in Outlook 2007

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:58:39 GMT

The alerts from Sharepoint 2007 are simply unreadable in Outlook 2007 (RTM or SP1) configured to connect to an Exchange 2003 server. One workaround was disabling the cached Exchange mode in the mail account properties (not recommended for mobile users). One other solution involved some Exchange 2003 patches (depending on the mood of the Exchange admins). The simplest solution is to install the Outlook 2007 February 2009 Cumulative Update (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961752). The KB article does not mention anything about Sharepoint alerts, but it just works.

WSS, ADAM, and Building a Custom Authentication Provider

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:52:12 GMT

The point of this post is to demonstrate that creating your own provider for ADAM isn't as daunting as it might first seem. I implemented the shell of one (code included below) in a few hours. Using WSS 3.0 with ADAM features and licensing: 1. The ability to use the ASP.NET pluggable membership provider model is supported by WSS without MOSS components. 2. The LDAPMembershipProvider and LDAPRoleProvider classes that are part of the Microsoft.Office.Server assembly are licensed as part of MOSS So what do you do if you're not running MOSS? You have two options: 1. Buy a third-party utility (e.g. LDAP Client.NET - though I haven't tried this one personally). 2. Write your own.

ADAM (Active Directory In Application Mode) Custom Role Provider

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:48:15 GMT

ADAM (Active Directory on Application Mode) has become increasingly common for companies that want to implement a featherweight directory protocol to use within their SharePoint environment. With ADAM, setting up role based security principles is common because it is an extendable architecture that provides the benefits of Active Directory without the management and implementation overhead, and also allows the concept of binding roles to operations which is a very helpful function since beyond acting as a role and user data store, the ADAM instance can become an engine by which to run an mixed, integrated SharePoint and miscellaneous application environment. The AzMan role provider limits the users that you can integrate with the LDAP pluggable provider to those that resolve to a tangible windows identity (it must be a domain account), which of course is a problem for people that wish to use ADAM only users. With increased support for ADAM in SharePoint 2007, the requirement from customers has become even more prevalent and for some, the lack of role support has become a cause for concern. Also download ADAM Role Provider - Version 2.12.343.234 - Tested On SharePoint 2007

How to use WSS v3 with ADAM for user authentication

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:42:53 GMT

One of the powerful new features of Windows SharePoint Services v3 (and MOSS, as by extension) is its ability to use authentication providers other than Active Directory. Because it's built on .NET 2.0, it can take advantage of the provider model for membership. ... One possible membership database is Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM). ADAM allows for an application to take advantage of the user-management features of AD without all of its overhead (no DC required, etc.). It exposes its information via LDAP, and runs as a service on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP.

TDD in SharePoint - Introduction to common vocabulary

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:30:58 GMT

This post is part of a series on Test Driven Development - Using Dependency Injection. There are a number of terms that you are likely to hear very early on in your journey to Test Driven Development, these terms generally refer to specific patterns of coding that have developed to support particular problems. You should be familiar with terms like Singleton and Factory which are used as a common vocabulary and help developers to communicate their design. In order to complete the refactoring of our project we will introduce some new terms Loosely Coupled, Dependency Inversion, Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control to help us describe the changes and the reasoning behind them.

Links List February 2009

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:26:01 GMT

Workflow Association Issue in sharepoint

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:46:05 GMT

Great solution to windows foundation workflow issue

How to only display "This Week" items in a SharePoint List

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:08:23 GMT

I have a SharePoint list and would like to create a view that shows me all the items that are modified in this week. SharePoint views can be filtered, so I thought this wouldn't be a big deal. Unfortunatly.

Windows SharePoint Services - first setup

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:12:09 GMT

A simple guide on how to setup Windows SharePoint Services for the first time

Custom code with SharePoint Online and Windows Azure

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:07:28 GMT

A sample on how to use cloud services to execute background jobs for SharePoint Online using Windows Azure