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SharePoint 2010 – Multi Tenancy Configuration (Part 1)
Liam Cleary
divbBody:/b div class="ExternalClass66B8E237A33F49139C8A636B78E5D6F8"pAs part of some work I have been doing recently and some long conversations (thanks again Spence) I have been working with the Multi-Tenancy options. For the solution I was looking at designing I was wondering whether the multi-tenant approach would work. Historically in SharePoint 2007, to get the idea of common services for a site you would normally have to create separate SSP's for each site that needed. This meant there wa [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 14th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Event 6803
Liam Cleary
divbBody:/b div class="ExternalClassBE65751E488F4E4489FA09B4D9EA8BE1"pOver the past couple of days I have been setting up various SharePoint 2010 environments and working with the User profiles Service Application. While working with it I found the following issue:
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/ppThis issue after some investigation seems to have started happening after I renamed the server. What I noticed is that the STSADM command for rename server does not [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 17th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 'undefined' is null or not an object
Liam Cleary
divbBody:/b div class="ExternalClass8C992956F6764839B1A18B9673A1A085"pWhen using a custom Master Page within SharePoint 2010 you may experience the following issue when creating site columns. /p
pimg src="/Lists/Photos/061610_1638_SharePoint21.png" alt="" / /p
pThis error is caused by incorrect syntax within the master page itself. To reproduce this issue, do the following. /p
olliEdit your custom Master Page /li
lidivLocate the following section: /div
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pimg src="/Lists/Photos/061610_1638_S [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 16th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Error 6317
Liam Cleary
divbBody:/b div class="ExternalClass4359CE195129401083A40FE7787CC1EF"pSo you have your new SharePoint 2010 environment working but for some reason you may be getting errors in the event log such as these. /p
pspan style="color:red"strongEvent ID: 6317br /The computer name in the database does not match the computer name.br /User Action: Run miisactivate.exe to update the server configuration to match the new computer name. /strong/span/p
pThe side effect of this is that the quot;Forefront Iden [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 15th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Add List Items as Anonymous (Not Code)
Liam Cleary
divbBody:/b div class="ExternalClassF40AF5D163824039B5F6B49663BC3FCC"pI am sure that at some point in a project that you have been faced with the decision of adding list data to SharePoint but having to perform this as anonymous users. In my case this always comes up on every project, the question often being quot;can anonymous users add events to my list?quot; What generally happens is next it the argument between the developers who would code this using elevated privileges and then the sales g [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 6th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 and Office Web Applications
Liam Cleary
divbBody:/b div class=ExternalClassF77380BAC2974771950CB31A4C115884pspan style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt"So by now you should have had chance to play with SharePoint 2010 and been blown away by the new design and extra features that it brings to the table. One of the new features that can be added to the SharePoint 2010 farm is Office Web Application 2010. This brings some of the editing capabilities of the Office Suite directly into the browser. This is a big quot;strongWOW/st [read].
Posted: Thu, May 13th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 and Office Web Applications
Liam Cleary
div class="ExternalClassF77380BAC2974771950CB31A4C115884"pspan style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt"So by now you should have had chance to play with SharePoint 2010 and been blown away by the new design and extra features that it brings to the table. One of the new features that can be added to the SharePoint 2010 farm is Office Web Application 2010. This brings some of the editing capabilities of the Office Suite directly into the browser. This is a big quot;strongWOW/strongquot; [read].
Posted: Thu, May 13th '10 |
SharePoint MVP for another year!!
Liam Cleary
div class="ExternalClass474E99356574416E809F23729422A920"divIt is that time again, sleepless nights, not knowing if I had done enough. With all my life changing stuff this year, moving to the USA, new Job etc, I was really unsure, but low and behold I recieved an email a few moments ago confirming that I am a SharePoint MVP for another year. I want to say thank you to everyone who reads my blog, leaves comments (will respond better), emails and all those I meet, as well as Microsoft for bestowin [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 1st '10 |
SharePoint Conference.ORG
Liam Cleary
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Posted: Thu, Mar 18th '10 |
SharePoint 2007 – Drag and Drop Upload
Liam Cleary
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pI recently had to re-install my laptop due to all the stuff I keep on there and decided that I would finally install Office 2010 onto it as my primary office application. Once I installed everything, while I was testing a SharePoint 2007 Site, I decided to upload multiple documents. If you haven't already seen this then you may be surprised that once I clicked the standard upload multiple I got presented with the Office 2010 Multiple Upl [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 15th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – REST Services
Liam Cleary
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pAs you may all be aware SharePoint 2010 now supports the use of REST Services for retrieval of content from lists and libraries etc. This approach works well as the REST Services data can easily be consumed either inside or outside SharePoint. If we access a list within SharePoint we can see I have a tasks list with two items in it. I can view them normally in the UI as shown below: /p
pimg alt="" src="http://www.helloitsliam.com/Lists/P [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 9th '10 |
SEO Tookit Released
Liam Cleary
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divIf you haven't already seen this then get over to this link and download the SEO Toolkit./div
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diva href="http://www.microsoft.com/web/spotlight/seo.aspx?appid=10991012"http://www.microsoft.com/web/spotlight/seo.aspx?appid=10991012/a/div
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divIt has some great tools to improve SEO for your site. There are a bunch of tutorials you can go through to get you started so check them out./div
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lia title="Get Star [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 10th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Content Query Web Part
Liam Cleary
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pOne of the greatest web parts that made its way into SharePoint 2007 was the Content Query Web Part. I have been a great advocate of this control for a long time, so felt it useful to look at the new features of the control and what we still have to do manually. So in this post we will look at the trusty content query web part. /p
pSo to begin let's add it to a page and see what new options we have. /p
pimg alt="" src="http://www.helloit [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Content Query Web Part Continued
Liam Cleary
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pSo in the last post we looked at some of the basic Content Query Web Part functionality within SharePoint 2010. In this post we will go a little deeper and look at how items are tied together with the new tool pane UI and the XSL renderings. So firstly let's revisit the options. When you add a CQWP you have the ability to set specific fields values that you wish to use. /p
pimg alt="" src="http://www.helloitsliam.com/Lists/Photos/012810_ [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
RSS Feed
Liam Cleary
div class="ExternalClassAEC1575658044EA0BABB2BFAA7FFFB40"divHi everyone, not sure if anyone has experienced an issue with my RSS feed for some reason. I am not sure why but for some reason when the links come out like this:/div
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divufont color="#800080"a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/helloitsliam/~3/37GXtdsnIzQ/sharepoint-2010-–-content-query-web-part-continued.aspx"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/helloitsliam/~3/37GXtdsnIzQ/sharepoint-2010-–-content-query-web-part-continued.a [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Metadata Services
Liam Cleary
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pIn SharePoint 2007 we had a great story for metadata but it had its limitations. SharePoint 2010 has a bunch of new features for managing Metadata. In this post we will look at the quot;strongManaged Metadata Services/strongquot;. So I suppose what is it? /p
pWell the quot;strongManaged Metadata Services/strongquot; are a centralized method of storing and managing metadata in a centralized way. To access these services we need to go to q [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 17th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – My Sites
Liam Cleary
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pSo now that SharePoint 2010 is available for everyone to test I have noticed that some people have been struggling with getting My Sites to work, so I thought I would walk through the process I use. Firstly you will need a SharePoint 2010 Server that has Central Administration configured as well as all the services. If not I will quickly re-cap the service that you need configured. Firstly you will need to configure the quot;strongUser P [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 17th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 User Experience – Document Set (Update)
Liam Cleary
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pAfter posting about document sets, someone asked me a question about how document sets and the documents within show up in the search. Well to answer this I will show you the screen shot from my Virtual Machine. You will notice that it not only shows the quot;strongDocument Set/strongquot; but also the individual items. /p
pimg alt="" src="http://www.helloitsliam.com/Lists/Photos/111909_1423_SharePoint21.png" /p
pThis can be changed usin [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 19th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Records Management
Liam Cleary
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pOver the past few years we have seen the advent of some basic records management features work their way into the SharePoint platform. Well in SharePoint 2010 it just got even better and easier to work with records. So to begin with the records centre has been slightly changed from the SharePoint 2007 version. /p
pimg alt="" src="http://www.helloitsliam.com/Lists/Photos/111909_0959_SharePoint21.png" /p
pWe now have a big quot;Submit Reco [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 19th '09 |
The 2010 Wave has now begun
Liam Cleary
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p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"font size="3" face="Calibri"As well as this the public beta of Office Mobile 2010 is [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 18th '09 |
TheSUG.org Videos
Liam Cleary
div class="ExternalClass28773C6F34394AEB9D1C6E83C5C3185A"divHey Everyone, hope you are all very well. Just wanted to let you know that while out in Vegas at the SharePoint Conference myself and a href="http://www.thesug.org/Blogs/sharepointseo/default.aspx"Sean Bordner/a did a few videos and have started to post one a week up on the weekely training videos section of theSUG.org. They are great videos, I won't tell you who we managed to speak to so just head on over and check it out for yourself. [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 2nd '09 |
Wasn’t me this time!!
Liam Cleary
I am sitting here at the SharePoint Conference in Vegas on day two. It is only 9:30 am here and already we have the famous picture on Twitter!!
Great to see how Twitter can be ground to a halt simply by everyone tweeting the conference sessions!! And this time it wasn't me!! J [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 20th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 – Ribbon Bar Review
Liam Cleary
So we have all been working with the Ribbon Bar for a while now in Office 2007, so now we have it in SharePoint 2010. Let's look at the features of the Ribbon Bar for SharePoint.
If we access the home page of my Windows Foundation Services homepage we get the following:
If we select the "Edit" link we get the following:
If we now select the "Share & Track" link we get this.
This is great but this doesn't really help us so let's look at the contextual changes that take place when we [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 – Create a Visual Web Part
Liam Cleary
With the advent of SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010, new Visual Studio Tools are now available to help you the developer to build solutions using SharePoint 2010 easily. In this post we will look at one of the simplest yet long awaited features to come to the developers. The new feature is having the ability to create a Visual Web Part.
So to begin I am using Windows Foundation Services 2010 (Or what was known as WSS 4) and Visual Studio 2010 with the SharePoint Tools installed.
Let's be [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
See you next week!!
Liam Cleary
Well it is here, the long awaited SharePoint Conference 2009 in Vegas!! I am flying out from the UK on Sunday morning and will be in Sunny vegas by Sunday evening. Am excited about the conference and looking forward to meeting as many of you faithful SharePoint People as I can. Anyway hopefully see you all there!! :-) [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 15th '09 |
The joy of Windows Updates!!
Liam Cleary
Had to share this one with you all!! I have just built a new Virtual Machine running Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. All of these have been updated, however when I connect to Windows Update I get the following screen!!
Yes that is 1GB of updates for my new VM!! What can I say, all done now but 1GB of updates, almost as big as the DVD with the original media on. It did make me chuckle!! J [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 27th '09 |
Custom User Profile Web Service
Liam Cleary
Like most of you, you may have looked at the "UserProfileManager" web services and noticed that there is no way to get all the user profiles. I needed this functionality so I decided to create my own web service. So if you need a starter for ten then here we go. Create your web application project so it looks something like this:
Now we need to add the following code:
To make sure that the web service performed better than normal I added some methods that cache the results for a certain [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 14th '09 |
Retrieve XML from List and View and use as RSS
Liam Cleary
In one of my last posts I looked at created a HttpHandler that would use query string parameters to retrieve the Xml of a list in SharePoint. The basis for this was to replace the use of the "owssvr.dll" method due to its security requirements. In this post we will enhance it slightly and turn the Xml into an RSS feed.
For this one we will use the same base as the last one but add some extra methods for generating the RSS feed. So to begin with let's create a new file, I have called mine "GetLi [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 13th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 - Go Go Go!!
Liam Cleary
How excited are you now. Get over to the this link:
SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peak
As the URL says, it is a Sneak Peak of some parts of SharePoint 2010. There are three videos that talk about some of the great functionality within SharePoint 2010 and some infomration about how it can help everyone!! Yes I said everyone!! [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
Retrieve XML from List and View
Liam Cleary
Recently I was asked if there was a way to retrieve and present XML from a list. This of course is very straight forward but the complication here was that it needed to be available to an anonymous user who would consume the XML stream.
After a little thought I decided that we could use the "owssvr.dll" method. For those that have not used this before it is very simple. You make a call to the following URL:
http://{siteurl}/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll
Pass it a few parameters and then an XML stream i [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 |
Hotfix for SP2 issue that reverts SharePoint products to Trial Version has been released
Liam Cleary
In case you have not seen this already, a hot fix has been released to fix the Service Pack 2 issue of setting your license key to a trial one. Here is the original post from Stefan.
Microsoft has released a fix for the SP2 problem that reverts the license into a Trial version after installing Service Pack 2.
More details can be found in the following KB article:
971620 - When you install the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2, the product expiration date is activated incorrectly
As [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 |
MOSS 2007 – Capture direct view clicks
Liam Cleary
If like me you have worked on a mix of intranet, extranet and internet you will have no doubt been asked about capturing direct file clicks. So an example would be you wish to know the top PDF document that is being clicked on your public facing site. Out of the box SharePoint does its best with the usage analysis framework but does not capture everything that you may need. In this post I will show you how to use custom code to capture specific file type links and log them to a list. Firstly let [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 3rd '09 |
SharePoint on the iPhone?
Liam Cleary
Yes that is correct; I did say SharePoint on the iPhone!! Recently I got an iPhone and since then I have been obsessed with it. It is a fantastic tool for work as well as looking sexy!! Since getting it I have been teaching myself how to write programs for it and looking into how to get it to talk to SharePoint. As I have been working on it, I have wondered why no-one had written anything, and then out of the blue I stumbled across the following two links:
http://www.isharephone.com/ (Not teste [read].
Posted: Fri, May 15th '09 |
MOSS2007 – 302 to 301 “Pages” Redirect
Liam Cleary
As most of you will no doubt know, SharePoint uses 302 to redirect pages and sites to the default pages. In a good external site you would really want these to be changed to 301 redirects. What are these redirects and what do they do? Permanent 301 Permanent 301 redirects are just as they sound. They are permanent redirects from an old URL to a new one. These redirects tell the search engines that the old location is to be removed from their index and replaced with the new location. Using 301 [read].
Posted: Fri, May 15th '09 |
MOSS2007 - Incoming Email (Multi SMTP Domain Configuration)
Liam Cleary
If like me you have worked with quite a few SharePoint installs, probably at some point you will have configured incoming email. It works well and relies on the following:
SMTP Server installed on MOSS Server
Targeted Drop Folder for SharePoint to Monitor
Routable email addresses
Specific email aliases for the lists or libraries
One thing I had always wondered was how come you could only use a single domain. The configuration below shows what I mean:
The reason for this was what happene [read].
Posted: Sat, May 9th '09 |
MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 3)
Liam Cleary
In the last few posts we have looked at some of the Search API basics. One of the issues I mentioned earlier was that the "PublishingRollupImage" does not show itself in the search results. Using the following XSL code you can see this:
I decided to use the Search Coder tool and see if this would display the "PublishingRollupImage". I ran the same search query as before and the following was returned:
However I noticed that the required field did not return any data again.
As you can [read].
Posted: Mon, May 4th '09 |
MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 2)
Liam Cleary
In my last post we looked at some basic Search API code using our forms application. As a response to this Daniel from "Zevenseas" he has a tool, if you haven't already got it, go get it from here: http://mosssearchcoder.codeplex.com
This application will allow you to create all the Search Queries and even generates the C# code that you may need. Recommend you go get it!!
In this post I wanted to look at changing the code we wrote last time and turn it into a web part. So let's begin. Create a [read].
Posted: Mon, May 4th '09 |
MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 1)
Liam Cleary
On a few projects recently there has been a need to use the search API. You may wonder why you would think to use the search API at all considering we have all the aggregation we need with the Content Query Web Part. I hear you and yes I understand however there are occasions when you will need to use this. The CQWP is great but does have a few problems when you reach over the 2000 lists in a site collection limit, even though you can set the limit using the "" parameter to unlimited it still te [read].
Posted: Fri, May 1st '09 |
European SharePoint Best Practice Conference- Thoughts
Liam Cleary
What can I say about the conference?
Really just need to say massive great big thanks to Steve Smith @ Combined Knowledge for organizing a fantastic event. The Venue, Speakers, Sessions and Everyone there was fantastic. It was great to be part of the conference and see how excited people are about the SharePoint technologies. As with all conferences the best time comes when the sessions have finished and you have discussions out and about in the evening. I had many conversations that I won't fo [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 9th '09 |
Hit the Twitter Barrier again!!
Liam Cleary
I am here at the European SharePoint Best Practice Conference and am Twittering the whole conference (sessions I sit on) via my Twitter alias "@helloitsliam" and using hash tags "#spbpc" and "#spbpuk". I seem to have hit a barrier while sitting in Andrew Connells session of High Performance sites for MOSS.
This may be due to the fact that if I look at my "All Friends" column in Tweetdeck it looks like this!!
I seem to be talking to myself!! J [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 7th '09 |
So what is the European SharePoint Best Practice Conference all about?
Liam Cleary
It can be summed up in one picture!!
Me, Andrew Connell, Mike Watson, Rob Foster and Chris O'Brien
Getting together in sessions and chatting via Twitter even though you sit next to people. What more can you ask for? [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 6th '09 |
European SharePoint Best Practice Conference – First Morning!!
Liam Cleary
Sitting here at the European SharePoint Best Practice Conference in London!! It has been great so far, the keynote was by Joel Oleson and was about the best practice deployment for SharePoint, and now I am sitting in Spence Harbars sessions talking about SharePoint Myths!! Fantastic sessions. Sitting here on the front row with a bunch of the other SharePoint MVP's, nice to finally meet the famous Bob Fox face-to-face!!
The conference centre is fantastic, free wireless and endless amounts of foo [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 6th '09 |
My Sites – Market Yourself!!
Liam Cleary
So recently I had the opportunity to speak at a SharePoint Conference in Baltimore. As with any session that you give there are generally a load of questions that arise at the end. This session was the same except I was quite surprised as to the amount of people that had not rolled out "My Sites" within their organization. This post is going to be a recap of some of things that were presented and also my thoughts on the whole "My Site" concept.
So what is a "My Site"?
The standard answers coul [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 3rd '09 |
Moving my blog!!
Liam Cleary
Just incase you experience any connectivity issues etc with my blog for the next 48 hours or so, I wanted to let you know I am currently changing hosts and moving DNS entries around. It should all be fine in the next 24 hours but just incase you now know!!
Thanks for reading my blog!! [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 2nd '09 |
SharePoint Designer is now free!!! Did I say free!! Yes I did.
Liam Cleary
Everyone likes something that is free, now you can do all your customizations to SharePoint with a free product!! SharePoint Designer. Click the image below to get your copy!! [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 2nd '09 |
Big Day Today!!
Liam Cleary
Today is a big day today for me. I have started my new job working at SUSQTECH, my USA Visa application was submitted today as well as I got renewed as an MVP for SharePoint for the third year in a row!! I am really excited about all of these things and am really looking forward to this next year of change not just in my own lilfe but with the technology changes that are coming down the line!! It is going to be a great year!! [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 1st '09 |
HiSoftware aRTE
Liam Cleary
Finally HiSoftware have released their version of an accessible rich text editor, so I decided to install it on my server and see how it goes. You will firstly need to visit the site, register if you have not already and then you can download the file.
https://aks.hisoftware.com/downloads/default.aspx
So to install it, I simply ran the installer file that I downloaded: HiSoftwareaRTEforSharePointSetup\setup.exe
It installed perfectly and then completed, very strange as I thought it was going [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 18th '09 |
Is SharePoint really slow? Does it work?
Liam Cleary
Now I have your attention, I wanted to talk about some of the mythical problems of SharePoint. I am sure you all know what I mean. I have had people say things like the following:
Word loads slower now since we got SharePoint
When I boot my machine up it takes longer since we got SharePoint
SharePoint is not very good, it takes too long to upload my 100mb spreadsheet
It is not as fast as when we used to save to my network share
The internet is now slower since getting SharePoint
I am sure [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 17th '09 |
Powershell “CmdLet” and SharePoint
Liam Cleary
Recently I have been building a new Virtual Machine for some demonstrations I am doing. Normally I use a base VM, but for this one I thought I would build a new 64 bit Windows Server 2008 with everything on. However as I am building it I realised all the extra bits that I need to, such as creation of Active Directory Users. After realising how much needed to be done I thought it would be useful to script these processes using Powershell so I could use them again and again. So to start I installe [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 2nd '09 |
PRODUCT: {SmartAssembly} – Obfuscate my DLL’s
Liam Cleary
Over the past few weeks I have been trying to find a product that I can use for obfuscating my code. The products range in cost and include varying features. Today I got the chance (big shout to Vince) to use {smartassembly}, you can visit the site here. I decided to run though a few of my DLL's and see how it works. So let's start by creating a new project in "smartassembly".
The project is created by selecting the component that you wish to obfuscate. It supports the following list of compo [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 23rd '09 |
Conference Time Again
Liam Cleary
It is that time of year again when all the conferences start. We have some great ones coming up soon. The ones that I am interested in at the moment are the following:
SharePoint Conference.ORG – March 22nd to 25th in Baltimore
European SharePoint Best Practice – April 6th to 8th in London
Tech Ed US – May 11th to 15th in Los Angeles
SPTechCon – June 22nd to 24th in Boston
SharePoint Conference – October 19th to 22nd in Las Vegas
Professional Developers Conference – November 17th [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 19th '09 |
Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 Announced
Liam Cleary
Just noticed that the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 has been announced. Sounds like a great conference, if you looking for SharePoint 14 content then this is the place to be. There is not much information yet but the website to visit is:
http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/spc2009.aspx
Hopefully I will see you all there. [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 3rd '09 |
Next Phase of my Life!!
Liam Cleary
Well for the past 10 years I have worked within various positions within the same company. I started life as a trainer, teaching the joys of Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Office 95 and Lotus SmartSuite. After some time I started teaching all the great networking, development and internet courses within what used to be called Lynx IT Training. I then moved around again and worked as that famous job title that was cool at one point “Internet Developer”. Since this point I have done server and netwo [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 2nd '09 |
Happy New Year
Liam Cleary
It is that time of year again, well the start of something new. After a very busy and hard year it is nice to look forward to something new, something fresh that can be molded into whatever I want it to be. As I spent the whole Christmas week in bed ill, I had plenty of time in-between passing out to think over the past year and see what I needed to change and where I could improve. My main changes this year will be to blog more than I do now, unfortunately the joys of having children means it c [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 1st '09 |
STSADM Command – What is using my Content Types?
Liam Cleary
While working recently I was presented with the following query.
Is there any way I can look at my site collections and see what documents are using them?
I decided the best approach would be to create a custom STSADM command that would output the details I needed. To start this I launched Visual Studio 2008 and created an empty "CLASS" library and added the following declarations, it is also inherited from the "IPStsadmCommand" class:
I added the following classes to the code also:
Th [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 12th '08 |
Administrator, Specialist, Consultant, Architect or Guru
Liam Cleary
Like most of you I would assume that you have had various job titles and sometimes they change with the times. I started life as an IT Trainer, progressed to an Internet Developer, had a few more in-between and am now a Principle Consultant. I remember when it was kind of cool to be called a technologist or an evangelist but now you don't see many jobs asking for that anymore. So what is so special about job titles and why do we get so hung up on them?
While working in the SharePoint Team I hav [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 12th '08 |
Personal Web Part, ASP.NET Components within XSL
Liam Cleary
Over the past few months when I get five minutes here and there I have been working on my own web part that I would love to finish at some point. The purpose of the web part was really for the designer in me and the developer in me. I wanted a web part that would be rich as far as data connections go but also allow full flexibility of layout and branding. So far I have got it to perform the following:
Ajax Enabled – Auto Refresh Web Part Data based on Timer
Cache Enabled – All data is cac [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 9th '08 |
Web Platform Installer
Liam Cleary
While at Tech Ed Europe this year I sat on an IIS7 session, learning about some of the high level functionality etc. It was a great session, during which we were told that a web platform installer would be available soon. This effectively is an installer that has all the components for a web server.
IIS7
Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition
SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
.NET Framework
It can be run on a Vista Workstation or a Server. The great news is that has been released. Pop over to [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 1st '08 |
Telerik RadEditor Control and MOSS 2007
Liam Cleary
So like me I am sure that you have installed and deployed the free replacement editor control from Telerik. This is great and works really well when working with Cross-Browsers. However maybe you knew or maybe you didn't there is another version of this editor for those of us that are licensed to use the full Telerik Suite of Controls. If you do then you can download the following file:
RadEditorMOSS_5_3_0_Dev.zip
Once downloaded if you extract the zip file you should find the following compon [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 25th '08 |
SharePoint – Ports and Protocols
Liam Cleary
During Tech Ed last week, quite a few questions were about what TCP/IP ports and protocols and server traffic. After various conversations and realizing that there was not really a definitive document that covers what you need I thought I would try and document it here for all of you. Firstly, my best piece of advice is to read the best practices documentation on the Microsoft web site. Some of these are:
Videos and Whitepapers
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc299032.aspx
Secure C [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 11th '08 |
Tech Ed EMEA IT Pro – Final Thoughts
Liam Cleary
So it has finished, I am back at home and glad to be going to bed at a normal time!! What can I say about Tech Ed IT Pro. This year's big topics were protecting your Data and Virtualisation. Most sessions contained some reference to either using Hyper-V or Data Protection Manager. However for me I only actually went to a few sessions, for me the week was all about answering questions. After a total of three and half days straight on the Ask The Expert Stand I have compiled a short list of the ma [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 9th '08 |
IT Forum Barcelona, I am here!!
Liam Cleary
Yesterday I arrived here in Barcelona. I left Manchester with it raining and landed here in Barcelona with it raining!! I was slightly upset. After checking into the hotel, attending the ATE meeting, I and my work colleagues headed out for food!! After a very lengthy evening and getting to bed at 3:30am I am here attending sessions. So far so good, the keynote was great and Steve Riley gave a great presentation on Security as always!! I will be on the ATE stand tonight from 7pm – 9pm so if you [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 3rd '08 |
Want MSN Messenger 2009 Beta on your Windows 2008 Server?
Liam Cleary
If like me you run your laptop as a Windows 2008 x64 Server, you find that lots of things can't be installed, like MSN, Live Writer etc. For the previous version you could copy the raw installation files from a normal workstation that had it installed and run them on your server and hey presto it works. Now with MSN Messenger 2009 they have changed the location of those files, they are now inside the ".cache" directory. So to save you the trouble of finding them and getting it working use the li [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 31st '08 |
The path specified is being used in a substitute
Liam Cleary
I got a very weird error this morning while working with some XML retrieval from SharePoint. I was getting the following error:
The only reason I got this is have written an error handler for the web part that outputs the stack trace to the screen, I am also using "DebugView" to step through my code and write out messages at certain places. After stepping through using debug view and reviewing the stack trace I came out with this line in my code:
This method simply grabs the XML and then t [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 24th '08 |
Weird Error: SharePoint API List Items XML and Word
Liam Cleary
During some work I have been undertaking recently I hit a problem when trying to retrieve XML data from SharePoint Views of a List. For this work I simply connected to the views using a simple XMLTransform and render this out. Most lists worked well until I tried to view a list that contained a multi-line text field that was configured for either "RichText" or "Enhanced RichText" and had been populated by pasting from Word 2007. I noticed that when it rendered it for some reason got rid of the r [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 23rd '08 |
Caching Data in Web Parts
Liam Cleary
There have been a couple of posts published recently about caching data within web parts.
http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2008/09/23/sharepoint-caching-and-cachedependency.aspx
http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2008/10/07/web-part-caching-%E2%80%93-a-simple-approach.aspx
They are great articles and big shout goes out to Vince and Tobias for doing them. In this post I wanted to look at a problem I faced recently using caching within Web Parts. As you all may or may not be aware I have been wo [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 23rd '08 |
Fantastic Framework Released
Liam Cleary
I have just been catching up on some blog reading and came across the new ARF (Alternative Rendering Framework for SharePoint) by Vince Rotherwell has been released. I suppose for those of you who have used the CKS:EBE then you will be know how using XML and XSL you can create faster and more compliant blog sites. Using ARF you are now able to do the exact same thing with MOSS and WSS sites. It is a fantastic tool and works really well. You can pop over to the following site to get more details [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 23rd '08 |
Twitter and Tweetdeck bring out the Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour
Liam Cleary
What can I say, Twitter is great. I am slightly obsessed with it at the moment, ever since I downloaded tweetdeck. Today I have used it quite a lot and keep finding tons of people to speak to and follow. The best feature is the ability to have local or global searches across the twitter system. As you would expect I have one for "SharePoint".
I find it a great tool for quick questions of just finding out what other people are doing. The application tweetdeck works really well and allows you t [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 17th '08 |
Media Player Web Part *New*
Liam Cleary
A while ago I wrote a web part that allowed the playing of "WMV" files inside of SharePoint. Since then I have been playing with it again and have changed it slightly. It is not ready for anyone to use yet as it is in a very "rough and ready" development state. I have made a few changes to the web part; the first one is that I have been experimenting with a custom component from ASPNetMedia. These components are fantastic they have done some of the work for you in regards to wrapping the joyous [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 17th '08 |
Is SharePoint Secure? What can we do?
Liam Cleary
The golden question I get asked on almost a daily basis is the following:
"How secure is SharePoint, it is a Microsoft product after all, and of course Microsoft and Security don't go hand in hand."
How bizarre is that statement!! Firstly to state that Microsoft and Security don't go hand in hand is a little lame really; this shows that people do not really understand security and what Microsoft has been doing on the security front. It also seems to be a standard question asked by most organis [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 14th '08 |
Weird Search Server Express Error
Liam Cleary
While working on a project yesterday we faced a weird error with our search. The system I am currently working on is a WSS v3 Only Farm with Search Server Express added in. Everything was working fine until we accessed the following URL:
Depending on the URL we used the outcome was different.
Test
Result
Access Search Centre using internal DNS URL http://url
Worked 100%
Access Search Centre using internal FQDN URL http://fqdn
Failed
The error that was presented was [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 10th '08 |
CKS:EBE Secure Pages Problem
Liam Cleary
Just a quick note to apologise for locking out some of the posts on my blog. After some investigation the issue seems to arise from using search to find content when the "enable secure system pages" option is checked in the CKS:EBE settings page. The URL's that show in the search are in the following format:
http://www.helloitsliam.com/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=89
When the page is clicked from the post list on the blog instead of from the search the URL is in the following format:
h [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 3rd '08 |
SharePoint Regional Settings STSADM Command [CODE]
Liam Cleary
As promised here is the code breakdown of the custom STSADM command I have created. I am sure there are better and more elegant ways of enumerating sites etc but this works fine.
So to begin with create a new Visual Studio 2008 project (can use Visual Studio 2005) if you wish.
I have called my STSADMCOMMAND and created a class called STSADMCOMMANDS also. You can call it whatever you wish at this point. Now we need to add a reference to the "Microsoft.SharePoint" DLL, this can be found here: [read].
Posted: Sat, Sep 27th '08 |
SharePoint Regional Settings
Liam Cleary
Over the past few years working on SharePoint projects, one issue that I have seen a few times is to do with regional settings. Often SharePoint is installed and sometimes the regional settings are not set correctly, i.e. maybe set to US Locale instead of UK. I know this seems silly and you would think it would be set in the beginning when the server farm is configured. However this does not always happen, especially if you have scripted the site creation process. If the system is built using Sh [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 26th '08 |
SharePoint Countdown Timer Web Part
Liam Cleary
While working with a client of mine recently, I was asked if there was any type of countdown timer for SharePoint. I was not aware of on; the only one I had seen was the Milestone Countdown web part by Paul.
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200510/ij_10_10_05a.html
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200511/ij_11_04_05a.html
The key requirement was that they could enter a date and time of when it would countdown to, and then also allow images to be used as the numbers for the count [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 26th '08 |
Looking Forward to Tech Ed IT Forum!!
Liam Cleary
It is that time again; Tech Ed is on the way!! I am looking forward to attending this year, last year I was unable due to the arrival of my new son, so I am excited this year to be able to go. I have the opportunity to be one of the Ask the Experts for SharePoint this year so am really excited about getting to meet as many people as possible. If you have never seen me I am the short, glass wearing messy haired person that will be there. Just realised I sound very weird indeed, the nearest to wha [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 18th '08 |
Where is the SharePoint Project?
Liam Cleary
Today I had a meeting with a client and they said something that made me think a lot about SharePoint projects. They stated there were many things that needed doing, but said "there is not really a SharePoint project".
For me that made me think, what did they mean there was no SharePoint project? Surely it is one based on the fact that it involves SharePoint.
During my 3 hour drive back home, I got to thinking about this phrase and what it could mean. I finally came up with the following summar [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 11th '08 |
Microosft, EMC and IBM together forever
Liam Cleary
Who would have thought it, Microsoft, EMC and IBM in the same sentence with the same goal! Fantastic news, a Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification has been released. So what does this mean?
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/09/09/announcing-the-content-management-interoperability-services-cmis-specification.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2008/09/09/announcing-the-content-management-interoperability-services-cmis-specification.aspx
Well instead of m [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 10th '08 |
Finally given in!!
Liam Cleary
I suppose like some of you out there, I am lazy when it comes to doing things. One thing I am lazy with is taking exams. I am a great believer that hands on knowledge is better than the fact that you have studied, memorised the questions and passed an exam, well that’s my excuse anyway. You may have heard the phrase “Paper MCSE”; I am sure you have and this is based on the premise that someone has simply done the courses and took exams. There are so many times when I have spoken to people [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 1st '08 |
SQL 2008 – Installation
Liam Cleary
Yes, I finally had time to do this. I sat down and took screenshots of the whole of the installation of SQL 2008 Standard onto my Windows 2008 Domain Controller. It works like a treat!!
The following is the process I took to install it on my VM.
Notice here it is installing .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1.
When this has completed a reboot is required. Once it comes back up, re-run the setup and this time it should show you the following:
Another reboot is required here as well. Once agai [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 8th '08 |
SharePoint – Implementation Tips
Liam Cleary
Over the past few months, well years really, it has become evident that SharePoint is viewed very differently in organisations. Some businesses see it another product from Microsoft that they can purchase and install along with their current system and others see it as more strategic platform that can be built upon and give them great business benefit.
SharePoint – The Product
In theory yes SharePoint is a product. It has been built by Microsoft and you have to pay for it. Yes you can simply [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 7th '08 |
Taxonomy anyone?
Liam Cleary
Probably like most of you out there who work with SharePoint in some form, you will have no doubt come across a wonderful word, "Taxonomy". If you have worked with any document or records management application no matter of the vendor then you will have defiantly heard of this. So what does it mean? What is Taxonomy? How does it relate to SharePoint?
What does it mean?
If you search for the word Taxonomy in wikipedia, you are given the following explanation:
Taxonomy is the practice and scien [read].
Posted: Sat, Aug 2nd '08 |
Finally ReBranded my Blog
Liam Cleary
Well finally after a mega busy month and me meaning to do it for the past couple of months, I have rebranded the blog site. I am still using CKS:EBE the latest version which you can get from here:
http://www.codeplex.com/CKS/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5134
I am also using the search components from Zevenseas, which you can get from here:
http://community.zevenseas.com/Blogs/Daniel/archive/2008/03/10/adding-search-to-the-cks-enhance-blog-edition.aspx
I am also using reCaptcha which yo [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 31st '08 |
SharePoint, Search and Project Server Infrastructure Updates Released
Liam Cleary
A massive Infrastructure Update for the following has been released:
Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297):
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
Microsoft Search Server 2008
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695):
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB951547):
Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007
Get over to the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog site to read all about it.
http://b [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 16th '08 |
Redirect Web Part *Update*
Liam Cleary
In one of my last posts I had been looking at building a framework that would allow for a kind of policy to be built that would deny access to a site or specific sites within a SharePoint solution. The reason for this was so when you are working on a large deployment you can have a nice message that shows up saying "site will not be live until...." instead of having to secure the system down while you build it. So in the post I said I wanted to investigate using a different approach instead of a [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 15th '08 |
IIS7 URL Rewrite
Liam Cleary
A few weeks ago Microsoft released an add-on for IIS7 which will allow you to create URL rewrite rules. An example would be the source URL is:
http://www.helloitsliam.com/article/2008/07/11
The URL rewrite engine would change the URL to the following potentially:
http://www.helloitsliam.com/article.aspx?ID=11-07-2008
This is great and is actually very easy to setup. If you pop over to the following link you can download the add-on and also go through a set of tutorials.
http://lea [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 11th '08 |
Aspiring MVP’s of the World
Liam Cleary
Recently I have been getting emails and comments from people who have described themselves as an "Aspiring MVP" or as someone who is planning on becoming an MVP. I find this very strange as we should all know that the MVP award is given to people based on their effort within the community. Such activities are:
Speaking at Conferences
Speaking at User Group Meetings
Answering questions on Microsoft News Groups
Answering questions on other News Groups
Answering forum posts
Releasing communi [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 26th '08 |
Windows 2008 Rights Management Services Install
Liam Cleary
I finally got chance this week to look at the installation of Right Management Services on my Windows 2008 Server. It has changed slightly from the previous version, as it is now a role that can be added to the server. In this post we will look at setting it up to work with SharePoint. To begin with from the Server Manager select the "Add Roles" link.
Once the wizard loads you need to select the "Active Directory Rights Management Services" option.
For this demonstration I am only going to [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 26th '08 |
MOSS2007 Testing with VS 2008 Response to Comments
Liam Cleary
A while ago I posted about using Visual Studio to performance and stress test your SharePoint environment. A few people have posted comments about an error they face; this error is also prevalent on the Microsoft forums as well. I actually had one of my colleagues ask me how to fix this exact error today and remembered that I had not yet posted this. So here goes for those of you who get the following error after recording let's say a document upload in SharePoint this is the workaround I use.
[read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 23rd '08 |
Redirection Web Part - Example
Liam Cleary
A couple of clients that I have worked with have asked about client redirection within MOSS 2007 and WSS v3. What I mean by redirection is the ability to somehow redirect a user when they try to access a specific site. For example in most SharePoint projects you will be phasing in certain departments, however you are probably not going to build a department from scratch when they are ready. On one project the taxonomy structure was pre-defined and scripted using VBS and a large CSV file. This en [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 21st '08 |
SharePoint A&E User Group Meeting
Liam Cleary
On the 18th June, in London, The SharePoint User group will be holding a SharePoint A&E (Accident and Emergency, if you don't know what it stands for). It should be a great meeting, come along to the meeting and give us your SharePoint questions and problems. Then we can all discuss them and hopefully come up with the best solution. All topics are welcome, anything from developer, to administration or even infrastructure focused.
What's great about it, is that you can get your questions ans [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 11th '08 |
My Personal Web Part Project *UPDATE*
Liam Cleary
In one of the last posts I did, I talked about a personal web part that I have been working on. After some more bits of work I have now managed to modify and change a few things. Firstly I have now fixed it so it actually remembers the web part settings that you created to begin with!! Always a good thing!! Just never got round to it, did cause a problem though when you wanted to change it and it wouldn't retain them. Anyway I have also changed a few bits of the inner workings. To start with the [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 6th '08 |
Silverlight SharePoint Forum
Liam Cleary
Just been catching up on blog posts etc and came across this great un-released silverlight forum web part from the boys at Lightning Tools again. Check out the screencast here:
http://www.lightningtools.com/blog/archive/2008/05/27/sharepoint-silverlight-forums.aspx
Looks good so far, might need a facelift though!! :-) Just Kidding!! [read].
Posted: Wed, May 28th '08 |
CKS:EBE – How to create a new skin (Part 2)
Liam Cleary
In the last posts we looked at creating our initial graphic using Photoshop and then exporting the relevant graphics and XHTML into a directory ready for converting to a master page that can be used within the CKS:EBE Theme Framework. In this post we will construct the new master page; we will leave the existing CSS styles that can be found from the "CLEAN" style (Thanks to Heather Waterman @ Pixelmill for this) and will change these later on. So to begin firstly the way that CKS:EBE works with [read].
Posted: Fri, May 23rd '08 |
CKS:EBE – How to create a new skin (Part 1)
Liam Cleary
As most of you know the Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition has been released and is now available for download from here:
http://www.codeplex.com/CKS/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Enhanced%20Blog%20Edition&referringTitle=Home
I think this framework is fantastic and would like to send a great big thank you out to all those that were involved in creating this for the community. As part a few posts I wanted to take you through the process of creating a blog skin for CKS:EBE from the be [read].
Posted: Fri, May 23rd '08 |
CQWP HINTS – Main News Item and Sub News Items
Liam Cleary
While working with the CQWP and with specific clients, I was asked about displaying some news items in a specific format. Normally for lots of clients the following layout works well.
However for this specific format the following layout was needed:
The actual style is as follows:
The style that is shown above simply allows for a news item to flag as the top news or headline news and then displays that using a larger graphics etc and then displays all the other items beneath this usin [read].
Posted: Fri, May 23rd '08 |
CQWP HINTS – Windows Media Player
Liam Cleary
In the last few posts I have given a few hints for when you need to use the CQWP. In this post we will again look at using the CQWP, but this time look at making it display a little Windows Media Player control that plays a video from our media streaming server. So firstly let's create a new Content Type called video clip. This content type will simply be of custom list type and will have the following fields:
This content type will then be added to our custom list called "Video Clips" so i [read].
Posted: Mon, May 12th '08 |
CQWP HINTS – Import XSL Styles into “ItemStyle.xsl”
Liam Cleary
NOTE: Brendon beat me too the next post!! :-)
Check it here: http://blogs.sharepointguys.com/brendon/sharepoint-2007/programming/connecting-the-cqwp-without-changing-itemstyle-xsl/
One of the problems with using the CQWP in SharePoint is that if you want to try and style the content it renders you, have to add the new styles into the "ItemStyle.xsl" file. This is great but also means that you have to manage the modification of these styles very closely as this is the only file that is referenced [read].
Posted: Sat, May 10th '08 |
My Personal Web Part Project
Liam Cleary
Over the past week or so I have started to build a web part that I have been meaning to build for a while. This web part will do the following:
Connect to a site collection
Connect to a site
Connect to a list or library
Connect to a specific view within the list or library
Apply a custom XSL to the returned results
Apply a custom CSS to the returned results
Render a nice looking aggregation web part
This has been a personal project of mine for a while now, it originally started as a CQW [read].
Posted: Fri, May 2nd '08 |
Remember Everything - EVERNOTE
Liam Cleary
Pop over to this site and see if you need this in your life!!
http://evernote.com/ [read].
Posted: Fri, May 2nd '08 |
CQWP HINTS - Only show more link if needed
Liam Cleary
In the last posts we looked at tweaking the XSL slightly to change the title URL. In this post we will continue with the CQWP and XSL. In one of my previous posts I showed how to add a "[more]" button and a short description that comes from the page. Someone recently emailed me and asked if there was a way of not showing the "...[more]" if there was no description or if the description was smaller than the sub string length that we apply within the XSL. So let's look at not showing the "...[more [read].
Posted: Fri, May 2nd '08 |
CQWP HINTS – Swap the “title” URL from “$SafeLinkUrl” to a custom URL
Liam Cleary
Hopefully by now you may know that I am a great advocate of the Content Query Web Part within the SharePoint environment. Over the past few weeks I have had lots of requests for little style changes or just general questions on how to do things with the CQWP. This post will talk about a couple of them. The first one is I had a requirement to override the link that the title was using within the CQWP. So let me explain, let's say you have a CQWP that consumes various news items that are stored as [read].
Posted: Fri, May 2nd '08 |
MOSS2007 – Visual Studio 2008 Testing (Load Test)
Liam Cleary
Hi again, in the last post we looked at testing the search functionality within SharePoint 2007 by using Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite Edition or you could use the testing edition. In this post we will look at creating a load test for the SharePoint Server that will simply have a batch of users access the homepage and then perform the search as we outlined it in the last post. So begin with as before we have our testing solution and we also have our testing project, to this project we are going [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 14th '08 |
MOSS2007 – Visual Studio 2008 Testing (Search)
Liam Cleary
In a couple of the past posts we have looked at using Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition to test our SharePoint 2007 installation. In this post we will look at how to test the search capabilities of SharePoint 2007. There's no need for any background here so let's just get straight into it. As before we have our demo testing solution and we have a demo web test project. To this project I am now going to select to add a new web test.
Make sure that you select the "Web Test" template and set the n [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 14th '08 |
Lightning Conductor Web Part – Lightning Tools
Liam Cleary
Like most SharePoint people, I like to find tools that enhance WSS and MOSS over and above the out-of-the-box toolset. One of the companies that keep creating little web parts and applications is Lightning Tools. As well as all the Business Data Catalog tools and web parts they recently released the Lightning Conductor Web Part which pushes the statement:
"The Lightning Conductor Web Part allows you to aggregate data from Lists and Libraries throughout the current Site Collection, and across Mu [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 9th '08 |
Very Happy - Re-Awarded MVP MOSS
Liam Cleary
Just wanted to say a great big thank you to anyone who voted for me again for this years cycle of MVP Awards!! This will be my second year as an MVP!! Great Big thank you, hope I can make sure I share even more this year!!
Thank you. [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 1st '08 |
MOSS2007 – Visual Studio 2008 Testing (Creating Team Sites)
Liam Cleary
In one of the last posts we looked at testing MOSS2007 using Visual Studio 2008. In that post we looked at uploading of documents.
http://www.helloitsliam.com/archive/2008/03/10/moss2007-testing-using-visual-studio-team-system-2008.aspx
In this post we will look creating sites using the following:
Visual Studio 2008 Web Test
Data Source (XML)
Web Test Plug-in
So let's begin, firstly we need to launch Visual Studio 2008 and create a new project based on the Web Test template. Once we have [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 1st '08 |
7:05am Tuesday Morning
Liam Cleary
It finally happened, after being at the hospital since 9:30pm Monday night; our new son was born at 7:05am on Tuesday 11th March. We, well my wife Lisa is very tired but doing well. We called our new son Aidan James Cleary, and all he does at the moment is eat, sleep and poop most of the time. Our other two children were a little dumb struck to start with but are so affectionate and amazed at what Aidan does. With every little noise or whimper comes a whole barrage of questions from Bethan and J [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 12th '08 |
MOSS2007 Testing Using Visual Studio Team System 2008
Liam Cleary
Probably like most of you out there who work with SharePoint, you will probably be asked about testing the performance of the solution. For quite a few projects I have worked on recently I have been asked to test the performance and have often wondered the best approach to take. The best article I found was by Bill Baer which talks about the various applications that can be used to stress test the solution.
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/08/02/stress-testing-microsoft-office-sharep [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 10th '08 |
I am still alive and well!
Liam Cleary
*UPDATE* Just realised that you may have installed the WSP and found the web part does not appear in the catalog. Sorry for this, forgot to mention you will need to manaully add this web part to the web part gallery by selecting the "NEW" option in the gallery and then selecting the media player web part. Once you have added it, it will appear in the list of available web parts.
Hi Everyone,
Just thought I would "break the silence" so to speak. I have been really busy over the past few [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 4th '08 |
SharePoint and Silverlight BluePrint
Liam Cleary
Fantastic news, there is now a site dedicated to SharePoint and Silverlight. It is called Microsoft Silverlight BluePrint for SharePoint. There are some great examples of silverlight web parts such as:
1. Hello Silverlight Web Part
2. Silverlight Navigation Controls
3. Silverlight Social Networking Web Part
4. Visual How-To Center Silverlight
5. Picture Viewer Sample
6. Silverlight Custom Field Types
They will all be available soon, at the following site:
http://www.ssblueprints.net/sh [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 3rd '08 |
Feedback Web Part *Update*
Liam Cleary
In one of my last posts I talked about a feedback web part that I did as a demonstration. Since then I have modified the web part and decided to change it slightly, instead of it being a self contained web part it is now a user control and a host web part. This was because I wanted the best of both worlds, use it as a web part and also use it as an embedded control within an ASPX page. I have also changed it slightly for this demonstration so it reads the URL of the lists and the names of the li [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 16th '08 |
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