Yes, today I have been fighting with a customers small business server – but I won!! What I did? The most dreaded – uninstalled WSS 2 on a SBS server and installed a fresh WSS 3 version. Everything went perfect until I wanted to give the new portal a hostname. Did not work. Every hostname …
Get it today! A really really helpful extension of Notepad. Things you have been longing for 🙂 The simplicity of Notepad but extended with functions like comparison (love it), intellisense (just select the code language you are using and it will color the tags…), line number etc etc. Lovely!! Get it here:http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/ Happy coding 🙂
If you want to change the “Sign in” link text on a Sharepoint page, then do this: Open the beloved folder C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12TEMPLATECONTROLTEMPLATES Open “Welcome.ascx” and go to the end of the fileChange the tag: SharePoint:ApplicationPageLink runat=”server” id=”ExplicitLogin”ApplicationPageFileName=”Authenticate.aspx” AppendCurrentPageUrl=trueText=”” style=”display:none” Visible=”false” />to this: SharePoint:ApplicationPageLink runat=”server” id=”ExplicitLogin”ApplicationPageFileName=”Authenticate.aspx” AppendCurrentPageUrl=trueText=”Your text here” style=”display:none” Visible=”false” …
If you get an error message saying that MySite cannot be created due to a missing tag in the URL or error in the defined managed path, then you have to do this: Open Central AdministrationApplication ManagementDefine managed pathsAdd the path, like “personnel”
I do a lot of CSS changes to my sites, I find that easier and quicker than to rebuild themes or site definitions and stuff. MOSS 2007 uses the following css files:controls.cssHtmlEditorCustomStyles.cssHtmlEditorTableFormats.cssportal.csscore.css When you create a WSS site, the following CSS files are used:portal.csscore.css MySite portal.csscore.css
When you activate anonymous access on a site and you would like your anonymous users to be able to publish an item to a list, then you cannot use the template “Publishing portal”. Why? Don’t know! You must use the template “Team Site” for this to work! I noticed this when I had activated anonymous …
In this folder (the one and only.. right?) “C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions12TEMPLATELAYOUTSINC” is a file that is called “ifsmain.css”. This stylesheet file controls how a web form built by InfoPath is displayed. If you want to remove the logo “powered by InfoPath services” that is displayed in the bottom of every web form …
This is very useful. Say you have several web sites and you don’t want to display the same search results on every web site – only the results relevant to the current site! Do this: Open Central AdministrationOpen your SSPClick on “Search settings” and then “Content sources”.There is a list of current content sources, there …
A while ago I got a lot of error messages in Event Viewer on our MOSS server. I found the following solution: run stsadm -o sync -DeleteOldDatabases 0 and the message disappears.What it does is enter the table “sitesynch” on the SQL server and deletes connections to any old Sharepoint config database that you may …
How to install the PDF iFilter so that pdf files are searchable (and given an icon too) Download the latest Adobe PDF IFilter from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611Stop the IIS serviceRun the Adobe PDF IFilter Setup on your MOSS serverCopy the ICPDF.GIF file (search your server) to “C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions12TemplateImages”Open “C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb server …
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