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Interesting issue we had to troubleshoot today. This issue is related to SharePoint 2007. Say you have a sub-site in a SharePoint site collection (let’s call it “Subsite A”) and the user/admin changes the URL of the site to something malformed, what happens? We start “Subsite A” like the following: Then, we change the URL … Read more
Using VSeWSS 1.3 with Visual Studio 2008, when you create a new Web Part project, you can edit the Web part properties and descriptions using the WSP View. The typical Solution Explorer in VS 2008 looks like the following when working on a Web part project: In order to see the manifest.xml or feature.xml file, … Read more
When Windows 7 came out last week, I decided to go ahead and install it on my laptop. I like what I see so far–everything seems to run faster in Windows 7! Same hardware; the apps just launch faster. For example, SharePoint Designer used to take 5-10 seconds to launch when it was Vista. Now, … Read more
I typically deploy and configure MOSS and not WSS 3.0 farms. Search Server is included in MOSS but not in WSS 3.0 Good thing that Microsoft has a free version of the Search Server 2008. This is the Search Server 2008 Express edition. Okay, so install Search Server 2008 Express edition on top of WSS … Read more
It’s been a while since I’ve worked with WSS 2.0. I have a customer (a friend of mine) who is still running a WSS 2.0 in his business. He runs a small shop and doesn’t have a full-time person to take care of this network and applications. Well, one time he had a FT person … Read more