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
I was viewing my blog today and noticed the tag cloud on my sidebar. The most prominent tags are “SharePoint”, “Developers”, and “Administrators”. SharePoint. Developers. Administrators. From time to time, I will meet SharePoint professionals in networking events or when interviewing job applicants at a customer site and I will ask what their SharePoint experience … Read more
In my previous post, I listed the sessions that I attended on SharePoint Saturday. Michael Lotter’s session was about building and deploying custom SharePoint Application Pages. Out-of-the-box pages suffice for more SharePoint users. But at some point, your customers or organization will want to add custom ASPX pages into SharePoint. This topic is relevant to … Read more
I told you about the WSS 2.0 upgrade that I did yesterday. I had to rely on good old “STSADM’ to extract the data out of the WSS 2.0 environment and restore it in WSS 3.0. For WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007, STSADM can be be found in the 12-hive bin folder, which is typically … Read more