Posted on May 1, 2008 by Scott Wheeler
If you’ve ever tried to customize the branding of a MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 site you’ve probably discovered that SharePoint application pages (pages that physically reside in the /_layouts folder on the file system) share a common master page and thus share the same style sheets. Said another way; unlike SharePoint site collections and [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2008 by Scott Wheeler
If you’ve ever wanted to relocate your WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 content databases or configuration database from one SQL server to another, you’ve probably found very little documentation and very little written on this topic. Below is my attempt to provide some guidance for these tasks. The steps are fairly simple, but please remember [...]
Filed under: MOSS 2007, Migration, SQL Server, SharePoint 2007, WSS 3.0, stsadm | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 8, 2008 by Scott Wheeler
After deleting a site in WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 the following page is displayed by default. The “webdeleted.aspx” is a default application page provided by Microsoft, but it is easily customized. In this article I will show you how to enhance this page to be more user friendly.
The problem with this page is [...]
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Posted on April 2, 2008 by Scott Wheeler
We all know that SharePoint document libraries are much more functional that NTFS file shares because SharePoint provides a searchable, indexable metadata framework. As a SharePoint consultant I am often asked the question: How do I migrate my documents from my file server into SharePoint? The answer really has to do with answers to the [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by Scott Wheeler
If you’ve ever tried to setup SharePoint 2007 to import user profiles via LDAP you’ll like this post. The setup of the SSP to import profiles is a fairly simple task, but what is not that easy is applying the right LDAP user filter to import only the accounts that you desire from Active Directory. [...]
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Posted on February 13, 2008 by Scott Wheeler
After several projects implementing MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 I’ve collected a large list of “How to …” type links. I’d like to share these with you, feel free to send me comments to add to this list:
Access document libraries from File Explorer
Add a link to the portal from a MySite
Add presence-pawn to SharePoint contacts [...]
Filed under: Intranets, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2007 | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 6, 2008 by Scott Wheeler
SharePoint 2007 has built in usage reports that can easily be enabled to allow site administrators and site collection administrators to monitor statistics about the use of their sites. These reports are NOT turned on by default when install MOSS 2007.
Three Quick Steps to Configure Site Usage Reporting
Enable Usage Logging in Central Administration
A. On the [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2008 by Scott Wheeler
Have you ever wanted to direct users back to where they came from after submitting a form. On most SharePoint 2007 forms you can simply add an element to the query string for SOURCE and SharePoint will automatically redirect the user to a specified page when the form is submitted. For example:
A form named: http://myintranet/site1/Form1.aspx [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2008 by Scott Wheeler
Have you ever wanted to create beautiful SharePoint site diagrams using Microsoft Visio? I recently created a stencil for Visio that includes all the important objects when creating diagrams for SharePoint 2007 projects.
The stencil includes unique SharePoint 2007 shapes for; Site, Subsite, Portal subsite, Search Center, Site Directory, Meeting Workspace, BDC Data, Calendar, Check [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2008 by Scott Wheeler
Recently I was asked to create an employee directory page on SharePoint 2007 intranet to display all the employee profiles in a single list, and make the list searchable.
Goals:
Display a complete list of all Active Directory profiles imported by the SSP into SharePoint 2007.
Display the following fields on the list: First Name, Last Name, Department, [...]
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