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Comment on Employee Directory using User Information List in SharePoint 2007 by Omar Dayya

Omar Dayya — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:06:51 +0000

thanks a lot man for this amazing article. It really helped me a lot.
best wishes,

Comment on SharePoint 2007 – Branding Your Site Application Pages by Tore

Tore — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:04:03 +0000

Thank you very much. I was looking for some code on how to change stylesheets for specific clients, and your code combined with javascript saved the day:).

Comment on SharePoint 2007 – Hiding fields on NewForm.aspx and EditForm.aspx, the easy way by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:46:23 +0000

Great technique. It also works on dispform.aspx. I normally use SharePoint Tips utility pack to set fields to not be editable etc but I’ve used this to hide the recurence fields on a calendar list that I wouldn’t want to change anything in the list on.

Comment on Employee Directory using User Information List in SharePoint 2007 by techdhaan

techdhaan — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:27:48 +0000

Here is a no-code solution to build an employee directory web part
http://techdhaan.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/moss-2007-employee-directory-web-part-using-search-and-data-view-web-parts/

Comment on SharePoint 2007 – Sitemap XML files for Better Crawling by Search Engines by SharePoint 2007 - Page Redirection / Bad Links Solution « SharePoint Sherpa

SharePoint 2007 - Page Redirection / Bad Links Solution « SharePoint Sherpa — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:00:20 +0000

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Comment on SharePoint 2007 – Move Content and Configuration Databases by Laurent

Laurent — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:05:01 +0000

Thanks for this article. I’d like to add an important warning : the stsadm setconfigdb is obselete. Instead psconfig should be used (it looks like it is very similar though)

Here are related links :

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261712.aspx
where microsoft says that setconfigdb is obselete.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263093.aspx
for details to “attach” your new config DB to SharePoint using psconfig.

Hope this will help.

Comment on SharePoint 2007 – Development Tip: Use Virtual PC for SharePoint Development by Ray Ranson

Ray Ranson — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:47:37 +0000

Great article. I added a link to your blog on my site. Also, to supplement your concept of creating a library of VM development images, I have an article on how to setup multiple MOSS 2007 Virtual Machines with Virtual PC 2007 along with information on how to properly distribute and avoid networking and configuration issues when creating a developers library of VM images. Though it might be helpful. Your comments are appreciated!

Ray

Comment on Using the Source Query String Parameter in SharePoint 2007 by Scott Wheeler

Scott Wheeler — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:55:25 +0000

Jasper,

You simply need to modify the links to the form, usually you do this in the navigation or links from other pages. However, not all links are editable in SharePoint, this technique will only work when you have a link that is editable so that you can append “?source=….” to the link. Manually adding a link to the navigation or adding a hyperlink to a page are two options where you can control the url.

I hope that helps,
Scott

Comment on Using the Source Query String Parameter in SharePoint 2007 by bob e

bob e — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:42:47 +0000

Quite agreed Jasper.

Scott, where the heck do I add the source parameter? I tried adding it to the Save button redirecturl but that didn’t work.

Comment on SharePoint 2007 – LDAP User Filters for Limiting User Profile Import by Kharles Pico

Kharles Pico — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:20:00 +0000

This should do the trick:

(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))

Might be worth checking in AD if the user is actually disabled.

However I noticed that the following:

(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(memberof:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=(CN=Authenticated Users,OU=Branch1,DC=domain,DC=local)))
should include only the accounts that are part of the Branch1 organizational unit.

This is not the case the previous filter actually only filters out on users who are as it says member of that group. So even if someone is in the OU if they are not a member of this OU they will not be returned. Hope this helps.

I haven’t found a way to exclude or include users in an OU yet using LDAP filters. I’ve found that you can add a profile property, add a managed path and then filter out the People scope adding the rule to exclude users from the OU.

Hope that helps.