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Jan
30

I'm busy downloading and installing them on http://www.wssdemo.com/application

So far the Business Performance Reporting template looks the most interesting…
http://www.wssdemo.com/application/bpr/default.aspx

SharePoint Template: Business Performance Reporting

Download them in 1 file from http://www.wssdemo.com/redir.aspx?ID=934  to your desktop (doesn't have to be the server) and add them to your site admin templates gallery.

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Jan
24

I know I blogged about this previously and provided a link to download the web part but several people have wanted to know how to build it themselves so I spent my lunch time writing it up. I have also improved the demo by supporting the result offset in the Live search results to match the current SharePoint starting record number.

The first thing is to sign up an Application ID for and download the SDK from http://search.msn.com/developer/default.aspx?FORM=PDDD2

The next thing is to backup any custom XSL rendering and fields from your Search Summary web part because SharePoint Designer (SPD) may corrupt your custom XSL (as it did for me, trying to preserve white space).

Add a Web Service to the Data Source Library using SPD

Double click on the *Request parameter and fill in the fields shown below

Note: The Query and Offset parameters can have any default value but must be set at runtime.

Now you can view the values returned by the Web Service

And "Insert Selected Fields as" a Data View.

Now we need to tell the data view to get the current search string and starting record from the URL to use as parameters in the web service. From the Common Data View Tasks, select Parameters and add the source values (if you don't see Query and Offset in the parameter list then you forgot to tick the "Set at runtime" option when setting up the web service parameters).

It's as simple as that ;-)

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Jan
19

Only relates to MOSS. See http://www.wssdemo.com/pages/wsrp.aspx for details...

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Jan
16

I have installed it without any problems on this site so I thought I would install it on a WSS server that I had set up for our church Intranet (the time sheet and resource booking features were just what they needed).

After installing GB the template was listed in the create site page but I kept getting an error saying that the default.master file could not be found. It was only during the 2nd uninstall that I noticed some of the stsadm commands were referring to localhost. This would not normally be a problem on a server where SharePoint was the default IIS application but this server had another application on the default site and the WS sites were all on host headers.

The easiest way to get GB installed in this case is to stop the default web site and then create a temporary WSS application using the server name, install GB which will install the required features on all application, then remove the temporary application and reactivate the original default web site.

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Jan
15

This question has been cropping up quite often so hopefully this post will make it easier to find in the search engines.

Say you want to add some code like this into a SharePoint Web Part Page

<%
         Server.Transfer(@"/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List={D5813C18-934F-4FD6-9068-5CDD59CE56BA}");
%>

If you try and view the page you will get an error saying "An error occurred during the processing of xxx.aspx. Code blocks are not allowed in this file".To enable this you need to modify the web.config file for your SharePoint Site Collection.
To enable code blocks in single files, add the following section...

<PageParserPaths>

  <PageParserPath VirtualPath="/pages/blog.aspx" CompilationMode="Always" AllowServerSideScript="true" />

</PageParserPaths>

 To specify all files in a path (Document Library) the path statement can include a wild card (*) in which case you can also add IncludeSubFolders="true" parameter to the PageParserPath to allow inline code for any page.

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Jan
13

WSS 3.0 ships with a new Windows Internal Database based on SQL Server 2005. Its code name was wYukon.

You will see it as a running Windows service called MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE

I have documented the steps for moving the SharePoint content databases to a new location.

http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/db.aspx

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Jan
12

Although I like the new MOSS graphical usage analysis, I did miss some of the detail on the old WSS 2.0 stats. I found that the old reports are still there, there just isn't a link in the site admin for it. You can find it here http://server/site/_layouts/usageDetails.aspx

I am surprised to see the number of older browser versions still in use.

Browser Total Visits Recent Month Most Recent Day Most Recent Day Visits
Internet Explorer 6.0 8550 8550 11/01/2007 727
Internet Explorer 7.0 8023 8023 11/01/2007 720
Mozilla 5.0 6031 6031 11/01/2007 246
Internet Explorer 4.01 1105 1105 11/01/2007 4
Firefox 2.0.0.1 1084 1084 11/01/2007 120
Firefox 1.5.0.9 515 515 11/01/2007 32
Internet Explorer 5.0 221 221 11/01/2007 5
Microsoft Office FrontPage 12.0 166 166 11/01/2007 30
Firefox 2.0 159 159 11/01/2007 4
Mozilla 4.0 133 133 11/01/2007 8
Opera 83 83 11/01/2007 7
Microsoft Office 66 66 11/01/2007 7
Firefox 1.5.0.8 45 45 11/01/2007 3
Internet Explorer 6.0. 40 40 8/01/2007 40
Netscape Navigator 27 27 11/01/2007 1
Firefox 1.0.7 26 26 11/01/2007 3
Internet Explorer 5.5 26 26 11/01/2007 1
Firefox 1.5.0.7 23 23 9/01/2007 4
Mozilla 2.0 21 21 11/01/2007 1
Firefox 1.0 16 16 11/01/2007 1
Firefox 1.5.0.4 13 13 11/01/2007 1
Internet Explorer 5.01 13 13 11/01/2007 3
Mozilla 3.01 12 12 10/01/2007 2
Firefox 1.5.0.6 10 10 6/01/2007 1
Internet Explorer 6.1 10 10 11/01/2007 1
Firefox 1.0.3 9 9 7/01/2007 1
Firefox 1.5.0.1 7 7 6/01/2007 5
Firefox 1.5.0.3 7 7 10/01/2007 2
Mozilla 4.5 6 6 11/01/2007 1
Firefox 1.0.6 5 5 8/01/2007 1
Internet Explorer 5 5 10/01/2007 1
Netscape Navigator 8.1.2 4 4 10/01/2007 1
Opera 9.00 4 4 9/01/2007 4
Firefox 1.0.5 3 3 5/01/2007 1
Mozilla 3.0 3 3 11/01/2007 2
Opera 7.54 3 3 2/01/2007 1
Konqueror 2 2 7/01/2007 1
Microsoft Office FrontPage 6.0 2 2 10/01/2007 1
Netscape Navigator 7.2 2 2 10/01/2007 1
Opera 8.54 2 2 8/01/2007 1
Opera 9.10 2 2 10/01/2007 1
Firefox 0.10 1 1 26/12/2006 1
Firefox 0.10.1 1 1 8/01/2007 1
Firefox 1.0.1 1 1 11/01/2007 1
Firefox 1.0.8 1 1 7/01/2007 1
Firefox 1.5.0.2 1 1 3/01/2007 1
Firefox 1.5.0.5 1 1 9/01/2007 1
Internet Explorer 5.00 1 1 4/01/2007 1
Opera 8.00 1 1 2/01/2007 1
Opera 8.50 1 1 11/01/2007 1
Opera 8.60 1 1 7/01/2007 1

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Jan
8
The site has been in production since the day beta 2 was released (I just couldn't help myself).
It is a Church Management System (another type of CMS) and is very extensive.
 
Following my own upgrade guidelines, I wanted to restore a backup of the current site onto a new server. This required installing B2TR on another server (which happened to also have a backup of the original WSS v2 site that was migrated to v3 B2.

The first problem I had with the slipstream install was that it failed at the wYukon install. Turns out that I had installed and removed B2 from this server but the wYukon instance was left behind even though it was not listed in the control panel it was a running service. So I had to refer to this KB to uninstall it. http://www.wssdemo.com/redir.aspx?id=860
 
The setup now ran fine and I selected the no-upgrade (run side by side) option as all I want was a working version of v3 B2TR so tha I could restore the backup from the production server. The problem was that the psconfig utility was failing because it was trying to migrate the config db from my v2 install. This is really a bug but the work around was simply to edit the following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\WSS with the UpgradeType value of CLEAN_INSTALL
 
All working now :-)
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Jan
5

SharePoint products and technologies have now been around for 6 years. Over that time there are some names that just keep popping up all the time. Because of their persistence and involvement in the IT community they are awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. If you want put a face to these names (all 58 of them) then go here...

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/communities/mvp.aspx?name=sharepoint

Keep up the good work guys and gals.

(P.S. Thanks to those who have nominated me but because I am an MS Employee I'm not eligible ;-(

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Jan
2

I'm reminded of these because my Toshiba M4 died last week so I have to put up with an M200 while the M4 is waiting on parts (bad time of year for a computer failure).

Anyway, I imaged the M200 with Vista + everything possible from an ADS server (BDD is awesome if you have not seen it before) so I was back to a default configuration without my usual customizations.

The first thing I normally do is disable tabs in IE to avoid what just happened to me:

  1. Some web sites crash IE7 – this means I lose all the pages I have open for reference on what I'm currently working on and worse, lose any downloads in progress.
  2. The other thing I hate is that when I Alt-Tab, I only see the current tab content in each IE instance. I can hear someone say "but you only need one instance", two words – Trusted Sites. These open a new instance.
    I just can't get into the habit of Ctrl-Tab when I'm in IE and Alt-Tab for everything else. The MDI interface was dropped by Word years ago and the rollup of multiple application instances on the Start Bar is fine by me.

Well, that was my first and hopefully last gripe for 2007. Actually, I have one more gripe so I may as well get it out now.

It is meant to be summer, but it has been the coldest December on record.

On the plus side, my entire immediate family were together today...

Morrish Family 2007

That’s me on the right, oldest son Josh in front of me, wife Cathy in the white top and Dan the man with the black cap.

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