SharePoint Secrets

While Editing page on your SharePoint you probably encountered a situation when Edit page command in Site action menu is disabled. This is not root error. Edit page command will be disabled when another user has checked-out that particular page.To see which user has done so you will need to navigate to page library on your site. If you have the right permission and you need to edit the page, you can show the page editing toolbar and then click on the page --> Override Check-Out. This will do any changes to other users has made and the page will be checked out to you, but is useful if you really need to make a modification to the page.

The multi-lingual capabilities in MOSS are very cool. You can create sites in non-English languages simply by installing the appropriate language pack. This is especially slick when you are using variations (will cover this in another post). Note, the installation process is not very intuitive so I’ll provide details below. 1. Download the appropriate files. a. For MOSS, you will need the MOSS and WSS files b. Remember there are specific 64bit versions c. On each of the download pages, change the language in the selector to the language pack you want d. Here are your download links i. WSS Language pack http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=36EE1BF0-652C-4E38-B247-F29B3EEFA048&displaylang=en ii. WSS Language pack SP1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EF93E453-75F1-45DF-8C6F-4565E8549C2A&displaylang=en ...

If you want to wipe out and create a new MOSS Farm here are the steps + Run the Configuration Wizard and, on the second page, select Disconnect from this server farm and click Yes on the warning dialog. This will delete the IIS web site and the application pool. + Then, run the uninstall from the Control Panel's Features and Programs application and click Yes on the warning dialog. This will take a reboot. + Then, if you really want to get rid of it all, go to the database server and delete the Config and Admin Content databases Alternatively you can also disconnect the central admin from the 12 hive using cmd line if nothing works: psconfig -cmd adminvs -unprovision psconfig -cmd configdb -disconnect

When new items are added to a list in SharePoint, a 'New Item' icon is displayed next to the new item. So how long is new for you? 1 hour? 1 day? 1 week? 1 month? 1 year? 1 decade? 1 century? 1... okay I'll stop there. Hopefully in 100 years we have something a little more elaborate than SharePoint for collaborating. And a flying car to go with it. In SharePoint, stsadm has a command to allow to change how long this is shown. It's a virtual server property, so can be changed with the following command (in our example we want to change it to show for 2 days only). stsadm -o setproperty -pn days-to-show-new-icon -pv 2 -pn = Property name -pv = Property value To pick back up on the random side note - I was able to set the property value to 36500 days. 1 Century... To stop the !New tag from appearing for new entries on your Windows SharePoint Services Web site stsadm.exe -o setproperty -pn days-to-show-new-icon -pv 0 -url [Your Virtual Server's URL]

Change SharePoint Central Administration Account On servers running SharePoint Central Administration site run the following command: stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DOMAIN\USERNAME -password PASSWORD On other servers not running SharePoint Central Administration site run the following command: stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DOMAIN\USERNAME -password PASSWORD -local Run iisreset /noforce to restart IIS To make sure that this operation completed, open SharePoint Central Administration site >> Operations >> Timer job definitions and wait until Administration Application Pool Credential Deployment timer job disappears from the list. Change Application Pool Accounts There are two ways to change application pool accounts in SharePoint: first one using GUI, and the second using STSADM command. To change application pool accounts using GUI: 1.Open SharePoint Central Administration site >> Operations >> Service Accounts (under Security Configurat...

In order to do a MOSS (aka Sharepoint) 2007 install using best practices, Microsoft recommends creating and using service accounts. Click here for Microsoft article I will summarise the long article into more relevant details (and for futher reading, you can click the link above) Following are the service accounts I created and the permission levels specified for MOSS to install and function properly. 1. MOSS Setup Account (MOSS_Setup) Typically, this is the account used to do a MOSS/Sharepoint install and setup. This account is used for a lot of tasks – MOSS installation, creating new IIS sites and SQL Server databases. It must belong to the Local Administrators group. Also, this account must be a Domain User, have access to the SQL Server instance to be used, with securityadmin and dbcreator roles. 2. SQL Server Service Account (SQL_Svc) This is the account used to install the SQL Server instance to be used for MOSS databases. I have used the account to run the SQL Server Service ...

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SharePoint Server 2010 Office client required to view and edit documents uploaded to document libraries (Download and open) Office Web Application enables Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio documents, using Silverlight or HTML with JavaScript (Depending on Browser Support) No Co-Authoring Capability Co-Authoring Capabilities available for Word, PowerPoint (with client software) and Excel (Available over the web) Lot of post backs Fewer post backs for default actions – more Ajax usage No inherent support of Ajax or Silverlight Fully supported Static themes. You just pick a theme and its applied across the site, no preview You can select a theme , customize it and preview before applying it on the site No bookmarking, tagging or rating capability Its all there Content Types scoped to site collections New concept of having a Content Type hub which can be shared across web applications Media files would have to be downloaded before playing Progress d...