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]