August 2009 Entries

Multiple web part connections

One of the MOSS 2007 features that ASP.NET developers often miss when writing a custom solution for WSS 3.0 is the QueryString (URL) Filter web part.  We often use the query string to define the filter for displaying lists or forms.  This web part gives users the flexibility to define the query string key value without affecting the functionality of the solutions.  For some of the custom solutions we have built for WSS 3.0, we have implemented our own QueryString Filter web part to provide similar functionality and flexibility.  With this web part, we can easily pass information from query...

MOSS My Site Storage Space Allocation

A couple of days ago I received an email from our MOSS farm indicating that a user had exceeded their warning level for storage.  When I tried to visit the user's My Site the site would not render properly.  What I wanted to know was what was taking up so much space but I had to deal with getting the site to render properly first.  That was a simple fix – increase the user’s my site storage limit via the Site Collection Quota and Locks in the MOSS Central Administration.  I customized the user’s quota by adding 5...