September 2009 Entries
You know the scenario: You are a farm administrator but you cannot access to the Shared Service Provider (SSP) site collection to administer the SSP – Access Denied. Here is how to give yourself access to the SSP: 1) Go to the Site Collection Administrators interface. Link via Central Administration | Application Management | SharePoint Site Management. 2) Change the Site Collection by selecting the Web Application and root URL for your SSP. 3) Set the Secondary Site Collection Administrator to the account you are using to access the SSP. That’s it. Now navigate to...
Imagine a situation where a database driven application requires that SQL Server stored procedures be moved between development, stage, and production environments. This seems pretty common, right? Just script up the stored procedures and run the script in each environment. Done.
But what if the stored procedures access multiple databases? And what if the database names are not consistent across environments? Although you could find and replace the database names in the stored procedure create script you'd rather not have to. Ideally, the stored procedure create script would be portable and not specifically reference databases or tables directly.
Enter SQL Server...
A couple of weeks ago while working on a SharePoint customization it became necessary to use a SharePoint Job Definition. As the customization progressed I noticed that the job execution was not executing new code modifications made to the job definition.
At first I thought the issue had something to do with the development environment since I had previously encountered some odd debugging and build behaviors in the same environment.
I inspected the new custom assembly using Reflector. The assembly was correct. Then I inspected the SharePoint Solution to make sure the same custom assembly was being packaged up as expected. ...
Recently we provided one of our clients an expanded description of how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 My Sites work. We thought we would post a portion of that information to help others understand what out-of-the-box (OOTB) My Sites are and how they work.
Before we dive in let’s start with some of the common SharePoint terminology and concepts directly associated with My Sites:
Site Collection
A Site Collection is a collection of sites such as a Team Site, Document Workspace, Meeting Workspace, Site Directory, etc. A site collection is a tree of sites with sites nested below other sites.
One important...
We’ve seen the following error several time on several different servers while trying to save a copy of a SharePoint Site Template (.stp file) from the Site Template Gallery:
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the refresh button, or try again later.
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An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'http://SERVER_URL/_catalogs/wt/SITE_TEMPLATE...
MSCF
No amount of refreshing will help and since the Site Template was created by SharePoint using “Save site as template”, there isn’t a quick way to correct the error. Besides, the error message...