So, I have three servers in my moss farm. A database server and two front-end servers... On server 1 I am able to access my web application just fine and the services are running fine. However, on server 2 I am unable to start the Web Application service; I receive a error message on the screen stating "Check the server event logs for a...
We have a moss internet facing publishing site, we need to restrict access to this web site to people who have come from another specific web site (using the http header referrer property). This has to be an automatic process (the user should not have to click ‘login’ or anything like that). How to do this? Any advice greatly apprecia...
I am total beginner in SharePoint and I need some help in starting a project. I have to develop publishing site that will be delivered to the client. I would like to give client deployment experience like he would get when deploying standard ASP.NET application as much as possible. I plan to use Visual Studio 2008 with SharePoint extensi...
Background Info I am working on setting up a method for my company's developers to share documentation and information about our various internal systems. This would range from information that would be useful for bringing a new employee up to speed, to descriptions of common problems users have with the systems and their resolutions. ...
I have created a .net web part and deployed it on the sharepoint site. When I preview it, the sharepoint throws up an error saying "An error occured when previewing the Web Part" The code in the web part is as follows Dim myweb As Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb = Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SPControl.GetContextWeb(Context) ...
Hi, I've got some problems unregistering some eventreceivers form a contenttype. The contenttype and the receivers were deployed and registered by myself so I don't try to remove any MOSS built-in or internal eventreceivers. I trying to archive this with the following code snippet: using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://wssdev06/"))...
There seems to be a bug with columns in SharePoint MOSS 2007. It allows you to add a new column say 'Team'. When you add this it stores the internal name as 'Team' which makes sense. The business then decide that 'Team' should be called 'Workstream', so you rename it as requested. The internal name remains 'Team' for this column in the...
I have created a custom list in a SharePoint site and generated a Visual Studio 2008 project using SharePoint Solution Generator. I can package this as a feature and install it. It runs fine on my server. After testing this out, I've been able to add a custom masterpage to the feature which is deployed to the _catalogs/masterpage folder...
I've got a site structure which looks like this: Home Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 And I'm having problems with the left navigation showing correctly on a MOSS publishing site. When I'm on a page under Level 2 The navigation should look like this: Level 2 Level 3 And when I get to a page under Level 3 it should look like this:...
I know that creating a site template from a MOSS publishing site is not currently supported by Microsoft. Can anyone tell me if creating a basic site, then turning on the publishing feature, then creating a site template is supported - I would guess not as it's probably the same as creating a publishing portal? ...
I am a beginner in SharePoint and I need to create publishing site that will have multilevel menu. Requirement is that levels will not be fixed and that client should be able to add pages and customize menu. If I am not mistaken pages can be created only in the first level under the site. I don't see something like folders concept. For t...
In Sharepoint Solutions I can specify the DeploymentServerType for deployment to be either ApplicationServer or WebFrontEnd. Unfortunately, Documentation on this is rather limited. I just wonder: When would I use which option? What if my Solution includes both Timer Jobs (which should go on the App Server?) and Web Parts (which need to ...
I have a SharePoint site where clicking "View All Site Content" generates this error: The URL '/sites/foo/bar' is invalid. It may refer to a nonexistent file or folder, or refer to a valid file or folder that is not in the current Web. Any ideas? ...
I'm building a custom publishing site definition for MOSS 2007 but I seem to have a problem. The content types that I import don't have any of the page scheduling options available. I've gone over my onet.xml next to the one which the Publishing Site uses (in the BLANKINTERNET folder) and I am putting in all the features which are in th...
I need to provision a custom aspx page which does some work and then redirects to another page. Using a _layouts page , AKA an application page won't work since I only want this page accessible to one site collection. I looked at using pattern #4 from this blog post. It feels pretty hacky, It asks you to drop the dll drop it into th...
What is the simplest way to query a WSS/MOSS list from a remote client Using /_vti_bin/lists.asmx and XML fragments for the query seems to be a large chunk of work for a simple task? I have found the U2U CAML Query Builder which helps a bit ...
In SharePoint (MOSS 2007), with an OWA web part on the page, either inbox or calendar parts, when a page loads it "jumps" down to have that part as the focus. No matter where it is on the page. Has anyone encountered this before or know how to solve this issue? This happens on out of the box sharepoint sites, with the OWA components. No...
hi, I have a requirement by a client to create a MOSS site which can be used to archive and track legal cases. the requirement is that each case has 4 logical steps which are assigned to particular people...each step requires a legal document.. Once a document for the first step is uploaded, a task should be created, requesting for step...
I am developing publishing site and it will have complex tree structure. Is there any way to deploy site structure (multiple sub sites - SPWeb) using SharePoint solution? I know I can create site tree programmatically. ...
I'm wanting to have some data displayed on a SharePoint page which is essentially a Content Query WebPart, but with a few small changes: Filter on a dynamic date Paged Results Is it possible to do the modifications by extending the existing one or is there a component out there which will do that? ...