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Transfering RMS role to different server in management group

If i install three Management Servers into a single management group. Let us say servers are named MServer1, MServer2, and MServer3. MServer1 is the Root Management Server (RMS). A system board fails in MServer1 and i need to transfer the RMS role to MServer3. How can i do that? ...

SharePoint - Link back to the Portal from MySite

We have a custom master page that is deployed to My Site, as well as to the portal. The portal master page has an image, that the user clicks and directs them to the MySite application. On the My Site master page, we need to be able to facilitate the same functionality. When a user clicks on an image that is in the global navigation, the...

Catching FaultException in WebServices

I'm calling a C# web service using the .net Service Model and occasionally this web service throws Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException. I can catch this particular exception as a FaultException in my client code however I cannot get the friendly error message returned by the web service using FaultException. Following is...

Migrate share folder to webshareing with Sharepoint services

Hi all SharePoint Professional, I am using Windows 2003 Server to share the file in our environment , as SharePoint Services 3.0 is free for Winodws 2003 Server , i would like to configure the ShareFolder available in SharePoint Document Libraries, I have already install sharepoint services in the server ,also in my shared folder proper...

sharepoint workflow config file

Hi, I'm developing sharepoint workflow inside which I call custom web service. Where can I put the configuration file (section), so I can change the url in the future for the web service? With the default one is working fine. Thanks ...

are webtemp.xml files necessary if you only want to provision SharePoint sites programmatically?

Hi On a current project, I am looking to provision SharePoint sites only using the API; not through the web UI. Do I still need a webtempxxx.xml file or will the onet and other resources suffice? Thanks Andrew ...

How to test localization in SharePoint?

I have created a feature with the description localized. Now I want to be able to test this localization. At first I thought, let me just change the location of the computer in the control panel, but this seemed to have no effect. So my question is - how can I test a location in SharePoint? Another way to ask this question would be ...

SharePoint AJAX implementation: ScriptHandler being added twice

I am currently in the process of setting up AJAX capabilities in a SharePoint environment to support web parts I'm creating with C#. I am using Microsoft's walkthrough as a starting point just to get up and running, and I am running into what I believe is a strange error. The problem is occurring in CreateChildControls(): protected ...

Good online sources to learn Sharepoint Development?

Does anyone have or would like to share any recommendations for some great sites/online tutorials or primers on developing sites in MS Sharepoint? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! ...

Need some help understanding sharepoint localization

Lets try keep this simple. Given a SharePoint site (english) and a feature (localized with resource files) to English (default) and Czech (but could be any language). Why do I need to install a Czech Site Collection to get the Czech localization strings to work. I thought localization worked from user context, IE: based on the curren...

SharePoint: How do you reference a localized list?

I have a SharePoint list that gets installed by a feature. I need to enable content types which I do so in a feature receiver: SPList list = site.Lists["NameOfList"]; list.ContentTypesEnabled = true; list.Update(); The problem is that it seems the method:site.Lists["NameOfList"], is really looking at the Title not the ID. How can I...

Sharepoint Designer - how to restart a workflow

Is there a way, through SPD (w/o the state machine extension), to restart a workflow? ...

Sharepoint 2007 Usage Tracking Programmatic Access

Does Sharepoint 2007 usage reporting track programmatic access to items in a document library? If not is there a non-intrusive and simple way to enable that functionality. ...

Change Assigned To of the task

Hello All, I have a workflow in which I am assigning a task to a particular SharePoint group [Not to default "Assignedto" field of Task list, I am taking the group in a custom field and am able update the group name in Task list. I have an InfoPath where I have fetched the list of users in SharePoint Group. I am able to see the user wh...

SharePoint - Modify the actions within a SPD-built workflow template programmatically?

Does anyone know whether it's possible to modify the workflow actions of a SharePoint Designer workflow template programmatically? For example, one has a SendEmail action and I'd like to modify the values of the To or the Bcc through code. Thanks in advance ...

Send an e-mail based on Workflow approval status using Sharepoint 2007

Hi, I am new to sharepoint. I am using sharepoint 2007. I have a following requirement. 1) Custom list has various fields ... Requestor, Application Name, Reason, etc.. 2) When person fill out the form (custom list). It will send a notification to Approvers for review and based on Request action : Approved --> It will send an e-mail n...

SharePoint UserGroup Web Service - Retrieve users (nested sub-groups)

Hi, We have a need to retreive all users if we know the group name in a SharePoint. We are planning to use the following MOSS out of the web service to retrieve the users from a group. If the group has nested sub groups, do you know how this web service behaves? Also, does the user accessing the web service has to be a super user having...

SmartPart and anonymous access

I have a page with anonymous access. This page work normal. After i add SmartPart to page and configure it to show my ascx. This work normal too, i open this page and see my ascx but when i try to click button in this control i see prompt for login and password ... Maybe anybody know how to fix this issue? ...

Best practice for easy deployment of multiple solutions

One of our product will consist of multiple SharePoint solutions. Now we're wondering what would be the best way to provide an easy deployment to our customers? At the moment we deploy each solution by hand, which is OK during development process but not acceptable for our customers. For your information, we're using VSeWSS 1.3 for deve...

sharepoint ide other than sharepoint designer

Source control in Sharepoint Designer (SD) is arguably more a headache than a solution; especially when more than one person is editing the same code. In my case, I am mostly using SD to edit static files (css, js and html). I suppose it depends on the sharepoint development environment (currently using development VMs), but I have expe...