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Any impact of restart OWSTIMER every hour?

I found OWSTIMER consume a lot of memory during create personal sites. (I have to pre-create personal sites for many users) After googling I found some suggestion to restart OWSTIMER but it’ll grow up again after create several personal sites. So I have to restart OWSTIMER every hour. Did you know any impact of restart OWSTIMER every h...

Connect and authenticate to SharePoint with WCF

I'm going nuts with this one and can't find any decent information ANYWHERE .. There is lots of info around about connecting to SharePoint 3.0 Web Services with WCF and Ntlm impersonation. However, when the client accessing the SharePoint services is remote to the SharePoint network and needs to authenticate, how does one best configure...

Hiding some user profiles temporary from search

I'm trying to find a way to hide a user profile in SharePoint temporary from the People search result. What are the possible solutions? Is it possible for me to set some kind of crawl rule to skip some user profiles based on a flag? or Can I lock a user profile? Thanks, Siriwat ...

Can someone explain Alternate Access Mappings in MOSS 2007?

I am having problems with a MOSS 2007 server behind an ISA 2006 server. It seems the problem may be how ISA is configured or how the AAMs are set up but I can't seem to determine which. Can someone explain what the AAMs are supposed to do? It seems they are simply supposed to rewrite the URLs so that the http: is encoded into a https: a...

Showing the list view web part for a list in another site

I cannot show the content of a document library using a list view contained in a web part located on my root web application. Here is the site structure: main_site subsite1 Shared Documents subsite2 Shared Documents My webpart is located on the main_site. In this webpart, I have a Sharepoint ListViewWebPart ...

Add Web application to Moss

If I add an application from vs 2005 to Moss and I have a class in a separated file (but inside the application) everything works but not the class. How can I make it work? I am not refering to an separated DLL. ...

SPSiteDataQuery problem with Eq on Number fields

Ok, so what I wan´t to do is to perform a SPSiteDataQuery that gives my all the SPListItems which are of a certain content type and with the field Year of 2008. <Where> <And> <BeginsWith> <FieldRef Name="ContentTypeId" /> <Value Type="Text">0x0101010053B766E295F2456DA0470906DC0E36F9</Value> </Be...

Sharepoint Lists.asmx: The request failed with an empty response.

Hello All, I'm writing a very small app to create and test caml querys for sharepoint. While executing the GetListItems method I'm receiving the following exception; System.Net.WebException: "The request failed with an empty response." The service is located on a https address (ssl). I setup the service as follows; result = new List...

Programmatically create SharePoint list

I downloaded a plugin for an Office product that prompts you for your SharePoint site url and username and password and then it will create you appropriate lists and views on your SharePoint site. Can someone let me know if I can make a program on my Windows XP machine that will take in the site url, username and password and be able to ...

Logging in as another user in sharepoint

Hi. I'm site collection administrator/(physical server administrator) in SharePoint (3.0), and I'm debugging other users' rights to access some of our own features. Is it possible, in any way, to log in as another user(with his/her rights) without knowing his password? I can create my own 'dummy' user assigned to same groups, but lookin...

SharePoint web part content disappearing

I have been creating web pages using MS Word 2007 and creating hyperlinks within them. Then I am turning them into Web Page documents. I am then creating a picture library specifically for that page on SharePoint and using DreamWeaver 2004 to link the pictures from the library into the web page source code. I then create a content edito...

Outputting SharePoint Hyperlink Column as URL

I have some document URLs stored in a Sharepoint publishing column. When I output the info into a HTML page using: <xsl:value-of select="@[ColumnName]" /> in ItemStyle.xml, I get [url], [document name] in the page. I would like to display this as a URL can anyone help with the XSL? ...

WSPBuilder and Code behind for a Sharepoint Masterpage

I created a code behind file for a custom master page in visual studio. I hooked everything up manually; safe control and custom cas policy. Everything works great! I then wanted to put this into a sharepoint solution using WSPBuilder for better deployment. I created WSP solution, added my class file and changed the output directory to ...

Use an XML File with a Feature

Currently I have a custom Web Part, deployed as a Feature, and it accesses an XML file as follows: string sUri = @"C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80" + @"\wpresources\links.xml"; ds = new DataSet(); ds.ReadXml(sUri); What is the correct way to include an XML file as part of a SharePoint Feature deployment? ...

Custom list form using sharepoint object model VS 2008

Is there a way to handle the DropDownSelectedIndexChanged for list item new form. Let say I have a custom list named Temp having Title, Products (which is a DropDownList) and Color Shade (which is a TextBox). When I create a list item I want to select a product from DropDownList and on the selected index changed I want to write the busi...

Get Directory Path to 12 Hive programmatically

Is there any way to get the directory path of the 12 Hive programmatically? I am creating a feature which delivers a file to the XML directory in the 12 hive, and I don't want to hardcode the directory path in my code. Is there any Object Model property which exposes the 12 Hive directory path string as a property? ...

Connect to Sharepoint through Cocoa

Hi, how do I connect to Sharepoint (e.g. fetching lists) through Cocoa? Is there any blog post or document about it? Regards, Stefan ...

where should I store CSS files in a sharepoint install?

I have some css files that are deployed in a feature scoped to "site" They contains some calls to images (also deployed by the solution) and so the paths are things like background: #ffcc00 url( '/sites/portal/Style Library/CSS/PersonalCenter.gif' ) repeat-x; However I would quite like to be able to deploy to other "sites/XXXX" with...

Career in SharePoint?

I would like to learn SharePoint. Are there any jobs for SharePoint professionals in this recession time? I have .NET knowledge. ...

SharePoint: How do I create a new list from a list template?

I've created a list template based on an Issue list and it is saved in the List Template Gallery. Now how do I create a new list based on this template? ...