Whats the best way to deploy a webpart in WSS3 or MOSS2007 which has a database dependency? Should the .wsp include code to create the database, should I encapsulate the .wsp in another installer which handles the database creation, or should I supply two different packages to allow the admin to handle the backend creation? ...
I am trying to build a WSS 3.0 site. I am having difficulty with the dialog box that pops up when I try to check out a document. I tried to solve this by enabling forms based authentication but when I click on the document, Microsoft Word opens and I get garbage (MS Office also fails). All I want to accomplish is to log into my WSS 3...
An automated security scan was performed on my WSS 3.0 site and it came up with some warnings based on the apparent presence of FrontPage Extensions. Namely it found files like /_vti_pvt/service.cnf, /_vti_pvt/services.cnf, and /_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll by appending those locations to the site's main URL over the web. These are appar...
I'm trying to upload files and folders to a library using SharePoint Designer 2007 (on a WSS 3.0 SharePoint site). It's giving me an error when I try to upload empty folders or folders that have an & in their name. OS: Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008. Can someone please assist? ...
Sometimes I love MOSS 2007, and sometimes I want to throw it right out the window. This is one of those times it should go out the window. Im trying to come up with an easy way for a designer to update a WSS 3.0 Theme for our site. This theme is used by every site in the site collection. The following is not designer friendly (specif...
I'm building a Silverlight application that interfaces with SharePoint Web Services. In a windows forms application I'd create a web reference to my local SharePoint server, then change the Uri of the reference at runtime to point to whatever SharePoint site I wanted to use. Silverlight doesn't seem to have web references, but similar ...
After a fresh install of WSS 3.0 and creation of a new web application and site collection, I receive the following error when I navigate to the newly create site: [COMException (0x80070005): Access is denied. ] System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail) +557 System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind() +4...
I am trying to find out where sharepoint gets the usernames from. In wss 3 on the "Personal settings" page there is a field name. In some cases it is populated with the login (like domain\username), on some installations I find it to be the actual name of the user. I guess that sharepoint at some point gets the real name from active dire...
Sometimes the style sheet disappears when naviguating on our WSS 3.0 sites (white background on the site, no colors, no formatting, etc.). This has mainly happened with IE6 (corporate browser for the majority of our computers). The fixes were : clean up temporary internet files if it still doesn't work, upgrade to IE 7 However, this ...
I have this code: using ( var site = new SPSite( myUrl ) ) { using ( var web = site.AllWebs[0] ) { // read-only operations } } The "myUrl" is top domain url with WSS 3.0. The authentication is set to Windows. If I run this code from command-line under "external_app_user" account, all is fine. But if I run this code from w...
I have installed WSS 3.0 with Search Server 2008 Express. Now when I click on the site settings of any sample site it does not show the Search Settings and Scopes Hyperlink under Site Collection Administration section. Please help me in this regard? ...
A changed Windows authentication to Forms authentication. Using the following example. I added a user with Web Site Administration Tool. Finally I added this user as Site Collection Administrators and the user is recognized by SharePoint. Happy with that is started my WSS site in the browser but when I try to Sign in using this sign in ...
I have a development WSS 3.0 site that I wanted to move to a Production server. I am using VSeWSS 1.2 to do my deployment. I generated the SharePoint solution of the site with SharePoint Solution Generator 2008. When deploying it locally it works fine, but when I tried to deploy it to the remote Production server it would not deploy. I...
I am using Sharepoint service to create a webpage. I have an image - the logo on the top-right of the homepage - and am wanting to put a hyperlink so when it is pressed it takes you to another site. How would I do that please? ...
I was involved in a SharePoint(WSS) project that was very data centric. The project consisted of more than 500 lists that has very complex relations between them. The client also asked for more than 350 Reports. Don't tell me why did you use SharePoint from the beginning. It was a managerial decision and we already delivered the project ...
We have a problem with SharePoint's search box. Whenever we try to search for something we get: Unable to validate data. at System.Web.Configuration.MachineKeySection.EncryptOrDecryptData(Boolean fEncrypt, Byte[] buf, Byte[] modifier, Int32 start, Int32 length, IVType ivType, Boolean useValidationSymAlgo) at System.Web...
We have two lists in WSS. One is Projects. It has columns for project name and priority. The second list is Requests. It has request name, project name and priority. When we create a new request and select a project from a list, we would like the project's priority to be entered into the priority column of the request. Can this be d...
I have a wss 3.0 install which needs an "anonymous" discussion board. I can modify the view so no usernames are displayed, however when I click on "reply", the message I'm replying to shows up in the rich text box with the username of the previous poster. Is there a way to remove that username? or Remove the previous posted text altog...
Hi, I'm really newbie with SharePoint stuff. So I've been asked to move the content of a SharePoint WSS 3.0 (no MOSS installed, only the free version) test site to a development MOSS 2007 site. I've looked around for Content deployment jobs and stuff and tested it out with the MOSS dev site to our MOSS prod site. It worked great. But wh...
I'm trying to create a CAML query for a list in SP. I thought of using the Modify view pages to create a basic view including a filter, then use some code to examine the Query Prop of the SPView: string t = dataList.Views["MyView"].Query; But CAML in t does not contain any Where elements. Just the orderby <OrderBy> <FieldRef Nam...