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November 1st, 2011 | Categories: SharePoint 2010, Solutions, WSS 3.0 | Tags: , ,

SharePoint migration, the area where several challenges occur and all we need to do is to mitigate all the risk factors and provide a secured migration strategy.

 

In this blog, I’m going ahead to elaborate a very common approach which is applicable for most of our migration plan. After the migration is done, in most cases customer requires the OLD SharePoint site should be live in read-only state for some times and the site user’s must able to view the information like ‘ This site has been migrated to……’.

 

In many cases, we have seen there are couple of thousand users exist for one site collection and it is not feasible to notified all site users about the migration date and plan. In other words their browser link for the old SharePoint link is not going to change and providing this kind of information they can update the new link.

 

The objective is to display some kind of information about the recent migration to end user and allowed them to redirect to new site after pausing let’s say 10 sec.

 

We have a choice utilize out of the box Content Editor webpart for taking care this approach. Question is what will happens when we found there are many sub sites (don’t be surprised to see a site collection contains more than 500 sub sites).

 

For the similar scenario, we can use one simple console application which will dynamically put one content editor webpart from root level site collection home page to all its sub site home pages. Obviously you can implement this methodology as a kind of feature, if you want. I prefer the tool/console level approach because this is just need to run once and no need to deactivate or activate latter one, ultimately down the line the old site will be deleted. Read more…

Last week, I got a request from a site owner whose site recently had been migrated to SharePoint 2010. He is having problem with one content editor webpart. The content editor webpart has an image and it has couple of hyperlinks (image mapping). This hyperlink was working perfectly in WSS 3.0, however after migrating the site, the hyperlink doesn’t seems to be work anymore.

 

The objective is to create a simple content editor webpart at SP 2010 team site and configure one image there with the hyperlinks using existing HTML image mapping code from WSS 3.0. It seems to be pretty simple, however while implementing, couple of issues comes out. Below are the steps explaining how to map an image using content editor webpart in SharePoint 2010 team site.

 

Open the SharePoint 2010 team site using IE and then browse the site >> Click on ‘Page’ and then click on ‘Edit Page’ >> Click on ‘Add a Web Part’ button and the select the ‘Media and Content’ category and select the ‘Content Editor’ webpart and click on ‘Add’ button in the right hand side to place this in mid of the page.

 

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July 10th, 2011 | Categories: SharePoint 2010 | Tags:

Microsoft announced the released of SharePoint 2010 long waiting service pack last week. You can download the service pack from Microsoft download center http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26623. In mid of May 2011, Bill Baer who is the Senior Technical Product Manager of Microsoft SharePoint team gave us a head sup that Microsoft is going to launch the service pack 1 soon at SharePoint 2010 blog. In SP2010 SP1, the areas like ‘Site Recycle Bin’, ‘Shallow Copy’, better way to display site quota information like last 10 document libraries within a site (it will help the support team on cleanup and maintenance activities) has been improved. You just need to be a little careful before applying the SP1 by going through the KB article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2532126.

 

June 2011 CU also has been published on KB 2028568 article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028568 . In this CU, issues in SharePoint 2010 Foundation / WSS4.0 has been fixed and listed there. Dan Holme, the famous person at SharePoint Pro published a splendid article at http://www.sharepointpromag.com/article/sharepoint/sharepoint-2010-SP-1-june-2011-cumulative-update-139737 .

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March 17th, 2011 | Categories: Configurations, SharePoint 2010 | Tags: ,

This post is absolutely for developers who wants to setup SharePoint 2010 on their machine. In this blog, I will try to explain the smart way to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 machine.

The basic elements which need to be installed before install SharePoint 2010 is given below:

•  Web Server (IIS) role
•  Application Server role
•  Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1
•  SQL Server 2008 Express with SP1
•  Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 (x64)
•  Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0
•  Microsoft Chart Controls for the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
•  Windows PowerShell 2.0
•  SQL Server 2008 Native Client
•  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOMD.NET
•  ADO.NET Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
•  A hotfix for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 that provides a method to support token authentication without transport security or message encryption in WCF.
•  Windows Identity Foundation (WIF)

The thing is developer needs to  install SharePoint because for development purpose. How a developer proceed to start development activity? It requires the IDE i.e. Visual Studio.NET. So a developer have to have a VS. NET for SharePoint development work.

And the most important thing is once you installed VS.NET it installed a lot of stuff like .NET framework with SP1, SQL Server Native client, ADO.NET data services, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight etc. In fact you can proceed to install .NET 4.0 as well.

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February 12th, 2011 | Categories: Conference, SharePoint 2010, Toolkit | Tags: , ,

In next couple of weeks, couple of leading solution provider is going to launch webinar sessions on different subject mainly targeting SharePoint 2010. In this news session, I will jot down couple of interesting webinar schedule, recent product launched by different vendors and Microsoft.

Enterprise Discussion Forums for SharePoint 2007 and 2010LightingTools released in January version 3.0.0.2 of the product. This release included the ability to reply to the forums via email using your iPhone, BlackBerry and other email enabled devices while on the move. And here a demo session waiting for you
http://www.lightningtools.com/blog/archive/2011/01/27/social-squaredndashreply-via-email.aspx.

Create and customize SharePoint solutions for smart phones in minutesKWizCom announced their Mobility Bundle – the ideal solution to provide mobile Sharepoint access to field engineers, sales agents, support personnel, help desk representatives – or anyone who needs their corporate Sharepoint services while on the road.

KWizCom’s SharePoint Mobilty Bundle includes:

Powerful custom web forms

  • Field-level permissions
  • View-level permissions
  • Dynamics, conditioned field visibility
  • Vigorous field validations
  • Field grouping
  • Field-level constraints

 

Dynamic customizable menus

  • Custom item-level menus
  • Custom list-level menus
  • Attach a workflow to a menu
  • Assign permissions to menus

 

Robust mobile interface

  • Customizable, clear mobile pages
  • No development resources required
  • No client deployment required
  • Support for Blackberry, iPhone and Symbian smart phones
     

Here the overview http://www.kwizcom.com/sharepoint-add-ons/sharepoint-mobile-extensions/overview/.

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February 6th, 2011 | Categories: Conference, SharePoint 2010 | Tags: ,

SharePoint leading service providers, MVP’s and couple of renowned groups already took the initiatives to organize and execute a couple of webinar series about for SharePoint 2010. I got informed few of them and published this in this blog. I would be happy to see you in the session.

And here we go.

SharePoint 2010 Solutions Roadshow By Adlib & K2

Adlib, K2 and other Microsoft partners in the SharePoint 2010 Solutions Roadshow across North America! Experience product demonstrations, in-depth presentation on SharePoint and how you can extend its capabilities beyond a typical “out-of-the-box” deployment and create real value for your organization.

 
Locations
Toronto, ON
February 9, 2011
Microsoft Corporation
222 Bay Street, Suite 1201
Toronto-Dominion Centre
Toronto, ON M5J
Canada
Register to Attend – https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=152828

New York, NY
March 3, 2011
Microsoft Corporation
1290 Avenue of the Americas
6th Floor
New York, NY 10104
USA
Register to Attend – https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=152814

Chicago, IL
February 22, 2011
Microsoft Corporation
200 East Randolph Dr., Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60601
USA
Register to Attend – https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=152919

Dallas, TX
February 23, 2011
Microsoft Corporation
7000 sr-161 (George Bush Turnpike)
Irving, TX 75039
USA
Register to Attend – https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=152922

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February 5th, 2011 | Categories: Conference, SharePoint 2010, Toolkit | Tags: , ,

Metalogix is another famous name in the SharePoint world. They have couple of products integrating and working with SharePoint product. For example, like StoragePoint.

StoragePoint is an EBS/RBS content (BLOB) remoting and active-archiving solution that optimizes SharePoint manageability, growth and performance without adding hardware. Relocate and proactively manage terabytes of SharePoint content onto any virtually any SAN, NAS or Cloud Platform.

StoragePoint installs completely and seamlessly within SharePoint Central Administration. It’s intuitive, easy-to-configure and completely transparent to end-users. And with StoragePoint’s File Share Librarian, you can move your existing file shares to SharePoint fast.

Click here to know more about StoragePoint http://www.storagepoint.com/

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January 1st, 2011 | Categories: SharePoint | Tags:

To all SharePoint lovers, wish you a prosperous Happy New Year 2011!

 

We have seen a lot of events had been fired on the year 2010 and lots of new areas have been emerged. We can dig the new areas of development and share our experiences. Like the other years, below the list of resolutions set for me for the year 2011. Hopefully by end of this year, I will found myself only miss a few one :)

  •  More research on SP2010 and contribute more time to my blog
  •  Explore new areas like Cloud computing and its interfaces with SharePoint
  •  Introduce Silverlight and SharePoint presentation
  •  More post on WCF integrating with SharePoint
  •  Utilize PowerShell with SharePoint
  •  Concentrate on migration approach
  •  And top of all these… explorer third party products and it’s pro and cons

 

Good enough, let’s stick on these and hopefully will able to contribute more than previous year.

Time to say…Good bye 2010…Welcome 2011

Best of luck for you all!

December 25th, 2010 | Categories: Configurations, SharePoint 2010 | Tags: ,

Merry Christmas and wish you for a Happy Holidays!
We have seen lots of events throughout the year 2010 for SharePoint 2010, VS.NET 2010, Office 2010, Cloud computing and many more. The time went so fast and I was so busy on several activities this year and had not got any chance to contribute much. Anyway, hopefully people will enjoy this post about few lesson learned on WSS 4.0 installation during happy holidays :)

SharePoint 2010 installation steps are already described at Microsoft site http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx . Just to recap in very short, from hardware respective, it is required to have 64 bit machine and at least 4 GB ram. However I would strongly recommend you to use 8 GB ram at least, and if you are planning to use VM, then must think to use 16 GB of ram.
SP2010 can be installed on Windows server 2008 (for both the edition) and windows 7 (64 bit) except windows 7 home premium edition. However SharePoint foundation i.e. WSS 4.0 can be installed on Windows 7 home premium editions (64 bit must).

Regarding the software prerequisite, following are the items which should be present

  • NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (I recommend to install Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Setup i.e. dotNetFx40_Full_setup)
  • Windows PowerShell 2.0
  • Windows Installer 4.5 Redistributable
  • Microsoft Sync Framework
  • SQL Server Native Client (for Sp2010 server, you can use the SQL Server 2008)
  • Chart Controls (not required for WSS 4.0)
  • SQL Server Analysis Services – ADOMD.Net (not required for WSS 4.0)
  • Windows Identity Foundation (Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu)

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This post is about to tell you a few common and tricky errors in SharePoint UserProfile object model. Using UserProfileManager class, we can easily  instantiate the UserProfile manager object by passing the server context. And here the methods of the UserProfileManager class.

To work with UserProfile data, initially few things need to be checked. First thing is to check your SSP, if no user profile information is available yet, you need to import the UserProfile into your SSP content db. This means establish a connection with your LDAP or AD and use SSP GUI to import the same. Here is one url http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gyorgyh/archive/2009/02/07/how-does-it-work-moss-2007-user-profile-import.aspx which will help you. Or, you can also use the profile imported CodePlex code as well.

Once the UserProfile information is available on your box, then the next part is, build a feature/page to implement editable/update UserProfile information. In other words, you need to pass the User’s LoginID and retrieve the user information, do some changes and update. System will alllow you to update the same in your SSP content DB.  For the R&D purpose, I always prefer a windows application (I can place more criteria in GUI and design it according to my wish :) ) and in this case, I build a simple windows form and build a UserProfile class.

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