Archive for August, 2008

Customising the Style drop down of the rich text editor in MOSS publishing pages

To help keep your design integrity in check, you can provide users with easy access to some styles to use when they are editing publishing pages within a MOSS site. Just in case you are unsure of what I am talking about, have a look at the screen shot below. To customise this is very, [ READ MORE ]

How to deploy a page layout with all the bells and whistles

If you have ever had anything to do with a MOSS publishing site then you are familiar with page layouts. Basically the usual way to deploy these to a site collection is through a feature that will put your ASP files into the master page gallery. One thing I have noticed is that when this [ READ MORE ]

Use a wireless network adaptor for Hyper-V external network access

I’ve been playing around with Hyper-V a bit lately, and have found that by default when you create an external network in the network manager that you can not choose a wireless adaptor as the connection. This means that if you happen to be using your Server 2008 installation on a laptop, chances are you [ READ MORE ]

Video: Canberra User Group Presentation – August 2008 – Site Definitions

I did my presentation on site definitions last night for the Canberra SharePoint user group, and as a bit of an experiment we recorded the presentation so we could make it available for people who couldn’t make it. So after a few attempts at getting it down to a reasonable file size here is the [ READ MORE ]

Infrastructure update kills view functionality in picture libraries

Just came across this one, and  it is still a theory at this stage but it looks pretty solid – when you apply the recently released infrastructure update to SharePoint 2007 it kills some of the functionality in picture libraries in MOSS. You can still create views and all that, and the selected pictures bit [ READ MORE ]

Reminder: I’m presenting at the Canberra SharePoint User Group on Wednesday night

For any SharePoint-ers who are in Canberra this Wednesday night I am giving a presentation to the Canberra SharePoint User Group. The presentation is on Site Definitions in MOSS and I’ll be covering everything starting from the basics through to a few of the advanced things you can do with them. If you are interested [ READ MORE ]

Get all Area Listings in a SharePoint 2003 site

Had to put some code for this together today, the objective was to get a list of every ‘listing’ that exists in a given SharePoint Portal Server 2003 site. The documentation for this wasn’t real great and I couldn’t get too many answers from Google that helped either, so I thought I should post it [ READ MORE ]

Using Windows Server 2008 as a workstation

I recently got my hands onto a new laptop for work, and decided that I wanted to set it up with dual operating systems. The first is Windows Vista x64, and the second is Windows Server 2008 x64. The Vista install is nothing special, but to get server to dance for me just the way [ READ MORE ]

Recycle an application pool with a PowerShell script

I found this one on TechNet, and its a handy one if you are sick of having to throw iisreset’s around whenever you update a DLL in the GAC or change some files in the 12 hive. Basically this script will recycle the application pool and it only takes a couple of seconds to run. [ READ MORE ]

When doing the right thing and swapping spaces for %20 will cause you grief

This is one that has been on my list of things that annoy me for a while now, but I just hadn’t given it the time to figure out what the problem really was. We have a feature that sets master pages and CSS properties for a site (so you turn on the feature and [ READ MORE ]

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