Archive for April, 2009

Set SharePoint navigation tree to only expand to the current node

This is one I put together as an answer to a post in the MSDN forums, basically the scenario is this – you have a site structure that looks like this: Root site Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 You want the tree navigation to show only the first level subsites, except where [ READ MORE ]

“Error migrating area contacts” SharePoint 2003 error

“You’re living in the past Brian, stop living in the past” is what I keep telling myself the longer I keep dealing with SharePoint 2003, but it would appear for the time being I keep getting drawn to it to resolve some issues around an AD migration that is happening with one of our clients. [ READ MORE ]

Can’t change mapped properties in SSP user profile properties

This is just a quick one that I cam across yesterday that I thought was worth a mention. When dealing with user profile imports you can specify multiple import connection sources – very useful if you have a situation where users from more than one domain will be accessing your sites (for example, during an [ READ MORE ]

Office Service Pack 2 to be released this month

This is one to get excited about (as much as one will let their inner nerd get excited anyway) – we will see Service Pack 2 for the Office system products be released in the next two weeks. Here a couple of the highlights that I found are coming as far as SharePoint is concerned: [ READ MORE ]

Presentation Video: User-Proofing SharePoint

First of all thanks to those who made it to my presentation last night, it was a good crowd and I think everyone there got a lot out of it. Also a quick Congrats to Rick on winning the Microsoft Mouse door prize as well. As promised, here is the video of the presentation (it [ READ MORE ]

Migrating users in a SharePoint 2003 environment

If you have ever had to perform an AD migration in a SharePoint 2003 environment (and who hasn’t!) then you might have noticed that the STSADM ‘migrateuser’ command isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I have been working with some SPS2003 sites that we are migrating the users around in and have noticed that [ READ MORE ]

New MOSS WCM site – Australian SKA project

Just wanted to drop a quick line out there for anyone interested in seeing MOSS in the wild – the Australian SKA project website (http://www.ska.gov.au/) is now live and is based on MOSS 2007. I worked on the site and I’m pretty happy with the end result given what was a very quick turn around [ READ MORE ]

My first codeplex contribution – NoSPD HTTP Handler

I have finally got around to getting some of my code available on codeplex, and for this particular one I think the timing has been almost perfect! I have been working with John Ferringer on the NoSPD project on codeplex – basically what we wanted to do was to give administrators and developers a few [ READ MORE ]

“Cannot complete this action” when trying to create a document library

I came across a ssituation today where I was trying to create a document library in a site that I had recently worked on, but I found that as soon as I clicked “Document Library” on the create page, I would get the following error: Cannot complete this action. Please try again.   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetSchemaXML(String bstrUrl, [ READ MORE ]

Enabling the forms lockdown feature for an existing site

For those who don’t know, SharePoint has a feature that is generally referred to as the ‘view forms lockdown’ feature, which when it is enabled will ensure that if you have anonymous users hitting your site that they wont be able to access anything they shouldn’t be (so it more or less keeps them to [ READ MORE ]

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