Projects
No SPD
URL: http://nospd.codeplex.com
NoSPD is a codeplex project that is designed to demonstrate how administrators and developers can implement various strategies to prevent SharePoint designer from being able to access specific SharePoint site. I contributed to this project by adding the HTTP Handler release. This solution adds a web application scoped feature that can be turned on and off to prevent the access. It works by using the SPWebConfigModification class in the feature to add a HTTP Handler that prevents access to the author.dll file that SPD uses when it tries to connect to and open a SharePoint site. The solution has a couple of minor issues (users get an incorrect error message when they try to open a blocked site, they are told they need a new version of SPD. Also if SPD already has a site open the blocking does not seem to take effect until SPD is restarted) but the end result of blocking the access still works great.
SharePoint Alert Import/Export Tool
URL: http://spalertimportexport.codeplex.com
The import/export ool was originally put together by me as an internal thing for Readify, and they decided to let me share it on CodePlex. Basically the reason the tool was put together was to allow alerts to be removed from a site while some bulk updates were done, this would mean that those who were subscribed to alerts wouldn’t be spammed with old information as the items were updated. You can then simply import the alerts back in when you are done and your users will be none the wiser that anything changed.
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