[RSUG Monthly Meeting] Advanced Topics in Administration and Development
The purpose of this meeting is to dive into detailed topics of SharePoint that were initiated in the previous events. This time the topics will include web part development using Silverlight and SharePoint Designer, administration and upgrading Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. We will have Mr. Abdurrahman Al-Qahtani from Microsoft and Mr. Tariq Younas who is SharePoint consultant at SABIC.
First 5 Registered users will win Office Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 T-Shirt during the event. Attend and get chances to win handy gifts from Microsoft.
Meeting Details:
Speaker(s):
Tariq Younas SharePoint Consultant SABIC
Jerry Yasir SharePoint Consultant Ejada RSUG Community Lead
Abdurrahman Al-Qahtani - Technology Specialist – SharePoint Microsoft
Date: Thursday, February, 12, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Ejada – Al-Umam Commercial Building – Salah UD Din Street (Sitten) Malaz, Riyadh Office 604, 6th Floor
Meeting Agenda:
Agenda Item | Speaker | Start Time | End Time |
Welcome Note and Introduction | Jerry Yasir | 12:00 PM | 12:05 PM |
Upgrading WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 | Tariq Younas | 12:05 PM | 12:30 PM |
Break (Tea and Snacks) | 12:30 PM | 12:45 PM | |
Developing Silverlight Web Parts for SharePoint 2007 | Jerry Yasir | 12:50 PM | 2:00 PM |
Using SharePoint Designer 2007 for building SharePoint web sites | Abdurrahman | 2:05 PM | 3:15 PM |
Q & A / Closing / Tea / Giveaways Distribution | 3:15 PM | 3:30 PM |
Registration:
To register for this meeting, click HERE or copy and paste the below URL into your address bar, and kindly fill out the registration form.
Reminders:
For further inquiries or directions to Ejada:
Contact: Jerry Yasir 05 432 562 51
Or email
The final place for event can be changed based on the number of registered users so please enter your correct email in registration.
Inside us all there is a code
Specially its start wording
"Inside us all there is a code.
A code that represents not what we are, but who we might become,
It is our potential."
Cheers.
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1- Remove all lists from quick launch (from each list settings page).
Characters that cannot to be use in sites, folders, and files in SPS 2003/ MOSS 2007
You cannot use the following characters anywhere in a site name, in a subsite name, or in a site or Active Directory group name:
tilde (~)
number sign (#)
percent (%)
ampersand (&)
asterisk (*)
braces ({ })
backslash (\)
colon (:)
angle brackets (< >)
question mark (?)
slash (/)
plus sign (+)
pipe ()
quotation mark (")
Site name cannot be start with an underscore (_) character or with the period character.
Folder names
You cannot use the following characters anywhere in a folder name or a server name:
tilde
number sign
percent
ampersand
asterisk
braces
backslash
colon
angle brackets
question mark
slash
pipe
quotation mark
You cannot use the period character consecutively in the middle/end of a folder name.
You cannot start a folder name with the period character.
File names
tilde
number sign
percent
ampersand
asterisk
braces
backslash
colon
angle brackets
question mark
slash
pipe
quotation mark
For ref click here
An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: OSearch (Administrator)
Error:
An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: OSearch (Administrator)
Cause:
You are using user name without domain or machine name
Solution:
Use user name like [Domain\UserName]
Even if you are using your local machine [MachineName\ServiceAccount]
SharePoint HotShots - January Monthly Group Meeting
Host:
SharePoint HotShots
Type:
Group Meeting
Time and Place
Date:
Friday, January 16, 2009
Time:
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Al-buanain, Near Gaint Store
City/Town:
Jubail, Saudi Arabia
Contact Info
Phone:
00966-50-633-2711
Email:
SharePointHotShots@yahoogroups.com
10 Best Intranets of 2009
The winners of the award for 10 best-designed intranets for 2009 are:
- Altran, a large engineering and innovation consultancy (France)
- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a developer of computer and graphics processors (USA)
- BASF SE, the world's leading chemical manufacturing company (Germany)
- COWI Group A/S, a consulting group focusing on engineering, environmental science, and economics (Denmark)
- Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT), a global professional services network providing audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services (a Global member organization)
- Environmental Resources Management (ERM), one of the world's leading providers of environmental consulting services (Global)
- HSBC Bank Brazil (Brazil)
- Kaupthing Bank (Iceland)
- L.L.Bean, a vendor of apparel and outdoor equipment (USA)
- McKesson Corporation, a large provider of pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and health care information technologies (USA)
Learn more from here
Announcement - User Group Renamed
With an overall increase in our user group activities in Microsoft SharePoint technologies, after discussion & olnine meeting with group members we decide to rename the group.
Old Name: dotnethotshots
New Name: SharePoint HotShots
Old Blog Link: http://dotnethotshots.blogspot.com/
New Blog Link: http://sharepointhotshots.blogspot.com/Groups Focus: Microsoft SharePoint Technologies
Thanks for your understanding.
Regards,
Tariq Younas
http://sharepointhotshots.blogspot.com/
SharePoint Farm Migration Looop
There were lot of things to share.
Let me share you loop which i use as action plan for migration on Live Production Farm.
We had 20 Major Portals...mean 20 web applications.
So, what i did
For Portal=1 to 20
{
1- Plan a portal lock time (Read only ~ 3 hours)
2- Notify Power User & Account Admin
3- Send an interruption message to the affected site
4- On the planned time:
a. freeze the portal (Read Only)
b. Backup the portal from the current production farm
c. Restore it to the test farm
d. Check the design
e. Do a random test
f. Send a test link to the power user
g. If it is ok, do another restore to the new production farm
h. Do a test on the new production
i. If it is ok, update DNS record to the new IP
j. Check with power user for confirmation
k. Send a service back notification
l. Stop the old portal on Old Servers
loop
}
SharePoint Guidance - November 2008
It covers following topics..
- Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring and packaging.
- Design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers encounter.
- Implementation examples demonstrated in the RI and in the QuickStarts.
- How to design for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration.
- Set up of development, build, test, staging, and production environments.
- Managing the application life cycle including upgrade.
- Team-based intranet application development.
Click here to download from Microsoft Official site.
Sharepoint Portal site is showing [System Account] instead of my username
Any activity which I was performing like updating system, updating lists, creating new document was stamping system account instead of “Tariq Younas”
Reason: While installation if you will use your account, it will be used to create SharePoint db. At that time you account will be marked as system account.
If you face such type of problem then use stsadm utility and run this command
stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -identitytype NetworkService
After running command restart your IIS
Also set your pool identity as NetWorkService account by performing these steps
2- Write “inetmgr” and press OK
3- Here under application pools, select your application pool and right click
4- On identity tab select radio “predefined” Network service
This will not occur again.
Redirect to a custom page after entering item in SharePoint List
Here i have custom list by name of "Feedback" and basic page "Thanks".
When user will submit his/her feedback in library he/she will be redirected to thanks page.
1- Create a basic page for Thanks Message.
2- Name it and press create
3- Go to site navigation Site Settings-> Modify Navigation
4- Select the link of library where you want to submit new item and then want to rout on another thanks page
5- As i have Feedback is List and i am giving path..................
To redirect users to your Thanks/Custom page after they have completed the feedback, simply add ?SOURCE=Your_Thanks_Page.
as i am doing below in this link
http://Tariqsite/Feedback/newform.aspx?source=http://Tariqsite/Feedback/Thankyou.aspx
6- Now click on new in Feedback List
7- Fill the form and press ok
8- After pressing ok instead of routing in your Feedback library....you will be redirected on Thank You page.