Inside us all there is a code
I just found very good and sparking video on YouTube. I really luv this Microsoft technology video. You must visit
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.
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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Root Cause:
This happend after you change URL for your site on SharePoint Portal.
How You Can Fix It?
1- Remove all lists from quick launch (from each list settings page).
1- Remove all lists from quick launch (from each list settings page).
2- Go to settings-> modify navigation and remove all (corrupted) lists and & folders from quick launch
3- Add lists back to quick launch again
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)
While installation of MOSS 2007 on stand alone machine i got this error.
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]
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
Event Info
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
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
Intranets are getting more strategic, with increased collaboration support.
Team size is growing by 12% per year, and platforms are becoming integrated, with a strong showing for SharePoint. Improving usability increased use by 106% on average.
The winners of the award for 10 best-designed intranets for 2009 are:
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
Dear Friends,
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/
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
Recently i have finished my SharePoint Farm Migration from 32 bit OS to 64 bit task.
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
}
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
This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy, and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and application lifecycle management challenges.
It covers following topics..
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
Problem: After installation of my MOSS testing server when I login with my username & password into SharePoint Portal site, it was showing me "System Account" instead of my username on the top right corner of the Site.
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.
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.
Solution:
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
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
1- Go to run
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.
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
Most of the time we need to redirect user after submitting on list on our custom page like Thanks You page.
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
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.
Microsoft Innovation Day- Riyadh Saudia
Microsoft Innovation day in Riyadh on 4th Nov-2008 ......great i must be there.....For technology seekers its great oppt. So, don't miss it.
Who should attend?
Business decision makers, technical decision makers, IT professionals, solution architects and consultants.
If you haven’t registered yet, then click here to register.....
Who should attend?
Business decision makers, technical decision makers, IT professionals, solution architects and consultants.
If you haven’t registered yet, then click here to register.....Office SharePoint Server Search stuck in Stopping Status
Today when I get entered in my office I received a number of emails that
“Search is not working”
“Dear Mr. Tariq Younas, we are unable to search leave application form,”
“What’s wrong with search”
There was a long list of emails like that…..when I open our index server I found this server is in stopping state and unable to show restart/start options.
After some search we found a work around.
Go to Application (Search index and query server) Server
1. Start command prompt
2. Run taskkill /F /IM mssearch.exe /T
3. Navigate to the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12 \bin folder and run “psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait –force”
“Search is not working”
“Dear Mr. Tariq Younas, we are unable to search leave application form,”
“What’s wrong with search”
There was a long list of emails like that…..when I open our index server I found this server is in stopping state and unable to show restart/start options.
After some search we found a work around.
Go to Application (Search index and query server) Server
1. Start command prompt
2. Run taskkill /F /IM mssearch.exe /T
3. Navigate to the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12 \bin folder and run “psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait –force”