Within SharePoint and WSS you have the possibility to brand your site. You can do this on several ways: A custom style sheet. A custom theme. I think the best way to brand your SharePoint site is to create a custom theme. You can create a theme by copying one of the themes folders in…
DetailsYesterday Service Pack 2 was released for SharePoint. In my post “Office Service Pack will be available on 28 April” you can read about some changes that are included in the service pack. More information about the Service Pack can be found in the KB articles: Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and of…
DetailsWithin SharePoint you have the ability to create custom application pages. Application pages remain in the layouts folder of SharePoint. Each user can access these pages by typing in the URL in the explorer bar. When you would navigate to one of these pages and you do not have enough rights, you would expect that…
DetailsWhen you crawled a SharePoint site everything on that site will become visible on the search results page of your search center. If you have an internet facing SharePoint site you do not want to see list views or other background pages in the search results. These pages can be filtered out from your search…
DetailsWhen you are developing web parts or other kind of solutions for SharePoint it is possible you work yourself in a situation where you use the SharePoint API for your solutions but you do not want to use it because it is insufficient. When you are in a situation like this you can choose to…
DetailsThe Microsoft Update Product Team Blog announced today that Office Service Pack 2 will be released on 28 April this year. The formal changes you can aspect for the server products are: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in…
DetailsToday I received the strangest error when I was configuring my SharePoint Virtual PC to crawl my websites. The crawler inserted a error for each web application containing the following text: Access Denied. Since this was a new environment and I certainly know that the accounts where set correctly I was a bit amassed about…
DetailsWhen I started developing for SharePoint two years ago I was thrown in a big black hole and started to develop webparts by hands on experience. In the first couple of weeks I found out that your webpart could inherit from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart or Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart. I never found out the big difference between those two, also…
DetailsProblems can occur when you are trying to re-install Windows SharePoint Services. The problem occurred when I was trying to install the Dutch version off WSS after I uninstalled the English version. The Installation of WSS went ok, but when I tried to configure WSS it did not worked correctly. After some searching I found…
DetailsWhen you are developing an internet facing SharePoint site you want search engines too completely and correctly crawl your site. A sitemap protocol (xml sitemap) can help you with that problem. A Sitemap Protocol allows you to inform a search engine about the available urls (pages) on your website that need to be crawled. In…
DetailsLast week I was developing a custom TimerJob for SharePoint. For the development of the TimerJob I used the MSDN documentation that is written by Andrew Connell: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686.aspx This article really points out everything when you are developing your first TimerJob. I followed the article and I almost read all the code sections so that…
DetailsA few days ago I had to develop a TimerJob that deletes a large number of items from a SharePoint list. My first idea was to iterate trough the list items and then call the delete method of the items that needed to be deleted. Doing this was a major performance set back because it…
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